HBO offers viewers a three-part documentary series, Unveiled: Survive La Luz Del Mundo. The episodes will be a “heartbreaking expose of abuse” within Mexico’s mega-church, the company shares. This unfortunately includes minors.

The first and second episodes will air on Tuesday, December 6 at 9 p.m. ET, followed by the conclusion on Wednesday, December 7 at 10 p.m. ET on HBO. All three episodes will also be available to stream on HBO Max on December 6.

The docuseries is directed by Jennifer Tiexiera. John Jordan serves as producer, with Stacey Offman, Richard Perello, Rhonda Schwartz, Brian Ross, Evan Lerner, Alex Lowry, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller and Sara Rodriguez taking on executive producing duties.

So what can you expect to see? We have the answer for you below.

What is Unveiled: Surviving La Luz Del Mundo on HBO Max about?

Unveiled will tell the story of the Christian church La Luz del Mundo (LLDM) and the sexual abuse that some of its members, many of them minors, say they suffered from successive leaders known as the “Apostles”, HBO shares in a press release.

The church was founded by Aarón Joaquín Gonzalez in 1926. His son and grandson Naasón Joaquín García, who is the current leader, both became leaders of the church after him. Many survivors now come forward to talk about how the would-be apostles “built and maintained a system to procure and prepare children for abuse.” In 2019 García was arrested and the doc will take us into the trial and the courtroom.

According to HBO, the docuseries are told from the perspective of survivors. The group first met on Reddit to share their abuse stories, according to HBO. LLDM was founded in Mexico, but also has churches in the United States.

The trailer for the documentary has not yet been released. But stay tuned to Hidden Remote as we continue to bring you news and updates on the series.

Unveiled: Survive La Luz Del Mundo premieres with the first two episodes December 6 on HBO and the third on December 7. All three parts can be streamed starting Tuesday, December 6 on HBO Max.

Terry William Brokaw, 58, died November 8, 2022 at his home.

He was born on January 13, 1964 in Norfolk, NE to Leslie and Clara (Timmerman) Brokaw.

In 1965 Terry moved with his family to Central City, NE where he attended school. He graduated from Central City High School with the class of 1983. Terry was a member of the Standard Quarter Horse Association and a longtime member of 4-H. He showed horses for a few years. In 1985 Terry moved to North Platte.

Terry has held various jobs in and around North Platte. He worked for the local Do-It Center. Most recently, he was a school bus driver for Hershey Public Schools and drove students to events across the state. Terry was also a substitute bus driver for North Platte Public Schools. During the summers he worked for Scofield’s Peach Stand

Terry is survived by his sisters, Connie Dettman of Central City, Cindy Hines of North Platte; brother, Larry Brokaw of Mullen; many nieces and nephews.

Terry was predeceased by his parents, Leslie and Clara Brokaw; stepfather, Loyal Ruhl; brothers, Randy and Rick; sisters, Karen Brokaw and Twila Widman; grandparents, Clarence and Cecella Brokaw, George and Myrtle Timmerman; nephews, Leslie and Jacob Brokaw.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the family for further designation. Online condolences can be shared at www.adamsswanson.com.

Services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, November 15 at Harvest Christian Church with Doug Hobelman and Eric Wiezorek officiating. Visitation will be held from noon to 7 p.m. Monday, November 14 at Adams & Swanson Funeral Home who are making arrangements.

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As the region continues to struggle with a significant childcare shortage – with local businesses, municipalities like the Township of Acme and the Town of Traverse City, and organizations like Traverse City Tourism and Traverse Connect, all committed to trying to resolve the crisis – another group is stepping forward: churches. At least three churches have asked in recent weeks to open or expand child care centers – including one in partnership with a local school – in a bid to ease the burden they see both in their congregations and in the community. .

Pine Grove Church this month received unanimous approval from East Bay Township planning commissioners to add a day care center to a building the church purchased earlier this year. Applicant Tracey Bartlett of Pine Grove told planning commissioners that after the church worked with the township several years ago to update zoning rules to allow child care centers as an accessory use in churches, Pine Grove operated a day care center in its main building on Indian Trail Boulevard. But using the same space for childcare and church activities has been “cumbersome,” Bartlett said, because Pine Grove has to frequently change between the two uses. “We looked for a way to solve this problem,” she said.

