Hillside Fellowship Pastor Dick Hill will retire after he delivers his final sermon Sunday.
He and his wife, Sharon, came to Sweet Home 16 years ago from Salem.
“I thought I came here for a year,” Hill said. At the time, the church was struggling. The church’s conference, the Free Methodists of Oregon, didn’t expect it to survive.
“They wanted us to get it going, but their theory was basically, it’s not going to make…