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A ‘merry band’ of Presbyterian believers in Rochester solve their ‘edifice complex’

Posted January 30th, 2024

“Ladies and gentlemen: Elvis has left the building!” announced the Rev. Sara Hayden, the host of the New Way podcast, invoking the famous phrase used to encourage adoring hangers-on to stop waiting to get a glimpse of “the King” inside.

A ‘merry band’ of Presbyterian believers in Rochester solve their ‘edifice complex’

Posted January 11th, 2024

“Ladies and gentlemen: Elvis has left the building!” announced the Rev. Sara Hayden, the host of the New Way podcast, invoking the famous phrase used to encourage adoring hangers-on to stop waiting to get a glimpse of “the King” inside.

South Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York, celebrates the decision to sell its building to focus on faithful acts

Posted September 20th, 2023

This weekend, South Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York, will celebrate the beginning of the second decade of selling its building and implementing its Acts of Faith community, a throwback to a first-century model of being the church.