When East Rockaway firefighters realized that their firehouse on Main Street was not large enough to function as a relief center after Hurricane Sandy, Pastor Mark Lukens volunteered to use Bethany Congregational Church as a gathering place. more

A letter to the editor from Re. Bob Walderman of the Lynbrook Baptist Church more

Rev. Mark Lukens, the spiritual leader of Bethany Congregational Church in East Rockaway, offered a message as Easter Sunday approaches. more

Rev. Bob Walderman, the spiritual leader of Lynbrook Baptist Church, offered some remarks as Easter approaches. more

James Anemone played an hour’s worth of classical music on the piano on Dec. 19 to raise money for his former East Rockaway High School teacher Peter Ceglio’s son, Stephen, 13, who suffers from a rare genetic mutation. more

’Twas the night of first Christmas, and through the stable, not a creature was stirring, though they were able. I arranged the hay by the manger with care, and prayed that Emmanuel soon … more

It seems to me that every year, I am tempted to start this Christmas message with the same opening sentence: “these are difficult times we live in.” Maybe I’m a “glass-half-full-kind-of-person,” or maybe it’s just true. At any given time, a lot of God’s children are struggling here and all over the world. The fact of the matter is that life itself is a struggle, all of us feel like Job sometimes, victimized by circumstances or by choices we or someone else has made, Whether we live in a comfortable home or on the street, pretty much all of us know what it means to struggle, what it means to fail, what it means — as the apostle Paul so famously said — “to do the things that we do not want to do.” It is part of the human condition. more

Lynbrook and East Rockaway churches are providing food and fellowship this Thanksgiving for those who are in need. more

Lynbrook Baptist Church will be hosting a benefit basketball game on Nov. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at Lynbrook High School. more

Mayor William Hendrick died of complications from a heart attack on Oct. 11. He was 64. On Monday, firefighters, police officers, elected officials, the Lynbrook board of trustees and hundreds of residents attended his funeral. more