B’Nai Midbar Annual Meeting Please attend the annual meeting on Dec. 13 from 1 to 3 p.m. This meeting affects our common life together and as we look to the future and how we grow as a Jewish Congregation. The 2023 annual meeting minutes will be available, reports will be presented, and most importantly we…
Category: Religion
Religion, December 2024
Ending Hunger
Daniel Engeljohn Mountain Shadows Presbyterian Church is designated as a Hunger Action Congregation in the Presbyterian Church (USA). We focus on what our small congregation of less than 100 active worshipers can do. To address immediate needs, we host numerous food donation drives specific to nonperishable items. We address longer-term, structural solutions through how we…
Religion, December 2024
Vista UMC Advent Class—Cards from the Characters of Christmas
Sharon Scanlan and Donna Boring Advent is almost upon us. And yet our world, like that of the world in Jesus’ time, is fraught with problems, worries, and anxieties. Into this web of issues came Saint Luke the Evangelist’s magical story of the birth of Christ. Chapter 2 of the Book of Luke tells us…
Religion, December 2024
Coping with the Holidays—A Medical and Spiritual Discussion
The Santa Catalina Mental Health Ministry’s next Mental Health Focus will be Dec. 8 at 1 p.m. in the Parish Hall at 14380 N. Oracle Rd. Father Huy, C.Ss.R, pastor at Santa Catalina Catholic Church, and Dasa Schmidt, treatment placement specialist at Acadia Healthcare, will be presenting. Join us to learn how to understand the…
Religion, December 2024
“Waiting for Christmas” Celebrates Heart of the Season
A Christmas musical presentation, “Waiting For Christmas,” is coming to the DesertView Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 9 a.m. Mrs. Ruth Rehm will be directing the Joyful Voices Choir of Community Church at SaddleBrooke. This Christmas presentation features a heartwarming story of a young girl who is writing to her “Nana.” She is expressing…