"I'm exhausted," Tellström admitted Sunday, holding up his hands. The stress had worsened their shaking. Still, he and many of his members had come to Montebello Plymouth Congregational Church."
"Our church is always going to meet and always going to be together until it becomes impossible to do that. A fire's not going to stop that," said Tellström's husband, Carl Whidden.
"The building is not the church. We are the church," was an adage oft-repeated by people of faith when disaster strikes the place where they worship.
Altadena Community Church was founded in 1940, with its sanctuary built seven years later, and has been a welcoming space for diverse congregants since declaring itself 'open and affirming' in 1986.
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