Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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

Members who are unable to attend Sacrament service in person can request a link from Bishop Jonathan Brimley at (562) 716-8309.

The course of study is the Old Testament; personal reading should be those chapters not covered in the study. The reading should be those chapters in Ruth and Samuel not covered in the study. The reading for the week of June 6-12 is Ruth 1-3 and 1 Samuel 1-3.

People are encouraged to listen for the promptings of the spirit while studing the lives of Ruth, Naomi and Hannah. Notice how the heroines navigate the path back to God.

When people are young, they often have vision of what they think their lives are going to look like. Life then teaches people the paths they trod are not straight and that they must make decisions which way to go. The savior has said that the way back to God is a straight and narrow one. Though God has given people agency to chose, the agency must be used to listen for the promptings of the spirit.