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See Wittenberg University’s Lessons and Carols for Advent and Christmas and Bible study at First Baptist Church of Middletown
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It was a full house for the Lessons and Carols for Advent and Christmas ceremony at Weaver Chapel on the Wittenberg University campus in Springfield Friiday, Dec. 8, 2023. BILL LACKEY/STAFF
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Dec 18, 2023
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Church attendance remains below pre-COVID-19 levels but plenty of people still go to churches, synagogues and mosques.

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