Jesuits Closing Church That Serves Many Gays

The Jeremiah People, a Christian musical drama group, will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Riverwood Church, 3030 S. Washington St., Bismarck.

The group has been performing Christian music theater for 30 years throughout the U.S. Consisting of five to eight cast members, The Jeremiah People’s performances include drama, music and testimony. A freewill offering will be taken, and refreshments will be provided after the performance. For more information, contact the Rev. Todd Fuehrer at Riverwood Church, 222-4015.

Poet and minister, the Rev. Ric Masten, will present “Let It Be A Dance” at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Bismarck Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 818 E. Divide Ave.

Masten will be in Bismarck until Monday as he also speaks for a cancer support group, participates in a poetry reading and speaks to classes at Bismarck State College. He also will participate in BSC’s ArtsQuest 2007.

Masten is a poet, philosopher, cancer survivor and Unitarian Universalist minister. He has shared his spiritual poetry in worship services with more than 500 UU congregations, 400 colleges and universities and many cancer support groups around the country.

Masten’s current ministry is provided over the Internet, where a poem and one-line drawing are sent out to thousands of people on his mailing list each week. He also created the song, “Let It Be A Dance,” which is the title of his UU talk here. For more information, see the article at www.uuworld.org/2004/06/ feature2.html.

Masten’s schedule in Bismarck is: Saturday, meeting with Prostate Cancer Support Group at Medcenter One; an evening potluck and poetry reading at the UU Fellowship; Sunday, speaking at the UU Fellowship at 11 a.m.; and Monday, class presentations at BSC, 7:30 p.m. poetry reading in the BSC Library as part of ArtsQuest 2007 Visiting Writers’ Series.

Singer and songwriter Mitch Malloy will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church’s South Campus, Washington Street and Divide Avenue.

Craig Schweitzer, Good Shepherd music and worship minister, said Malloy’s songs, such as “Breathless” and “You Lifted Me,”"capture the essence of God’s love and grace in lyric and melody.”

Malloy has won the International Songwriting Competition, out of more than 85,000 entries, and is the only unsigned artist on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Sirius 60 channel, with three songs in rotation on their playlist. He is a native of Dickinson.

Go to www.GoodShepherdBismarck.com for more information.

St. George’s Episcopal Church in Bismarck will hold its 11th annual Spring Tea on May 19. Three seatings are planned – at 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.

To make reservations, call St. George’s at 223-1942 between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. The church is at Fourth Street and Avenue B.

BOSTON (AP) – A Roman Catholic religious order is closing a Boston church with a largely gay congregation, citing cost pressures.

The Jesuit Urban Center in the city’s South End will close at the end of July, said the Rev. Thomas Regan, the superior of the New England Jesuits.

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