Pastor Chuck Franco will continue the series “Living for Eternity” with “Hell is Real” from 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 on Sunday, Aug. 18. The Leisure World Assembly of God meets Sundays at 10:30 a.m. in Clubhouse 3, Room 2. Every action, every decision, produces consequences, good and bad. This natural law is vitally important when applied to the decisions made that affect one’s eternal

Meetings for the Atherton Ward are held at 6500 E. Atherton St., Long Beach. Sacrament service is held every Sunday at 9 a.m., followed in the second hour by Sunday school on the first and third Sundays. Relief Society and the Elders Quorum meetings are held on the second and fourth Sundays. Primary classes for children are held every Sunday during the second hour. Members who are unable

Assembly of God Sunday service, 10:30 a.m. Clubhouse 3, Room 2 562-357-4360 LW Baptist Church Sunday service, 10 a.m. Clubhouse 4 562-430-2920 Buddha Circle First Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. Clubhouse 3, Room 1 714-468-6887 LW Community Church Sunday worship, 9:50 a.m. 14000 Church Place 562-431-2503 Congregation Sholom Friday service, 6:30 p.m. Saturday service, 10 a.m.

CONGREGATION SHOLOM Congregation Sholom will hold services on Zoom with Rabbi Eric Dangott on Friday, Aug. 16, at 6:30 p.m. Rabbi Mike Mymon will lead the hybrid service on Saturday, Aug. 17, in Clubhouse 3, Room 9, and Zoom at 10 a.m. Saturday’s Torah reading will be Vaetchanan from the book of Deuteronomy. Vaetchanan (I pleaded) opens as Moses describes his pleading with God to be allowed

On Sunday, Aug. 18, the congregations of Redeemer Lutheran Church and St. Theodore of Canterbury Episcopal Church will be celebrating the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Bishop Murray Finck will preside. The 10:30 a.m. Communion and Worship Service meets at 13564 St. Andrews Drive in Leisure World. Cedric Elmer and Sharon Heck will be play a piano duet. This medley of “Simple Gifts” and

South Coast Orchid Society of Long Beach will host a program by Ron Kaufmann on “Conserving Orchids in the Wild” at Whaley Park Community Center, 5620 E. Atherton St., in Long Beach at 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 26. Kaufmann is a director of the Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA), which traces its origin to a group of orchid species enthusiasts from the San Diego County Orchid Society. In 1991, they

As summer temperatures increase, it’s a reminder that extreme heat strains power and water supplies, and even human well-being. When outside temperatures rise, air conditioning and cool showers can provide relief, but it’s only temporary. In Jeremiah Jeremiah 17:7-8, God uses the metaphor of heat to illustrate the pressures of life, which can and will cause strain, creating stress that