FITCHBURG — Emanuel Lutheran Church collected, blessed, and gave away upwards of 675 brand new books for children in grades K through 8 during its annual Homecoming on Sunday, Sept. 28. The books, gathered over the summer and displayed in bookshelves around the altar, were donated to Up With Books, a Shirley-based nonprofit that provides […]
Emanuel Lutheran Church
‘A real sense of community’
FITCHBURG — The third annual Emanuel Lutheran Church Lent coat drive collected over 40 coats for donation this year and each one was blessed on Palm Sunday for a very special reason. “Because this is the day the church remembers Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey to people waving palm branches and laying their […]