by Carol Burns | Mar 5, 2021
A MESSAGE FROM REV. J.C. AUSTIN: Fulfilling an important role that has been anticipated and prepared As I write these words on Thursday, March 4, it is the three-year anniversary of my “installation” as Pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem. In the...
by Carol Burns | Feb 25, 2021
A MESSAGE FROM REV. SUE BENNETCH: Preparing for a Storm I live close to Shop-Rite and can see their parking lot from my window. It is convenient for me for quick grocery trips or full orders. When a storm is forecast, the lots are filled to capacity as people rush to...
by Carol Burns | Feb 18, 2021
A MESSAGE FROM REV. J.C. AUSTIN: INDISCRIMINATE KINDNESS As most of you have realized, music of all kinds is very important to me in terms of my life and faith. Music is one of the most powerful ways that I experience God’s gifts of beauty, truth, meaning, love, and...
by Carol Burns | Feb 11, 2021
A MESSAGE FROM REV. J.C. AUSTIN: THE REAL MEANING OF LENT Friends, as I mentioned last week, we are coming up on the beginning of Lent, with Ash Wednesday happening this coming week. Our Ash Wednesday Service will take place at 7 p.m. via Zoom (see the details on page...
by Carol Burns | Feb 4, 2021
A MESSAGE FROM REV. J.C. AUSTIN: REFLECTIONS ON COMMUNION This Sunday is the first Sunday of February, and so, as usual, we will be celebrating the sacrament instituted by Jesus with his disciples at the Last Supper before his arrest that began the sequence of events...
