Religious News highlights church events and fundraisers
Weekly Star Religion column lists services and special gatherings across Chicago Heights and nearby towns. Included are a 26 year pastoral anniversary, guest preachers from multiple churches, a $35 banquet at House of Lynwood, blood drives, adult education programs, women’s circle meetings, fundraisers for marrow donation, crop walks for hunger, parenting seminars, and community faith events across multiple congregations in Gary Indiana and Illinois towns.
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Gerry Manzardo
Star Publications
Otto Blvd
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Handel-Haydn-Hoedown Concert By Local Choir
Tickets available from choir members or Sunday services for a music department sponsored event. The adult choir with guest musicians will perform well known oratorios of Handel and Haydn, famed as the father of the symphony. Call 748-1100 for more information.
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Music Department
Handel
Haydn
Christ Temple Announces Spring Revival and Parking Lot Sale
Christ Temple I Ford Heights invites parishioners to a five night Spring Revival with Evangelist Elder Craig Hancock speaking each evening at 7. Community guest choirs provide music. The church hosts its first parking lot sale on April 20 from 8 am to 1 pm, with 8 by 5 foot spaces at $10, reserveable by phone at 755-4594 or 672-7474.
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Craig Hancock
Hospice chaplain honored for caring
VITAS chaplain Rev. Mark Lacey received the Profiles in Care award at a VITAS Employee Quarterly Meeting. Esther Colliflower of Miami honored him for going beyond the call of duty as he provided spiritual support to patients in Northwest Indiana and the South Suburbs. He helped a patient locate his son after nearly twenty years, reuniting them at St James Hospital in Chicago Heights with a private investigator’s help. VITAS is the nation’s largest hospice provider, Medicare and Medicaid certified in Illinois.
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Vitas Healthcare
Mark Lacey
VITAS
Lacey
Pennsylvania
Vitas Hospice House
St. James Hospital
Chicago Heights
United States
Illinois
My Father's House Conference at Prairie State College
A conference titled My Father's House at Prairie State College new auditorium runs Friday and Saturday with 7:30 p.m. services. Minneapolis minister Mary Isleith will be welcomed Thursday and Friday. Saturday features Unity of the Spirit and Celebration of Praise with music and dance, uniting churches from Chicago Heights and Chicagoland. New Life Baptist Chicago Heights changes Sunday schedule to 9:45 a.m. Sunday school for all ages.
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Prairie State College
Mary Isleith
Minneapolis
God
Chicago Heights
Chicagoland
New Life Baptist
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