Girl Scouts Complete Project To Help The Homeless
Juniors of Girl Scout Troop 10074 completed a project resently to help the homeless. The project was the work of Amelia, Ashley, Brianna and Lillian. For more information about Girl Scouts in Los Alamos and White Rock, contact Grace Wiele at gwiele@nmgirlscouts.org. Courtesy/Jeanine Wood
Amelia, Ashley, Brianna and Lillian of Girl Scout Troop 10074 started out by researching what homeless people need and decided on a budget. Next, they shopped for supplies online and worked with Immaculate Heart of Mary Church to assemble bags for the homeless. People can now take those bags to give out when Read More
Taylor: Donations Sought To Support Asylum Seekers
By TYLER TAYLOR M.D.
Los Alamos
Nowadays, I have one of the best jobs around. Though I get no wage, the payoff is wonderful.
Two of us at the Unitarian Church – Margie Stockton and myself – have for two weeks gotten to process the donations coming in for the asylum seekers briefly sheltered in Deming.
As I carry into our church the donated socks, cereal boxes, deodorant, jeans, etc., and pack them for delivery, there are two marvelous benefits. First, I get to imagine how each of the hundreds of items will help a child badly needing shoes, a hungry adult, or a teen with no jacket who will soon move to a cold Read More
Republican Party Of New Mexico Shares Statement On Observance Of Yom Kippur
Courtesy/RPNM
RPNM News:
ALBUQUERQUE — This evening marks the beginning of Yom Kippur, the Jewish “Day of Atonement” and the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
The following is a statement from Republican Party of New Mexico (RPNM) Chairman Steve Pearce on Yom Kippur:
“We at the Republican Party of New Mexico would like to wish our Jewish friends and Jewish communities a blessed Yom Kippur. This special day is a time for reflection and focuses on repentance and asking forgiveness for any wrongs committed over the past year.
“Yom Kippur also provides an opportunity for Jews here in New Mexico and Read More
Fr. Glenn: A Mighty Company Awaits
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Ever wonder what dogs must think these days. You’re out walking them and talking on your phone, jabbering away, and they have no idea why. Imagine a chance meeting:
Cowdog: “I see your boss is talking to himself again.” Shep (rolling his eyes): “Yeah; he does that … a lot!” Cowdog: “You know, as we say in Texas, ‘that boy ain’t quite ‘right’” Shep: “Thanks for the tip, Sherlock.”
Or, what animals think when they see us working in the heat of day in summer while they lounge in the shade. “Boy, I’m glad the Lord didn’t make ME human. They’re dumber’n a bucket of rocks, not getting out of the Read More
An Open Book: Day Of Remembrance
By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos
The anniversary of my father’s passing, or Yahrzeit in Yiddish, is a date that I have to track carefully on the Jewish calendar. On this modified lunar calendar, the observance of June 6, 2009 changes a few days forward or backward each year, and I have to look it up regularly.
But for my mother’s Yahrzeit, there is no tracking required. She died on October 3, 2016, the first day of the Jewish year 5777. So, when we set the dinner table last Sunday night to observe and celebrate Rosh Hashanah, “the Head of the Year,” with the two lit tall candles, the ceremonial glass of wine, Read More
WRPC Donates Parking Lot Sale Proceeds To Self Help
WRPC Pastor Deb Church, right, presents a check designated for the ‘Techo Fund’ to Self Help Executive Director Diane Smogor Wednesday afternoon. Photo by Bonnie Gordon/ladailypost.com
WRPC News:
In April of this year, White Rock Presbyterian Church (WRPC) officially “came out” as publicly affirming and unhesitatingly welcoming of LGBTQIA+ persons. As one of their efforts to not only welcome and affirm this community but also to be an active ally, WRPC sponsored a “parking lot sale” in August, to raise awareness and funds for Self Help’s “Techo Fund” – a fund designated especially for housing Read More
UNM Canning Meats & Low Acid Foods Workshop Sept. 30
Fr. Glenn: Slurping Wine By Bowlfuls
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Oh, look … it’s my eldest niece’s birthday! Now, how old is my little one? 48?!!! Dang, girl; how’d that happen?! Sigh … I still remember her in pigtails picking flowers in the yard with my mom.
Time does fly, doesn’t it. Alas, I’ve reached the age of avidly checking the hometown obits to see if any (more) of my peers have passed away. (Didn’t we graduate just a few days ago?) But now too many already have gone to eternity. Night falls unexpectedly, ending our productive labor.
But, sadly, sometimes productive labor screeches to a halt much earlier.
In the Catholic Mass this weekend Read More
United Church Thrift Shop Halloween Sale Oct. 5
UNITED CHURCH News:
All-things autumn and Halloween will fill Graves Hall, awaiting shoppers for the annual Halloween re-sale Wednesday, Oct. 5 at the United Church, 2525 Canyon Road.
This is the place to get a thrifty head-start on costumes, decorations, clothes, books and miscellaneous goods for the autumn holidays.
Parking is by the Thrift Shop, which also will be open at the same time, but please follow the signs to Graves Hall for the big Halloween sale.
The Thrift Shop is operated by the Women’s Christian Service Society (WCSS) of the United Church, and open for shoppers 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 Read More
All Shall Be Well: ‘Church Is Boring’
Clergy from left, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired; Pastor Nicolé Ferry, Assistant Rector Lynn Finnegan and Pastor Deb Church. Courtesy photo
By DEB CHURCH
Pastor
White Rock Presbyterian Church
“Church is boring”. “It’s just for old people”. “Nobody really believes that stuff”.
…say my own children in response to my repeated invitations to go to church with me. Clearly a major parenting fail on my part!
