Many American churches are doing everything they can to attract new generations of parishioners. And often, that means less traditional organ music and Christian hymns. But the organist at the West ...

HOWARD LAKE, Minn — At St. John's Lutheran Church in Howard Lake, the 55-year-old organ led the parish in times of joy and hardship. Now it's the parishioners' turn to take care of it. “To build this ...

Ella Jones, minister of music at First Baptist Church of Graymont, was 12 years old when her father, Pastor R.M. Joseph, asked her to play the organ during Sunday morning services. Seventy-five years ...

PATTERSON CREEK, W.Va. — Leitersburg resident Wally McClure got his start playing church music at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Patterson Creek in the mid- to late 1960s under the auspices of ...

The sounds of hymns will fill the First Baptist Church sanctuary Sunday during the church’s second annual Hymn Festival. The festival will be 3 p.m. at 211 W. Comanche St. and will be hosted with the ...

Churches are retiring their hymnals and organs, hoping to attract younger crowds, but at West Auburn Congregational in Maine, Charles Marshall has been playing for 70 years with no plans to retire.