Religion notebook: Carillons will chime in St. John’s cathedral

Thu., June 28, 2007

Lisa Leinberger The Spokesman-Review

The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, 127 E. 12th Ave., will present a free carillon concert Wednesday in celebration of the Fourth of July.

The concert will feature Andrea McCrady, cathedral carillonneur, at 9 p.m., with the finale to be a duet with Toru Takao.

The audience is invited to watch Spokane’s fireworks show from the church after the concert. The audience also is invited to picnic on the church lawn before the concert. Listeners should bring chairs or blankets.

For more information, call the church office at 838-4277.

Vacation Bible school

Calvary Chapel of Spokane, 511 W. Hastings Road, will present Camp Calvary: The Way, the Truth and the Life in God’s Army July 9-12 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The cost for the week is $50 for children age 3 through the first grade and $75 for children in second through sixth grades.

Each day at 5:30 p.m., parents are invited to have dinner at the church. Parents also can attend a parenting seminar from 7 to 9 p.m. on July 9-11.

Dinner is $10 per parent for the week, and the seminar is $10 for two adults.

Mary Rice Hopkins will perform a puppet show July 12 at 7 p.m. in the church sanctuary.

For more camp information, call the church office at 467-2860.

Ducks and Donuts

After a few years off, the Ducks and Donuts program is back at Manito Park on Sundays from 6 to 8 p.m. It will be held this Sunday and July 15 and 22.

High school-age Lutherans from Eastern Washington and North Idaho will gather for a barbecue, games and devotions.

This Sunday’s game will be whipped-cream baseball. According to Shannon Borgman of Zion Lutheran Church, the game is much like T-ball but is played with a whiffle ball full of whipped cream.

It’s messy.

The devotional will be about being in God’s game.

The July 15 game will be a scavenger hunt for ducks; the July 22 game will be capture the flag.

For more information, call Borgman at 926-5407 or Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 926-7966.

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