Christian Youth In Action To Lead Bible Club, Vacation Bible School In June & July
Christian Youth in Action group at Aspendale Camp. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
Twenty-one teens from Northern New Mexico are attending a Christian Youth in Action summer missionary training camp the first week of June. Then, they will be teaching six Vacation Bible Schools and one 5-Day Bible Club in June and July.
The Clubs are free and open to children ages 4-12. They will feature Bible and missionary stories, songs, games, snacks, crafts, Scripture memory, contests and prizes.
Upcoming Vacation Bible School and Bible Club Events:
- 2–4 p.m., June 8-12: 5-Day Bible Club at Ashley Pond
Fr. Glenn: The Rising Son
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
So, we’re coming to graduation season again. Hard to believe how quickly the years go by, as you parents know all too well. One day you’re taking the little tykes to pre-K, and the next they’re going off to college … spreading their wings, leaving the nest and beginning to make their way in what is often a scary world. Christian parents worry: “Will they resist the myriad temptations of the world and forget what they have been taught by Christ and the Church, or will they hold fast to faith and conscience?” Priests are not called “Father” for nothing; we, too, worry for our young charges, Read More
Fr. Glenn: Remembering Mothers
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
I saw a rather disturbing post the other day. It was relaying a story of a man who married a single mother and was (by that mother’s own testimony) being an excellent father to her child. And yet some comments criticized the mother in “taking advantage of” her husband and that he was a “fool” for raising another man’s child. I could scarcely fathom the heartlessness of it. Any man or woman acting as a good parent to a child not his/her own should be praised, not criticized. After all, is that not the ideal when people adopt? Have we become so heartless that we cannot have natural human Read More
Unitarian Church Of Los Alamos Selects Settled Minister
Unitarian Church congregants select Rev. Tina DeYoe to become their minister. Courtesy photo
By BILL PRIEDHORSKY
Unitarian Church
Sunday, May 3 was the milestone in the history of the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos. The congregation voted to invite Rev. Tina DeYoe, their minister pro tem since 2024, into fellowship with the congregation as their settled minister. Though the vote took just a few minutes, it was preceded by months of careful discernment, as the congregation considered who they were and what they wanted to become.
The discernment process revealed a church that was confident Read More
Fr. Glenn: To Protect And To Serve
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Remember the old TV back in the pre-internet days? We were the “remote control” (“Glenn: get up and turn it to channel 12. And adjust the rabbit ears.”). Ah, the old black and whites. Horizontal and vertical controls. The stations signing on in the morning and off at night with the national anthem. The radio announcement: “It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where your children are?” The old shows like Gunsmoke, Laugh-In, Get Smart, Bonanza, Hee Haw, Star Trek (what a legacy THAT one has had!). And one of my favorites was Adam-12, which centered around two Los Angeles police officers on Read More
Fr. Glenn: Confirmed In Faith
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
It’s been quite the media spectacle for the last couple of weeks—Pope Leo and President Trump at odds about the Iran conflict, though the Pope was somewhat circumspect about referring to the conflict directly. Then, of course, the debates about what constitutes a “just war” and who determines such, with even bishops emphasizing different aspects and “sides”.
To those unfamiliar with the Church, it might seem there are fractures in its unity. But it only seems so. Debate has been the norm within the Church since the beginning, as it hammers out what is right and wrong, true and Read More
All Shall Be Well: God’s Waiting Room
Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill and The Rev. Lynn Finnegan. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
By The Rev. Lynn Finnegan
Former Associate Rector
Church of the Holy Faith, Santa Fe
We’ve all been in waiting rooms. Sitting in the waiting room of a doctor or dentist, waiting in line at the grocery store, waiting to board a plane, waiting for the results of an exam or a job interview, waiting for a small child to “do it herself” – all of these are “waiting rooms” we enter on a daily basis. We may feel anxious or annoyed, excited or amused, Read More
Trinity On The Hill To Hold Annual Fiesta On The Hill Fundraiser & Celebration For House Of Hope Ministry May 2
Members of the House of Hope ministry help a family in Juarez, Mexico, build a house. Courtesy/TOTH
Members of the House of Hope ministry help a family in Juarez, Mexico, build a house. Courtesy/TOTH
Members of the House of Hope ministry help a family in Juarez, Mexico, build a house. Courtesy/TOTH
From Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church:
Come join Trinity on the Hill for our annual Fiesta on the Hill, 5-7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 2. This is a fundraiser and celebration for the church’s House of Hope ministry, an ongoing ministry since 2005.
