For years, only about nine people have been attending Sunday services at Five Mile Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, which was founded in 1841, 30 years before the City of Birmingham. On Sunday, more than 50 people showed up to say goodbye.
For years, only about nine people have been attending Sunday services at Five Mile Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, which was founded in 1841, 30 years before the City of Birmingham.
The crowd was such a surprise that there were not enough communion cups to serve grape juice to all those in attendance. The loaf of communion bread, broken into pieces and served on trays, was enough to suffice. The church also ran out of printed copies of its history.Lay Pastor Sharon Eich choked back tears as she gave her final words of benediction and dismissed the congregation. Music leader David Knox choked back tears as he handed out commendations to those who had served the church.
In her last sermon, Eich compared the church to a Middle Eastern excavation where one forgotten civilization built atop another, and another.
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