Published: July 31, 2009 11:54 am      

RELIGION IN BRIEF | Bible schools set at area churches

BY JANICE RAINEY

JRAINEY@TRIBDEM.COM

The following churches will hold vacation Bible schools:

n Park View Alliance Church, St. Michael, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today; 495-9783.

n Mount Hope United Methodist Church, South Fork, for children ages 3 to 12, 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.

n Goodridge Church of God, 626 Goodridge Road, Northern Cambria, for children ages 3 to 13 and adults, 6 to 8:15 p.m. Monday through Friday; 948-6111 or 247-9226.

n Roxbury St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 160 Derby St., Johnstown, for children ages 5 through grade 6, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday through Friday.

n Scalp Level Trinity United Methodist Church, 751 Horn Road, Windber, 6 to 8:15 p.m. Monday through Friday; 467-9051.

Service of love at Abundant Life

Abundant Life Ministry will celebrate a service of love at 11 a.m. Sunday. There will be a birthday tribute to the mother of the church, Evangelist Naomi McNair.

The service will feature the Children of Light, the Grave Singers and a mime ministry with Tanya Hardison.

Pastor Theresa Jones will share a message on the treasures of a mother.

Information: 539-4659.

Welsh songfest slated at Salem Church

Gymanfa ganu, an annual worship service and Welsh songfest, will be held at 11:15 a.m. Sunday at Salem Church, Cambria Township.

The Salem Homecoming Association is sponsoring the service and covered-dish picnic lunch.

The songfest will begin at 2 p.m.

Sisters schedule bicentennial ceremony

The Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill will celebrate the bicentennial of the founding of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill with a Liturgy of Thanksgiving at noon Sunday at St. Joseph Chapel, on the campus of Seton Hill University, Greensburg.

The Most Rev. Lawrence E. Brandt, bishop of the Diocese of Greensburg, will preside, and the Most Rev. Joseph V. Adamec, bishop of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown and the Right Rev. Douglas Nowicki, OSB, will concelebrate.

The Sisters of Charity Community Choir will present a choral concert of “Look to the Skies,” a vocal suite written in honor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton by Sister Mary T. Schmidt, SC, and Sister M. Cecilia Ward, SC, at 3 p.m. in Seton Hill University’s Cecilian Hall.

This year marks the bicentennial of the founding of the Sisters of Charity in the United States by Elizabeth Ann Seton, who established the Sisters of Charity in Emmitsburg, Md., on July 31, 1809.

Walk for inner healing on lower labyrinth

A guided labyrinth walk, a sacred walk on a symbolic path which leads to a place of inner healing, will be held at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at the lower labyrinth on Cambria Avenue at Windber Medical Center.

The labyrinth, composed of geometric patterns found in nature, transcends religion, geography, cultures and history.

Information: 467-3791 or 467-3768.