{"id":95493,"date":"2026-01-24T10:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95493\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T10:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:53:19","slug":"st-johns-hains-ucc-to-host-free-community-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95493\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John&#8217;s (Hains) UCC to host free community concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 St. John\u2019s (Hains) United Church of Christ, 591 N. Church Road, Lower Heidelberg Township, will host a free community concert on Feb. 1 at 3 p.m. featuring Simple Gifts with strings, banjo and dulcimer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The service of installation for the Rev. Dr. Domenik Ackermann as the settled pastor at Maidencreek Church, 261 Main St., Maidencreek Township, which had been scheduled for Sunday, has been postponed to March 22 at 3 p.m. because of the predicted snowstorm.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 St. John\u2019s Gernant\u2019s Church (A Federated Congregation), 13 Gernant\u2019s Church Road, Ontelaunee Township, will worship Sunday at 9:30 a.m. in the Memorial Hall. It will be Jingle Sunday, with the collecting of loose coins (and paper money) to be donated to Opportunity House in Reading. Fellowship will follow. Tuesday Bible study will be held at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 United Church of Christ of Robesonia, 301 W. Penn Ave., will hold a healing service within the 10:15 a.m. worship service on Sunday. Zoom Bible study will be held on Tuesday at 9 a.m. Email mestme@aol.com for the link. Bible study meets Wednesday from 7-8 p.m. with the book \u201cBreaking the Code.\u201d Soup \u2018n\u2019 Such community meal will be held on Thursday from 4-6 p.m. The Children\u2019s Clothing Closeet will be open during that time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Christ Lutheran Church, 222 Niantic Road, Douglass Township, Montgomery County, will hold Coffee and Conversation on Sunday at 8:30 and 10 a.m. in the Welcome Center. Brown bag Bible study will be held on Wednesday at noon. Bring lunch if you wish and a Bible.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Rev. Robert Cramer will lead the 9:30 a.m. worship service on Sunday at Salem Lutheran Church, 8410 Lancaster Ave., Bethel Township. The service is followed by a social time in the church\u2019s multi-purpose room.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Good Shepherd United Church of Christ, 170 Tuckerton Road, Muhlenberg Township, will have a free chili meal for the community today from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the social hall. The meal was postponed because of inclement weather last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In order to have an event listed in the religion digest, it must be something that is not just a regular worship service. This includes things such as guest musicians or vocalists who are not members of the church choir; guest speakers; flea markets and other sales, meals, etc. Send information to life@readingeagle.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 St. John\u2019s (Hains) United Church of Christ, 591 N. Church Road, Lower Heidelberg Township, will host a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,128,130,129,289],"class_list":["post-95493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-news","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}