The final worship service at the Luling United Methodist Church in Luling will be held on Sunday, Nov. 3. After that, the church will move into a unique partnership with a different denomination.
The church has been in that location for nearly 60 years, but church leaders have decided to combine their services with the First Union Presbyterian Church on Lakewood Drive in Luling.
Rev. Wayne Taylor has been the pastor of Luling United Methodist Church for the past five years. He said combining the two congregations has been in the works for about seven months.
“We are not necessarily merging, but we are going to join and share resources and facilities. We are going to stay Methodist and they are going to stay Presbyterian, but there is going to be one worship service,” he said.
The way the cooperative effort will work is that Taylor will serve as pastor of the combined service while the place of worship will be provided by First Union, which has been struggling in recent years and whose interim pastor’s contract recently expired.
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