ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH,
1533 Springhouse Road, Allentown, holds worship services at 9:30 and 11 a.m. Sundays. Streaming at live.asburylv. org. Info: 484-544-0702.
BLESSED TRINITY AT ROSEMONT LUTHERAN CHURCH,
1705 W. Broad St., Bethlehem, will hold worship services at 9:30 a.m. Sundays. Info: 610-867-3705.
FAITH ALIVE CHURCH, 678 Pine
St., Palmerton, will hold a contemporary service at 8:30 a.m. Sundays and a traditional service at 11 a.m. Sundays. Info: 610-852-2805; faithalivechurch.net.
HUFF’S UNION CHURCH, 540 Conrad Road, Hereford Township, will hold services at 10:30 a.m. Sundays. Adult Sunday School is held at 9:15 a.m. and children’s Sunday School is held at 10:30 a.m. Info: 610-845-2626.
JORDAN UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST,
Route 309 and Walbert Avenue, Allentown will hold services at 8 and 10:30 a.m. Sundays. Livestream 10:30 a.m. service at jordanuuc.org/online-worship. Info: 610-395-2218; www.jordanucc.org.
ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, 37 S. 15th St., Allentown, will hold worship services at 10:45 a.m. Sundays. Info: 610-432-7677.
ST, JOHN’S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST,
36 S. Sixth St., Allentown, holds worship Sundays at 11 a.m. in person and online. Go to stjohnsuccallentown.org for information or call 610-433-0146. Sunday School and Adult Forum begin at 9:30 a.m. Sundays, follow them on FaceBook for information about upcoming speakers.
26 N. Third St., Emmaus, will hold services at 10 a.m. Sundays. Info: 610-965-3036.
JONATHAN STAPLEY has been chosen as the new president of the Reading PA Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which covers the Berks, Lehigh, Luzerne, Schuylkill, Montgomery, Bucks, Carbon, and Northampton counties in Pennsylvania and Warren County in New Jersey.
UNITY OF LEHIGH VALLEY,
Stapley is joined by his new counselors, Phillip Brinton and Bladimir Garcia. The new leaders replace Keith B Wills, Jason R. Christiansen, and Brian R. Daems. Created in 1982, The Reading PA Stake, which is similar to a diocese in other churches, has 5,100 church members and 12 congregations. There are 12 Latter-Day Saint stakes in Pennsylvania with a total of over 53,000 members statewide.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints operates under a lay ministry that allows its local leaders to continue in their current employment.
Stapley, 50, and his wife, Sarah, have raised four children and live in Birdsboro. He is employed as the head of product management for B. Braun’s active devices business unit in Allentown.
Brinton, 49, and his wife Malesa, have four children and live in Allentown. He is a private practice pediatric dentist in Allentown.
Garcia, 50, and his wife, Betania, have four daughters and live in East Greenville. He is employed as the World Languages Department Head at Perkiomen School, Pennsburg.
TRNINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
44 E. Market St., Bethlehem, gifted $2,210 to the Holy Innocents Episcopal Church on the Pine Ridge Reservation in Parmelee, South Dakota. The gift, presented through Trinity’s Centennial Fund, follows the destruction of the 170-year-old wooden church in a fire last October.
The Centennial Fund gift is granted to a local, national or international cause each year, and the commonality of each congregation losing the use of their building swayed the local congregation to the choice of helping the modest church located on the Pine Ridge reservation.
Trinity Episcopal Church congregation in Bethlehem decided to send this gift less than a month after a water main break in front of the historic church on East Market Street caused devastating damage to their building, leaving the structure unusable.
Studies of Trinity are underway to determine what is needed to restore the building so that it can be used once again. On the week of March 11, volunteers from the congregation emptied the building’s contents into a storage facility so that work could begin.