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Heather Wasler is surrounded by the sound of hymns sung in Haitian Creole when she attends weekly Presbyterian service at the Hope New Worshiping Community in Charleroi. Among her friends and neighbors, she listens to the call to worship spoken in Creole, then translated to English.
When the local church formed last September with the goal of becoming a communal place of worship and giving back to residents, Wasler approached some of the Haitian women in the community to ask what the church could provide for them…