The Rev. Bill Carter filled in for the organist 25 years ago during the Labor Day Sunday service. A trained jazz musician, he thought he’d try something new.
To his delight and surprise, curious newcomers and news crews with cameras who’d heard about the jazz-playing preacher filled First Presbyterian Church of Clarks Summit that morning.
On Sunday, his band, now called Presbybop, marked a quarter-century since he first introduced the Jazz Communion Service at the church on School Street, where church…
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