Church services

The Herald has compiled a list of church services in the area in responsed to Tuesday’s tragic events.

   At St. Paul’s Lutheran Church local Lutherans are holding a special memorial service for those lives shattered by the World Trade Center disaster. At 4:30 p.m. on Sunday the Rev. Roy Riley, Bishop of the New Jersey synod of Lutheran churches, will lead the service. There will be a children’s service at the same time led by the Rev. Tracie Bartholomew, an assistant to the Rev. Riley. The service is sponsored by the Mercer Lutheran Cluster, a local group of local churches of the Evangelical Lutheran Churches of America.

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   A special interfaith memorial service to remember the victims of Tuesday’s terrorist attack will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday at the First Presbyterian Church of Hightstown. The service is sponsored by the Windsor-Hightstown Ministerium. Among the congregations in the ministerium are Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor and six Hightstown congregations: Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church, First Presbyterian Church, First Baptist Church, First United Methodist Church, Mount Olivet Baptist Church, and St. James AME Church.
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   St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church on Route 33 in Hightstown will be holding a service at 7:30 p.m. Friday night.