The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the merger of two local Pittsburgh area churches, one PCA and one OPC. The article begins:

Presbyterian congregation lost its building to a fire two years ago. At about that time, another congregation had endured splits and lost its entire pastoral leadership. Neither church initially was looking for changes to its basic operations. But members of both congregations say those disasters eventually became a blessing because, in the process, they found more than a solution to their collective woes. They found “family.”

In November 2008, members of Covenant Orthodox Presbyterian Church voted to unite with New Hope Presbyterian Church, an amalgam formally known as New Covenant Presbyterian Church. It is on Grandview Avenue in Monroeville, and the move was one that church members consider to be less a business issue than a mutual adoption.

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