Concerts Conference Drama Fellowship Milestone Prayer Service

Mount Culmen Evangelical Congregational Church, 1885 Turkey Hill Road, East Earl, will present the GOOSE CREEK BOYS in a concert of gospel and bluegrass music at 10 a.m. Sunday.

THE WEAVER FAMILY will perform in concert at Grace Chapel, 2535 Colebrook Road, Elizabethtown, at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. The singing family – which includes the Rev. Luke Weaver Jr., son of Grace Chapel’s founding pastors, Luke Sr. and Edna Weaver – hails from New Brunswick, Canada. Luke Weaver Jr., his wife Bonnie and their oldest daughter, Lisa, recently released a country blue grass gospel music album.

The Music in the Grove concert series at St. John Center Lutheran Church, 599 Reading Road, East Earl, will present SUNNYSIDE in concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, July 20.

A freewill offering will be received, and the youth group will serve refreshments. Those attending may wish to bring lawn chairs. In case of rain, the concert will be held indoors.

Widow2Widow Inc. in Quarryville and Ephrata will sponsor author Jennifer Sands, who was widowed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as keynote speaker at a national conference on A WIDOW’S JOURNEY & GOD’S PROVISION at Black Rock Retreat, 1345 Kirkwood Pike, Quarryville, Friday to Sunday, Sept. 12-14.

For more information or to register, call (717) 786-2802 or e- mail [email protected].

The drama team, His Guiding Light, of Lititz United Methodist Church, will present THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN TWENTY MINUTES, a light-hearted and somewhat modern view of some well-known Biblical stories, in the Mount Gretna Bible Festival’s Summer at the Tabernacle, Third Street and Glossbrenner Avenue in the Campmeeting section of Mount Gretna, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. A freewill offering will be received.

Bergstrasse Evangelical Lutheran Church, 9 Hahnstown Road, Ephrata, will hold its annual CARNIVAL ON THE HILL from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, July 19.

Canned goods will be collected for Ephrata Area Social Services, and each child who brings a can of food will receive two free game tickets. Hot dogs, soup, drink, baked goods and more will be for sale.

Proceeds will benefit the ministry of Love, Inc., which stands for Love In The Name of Christ.

Jeff Bach, director of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College, will speak on Reform and Renewal: From the Reformation to Today at the 32nd annual outdoor meeting of the ALLEGHENY MENNONITE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION in the 1855 Allegheny Mennonite Meetinghouse, 39 Horning Road, Mohnton, at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, July 20.

The Weaverland Men’s Chorus will perform. Eddie Martin will lead congregational singing from the Church and Sunday School Hymnal. Please bring a hymnal and a lawn chair. In case of rain, the meeting will be held indoors. For more information, call (610) 777-3003 or (717) 949-3475.

THE CHRISTIAN WRITERS FELLOWSHIP will meet at Lancaster Mennonite Conference Center, 2160 Lincoln Highway East, Room 5, at 2 p.m. Sunday. Writers may bring a manuscript or talk about their writing. For information call (717) 509-5829.

THE REV. DAVID UNANGST recently retired from Long Memorial United Methodist Church, 2660 Lititz Pike, after 38 years as pastor of three congregations in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the UMC.

A graduate of United Theological Seminary, he served Neffsville’s Long Memorial for 12 years before retiring on June 30. Previously, he served 20 years at Covenant UMC in Moore Township and six years at St. Paul UMC in Mount Carmel.

Unangst resides with his wife, Mary Ann, in Lititz and is a part- time retired supply pastor at Salem UMC in Rothsville.

Salem Hellers Church, 2555 Horseshoe Road, Leola, will hold a self-directed community GATHERING FOR PRAYER from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 23. Worshippers may come for five minutes or an hour for quiet, uninterrupted prayer and reflection.

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