“Back to Church Sunday,” part of a national movement of churches across America, will be held at First Baptist Church in Dunkirk at 10 a.m. Sunday. All are welcome to join us. Since it started as a call to action and invitation for the church in 2009, the National Back to Church Sunday ...
In the past Medicare beneficiaries used their Social Security number as their Medicare number. In 2018, as a result of some changes instituted by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) each Medicare beneficiary received a new card with a uniquely assigned combination of letters and numbers. This was done to help keep beneficiaries’ identity and Social Security numbers secure. Currently fraudsters are still calling beneficiaries falsely claiming that Medicare is issuing new Medicare cards for different reasons. What is important to know is that Medicare will not call ...
CHAUTAUQUA — Chautauqua Institution has appointed two new religious leaders. Melissa Spas, acting director of the Lake Institute on Faith & Giving at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, has been named the institution’s new vice president of religion. The Right Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, will become the institution’s senior pastor. The appointment of two individuals to what previously was a combined leadership position represents an investment by the institution in its Religion pillar. The new leadership ...
Pastor Jess Kacalski has been named Trinity UCC’s transitional part time pastor. She started at the church at the end of January and has office hours Fridays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Kacalski has been coming to Trinity for many years, first as vacation pulpit supply then as pulpit supply ...
Many Christian denominations (although not all) observe the Season of Advent during the four Sundays before Christmas. Advent means arrival, appearance or coming. During Advent the Christian focus is on the coming of Christ. Specifically, how Christ came to us in the past, how Christ comes to us today, and, how Christ will come again in the future. Christ’s birth over 2000 years ago in Bethlehem was a fulfillment of God’s promise to send humanity a Savior. As foretold in the Old Testament: “Behold a virgin shall conceive and shall bear a son and you shall call his name ...
CHAUTAUQUA — Chautauqua Institution has announced the retirement of the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson as vice president of religion and senior pastor, effective Dec. 31. Details of a national search for his successors in both roles will be shared shortly. Robinson joined the institution ...
