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• Hundreds mourn Christian Angulo following Apalachee High School shooting  

  

  By NATALIA DURON, Staff Writer
  Published September 26, 2024

  Family, friends, classmates and teachers filled the pews at St. Matthew Church, in Winder, for the funeral of Christian Gabriel Angulo, a 14-year-old student who died in the shooting at Apalachee High School on Sept. 4.

• St. Matthew Church comforting community following school shooting 

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published September 6, 2024

  St. Matthew Church in Barrow County is comforting the grief-stricken following a tragic shooting Sept. 4 at Apalachee High School in Winder.

• Deacon Richard Delaine Downey remembered

  Published August 5, 2021

  Deacon Richard Downey, who had served at St. Lawrence Church, Lawrenceville, died July 17. He was 83 years old. 

• St. Matthew Church, Winder, honors longtime parishioner

  Published October 2, 2014

  WINDER—Betty Cohron was honored for her 50 years of service to St. Matthew Church, in Winder, as the community celebrated a milestone with a picnic. The Cohron family saw St. Matthew grow from its early days in a school building to the construction of the current sanctuary seven years ago. Parish leaders honored Betty with […]

• Winder Catholics Have ‘Beautiful’ New Church

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published October 4, 2007

  Water always flows in the large baptismal font that dominates the main entrance to the new St. Matthew’s Church. Worshippers dip their hands into the holy water and then step around the font into the spacious church, where the large clear windows look out onto lush greenery. The handcrafted structure with its gold-tiled Jerusalem cross […]

• St. Matthew’s Breaks Ground For New Church

  By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
  Published April 1, 2005

  In the early years of the formation of St. Matthew’s Church, if a family did not show up for Mass on Sunday, they later received a phone call from a worried fellow parishioner. Betty Cohron remembers those first years well. A parishioner since 1964, she played the church organ for 23 years. On Aug. 18 […] Full Story