FRIEDENS, Pa. – A Somerset County church is inviting the community to a free Christmas Music Festival Friday to celebrate an extension of the holiday season. The evening of entertainment will start at ...
FRIEDENS, Pa. – The Keystone State Quartet will perform at 7 p.m. Friday as part of a coffeehouse series at Friedens Lutheran Church, 131 S. Main St. The quartet will present a program of gospel music ...
In 1763, Czarina Catherine the Great invited Germans to immigrate to Russia to populate the Ukraine and Volga regions. She offered them freedom of religion and exemption from both taxation and ...
The annual German Christmas service will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, at Friedens Lutheran Church, 540 D St. The service includes spoken words and Christmas songs in English and German. This is a ...
Church leaders thought, if they could just get a program like this, maybe Friedens, through these students, could literally rebuild the burned-out homes and empty lots of Hyde Park. Church coffers now ...
In "The Reports of the Immigration Commission" printed in 1911, it states that of "the occupational distribution of male breadwinners in 1900 whose parents were born in Switzerland," 37.8 percent of ...
Elda M. Brobst, 91, of Kempton, passed away March 9, 2013 at Lutheran Home at Topton. She was the widow of Robert E. Brobst. Born in Albany Twp., she was the daughter of the late Scott and Emma ...
The church's volunteer job counselor thought Friedens should apply for a grant through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The program was called YouthBuild, he said, and there were ...