Good Grief workshop

A virtual 90-minute Good Grief virtual workshop is being offered by St. Luke’s from 6 to 7:30 p.m. today.

Registration is required and the program’s recommendation is for those 4-6 weeks out from their loss.

For more information call 484-526-2499.

Trick or Treat

Eldred Township is holding its trick or treat from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Time change

Remember to set your clocks back 1 hour on Saturday.

November dinner

Effort UMC is hosting a Pork & Sauerkraut dinner on Nov. 7 from 4 to 6:30 p.m.

All Saints Day

Our Lady Queen of Peace Church will host a Saints parade at 9:30 a.m., Nov. 1, in McCawley Hall, featuring the third grade students dressed up and parading through the church as their respective favorite saint.

St. John’s Lutheran Church, Effort, will serve Holy Communion at its 9:30 a.m. worship service. In addition to the regular Elements, the church has grape juice a gluten-free wafers available.

St. Matthew’s ECC, Kunkletown, will allow folks who’ve lost someone (no matter when) to light a candle for that person.

Election Day

St. John’s Lutheran Church in Effort will hold an Election Day bake sale, beginning at 10 a.m. A taco truck will also be there.

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The profit from this event will benefit Lutheran World Relief.

St. John’s is also still collecting ShopRite and Weis receipts.

All Souls Day

Our Lady Queen of Peace Church will hold its annual All Souls Day of remembrance at 7 p.m. Nov. 4. There will be special acknowledgment of those whose funeral took place at the church since the last All Souls Day.

Donations accepted

The Chestnuthill Senior Center, located at Zion Lutheran Church, will accept donations of board games, blank greeting cards, acrylic paints, blank canvases, holiday decorations, paperware and party goods.

Call site manager Donna Riedel at 570-242-6776, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Friday.

Special collection

The youth Group at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church is gathering toiletries for those in need as per notification from St. Francis of Assisi Kitchen, located in Scranton, for the annual Christmas Shoe Box project.

Items needed include: 2 in 1 shampoo; deodorant, men and women’s; socks, men and women’s; chapstick, nail clippers, and wipes.

Donors are asked to drop items off at the church office or in the designated box in the atrium.

For more info, contact Jill Salvi at youthminister@qopchurch.org

Grief support

The next meeting the Grief Support Group at the Western Pocono Community Library in Brodheadsville is set for 1 to 2:30 p.m., Nov. 11.

Preregistration is required. Call 484-526-2499 to register.

The group will be held when 3 or more are registered.

Funeral Prep

A preplanning funeral discussion is set for 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, in St. Matthew EEC’s Fellowship Hall in Kunkletown with Tom Kresge from Kresge’s Funeral Home.

Folks who plan to use a different funeral home are also welcome.

Angel tree

By Nov. 6, the Angel Tree will be set up at Effort UMC, ready with approximately 40 children’s names and wishes, which the church is supporting through PVEN.

Unwrapped gifts for the child must be returned to the church no later than Dec. 6.

The church’s representative must have those gifts to the PVEN between 8 a.m. and noon on Dec. 7.

Annual bazaar

The Laymen’s Fellowship Annual Bazaar to be held at St. Matthew’s ECC, Kunkletown, Nov. 7, will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Being offered are: dine-in menu, raffle prizes, bakes sale, soup sale, PA Dutch raffle.

One can also order filling from the church through Nov. 15. Pick-up is on Nov. 24.

Shoebox return

Folks who filled Operation Christmas Child boxes at St. Matthew’s ECC are reminded to return filled boxes by Nov. 8.

Hoagie sale set

St. John’s Lutheran Church, Effort, is accepting orders for hoagies through Nov. 8.

The sale is set for Nov. 13.

Touch of Home meeting

The next meeting for Operation Touch of Home set for 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the American Legion Post 927 in Gilbert.

Christmas sale

Our Lady Queen of Peace Church has announced its third annual Christmas Sale & Basket Raffle for Nov. 13, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Nov. 14, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Donations will be accepted only on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Accepted will be: Nativity sets and religious items; Christmas trees and ornaments; indoor and outdoor Christmas lights; outdoor lawn decorations, blow molds and blowups; antiques and vintage Christmas items; Christmas kitchenware; new toys; jewelry and cosmetics; homemade crafts; Christmas folk art; Christmas clothing; holiday linens; Christmas movies, books and records; and Christmas greeting cards and gift wrap.

Cookie trail set

The VALOR Food Pantry is again the beginning site for the Holiday Cookie Trail which will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 21.

For details go to: https://valorclinic.org/events/valors-holiday-cookie-trail-fundraiser-11-21-26