About Maronites

About Maronites

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The Society of St. John Chrysostom Youngstown-Warren Chapter will present “A Review of Who the Maronites Are and of Current Maronite Liturgical Praxis” in a program planned at 7 p.m. Jan. 11 at St. Maron Church, 1555 S. Meridian Road. Speaker will be Chorbishop Michael Kail, pastor of St. Maron’s.

Children’s choir

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Austintown Community Church, 242 S. Canfield-Niles Road, will present the Watoto Children’s Choir in a “concert of hope” at 7 p.m. Jan. 12 at Highway Tabernacle Church, 3000 S. Raccoon Road. A free-will offering will be taken.

Children in the choir have lost one or both of their parents because of AIDS or war. The presentation is a fusion of contemporary gospel and traditional African music and dance.

Through music, the Watoto Children’s Choir shares the plight of the children in Africa.

For information, visit www.watoto.com or call the Rev. Elmarie Parker, pastor at Wickliffe Presbyterian Church, at 330-277-6886.

New Year’s message

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The Ministry of Righteousness Being Restored will bring forth the New Year’s message at 10:15 a.m. Sunday at the Family Enrichment Center in the Wedgewood Plaza on Raccoon Road.

Concert at church

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The music ministries of St. Charles Borromeo Church, 7345 Westview Drive, will present the annual free Christmas concert at 3 p.m. Sunday.

Featured will be St. Charles choir, hand bells, contemporary group, Life Teen Ensemble, youth orchestra, soloists and instrumentalists. Donations are accepted.

Drop negativity

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The Unity Center for Spiritual Living will have its annual Burning Bowl service at 11 a.m. Sunday. It is an opportunity to release old, negative thoughts and accept new blessings for the coming year. Ric Schumacher will be speaker. The church is at 1226 Naylor-Lloyd Road. Call 330-539-0122.

Metaphysics class

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A five-week class, Metaphysics II, will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays beginning Jan. 11 at Unity Centre for Spiritual Living at Unity Church Centre, 1226 Naylor-Lloyd Road.

Cay Tomerlin will be the teacher, and the required book is “Heart Centered Metaphysics” by the Rev. Paul Hasselbeck, dean of Unity School.

A Wednesday-night book study will start Jan. 12 and will continue through May from 7 to 8:30 p.m. with Tomerlin as facilitator.

It will include readings and discussion. The first book will be “Spiritual Economics” by the Rev. Eric Butterworth.

The class and the book study are free, except for the books, which will be available at the church. Offerings will be accepted. For more information, call 330-539-0122, or go to unitycentre.org.