This month we are getting ready to welcome LOTS of people to our city. We already had an open church event this past weekend and over 300 people passed through our doors and were welcomed to our church. Amazingly, we also have people who have lived here all their lives and have never entered the church. It is a reminder that we are situated in this place for a reason. Since 1826 the Church’s presence in Salem has been for the purpose of evangelizing this area. The parish boundaries originally stretched across present-day Topsfield, Middleton, Peabody, and Danvers. Now we are within the city limits with still a lot of work left to do.