• Bethesda Episcopal Church on Tuesday, August 4, 2015, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Olivia Nadel/ Special to the Times Union) Photo: ON, Albany Times Union / 10032887A
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Bethesda Episcopal Church on Tuesday, August 4, 2015, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Olivia Nadel/ Special to the Times Union)
Bethesda Episcopal Church on Tuesday, August 4, 2015, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Olivia Nadel/ Special to the Times Union)
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Actor David Hyde Pierce sits in the choir, left, before playing the second part of a duet with Bethesda Episcopal Church organist Farrell Goehring(playing on keyboard at center of altar in front of church, not shown ) on the George and Laura Pierce Memorial Organ, restored in the name of his late parents by their family, during a service at the church in Saratoga Springs, NY on Sunday October 11, 2009. He grew up attending the church, and practicing the organ as an assistant to the organist, as a teenager. FOR LAUREN STANFORTH STORY. (Philip Kamrass / Times Union) less
Actor David Hyde Pierce sits in the choir, left, before playing the second part of a duet with Bethesda Episcopal Church organist Farrell Goehring(playing on keyboard at center of altar in front of church, not ... more
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Bethesda Episcopal Church, Saratoga Springs
Bethesda Episcopal Church, Saratoga Springs
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Actor David Hyde Pierce plays a duet from the choir, left, with Bethesda Episcopal Church organist Farrell Goehring(shown on keyboard at center of altar in front of church, right, ) on the George and Laura Pierce Memorial Organ, restored in the name of his late parents by their family, during a service at the church in Saratoga Springs, NY on Sunday October 11, 2009. He grew up attending the church, and practicing the organ as an assistant to the organist, as a teenager. FOR LAUREN STANFORTH STORY. (Philip Kamrass / Times Union) less
Actor David Hyde Pierce plays a duet from the choir, left, with Bethesda Episcopal Church organist Farrell Goehring(shown on keyboard at center of altar in front of church, right, ) on the George and Laura ... more
Photo: PHILIP KAMRASS, ALBANY TIMES UNION
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Times Union photo by Brian Alpart The outside of the Bethesda Episcopal Church on Washington Street in Saratoga Springs on Tuesday June 16, 1998.
Times Union photo by Brian Alpart The outside of the Bethesda Episcopal Church on Washington Street in Saratoga Springs on Tuesday June 16, 1998.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Bethesda Episcopal Church has postponed the planned Saturday, June 23, open house and book signing to celebrate its history because its Ann Arbor printer has gone out of business, the interim rector said.

"Just as our job was set to be put on the presses, Edwards Brothers Malloy, a 125-year printing company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, precipitously closed all its operations, ended 137 jobs, and we have suffered financial loss," said The Very Reverend Marshall J. Vang. "Meanwhile, we have been able to secure the services of another printer that had previously bid on the job, so we expect to take delivery of the books later this summer. A new date for the open house and book signing will be announced once we have the books in hand," he added.

The book, "A History of Bethesda Episcopal Church, Worship and Healing in Saratoga Springs, New York," chronicles the 190-year-history of parish.

Written by a variety of authors, the book reveals details of the parish's historic personalities and its role in the community. Among the authors are Gordon Boyd, Mary Ann Fitzgerald, James Kettlewell and John Van der Veer. Jane Agee, a retired professor of English education at the graduate school at the University at Albany, was the editor. Poet and novelist Mary Sanders Shartle was the co-editor.