Faith Formation Program begins Sunday at St. Joseph St. Joseph Church at 145 E. Main St., Fredonia, will have its Faith Formation Program “Journey/Generations of Faith” begin its 13th year on Sunday, Sept. 22 with the doors opening at 9 a.m. and the program starting at 9:30 a.m. to 11 ...
JAMESTOWN — Community Helping Hands is a local, faith based organization established in 2001 to fulfill the mission of helping those who may need immediate assistance in the form of clothing and/or household goods and furniture. In order to continue providing that service to the community, CHH operates three salesrooms full of clothing, furniture, home furnishings and specialty items. These items are donated by the community to CHH and then sold to anyone who is looking for a bargain. Community Helping Hands continues to sell clothing, furniture, home goods and specialty items out ...
The Pro Life Committee of Chautauqua is looking for new links to reinforce its Annual National Life Chain Sunday, Oct. 6 . The Life Chain is a pro-life social movement organization, one of the largest in the United States. It was started in 1987 in Yuba City and Marysville by a small California-based pro-life ministry called Please Let Me Live. Every first Sunday of October, Life Chain invites various churches and congregations across the United States to stand on designated sidewalks to pray and rally for one hour. In past years, the local Life Chain began at Blessed Mary Angela ...
From Oct. 7-18, Fredonia Presbyterian Church is holding the sixth annual Feeding Fredonia Challenge. The need for this annual community wide food collection is clear. The Fredonia Food pantry shelves at the Rural Ministry are, for all intents and purposes, empty. During this two-week period, ...
By REV. WILLIAM NOVACK St. Paul Lutheran Church Continuing our series on “What We Believe” and the Commandments of God, we come to the fifth Commandment — “Thou shall not kill” or “You shall not murder.” Young students of Christian doctrine typically think this a command they have never broken, but closer investigation reveals we have easily broken this and all 10 Commandments. More than the unlawful taking of a life, known as murder, God’s command extends to our very treatment of those around us, that we should fear and love God so that we do not hurt or harm our ...
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s study “The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2019”, 1 in 9 people, more than 820 million people in the world, do not have enough to eat. Fredonia First United Methodist Church is helping to change that. The church is hosting a Rise Against Hunger meal packaging event on Sept. 22 at 10 a.m. in their Community Room. Volunteers are needed for a number of things: Set up and takedown of packaging stations and equipment, filling bins with raw ingredients, scooping ingredients into meal bags, weighing and sealing the bags, boxing ...
