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Daily News: Secrets of Upper Darby

Posted by Robert Fisher on September 19, 2007

A Sept. 19 Daily News article on Upper Darby notes the diversity in the community, its schools and churches:

At Christ Lutheran Church, in the 7200 block of Walnut Street, the 250 members of the congregation - most of whom aren’t Lutheran - come from 17 countries, including Albania, Jamaica, Hong Kong, and Bangladesh.

Pastor David Shaheen has erected in the vestibule a little flag from every land. “Our congregation is very proud of its diversity,” he says. “India is my most recent flag.”

Read “Secrets of Upper Darby

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