Salem United Church of Christ recently celebrated the graduation of two of its members from their high schools. Josie Lookabaugh (left) graduated from Elgin High School and Tye Sherman graduated from Kenton High School.

You may have heard it in the news that Pope Francis decided to change the Lord’s Prayer.

St. John Lutheran Church of Dola and Good Hope Lutheran Church of Arlington are planning a Fellowship Cookout featuring a community worship and meal. It will be on Sunday, June 23 at Camp Common Ground on Rangeline Road, Dunkirk. Activities will begin at 3 p.m. with fun and games, followed at 4:30 p.m. by worship featuring The Rock Monkey. The …

My daughter had known Jason since college. They both sang in the Chamber Choir. Later both were vocal music teachers in Indiana. Jason was in the area for a visit and came to church with my daughter. She said, “If you want, Jason said he would sing today.” With small church and limited musical resources, of course I wanted him to sing. It’s not every day that we have a professional level singer a church.

HARROD — “A Sensational Spencer Concert is planned for Friday, June 14 at 7 p.m. at Auglaize Free United Baptist Church, 11890 Harding Hwy., Harrod. The Spencers (JB and Barbara) will be singing “Coming Soon,” “Let’s Meet By The River,” “Drinking From My Saucer,” “In My Robe Of White” and “Shepherd Of My Valley.”

A revival will continue at Well of Grace Fellowship Church, 525 N. Ida St., Kenton, at 6 p.m. today and Saturday. The revival will feature different speakers and singers each night. All are welcome to attend.

I recoiled in horror at the discovery. Both my church e-mail and my personal e-mail inboxes sat at over 400 e-mails each. Now, this may not strike terror in your heart as it does for me. But I try very hard to delete and archive old e-mails and keep my e-mail inboxes relatively tidy. Unfortunately, other tasks have dominated my time recently, and I lost track of my e-mail inboxes. Yet today, I finally stood up to the mounting numbers, and wrestled my inboxes to more reasonable levels.

The Gibbons Family will be in concert at Kenton Full Gospel Church, 129 N. Wayne St., at 5 p.m. Sunday, June 2.

A gospel sing will be held at 6 p.m. on Saturday at Well of Grace Fellowship Church, located at 525 N. Ida St. in Kenton. The featured singer will be Greg Ball from Sidney.

In the late 1700s many Americans, especially from New England, began settling in the newly established Ohio Territory. The vast territory north and west of the Ohio River – which later became five states – was opened for settlement by the Northwest Ordinance approved by Congress in 1787. The chief architect of this ordinance was Manassah Cutler of Massachusetts. He and his family were very devout Christian leaders who strongly supported public education and strongly opposed slavery. The Northwest Ordinance specifically prohibited the extension of black slavery into the Northwest Territory.