Faith Alive Church

Faith Alive Church, 678 Pine St. Palmerton (Bowmanstown), holds two services each Sunday with Pastor Rob Timlin. At 8:30 a.m. is the contemporary service followed by Sunday school for all ages at 9:45 a.m. and then traditional service at 11 a.m. You can worship in person or in parking lot by tuning the radio station to 104.3 FM or Facebook Live.

Every Wednesday at 7 p.m. is prayer and praise. Plus a special service will be held on June 29. Our own Pastor Lela Hartranft will be leaving Faith Alive as she is assigned to Emmanuel UMC in Allentown. We will have a Farewell Reception for her from 6-7 p.m. with light refreshments followed by a Healing Service with the lesson presented by Pastor Hartranft.

Vacation Bible School, “Spark Studios” is June 20-24. From 5-5:45 p.m. is dinner for the kids and staff followed by VBS class from 6-8:30 p.m. It is for children 3 years old to entering sixth grade. Registration forms are available in the lobby or on the website. We welcome all children throughout our community to attend our VBS, but registration is a must to help us prepare.

Other events for June:

June 7: 2-3 p.m., prayer shawl ministry

June 13: 7 p.m. church council meeting

June 19: At both services is celebrating our Dads & Grads Sunday

June 20: 10 a.m. is Let’s Quilt Meeting to discuss forming a quilt group

June 26: Will be one combined service at 10:30 a.m. followed by Faith Alive’s annual church picnic.

ABC Food Pantry is always accepting food or money donations to help feed the needy in our community and within our church family.

Micah’s Backpack is also always accepting food or money to help feed the needy young students of the Palmerton Area School District. We proudly are finishing off our 10th year of helping these students. For a list of the food items needed, please call the church.

June’s Mission of the Month is The Gathering Place in Weissport. Their mission is to keep this facility open for use by faith-based groups needing space to do their mission work, create programs of outreach that will support the needs of any and all people within the reaches of Weissport and other local communities.

To learn more about Faith Alive Church and their events, activities and missions, call the church at 610-852-2805 or visit the church website for more details.

Blue Mountain VBS

Blue Mountain Community, 25 Oak St. Palmerton, is holding Vacation Bible School June 12-16, 6-8:20 p.m. Preregister online at www.bmcc.cc, completed kindergarten-sixth grade. For information, call 610-826-8402. Fun, games, snacks, the adventure awaits!

Salem UMC

Trying to lose weight? Hard to do on your own? Join us at “TOPS.” Just pick up the phone!

Call 610-737-1450 for information. Held at Salem UMC, 4145 Forest Inn Road, Wednesday evenings at 6:30 p.m.

“TOPS” Club, Real People, Real Weight Loss, Chapter No. 1741.

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