Lent dinners, Sunday services at Sewickley area houses of worship

Antioch Baptist Church

332 Elizabeth St., Sewickley. 412-741-7688. antiochfwbaptistsewickley.org.

Sunday school is every first Sunday of the month at 9:30 a.m. Morning worship and praise service is weekly at 10:45 a.m. Virtual Bible study is every first Friday at 7 p.m. The link is on the church’s website.

Friends and Family Day is March 17 at 10:45 a.m. All are welcome.

Antioch Baptist Church will be hosting its second annual 3 vs. 3 basketball tournament on May 18 at noon at Quaker Valley High School. All are welcome. The tournament is for children, men and women ages 8–11, 12–14, 15–17, and 18 and up. Register online.

The team registration fee is $5, the cost per player is $10, and the spectator fee is $5. Early bird registration waives the team registration fee. Fee at the door: team $5, player $15.

Beth Samuel Jewish Center

810 Kennedy Drive, Ambridge. 412-266-5238. bethsamuel.org.

Beth Samuel Jewish Center offers weekly Shabbat services, family services once a month, and Kabbalat Shabbat services online once per month. There is also Religious School every Sunday.

First Friday: Family Service at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary, followed by an Oneg in the social hall.

Shabbat Morning Services: Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. in the sanctuary, followed by a Kiddush in the social hall.

Kabbalat Shabbat Services: Usually on the third Friday of the month, at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Contact the office for the link. This get-together frequently includes a visiting musician, cantor, rabbi or other noteworthy guest.

Religious School: From preschool through bar-bat mitzvah, every Sunday morning on campus. To learn more, call, go online or email bethsamueloffice@comcast.net.

Divine Redeemer Parish

St. James Church, 200 Walnut St., Sewickley. 412-741-6650. divine-redeemer.org.

The Plastic Bag Sleeping Mat Society is holding its monthly meeting on Feb. 29, from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the St James/Divine-Redeemer Gathering Space. All are invited to this Lenten project of helping recycle grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless and countries in need.

You can help by joining our group or watching a YouTube video, Fun with Plarn. If you use this, please cut the sections at least an inch wide to give the mats more cushion. Use the bags you have or call Joanne at 412-741-2368 for extra bags. Rolls of balls can be left in a closet in the back of the church.

We hope to use these balls to supply our crocheters to make the mats. Call for the simple pattern if you will be crocheting or coming to the meeting. This is a project you can do and watch TV in your own home — both cutting and crocheting. Only a pair of scissors are needed to cut and a metal ‘N’ crochet hook is needed to crochet.

Sewickley Methodist Church

Corner of Broad and Thorn streets, Sewickley. 412-741-9460. sewickleyumc.org.

Women from various faiths across Sewickley will join together at 11 a.m. March 1 to pray as one as they celebrate the 95th World Day of Prayer. Each year, a committee is selected from a country to serve as writers for the worship service. Thi year it is Palestine and the theme is “I Beg You … Bear with One Another in Love.” There will be readings prepared by Palestinian women that tell about their lives. Rev. Hannah Loughman, minister at SMC, will give the homily. Men also attend the service.

Sewickley Presbyterian Church

414 Grant St., Sewickley. 412-741-4550. sewickleypresby.org.

Worship Services are held at 8 a.m., 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. each Sunday. Education hour for all ages is at 10 a.m. on Sundays.

Club 345, the after-school club for kids in grades 3, 4 and 5, is now meeting on Fridays from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. at the Faith House. Kids enjoy a snack, play games, and work on a mission project. All kids are welcome to attend. Registration is available on the church website.

St. Brendan’s Episcopal Church

Corner of Rochester and McAleer roads, Franklin Park. 412-364-5974. stbrendans.org.

