JAMESTOWN — With chaos currently surrounding the daily lives of everyone in the country, the staff at the Hultquist Place Assisted Living Program in Jamestown have been making sure to provide a sense of normalcy for their residents whenever they can! While still maintaining social ...
In an effort to provide a way for congregation members and visitors to experience a worship service in a way that maintained safe boundaries for COVID-19 exposure, last week Family Church joined hundreds of churches across the nation in offering a drive in service. An FM transmitter broadcasts a signal from the steeple of the historic 1853 Fredonia Baptist Church Building at 19 Church St., and members and attendees parked around Barker Common to tune in as senior pastor Michael Lokietek preached from the iconic front steps of the recently remodeled building. The range on the ...
Appeal Sunday, a decades-long Palm Sunday tradition, would have played out in parishes across the Diocese of Buffalo this weekend. Volunteers would greet Mass attendees at the church vestibule or ensure they were encouraged by their Pastor to put their envelopes in the basket as it was passed. ...
GOWANDA — Hospice would like to thank Trinity United Church of Christ of Gowanda and the Degenfelder family for their generous donation of $2,727 in honor of Zack Degenfelder. Zack was a very strong and courageous boy, and a part of Hospice’s Essential Care for Children program. This ...
Catholic Charities of Buffalo is here to help as always, and the human service organization that serves the eight counties of Western New York is continuing to help those most in need with the most essential services, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some ways we are helping our neighbors: Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services and Counseling — Our Erie and Niagara County Monsignor Carr Institute Clinics continue to provide mental health counseling via teletherapy to current and new clients, as well as our substance abuse services in Erie County. Our ...
Ways to worship The OBSERVER is not running its weekly church page during the current COVID-19 pandemic. If your church is holding activities, whether on line, the radio, or some other way, please let the OBSERVER know and we will run them Saturdays moving forward. Please email editorial@observertoday.com with the information. Park Church Park Church for their Cassadaga and Sinclairville campuses, are holding worship live on line at 10 a.m. Sundays. Go to www.parkumc.org to find the link. For further questions, call 962-2265.
