Diabetes Support Group

St. Luke’s University Health Network will hold a diabetes support group meeting on Oct. 17 at St. Luke’s Gnaden Huetten Campus, 211 N. 12th St. in Lehighton. The meeting will be held in the community room at 6 p.m. For more information, call 570-645-8107 or 570-645-1966.

GriefShare Group

A new GriefShare group is forming at Bethany EC Church at 223 E. Broad St. in Tamaqua. GriefShare is a ministry to hurting people who have experienced the loss of a loved one. Meetings will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays for 13 weeks, beginning Oct. 2. GriefShare is biblically based and nondenominational. There is no cost to attend. An optional workbook costs $18. For more information or to register, please call 570-668-2520 or email lifegroups@bethanyec.org.

Tamaqua Seniors

The Tamaqua Senior Citizens met Sept. 18 at the Tamaqua YMCA with 42 members in attendance. The vice president opened the meeting with the invocation “The Season of September.”

Paul Randig was added to the sick list. New member Larry Bower was given a warm welcome. Next meeting is Sept. 26 with a trip to Mohegan Sun Casino on Sept. 30.

The group is open to anyone 55 or older, meeting at 1 p.m. every Thursday at the YMCA.

Primitive Methodist

The Rev. Rick Clemson will officiate at the 10:45 a.m. worship service this Sunday in American Primitive Methodist Church. Sunday school classes are held at 9:30 a.m.

A Bible study on the book of Revelation will be continuing at 6 p.m. on Tuesday in the main Sunday school room. Hope in the Mountains meetings are held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays. This is a Nar-Anon Family Group. For more information, call 570-952-5098.

Contact Susan Eckhart at 570-668-1250 or seckhart@tnonline.com. Contact the Times News at 800-443-0377 or tneditor@tnonline.com.