DANVILLE — Members of the congregations of two Northumberland County churches have been visiting Geisinger Medical Center to see their pastor, who was critically injured in a Nov. 19 accident.

Pastor Ellen Clement remains in critical condition at Geisinger one week after she was involved in a violent three-car crash on Route 147, just south of Sunbury.

“She’s a wonderful person, and we’re all praying a lot,” said William H. Wiest, a Northumberland County judge and a member of Trinity United Church of Christ in Dalmatia.

Clement, who has served as pastor at Trinity and St. Luke’s in Malta for five years, has been receiving lots of visits from relatives and church-goers, Wiest said.

He said Clement’s mother is in town from Maine to aid her daughter.

The accident occurred when five teenage occupants of a 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier say their car hydroplaned moments before it clipped a minivan and then slammed head-on into a GMC pickup truck driven by Clement.

In all, eight people were injured, three critically, but now only Clement remains in the hospital.

Clement suffered a torn or ruptured aorta, as well as leg and wrist injuries. She will stay at Geisinger where those injuries will be treated for at least three weeks, possibly more, said Brenda Waleff, spokeswoman at the Penn Central Conference, United Church of Christ, in Harrisburg.

The busiest season is Advent, and Waleff said the conference is using supply pastors to fill in at the two churches.

Conference minister Marja Koons-Torn will serve at the two churches this Sunday, and pastors from the central association have volunteered to help out the congregations in emergency situations, she said.

It is not known whether any charges will be filed. The accident remains under investigation, said a state police spokesman in Stonington.