Sojourner Truth Ministries has completed their new duplex, providing a home to a local family from Cuba. Ridey Rielo and her husband, Sammy Rodriguez, will live in the duplex with their 3 year old son, Christopher. Rielo first came to the United States years ago when she was pregnant with ...
Transform Jersey Shore consists of a group of people on a mission, and in more ways than one. The organization has worked to rebuild the Jersey Shore community, one handicap ramp and a shared meal at a time, since 2015. Although the group had to take a hiatus in 2020 and 2021 due to the ...
On the desk in my office, there is a sculpture that was given to me by a church member and friend who went home to be with the Lord many years ago. The sculpture is of a man kneeling, leaning on a chair, and praying with a Bible next to him on the floor. The placard on the sculpture is emblazoned with the words of Jeremiah 29:13, “You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart” (NIV). Many times, as I sit at my desk, I look at the man praying, and I reflect on my own prayer life and ask if I am truly living out the words of Jeremiah 29:13. In our world, many ...
NEW YORK (AP) — By the thousands, revelers recently returned to Havemeyer Street in New York City’s Williamsburg neighborhood to celebrate the annual Giglio Feast following its first-ever cancellation in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and then downsized crowds in 2021. The feast, first held in Williamsburg in 1903 by immigrants from Nola, Italy, combines two celebrations. One, typically held on June 22, is dedicated to St. Paulinus, the Bishop of Nola from 409 AD to 431 AD, and the other, celebrated on July 16, to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the name given to the Virgin Mary ...
“It’s a wonderful cause.” That is how Kristin Fleck, of Milton, describes Saint Joseph’s Center in Scranton. Saint Joseph’s Center serves people who have intellectual or physical disabilities. Kristin’s son Gregory agrees that it is a wonderful cause — so much so that ...
When I was growing up, my mother would often communicate her frustration with me by using sayings. If I had “gotten too big for my britches,” she could “take me down a peg or two” by offering to “knock the chip off my shoulder.” These metaphors conjured up literal and scary images, ...
