Walmart has presented CCHASM with a grant in the amount of $25,000. This grant will be used to assist CCHASM’s 23 Alliance Food Pantries with the purchase of food supplies for area residents in need.

Local six-year-old, Ben Lashley, has a mission and needs your help. Late last week, as Ben and his mother were putting canned goods together for a food drive at his school, Ben thought it would be a good idea to have a toy drive for the children in New York and New Jersey who were affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Good News by way of a Cowboy Church has galloped in to the Beaver Hollow Farm, bringing hope and encouragement to people whose comfortable connection with the earth gives them a place to connect with God and not worry about what they wear or drive.

On April 29, 2012 at a called meeting of the congregation, Dr. Gordon Bidwell Mapes, III was elected as the next pastor of Chester Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mapes began his call to service on May 29. His first Sunday in the pulpit is June 3.”I am excited and blessed to have been called to a faith community with such a rich, vibrant history and dynamic, engaged future.