Submit information on veterans’ services

Submit information on veterans’ services

The Vindicator will publish a list of religious services honoring veterans.

Information should be submitted by 5 p.m. Oct. 29 for publication Nov. 1; Veterans Day is Nov. 11.

Send information by email to religion@vindy.com; mail to the religion desk at The Vindicator, P.O. Box 780, Youngstown, OH 44501-0780; or by fax to 330-747-6712.

Prayer band event

YOUNGSTOWN

Northside Prayer Band is sponsoring a bus trip April 3, 2015, to Sight & Sound Theater, Lancaster, Pa., to see “Moses. The overnight stay at the Hampton Inn includes a full breakfast. Cost is $250. For information, call Rosetta Brown at 330-746-6212 or Lynnette Murray at 330-788-4952.

Women’s retreat

YOUNGSTOWN

The Women Of Worship Ministry of Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church will host a retreat Oct. 24-26 at The Inn at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio.

Guest speaker on Oct. 24 will be Pastor Dione Eldridge, co-pastor of Fellowship Tabernacle Christian Center; evangelist Sherri Dawson of Touch Heaven Church of Canfield will speak Oct. 25; and the Rev. Dr. Robin Woodberry of New Bethel Baptist Church will speak Oct. 26.

Cost is $252; reservations are due by Monday. Call Pecola Hunter at 330-747-7373 or Minister Sandra Miles at 330-746-1921.

In concert

CORTLAND

Soul Purpose of Grove City will be in concert at 6 p.m. Sunday at Calvary Bible Church, 2878 Warren Meadville Road. A nursery will be provided. A free-will offering will be taken.

Speaker at church

YOUNGSTOWN

“The Future Is Calling Us to Greatness: Climate as the Great Reckoning“ will be the topic of the Rev. Michael Dowd who will speak at 7 p.m. Monday at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown, 1105 Elm St.

Child care will be provided.

The program builds on his “Reality Reconciles Science and Religion” talks.

For church leaders

YOUNGSTOWN

The Northeast Ohio branch of the C.S. Lewis Institute will host a Pastoral and Ministry Leadership Equipping Day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 13 in the institute’s lecture hall in Suite 400 at Trinity United Methodist Church, 30 W. Front St. The seminar will include discipleship training and leadership development.

Bruce Beard, regional director, Dan Osborn, city director, and Joshua Reichard, resident scholar, will lead discussion, corporate worship and prayer followed by a seminar led by Christian author Greg Ogden titled “Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time.”

Local and regional pastors, clergy, priests and others involved in ministry leadership may attend. Registration is required. Go to gregogden.eventbrite.com or call 330-717-6979.

Taize service

YOUNGSTOWN

First Presbyterian Church, 201 Wick Ave., will conduct a candlelight Taize service at 7 p.m. Thursday with a blend of Scripture, music and silence. The event is open to the public.

Special service

HUBBARD

Song and testimonies given by Ohio Valley Teen Challenge in Youngstown will be at the 10:15 a.m. service Oct. 12 at First Baptist Church of Hubbard, 59 Orchard Ave. Teen Challenge is a residential, Christian, faith-based recovery program. Visit www.ohiovalleyteenchallenge.com.