Editor’s note: To have your church’s Vacation Bible School event listed on the Religion page, email ethompson@lewistownsentinel.com Lewistown Alliance Church Lewistown Alliance Church will host Mystery Island VBS from 6:30 to 8 p.m. June 6-10. The program is open to children in grades ...

Overflowing with “vision and song, doom and deliverance, terror and triumph,” as Eugene Peterson points out in The Message, Revelation is a rush of color and sound, image, and energy, that leaves us reeling. But if we persist through the confusion and read on, we begin to pick up the ...

Schrader church to host speakers REEDSVILLE — Schrader United Methodist Church will host the following special speakers during its 8:30 a.m. services: ¯June 6 — Jim Hartzler ¯June 13 — Jeff Hartzler ¯June 20 — Clair Diven ¯June 27 — Jack Armstrong Regular services held ...

LEWISTOWN — The Rev. Fr. Jayaseelan Amalanathan will say good-bye to his congregations later this month as he has been appointed to Saint Theresa Parish in New Cumberland. Amalanathan, also known locally as Fr. Jay, has served as parochial vicar at Sacred Heart and St. Jude Church, ...

Jeremiah is given another message from God. In Jeremiah 5:23 God says, “But this people have a defiant and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and departed.” Verse 25 says, “And your sins have withheld good things from you.” He also says in verse 26, “For among My people are found ...

I will never forget the day I thought I was going to die. It was summer of 2006 and my friend Christopher Berera and I were swimming in the South Saskatchewan River near Saskatoon, Canada. Neither one of us were very good swimmers, but we were having a great time and somehow managed to cross ...