LOS ANGELES — On a recent Sunday, about 10 people sat outside the steps of the boarded-up First Baptist Church of Venice, a century-old congregation that, to many, remains a symbol of the thriving Black population that once existed in the seaside town of Los Angeles. They discussed ...
For over a year, COVID-19 has held us hostage and threatened our existence. We have all experienced the horror of this virus. All our lives have been forever changed. With the pandemic continuing and large numbers suffering from it, I am reminded of three essential truths about life in the ...
The Christian Social Concerns Committee of the United Churches of Lycoming County will host an event at the Yasui Peace Tower at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6, to mark the Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, bombings of 1945. The tower, at the corner of Pine Street and Little League Boulevard in the city, was commissioned by Dr. Robert S. Yasui in the mid-1980s, according to a press release from UCLC. He hoped it would provide a place of mediation for the community, the release said. The plaque on the tower reads, “Dedicated...to the humanity that makes us all one.”
Carsontown Community Church, 7951 Little Pine Creek Road, Waterville, is celebrating its 120th anniversary on Sunday, Aug. 1, with a 9:30 a.m. service. The service will include a hymn sing as well as a chance for people to share remembrances. Fellowship, refreshments and a memorabilia display will follow. Attendees are encouraged to bring along photos, articles or other church memories.
The Rev. John McCarty has joined White Hall Baptist Church as its new pastor, with an installation service held July 25. McCarty began ministry at White Hall Baptist Church, Danville, in late November 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. He was raised in Delaware, then graduated from ...
AUBURN, Ala. — A girls home director who was driving a van that crashed in Alabama, killing two of her own children, two nephews and four other youths, wept Thursday at a remembrance where she said religious faith has sustained her since the wreck. Standing before a crowd of hundreds, ...
