Faith

Young Christians further solidify their relationships with God and the church by receiving their first Holy Communion, also known as Holy Eucharist. Many Christian denominations classify receiving Eucharist as a sacrament. Some Protestants prefer to call it an ordinance.

Pie supper and spaghetti dinner
The Legacy Youth Group will be hosting their second annual Nina Mae’s Old-Fashioned Sweetheart Pie Supper and Spaghetti Dinner at 5 p.m., Saturday, April 11, at St. Charles Parish Hall. Dinner will begin at 5 p.m. with the pie auction beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Hearing laughter from one of the rooms where a Bible study class was meeting Sunday morning, I cracked opened the door and teased, “What’s this, laughter in church?”
They answered with more laughter.
And why not laugh in church? There certainly is a time for being quiet and even for sadness. As the author of Ecclesiastes wrote, “There is an appointed time for everything…” including, “a time to cry and a time to laugh.”