by Carol Burns | Mar 11, 2021
A MESSAGE FROM REV. J.C. AUSTIN: RESILIENCE – SUPPORT – FAITHFULNESS – LOVE As you all know, this Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of our congregational response to the pandemic. On March 15, 2020, we went to “digital-only” worship for the first...
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...
