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By Nicholas Garton – Madison365.com – A few local churches are gathering on Sunday, July 27, at the Duck Pond, the home of the Madison Mallards and Madison Night Mares, for a special worship service. The service will run from 10:45-11:45 a.m. and will be followed by a Night Mares game at 1:05 p.m. The church service will be free and the game will have regularly priced tickets. Sherman Avenue United Methodist Church, Sugar River United Methodist Church, and St. John’s Lutheran Church will be involved in the worship service, with Sherman Church reverend David Hart speaking from the pulpit.…

As a single mother and elementary-school music teacher in Alamogordo, N.M., Cheryl Dockray usually umpires all the summer softball games she can to make ends meet.But in early June, she took a rare week off — and worked even harder than usual. With eight other adults and 13 young people from Alamogordo’s Grace United Methodist Church, she helped gut a New Orleans home that had been rotting in floodwaters for nine months. Read more.