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Adoption, foster care information offered
Are you interested in adoption or foster care?
Pathways to Parenting, a program of Catholic Family & Child Service, invites people to find out more information at its free Adoption and Foster Care Orientation Meeting.
Participants will have a chance to learn more about domestic infant adoption, foster care and foster adopt services, international adoptions, home studies and post-placement services.
Pathways to Parenting provides support for families through the adoption or foster care process. It offers confidential and holistic services to families of all faiths throughout Central Washington.
The meeting takes place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Catholic Family & Child Service, 5301 Tieton Drive, Suite C.
Telephone registration is requested; call 965-7100 or 800-246-2962.
Singer performs Sunday
Hans York will perform during Sunday's worship service at Yakima's Unity Spiritual Life Center.
The German-born, Seattle-based singer and songwriter plays a variety of instruments. He has accompanied Robert Palmer on German TV, toured as bassist with the New York Broadway Ensemble, and played throughout Europe with master harp player Rüdiger Oppermann.
The service begins at 10:30 a.m. at the church, 401 S. Eighth Ave. Call the church at 575-5551. On the Web: www.hansyork.com.
Taizé service is Sunday
St. Michael's Episcopal Church is offering a Taizé service Sunday night.
The service begins at 7 p.m. and the community is invited.
A rehearsal takes place at 6 p.m. Musicians are encouraged to bring their instruments and accompany the meditative singing. Youth and young adults are especially invited to attend.
The ecumenical monastic Taizé Community was founded by Brother Roger in Taizé, France, in 1940.
The church is at 5 S. Naches Ave. For more information, call the church at 453-4881.
Turkey dinner set Nov. 9
Get ready to gobble.
Wapato's Community Presbyterian Church is hosting its 74th annual turkey dinner next Sunday.
The banquet runs from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the church, 502 S. Satus Ave. Everyone's invited.
The cost is $9 for adults and $6 for children 10 and under. Takeout meals are available for an additional 50 cents.
About 200 volunteers -- from turkey basters and table servers and dishwashers -- put on the event, which feeds about 1,000 people every year.
For more information, call the church at 877-2683.
Bazaar slated Saturday
Sunnyside's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church is holding its Holiday Treasures Christmas Bazaar next Saturday.
Coffee and cinnamon rolls will be served while folks shop for baked goods, jams, jellies, pickles, pies, breads, wreaths, crafts, baby items and other stocking stuffers. A quilt and gift baskets will be raffled.
Prosser's St. Matthew's Episcopal Church will also have items for sale at the event, which runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church, 327 E. Edison Ave. in Sunnyside.
Lunch will be offered from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. And the festivities continue at 5:30 p.m. with an Italian dinner.
For more information, call the church at 837-4727.
Veterans service Nov. 9
Veterans and their families are invited to attend a special worship service next Sunday.
The service, in honor of Veterans Day, takes place at 9:30 a.m. at Grace Lutheran Church, 1207 S. Seventh Ave. Veterans will be recognized during the service. A booklet giving brief biographies of the church's veterans will be distributed.
For more information, call the Rev. Jim Turriff at 594-0715.
Join recycling effort
Englewood Christian Church and the Montessori School of Yakima are teaming up to raise money and to help the environment.
The church and school are participating in the Think Recycle program that collects -- and pays money for -- old print cartridges and cell phones. Greentec, the company behind the program, processes and recycles the items, keeping them out of local landfills.
Plus, Greentec donates one tree for every 24 qualifying cell phones or cartridges. So far, more than 50,000 trees have been planted through the program.
Over 20,000 schools in North America participate in Think Recycle.
Old cell phones and cartridges can be dropped at the church, 511 N. 44th Ave., from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. For more information, call the church at 966-6550.
Greet the new pastor
Wiley Heights Covenant Church welcomes its new pastor.
The Rev. Mark Swanson and his wife, Megan, have recently arrived in Yakima and are already serving the church.
Mark Swanson was raised outside of Minneapolis. He is a graduate of North Park University and Theological Seminary in Chicago. Before coming to Wiley Heights, he served at Prairie Hills Covenant Church in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Swanson says he's excited to be here and welcomes people to Sunday worship service at 11 a.m.
The church is at 12504 Gilbert Road. For more information, call the church at 966-2383.
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