St. Brendan’s is an open, welcoming and active church that holds in-person worship with Eucharist at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sundays, and 6 p.m. Wednesdays. The Sunday 10 a.m. service is also livestreamed on YouTube. Sunday School and nursery coverage are available for children at the 10 a.m. service. A Children’s Service is held on the fourth Sunday of every month at 10 a.m. in which young members actively participate in various aspects of the liturgy. The next Children’s Service will be Feb. 25.

During Wednesdays in Lent, parishioners are invited to bring a dish to share at a simple meal at 5 p.m., followed by the 6 p.m. Eucharist service. On Feb. 28, the Wednesday service will be a Taize, a quiet, contemplative time for reflection.

The children and youth are leading a “Love Thy Neighbor” food drive in February to support people served by the North Hills Food Bank. Among the items needed are canned soup, crackers, cereal, salad dressing, coffee, paper products and cleaning supplies.

Brendan’s Boots, the parish walking group will trek along the Allegheny River on Feb. 26, after meeting at the church at 9 a.m. The walk will begin at Washington’s Landing, follow the David McCullough Bridge and trace the trail through the Strip District, where lunch will follow.

The Justice Ministry is distributing mite boxes and calendars to parishioners during Lent to raise awareness of homelessness. Each day will contain an item or activity and ask for a modest contribution — for instance, “Drop in 50 cents for every meal you’ve had today.” Contributions will be sent to Outreached Arms, a Pittsburgh nonprofit that helps the homeless.

Matt Mehalik, executive director of the Breathe Project, will speak at 11:30 a.m. March 3 on “Southwestern Pennsylvania’s Future: A Story of Air Quality and Sustainability.”

St. Brendan’s Book Club will meet March 4 at 1 p.m. to discuss “Forty Autumns” by Nina Wilder, a memoir of a family split by the Berlin Wall.

Morning Prayer is offered at 8 a.m., Monday through Friday, via Zoom. Bible Study is held at 11 a.m. Tuesdays via Zoom. Contact the office for links.

St. Matthews AME Zion Church

Corner of Walnut and Thorn streets, Sewickley. 412-742-4239.

Services at 10:30 a.m. Sundays.

A pancake breakfast will be held every Saturday morning in February from 8 a.m. to noon. Menu includes pancakes, eggs, sausage, bacon, grits and beverages. It is a free-will offering.

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church

616 Washington St., Sewickley. 412-741-8484.

On Wednesdays in Lent we will hold soup dinners featuring a variety of homemade soups to take out or eat in. Hours are 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Cost is $6. To see what soups are being served and to place an order, call the church.

Sunday worship is at 10 a.m.; Sunday school at 9 a.m. Weekly Bible study is at 10 a.m. Tuesdays at the Edgeworth Eat’n Park.

St. Stephen’s Anglican Church

405 Frederick Ave., Sewickley. 412-741-1790. ststephenschurch.net.

The annual Lent Dinner and Speaker Series is underway. Register at ststephenschurch.net. The speaker topic this year is “A Praying Church” referencing author Paul E. Miller of “A Praying Church: Becoming a People of Hope in a Discouraging World.” Dinner is at 6:30 p.m., speaker begins at 7. Children’s programming is available with registration.

Join us at 2 p.m. March 3 for a concert featuring Amy Stabnau (soprano), Dr. Ann Steele (piano and organ), and Paul Shepard (clarinet) at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church. The program will include Franz Schubert’s famous The Shepherd on the Rock; French composer Oliver Messiaen’s song cycle, Trois Mélodies, and other pieces by Spor and Ricky Ian Gordon. Dr. Steele is a world-renowned specialist in French organ music and is the director of Sacred Music at Duquesne University. Amy Stabnau has had an active career in singing and teaching, ranging from opera, oratorio, and contemporary classical music. She teaches privately and at St. Mary’s College of California. Paul Shepard is a retired physics professor from the University of Pittsburgh and a well-known clarinetist.

To have your church or place of worship’s upcoming events listed in the Sewickley Herald, including Lent fish fries, email information to Katie Green, kgreen@triblive.com.