Saturday, December 28, 2002
Kwanzaa celebration
YOUNGSTOWN -- Holy Trinity Missionary Baptist Church will celebrate Kwanzaa with biblical interpretations of the seven principles at 5 p.m. Sunday. Call (330) 782-8929. Kwanzaa began Thursday and contines through Wednesday.
Information program
BOARDMAN -- St. Charles Church will have a program for Catholics returning to the church, or who want to know more about it, at 7 p.m. Jan. 6. Call (330) 758-2325.
Construction contract
POLAND -- The Poland Presbyterian Church administration committee recently signed a contract with Kenwood Construction Co., Canfield, for construction of an elevator tower at the south end of the Christian education building and the installation of an elevator in the tower. The project will cost $95,700. Construction is expected to begin immediately and be completed before Easter.
Meetings planned
COLUMBIANA -- Jerusalem Lutheran Church will hold its January council meeting at 8 p.m. Jan. 8; the executive committee will meet at 7 p.m. The general church meeting will be at 1 p.m. Jan. 15.
Television special
CHICAGO -- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is set to produce a "Davey and Goliath" television special for December 2003. "Davey and Goliath" is an animated children's series created by the Lutheran church that aired on commercial television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Book to be published
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- In January, United Methodist Abingdon Press will publish "The Delany Sisters Reach High," a children's book about two black sisters who lived to be more than 100 years old. The book is based on the childhood stories of Sarah Louise "Sadie" and Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany and is geared for children 6 to 12 years old. The book will cost $17. For more information, visit www.abingdonpress.com.
Prayers for peace
NEW YORK -- The million-member United Methodist women'sorganization is conducting a prayer campaign for peace. Women across the United States are asked to write a prayer for peace on a postcard and mail it before Easter to the Service Center, General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 7820 Reading Road, Caller No. 1800, Cincinnati, Ohio 45222-1800.
Parsonage renovations
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The former Baptist parsonage where a young Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. lived is undergoing $300,000 in renovations to become a museum.
The project is scheduled for completion in 2004, a year before the 50th anniversary of the historic Montgomery bus boycott, which was galvanized by the Rev. Dr. King's pulpit oratory at the church, now known as the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church.
Church attendance
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) -- Churchgoing among Roman Catholics has dropped as the crisis over priests who molest children has dragged on, according to a survey by the Gallup Organization. The number of Catholics who said they had attended services in the last week fell to 41 percent, compared to 46 percent in the same period in 2001, according to the poll released Dec. 18.
The survey of some 1,000 adults was conducted between Dec. 9 and 10 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 7 percent.
Evolution disclaimer
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A state board has rejected a request from evangelical Christians to flag biology textbooks with a disclaimer that the theory of evolution is just that -- a theory, not a fact.
Had the disclaimer been approved, it would have made Louisiana the second state in the nation with such a provision. The other is Alabama.