On Easter and all year long, Tillamook churches work toward unity

From Oregon-

On Sunday in Tillamook, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Methodists and members of the United Church of Christ are worshiping together. Not because it's Easter, when ecumenical services aren't that unusual, but because it's the fifth Sunday of the month.
For two years, these Christian congregations have taken to heart one of Jesus' last earthly wishes: that his followers would be "as one."

"I have to be honest with you," says the Rev. Jerry Jefferies,  who pastors three of The Four Churches, as they're known in Tillamook. "This began as a matter of survival."

In recent years, St. Peter Lutheran Church, St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Tillamook United Methodist Church  and St. John's United Church of Christ have faced the same obstacles confounding mainline congregations in many towns and cities: declining attendance and rising costs.

St. Peter had dwindled from about 75  members to 35. St. Alban's had shrunk from 318  to 159.  Methodists, who had numbered about 208, were reduced to perhaps 105. St. John's averaged 40  people at a Sunday service.

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