LANCASTER — Forty years sounds like a lifetime. It also can fly past in the blink of an eye. Just ask the Rev. Sam Smucker. In 1977, Smucker and 30 other people gathered for worship in a room at the ...

Today, Smucker preaches to a weekly audience of 2,800 in an auditorium at the Worship Center — a 106,000-square-foot building along New Holland Pike complete with rooms, chapels and cafe. Adjacent is ...

In this Monday, May 4, 2020, photo, Aaron Hurst, 67, left, wears a mask as he runs his AAA Farm Supply business in Terre Hill, Pa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) NEW HOLLAND, Pa. (AP) — For the first ...

In previous columns, I have noted that, even though I am not a Roman Catholic, I find much to appreciate in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. This includes Paul VI’s encyclical Populorum ...

We are already into the fifth month of the year — May! Hopefully May will bring warmer temperatures again. The gardens are really wet yet from all the rain we had this past week. It was a cold, rainy ...

America wept. The merciless murder of five Amish children, killed while studying in quiet simplicity and peace, left Americans numb with shock. But soon the shock gave way to awe as we witnessed the ...

Families of the five students killed in an Amish schoolhouse shooting in Pennsylvania are expected to conduct funerals Thursday and Friday. The Amish do not worship inside formal church buildings. The ...

NEW HOLLAND, Pa. (AP) - For the first time in weeks, kids played in the church cemetery. Nearby, a group of men in their 20s reflected on what it meant to gather again during the pandemic. “Human ...

NEW HOLLAND, Pa. (AP) — For the first time in weeks, kids played in the church cemetery. Nearby, a group of men in their 20s reflected on what it meant to gather again during the pandemic. "Human ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW HOLLAND, Pa. (AP) — For the first time ...