Small Churches: Empty Pulpit Crisis. Ken Walker. Lutherans try to overcome clergy shortages. Christianity Today November 12, 2001 issue View Issue Subscribe Give a Gift Archives ...

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This Baptist church, which actually formed in 1849 on the West Side of Aurora and moved to Big Rock in 1870, according to its records, is simple, traditional, conservative and comforting.

Three out of four Sundays, however, the 59-year old is in the pulpit at the United Church of Ludlow. Fountain grew up Catholic and says she's always been a churchgoer.