WHEELING – Bethlehem Apostolic Temple in North Wheeling celebrated 93 years of serving God and the community on Sunday.

The church invited guest pastors in for services throughout the past week, and on Sunday the visitor bringing the church’s message was Suff. Bishop Walter Oliver Jr. of Ebenezer Chapel in New Haven, Connecticut.

That the small church has survived for nearly a century in Wheeling is no small feat, according to Bishop Darrell Cummings.

“We’re just grateful to be here,” Cummings said. “Especially since the pandemic, a number of churches have closed, merged with other churches and are no longer in existence. We do understand that as a church you have to do what you have to do. But we are grateful that for 93 years we have been able to continue.”

The first service at the c

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