NEWSLETTER | St. John's Reformed Church Loysburg

Jottings from St. John’s | November 2025

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659............November 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com Mission’s Corner Heifer International (www.heifer.org) was founded more than 80 years ago by Dan West, a farmer and fellow church leader who rallied his church community to support a new way to help those in need. West felt that needy rural families couldn’t truly escape hunger and poverty through handouts alone. They needed real opportunities

Jottings from St. John’s | September 2025

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659………...September 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com Church Retreat—Come Join the Fun and Fellowship Our Church Family Camp will be held September 12, 13, and 14 at Camp Mantowagan, 2671 Camp Lane, Saxton, PA. All are welcome to join us for the weekend. If that isn’t possible, please join us when you can for meals, Bible sessions, and our Sunday service. Jordan Rhoat will lead music throughout the wee

Jottings from St. John’s | October 2025

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659............October 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com Church Retreat Takes Attendees "Further Up and Further In" During the weekend of September 12th-14th, fifty-four people gathered together at Camp Mantowagan in Saxton, PA for the 2nd annual St. John’s Reformed family retreat. Eleven different “family units” stayed the night at the camp with many others commuting back and forth and joining when

Jottings from St. John’s | August 2025

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659............August 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com Mission’s Corner Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very

Jotting From St. John's | July 2025

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659............July 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com St. John's Established One New Reformed Church Plant in Late 1800s by David Snyder According to the Waterman--Watkins History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties (1884), St. John's Reformed in Loysburg had membership exceeding 100. At the same time, the Waterside Presbyterian Church had 60 members. A decade later, as the Presbyterian members