Alex Paul
For the Sentinel
Sweet Home, Ore.–It isn’t a big church, nor is it ornate but for the 150 families who worship each week at St. Helen’s Catholic church in Sweet Home, it is a welcoming place, filled with parishioners who care about one another, their community of 8,200 and about serving God.
September 13, St. Helen’s gathered all ages, from octogenarians who were among the founding parishioners to toddlers, to commemorate the 50th…