Faith festival

Faith festival

NORTH CANTON

The seventh annual Faith & Family Festival of the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown is planned from 11 a.m. to 6 pm. July 10 at Walsh University’s Hoover Park, 1875 E. Maple St.

A new format includes a wider variety of children’s and teen activities and praise and worship bands, both featured all day, and a variety of food stations. There will be a petting zoo and vendor tent.

Featured speaker will be Bishop George V. Murry, who participated in the 2015 Synod on the Family with Pope Francis in Rome. He will also preside at the closing Mass.

Admission is free; donations will be accepted. No registration is require4d.

Participants are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs. Families can enter a free raffle for one week at Catholic Familyland during their 2017 Family Fest season.

Sponsor is the diocesan office of pro-life, marriage and family life in partnership with Walsh University, and with the help of corporate sponsors. Visit www.FaithFamilyFest.org or call 330-744-8451 ext.272.

Feast Day

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown branch of the Slovak Catholic Federation, which serves the Diocese of Youngstown, will celebrate the traditional Feast Day of Sts. Cyril and Methodius on July 5 at Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, 252 E. Wood St.

The Mass will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a gathering to follow in the social hall, where a picnic-style array of food and refreshments will be served.

The feast of the brothers remains a national holiday on this date in Slovakia, even after the liturgical calendar moved the commemoration to February after Vatican II. The church and hall are handicap accessible via an elevator that can be entered from the outside through the door facing the parish house at the base of the ramp. All are welcome.

Special program

STRUTHERS

St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church, 97 W. Washington St., will host the annual Men’s and Women’s Day program at 4 p.m. Sunday.

Guest speaker will be the Rev. James C. Bowie, pastor of Greate Friendship Baptist Church in Youngstown.

Zion Lutheran offers Gospel programs

New middletown

Zion Lutheran Church, 19857 Main St., will offer a Gospel of Thomas study at 7 p.m. July 6.

The session will focus on the 114 logians or sayings of Jesus that appear in the Gospels and some that are unique to Thomas.

Reading the Gospel by Lectio Divina is planned at 7 p.m. July 10. This four-fold reading method is an ancient Christian practice.

For information, call the church at 330-542-3821.