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Congregation of church hit by lightning holds services

Instead of sitting in pews in the St. James Lutheran Church for Palm Sunday service, dozens of congregants gathered in the lower-level parish hall, where they sat on folding chairs. Music came from a keyboard instead of the traditional organ.

And even though the building had been struck by lightning two days earlier, dedicated churchgoers were undaunted. "We would have found a way to have...

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