Highlights of the event will include a taco dinner, silent Read More
Fr. Glenn: Prepping For Inevitability
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Been having to do a few funerals lately in the little parish which I pastor on top of my main ministry, the latter being largely administrative (sigh). In large parishes, it’s normal to have one to several funerals each week, so I have it “easy” in that regard. We lost one of our archdiocesan priests on Good Friday, and a religious Sister working in Albuquerque a few days ago, too. Many priests and ministers live adjacent to cemeteries as well, and it helps to keep that inescapable reality always near to mind. Also, since Catholics and many other Christians pray for the dead, it helps Read More
Freedom Church Los Alamos To Host ‘Marriage Unfiltered’ Conference Focused On Real-Life Relationships April 25
From Freedom Church Los Alamos:
Strong relationships don’t happen by accident, but finding practical help can often feel out of reach. A new conference in Los Alamos is looking to bridge that gap with honest conversations and real-world tools for couples.
Freedom Church Los Alamos will host its first-ever marriage conference, Marriage Unfiltered, 1-5 p.m., Saturday, April 25, at the University of New Mexico–Los Alamos campus. The event is designed to offer something many couples say is hard to find: honest, practical conversations about real-life relationships.
“This isn’t a perfect-people Read More
Fr. Glenn: Good For The Soul
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
I came across a pretty good series on Prime the other day called “Genius”, in which four seasons cover some notable persons in history—specifically the lives of Einstein, Picasso, Aretha Franklin and Martin Luther King, Jr. The season covering Picasso focused largely on his many romantic relationships and rather hedonistic lifestyle, which resulted in much angst, anger, sadness and chaos in Picasso’s life and the lives of his various wives, mistresses and their resulting children. As the series progresses, the viewer can’t help but wonder if the real Picasso had many regrets Read More
All Shall Be Well: Easter Is A Season!
Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, and The Rev. Mary Ann Hill. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
By Deacon Cynthia Z. Biddlecomb, (ELCA) retired
Happy Easter! You might, unless you are Christian Orthodox, say “but that was a week ago”. In many of our churches, Easter is celebrated for 50 days, until the Day of Pentecost, which means “Fifty”. Among us, Easter is a season!
In this Easter Season, we tell the gospel stories in which the resurrected Jesus came to be among his apostles. He first needed to calm them down with the words, “Peace be with you”, here Read More
LANL Invites Community Participation In Spring Food Drive … Drive Up & Drop Off At Immaculate Heart Of Mary April 10
Joyful LANL employees prepare food bags for distribution. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Spring Food Drive benefiting The Food Depot runs now through April 16.
New this year, the Laboratory invites community members to contribute, too. Friday, April 10, community members may drop off food donations at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, 3700 Canyon Road in Los Alamos. Participants can drive through the parking lot and drop off their donations. Lab volunteers will help unload.
Needed items:
- Canned protein, healthy snacks, baby food, ground coffee,
Fr. Glenn: Hail The King!
Fr. Glenn Jones:
A very blessed and happy Easter and Easter season to all of you! And we ask for the same for the whole world. In these days of strife and division, what could be better than to have Jesus, the Prince of Peace, risen again to bring kindness, graciousness and charity to the hearts of all?
Ah, but what Catholic term as “concupiscence”—the “stain” of the turning away from God in Original Sin remaining even after baptism—keeps tending to weigh us down like a stone. How is it manifest? By our never-absent bickering, hatreds, jealousies, selfishness, along with all the negativities that Read More
Beautiful Trees Line Meadow Lane In White Rock
Beautiful blossoming trees line Meadow Lane this week in front of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Daily Postcard: View Of El Santuario de Chimayó
Daily Postcard: The view during a visit to the El Santuario de Chimayó. Photo by Shari Mills Read More
Public Invited To Easter Sunrise Service Sunday At The Pond
Scene from a previous Easter sunrise service at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
COMMUNITY News:
The public is welcome to attend the annual Easter sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. Sunday on the west side of Ashley Pond Park (near the Justice Center).
Ministers and leaders from the Christian Church, First United Methodist Church of Los Alamos, Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church, and The United Church will lead the service.
The service will include Communion. Happy Easter! Read More
An Open Book: At The Passover Seder Table
By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos
Family gatherings at the Ellis household were a symphony of activity, conversation, and food, with my mother-in-law, Faith, serving as both conductor and principal violinist. Like any esteemed musician, she had her favorite pieces. She was famous for her pepper-infused boiled fish balls, or gefilte fish, a dish as much a part of the Passover season as a recital of Handel’s Messiah is to Christmas observance.
Having grown up without the benefit of extended family nearby, I found those multigenerational gatherings of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins Read More
Lauritzen: Local Rabbi Jack Shlachter Attends Antisemitism Conference, Invites Community To Learn More
Rabbi Jack Shlachter
By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos
Earlier this month, local Rabbi Jack Shlachter attended the 2026 StandWithUs (SWU) conference in Las Vegas, Nev. I discovered this when I reached out to Rabbi Schlachter after the March 12 attack at Temple Israel, a Reform synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.
Rabbi Shlachter told me that he was already scheduled to attend an antisemitism conference within the next few days. The last two years have found a group called Rabbis United holding its annual meeting in conjunction with the SWU event. While Rabbis United was a gathering Read More
Free Showing For Community Of Passion Of The Christ 6 P.M. Thursday At SALA Los Alamos Event Center