But they’re not the only ones who feel that way. According to a 2020 Gallup poll, church membership in the US has declined more dramatically in the last 20 years than it had in the previous 65! Read More
United Church: Appeal For Donations To Mission Possible
UCLA News:
Mission Possible is one of the missions that the United Church of Los Alamos has supported since the 1980s. Mission Possible is a Christian mission devoted to bringing the Gospel, food, health care, and hope to people in Eastern Europe.
Mission Possible has been especially busy in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion. Mission Possible urgently needs additional funds to continue this work as the destruction by the Russian invasion continues. Mission Possible’s website, at www.mp.org has more information about their work and current needs.
A recent message from Addie Read More
Fr. Glenn: Reconciling Visions
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Sometimes it seems that our society is entrenched in two camps: the “conservative/rigid”, and the “liberal/progressive”. We need only turn on or click on the news to see this being played out daily.
In his book “A Conflict of Visions”, Thomas Sowell outlines many of the differences between experience and reason, between what a scientist may recognize as between the empirical/experimental and theoretical, and what Mr. Sowell categorizes as “constrained” and “unconstrained” visions
The constrained vision stems from reliance on “the norm”—the collective experience Read More
Los Alamos Congregations Join Colores United Donation Drive To Support Asylum Seekers
By CATHLEEN SCHALLER
Los Alamos
… Donation boxes are available outside Unitarian Church and United Church, Pajarito Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Los Alamos Jewish Center also will collect donations among their congregations.
National news sources are full of stories of busloads of asylum seekers arriving in New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Political controversy puts these immigrants, and the cities hosting them, squarely into the spotlight.
Not making national news? The relatively small town of Deming, New Mexico (population 14,083). But something Read More
Christian Church In Los Alamos Hosts Aloha Sunday
Christian Church of Los Alamos hosts annual ‘Aloha Sunday’ Worship Service and luncheon Sunday. Courtesy/CCLA
Christian Church of Los Alamos News:
The Christian Church of Los Alamos is hosting its annual “Aloha Sunday” Worship Service and luncheon.
“Aloha Sunday” is 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 18.
“Hula Mai Ka Lani” (a Hula Worship team) will lead the music portion of the worship with traditional hula. Barefoot, they wear flowing traditional dress with colorful flowers pinned into their hair. They will not be dancing to entertain, but to worship. In the Polynesian tradition it is not just the Read More
Memorial Service: Loring Cox, Jr. FBC-Los Alamos Sept.14
Loring Cox, Jr. April 24, 1919 – Dec. 29, 2020
COMMUNITY News:
Memorial Services in celebration of the life of Loring Cox, Jr., a recipient of Los Alamos’s Living Treasure award, proud veteran and a founding member of First Baptist Church – Los Alamos will be held 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.14, at the church at 2200 Diamond Dr. Read More
Fr. Glenn: Security Abiding
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
As we come to its anniversary, it’s hard to believe it’s been 21 years since 9/11. A whole new generation has been reared since that time, knowing that unforgettable day only as an event in history, while the images of those two towers burning, then collapsing, are etched deeply into the memories of we who are older. The smoking gash in the Pentagon, and smoldering debris in a Pennsylvania field. Of twisted wreckage, dust-covered survivors emerging ghostly from the clouds of toxic dust, and of the horror of a nation and a world.
Also, a few days ago, Queen Elizabeth traveled into Read More
All Shall Be Well: Happy Shall They Be?
Clergy from left, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired; Pastor Nicolé Ferry, Assistant Rector Lynn Finnegan and Pastor Deb Church. Courtesy photo
By REVEREND LYNN FINNEGAN
The Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith
Santa Fe
“Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rock!” This brutally descriptive sentence is found … in the Bible. What? When I first encountered this language in the Book of Psalms, a collection of ancient Hebrew sacred songs and poems found in the Old Testament, I cringed. So graphic. So violent. So not what I expected to read in the Bible. This last Read More
Unitarian Church To Host Forum On Ukraine Sunday
Unitarian Church News:
The Unitarian Church of Los Alamos will sponsor a 45-minute forum at 11:45 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 11 in the sanctuary.
The forum is open to the public following the Sunday service. The topic is ‘Ukraine: The sixth month of a three-day war’, presented by Vitaliy Gyrya.
Gyrya grew up in Kharkov, Ukraine where he still has friends and family. He has lived in the U.S. for more than two decades and lived and worked in Los Alamos for the last 10 years.
When Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he sought up-to-date information but said that he found the news media seriously uninformed Read More
Rotary Club Of Los Alamos Hosts ‘Meals Of Hope’ With Kiwanis & Lions Clubs At Crossroads Bible Church Sept. 17
The Rotary Club of Los Alamos welcomes the community to pack meals Saturday, Sept. 17 at Crossroads Bible Church to help alleviate hunger in Northern New Mexico. Volunteers needed! Courtesy photo
By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos
The community is cordially invited to join the Rotary Club of Los Alamos once again to pack thousands of meals to help alleviate hunger in Northern New Mexico.
In celebration of Rotary International’s Service week, Sept. 11-17, the Rotary Club of Los Alamos has invited our local Kiwanis and Lions clubs to join us in an even broader community-wide Read More
Learn About Scouting At Open House At IHM Sept. 13
Local scouts at a recent recruitment event at Los Alamos High School. Courtesy photo
Scouting News:
Interested families of Los Alamos and White Rock are invited to an Open House to see if Scouting is a good fit.
The Open House is an informational night, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13, in the Parish Hall at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Los Alamos.
Representatives from various scout units in Los Alamos will be on hand to answer questions and also connect folks with other scouting organizations that are not Scouts BSA.
In the words of Baden Powell, the founder of the modern Scouting movement, Read More
