As both congregations dwindled due to the people moving away from the shrinking town, the pastors of the two churches decided to join forces and become one church.
Not exact matches
Babette's lavish celebratory banquet tempts the family's
dwindling congregation, who abjure such fleshly pleasures
as fine foods and wines.
Ethan Hawke, in a performance of raw intensity, stars
as the Reverend Ernst Toller, a parish pastor at a Dutch Reform Church whose
congregation in upstate New York is
dwindling.
It chronicles a pastor (Ethan Hawke) at a rural New York church dealing with a
dwindling congregation and financial crunch
as it approaches its 250th anniversary.