Lutheran

Today's highlights Adult Yoga, 10 a.m. at Percy White Library, 837 E. Hillsboro Blvd., Deerfield Beach. Free. Call 954-360-1380. Brazilian Film Festival, featuring God is Brazilian, in Portuguese with English subtitles, 2-4 p.m. at Weston Branch Library,...

Trinity Lutheran Church's vision of the future back in 1948 included establishing a Christian day school that would meet the educational needs of its students and the spiritual needs of their families. The church's school started small, opening with two...

Adolph "Duffy" Berg, who was as diligent about fixing oil burners across Long Island for four decades as he had been in fixing U.S. Army planes during World War II, died on Sunday. Berg, who suffered from complications of a hip fracture, was 86. Born...

Grace United Methodist Church will hold three services today at 110 W. Bel Air Ave., Aberdeen. An informal worship will be held at 8:15 a.m., a contemporary service at 9:30 a.m., and traditional worship at 11 a.m., with the Rev. Robert Clipp bringing the...

BATAVIA An Interfaith Worship Service will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Sunday at Batavia Riverwalk, Houston Street and Island Avenue. Participating groups will include: Congregational Church, Bethany Lutheran, Batavia Covenant, Calvary Episcopal, Immanuel...

LEWISTOWN VALLEY TABERNACLE, Valley Road, Tamaqua R.1, continues its annual Tabernacle Services through Labor Day, Sept. 1. The Rev. George Holley of Crown City, Ohio, will serve as evangelist today and Sunday. Jeff and Jeanne Shellburne of Rochester,...

A small network of blond people in Connecticut insist that I report, each year, on my vacation in South Dakota, via Minnesota. "What I did on my summer vacation" is a slender reed on which to hang my Pulitzer nomination for commentary, but the blonds...

•Temple B'nai Israel will hold its annual picnic and open house from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday at 400 N. Edgelawn Drive. There will be food, games and entertainment for members. Prospective members interested in learning about the temple and...

THE STROUDSBURG AGLOW will present the Heartsong Singers for Christ at 9 a.m. today at St. Peter's United Methodist Church in Saylorsburg. Refreshments, 9 a.m. Donation $2. Info: 610-614-0507 or e-mail stroudsburgaglow@hotmail.com GUEST SPEAKER....

Tonight, 3,000 families in sub-Saharan Africa will mourn the deaths of their children. A similar number mourned yesterday; the same number will mourn tomorrow and the next day as drug-resistant strains of malaria claim more lives. Malaria's deadly...

Title: Pastor of congregational life since October 2006 at Advent Lutheran Church, Boca Raton, with average weekly attendance of 500-600 members. Other job experience: Senior pastor, Messiah Lutheran Church, Rochester, N.Y.; pastor, Trinity Old...

Once the mainstay of New York City religion, bolstered by prominent families, foundations and deep European roots, Protestantism is experiencing a steady decline in adherents. It's a national trend fueled in part by the advent of megachurches, the...