YAKIMA, Wash. -- Away in a manger isn't away anymore. It's right here in Yakima. The Yakima Seventh-day Adventist Church is offering "Journey to Bethlehem," an outdoor, walk-through Nativity scene this weekend. The event runs 5 to 8:30 p.m. today through Sunday on the church grounds, 507 N. 35th Ave. "It's our gift to the community," said Debbie Gilbert, leader of the project. The church has re-...
Gratiot set for annual feast
By LINDA GITTLEMANGratiot Managing Editor Most years at the Gratiot Community Thanksgiving Dinner, many residents end up sitting next to total strangers, who, often as not, become friends.In fact, such new friends sometimes ask to sit next to each other the following year, said Craig Zeese, organizer of the event held at the First Presbyterian Church in Alma"Everyone comes in an uplifted and spi...
Church Fights for Assets, Members and Legitimacy
Article ExcerptChurch Fights for Assets, Members and LegitimacyBY AMY MERRICK When the members of St. Luke's of the Mountains Church in La Crescenta, Calif., voted in 2006 to leave the Episcopal Church, they never meant they wanted to leave their church. But last month, they got notice they were being evicted from the 80-year-old stone structure that had been their spiritual home. The congrega...
