Published: February 22, 2008 01:27 pm            

Religion in brief | Centennial UM to hold dedication service

BY JANICE RAINEY

JRAINEY@TRIBDEM.COM

Centennial UM to hold dedication service

Centennial United Methodist Church, 426 North Fork Road, Johnstown, will dedicate bells purchased for the Bell Choir during the 9 a.m. Sunday service.

The service will include a bell anthem, “Variations on Just a Closer Walk With Thee” and “Swing Low Sweet Chariot,” with harp accompaniment by Karen Lehman.

The Chancel Choir will sing “At Calvary.”

A Lenten Bible study, “Christ Jesus the Cornerstone,” is held each Thursday evening during Lent at various homes.

Information: The Rev. Duane Slade, 288-1763.

Way of Hope schedules service

Way of Hope Christian Fellowship will hold its Lenten service with contemporary and traditional music and fellowship at 10 a.m. Sunday at Beka House, 5977 Somerset Pike.

Pastor Rob Rummel will lead the worship.

Diana Rok, guest speaker, will deliver the message.

Nail clippers will be collected on Sunday for hygiene kits.

Information: 479-4924 or www.wayofhope.org.

Meyersdale church books musician

Brent Henderson, a professional musician, will perform during the 10:30 a.m. Sunday service at Meyersdale Grace Brethren Church, 9 Beachley St.

Ecumenical service set in Somerset

An ecumenical service to pray for Christian unity will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 918 Tayman Ave., Somerset.

The Rev. A. Donald Main, former bishop of Upper Susquehanna Synod and past president of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches, will preach.

Choral and organ music will begin at 2:30.

St. Paul’s to host Lenten recital

Soprano Paula Werner Kretchman of Meyersdale will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, 202 W. Union St., Somerset.

The recital is part of the church’s third annual Lenten Recital Series.

Kretchman, who is a recitalist, soloist and teacher of voice and piano in Somerset County, will perform classical and sacred favorites, including selected arias from Handel’s “Messiah.”

Kretchman served as soprano soloist at Third Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh for eight years. She is the director of music at Amity United Church of Christ in Meyersdale.

She also has been a featured soloist with the Bach Chorale of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Chorale-East, Westmoreland and Johnstown symphony orchestras, IUP Symphony and Chorale, Pennsylvania Consort, Somerset Music Festival, Hollidaysburg Area Chorus and Orchestra, Casselman Valley Choral Society, Pennsylvania Maple Festival, Somerset County Community Band, North Star School District Band and Laurel Highlands Chorale.

Kretchman will be accompanied by Bryan Lohr of Hooversville, the church’s organist and director of music, who holds degrees from the Juilliard School and Carnegie Mellon University.

The program is free and open to the public.

Information: 445-4534.

Missionary to speak at Westmont UM

“Bush Bunny” Brenda Lange of Orphans Unlimited will speak at 7 p.m Thursday in the fellowship hall at Westmont United Methodist Church, 1428 Menoher Blvd.

Lange received her nickname from the children of Mozambique, Africa, where she serves as missionary for Orphans Unlimited, a nondenominational, independent missions organization funded by American, Canadian and South African churches as well as individuals and businesses.

Lange is founder of Orphans Unlimited and has been on-site coordinator since 1993.

She has built and organized two orphanages, a medical clinic and a malnutrition center with job-training facilities for orphans and widows in one of the most poverty stricken areas of Mozambique.

Information: 255-2428.

Berlin church to hold service

The congregations of Holy Trinity, Berlin Brethren, Trinity United Church of Christ and The Three Seasons Community Church will offer a Lenten service at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Trinity United Church of Christ, 600 Main St., Berlin.

        

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