In February, Pine Grove found its solution: buy the former Community of Christ Church nearby at 813 Parsons Road. Pine Grove plans to move some of its ministry classrooms and its daycare center, called Strong Foundation Childcare, to the Parsons Road building. The building measures 2,694 square feet and has 27 on-site parking spaces. The church is already in preliminary licensing approval with the State of Michigan for the new location and is planning minor changes to the property, including the installation of required fencing around the playgrounds. Bartlett told planning commissioners that Pine Grove had 60 to 80 children “at any one time” on a waiting list for daycare; the new Parsons Road facility is licensed for up to 50 children. The church offers child care for children ages 0 to 12, according to the Pine Grove website.

After touring the site with other planning commissioners, Planning Commission Chairman Dan Leonard said the daycare “looks like a great reuse (for the site)”. He added: “It makes a lot of sense to me…the need is so dramatic. It’s wild. I love it for the site, and I’m sure the community will benefit from it very quickly.

In Garfield Township, the Northern Lakes Community Church appeared before planning commissioners on Wednesday with an application for a Special Use Permit (SUP) to open a preschool and day care center in its building at 5444 Herkner Road , just south of North Long Lake Road. The Loving Neighbors Preschool would be located in a currently underutilized educational/community wing of the church (pictured, rendering), according to church elder Julie Burton. The center would accommodate up to 29 children under the age of 5 and would have a director and a staff of five teachers. The building has 75 parking spaces and could handle both church and child care capacity, according to the SUP app, because the congregation has only 50 members and operates at different times than from daycare.

The Township of Garfield will hold a public hearing on the application at the December 14 planning commission meeting, with approval potentially following in January. Burton tells The ticker that even though the Northern Lakes congregation is mostly older and does not directly need child care – there are very few children in the church, she said – Reverend Dr. Sam Sungsoo Jun and other church leaders saw a need in the community that they felt could address their excess building space.

“Demand far exceeds supply,” she says. “The more we looked at the need, the more we realized we had an opportunity to help. Our mission is “to love God, to love our neighbors, to love ourselves”. It’s a great way to love our neighbors. We really wanted to help young families in our community.

Garfield Township recently received another SUP request for a potential childcare partnership between the Church of the Living God – located at 1514 Birmley Road – and Traverse City Christian School, located just a mile from the church. Depending on the request, TC Christian would open an early learning center within the Living Church of God that could accommodate up to 100 children and more than 15 staff members. The center would be open to children ages 0-6 and would operate during business hours Monday through Friday year-round, with “several scheduled breaks in accordance with the school year calendar,” according to the app. The center would use the church’s existing classrooms and interior space, parking lot (which has 238 spaces) and playground, with minor modifications made to meet licensing requirements. The SUP application is expected to be presented at the Garfield Township Planning Commission meeting on December 14, with additional steps – including a public hearing and possible approval – to follow.

TC Christian Acting Superintendent Chris Butz said the school is following the SUP process as it simultaneously explores licensing and funding to ensure the project is feasible before finalizing plans. “Obviously there’s a huge need for this in town, and this is a great opportunity for us to meet the needs of teachers, existing families and future families,” he says. Anthony Weber, senior pastor at the Church of the Living God, says the church “has been exploring for several years what hosting a daycare would look like in our building. We have a well-functioning facility for this and are aware of the needs of the community. We hope that will happen within the next six months to a year,” he says.

Despite the desire of churches (and partners like TC Christian) to meet community childcare needs, they still face the same burdens – and frustrations – that other providers have cited in trying to get a license and run. “The biggest hurdle we face, and everyone faces, is the start-up cost,” Butz says. While the State of Michigan recently announced plans to provide child care start-up grants with the goal of opening 1,000 new child care programs by the end of 2024, Burton and Butz say they received such low numbers for their estimated maximum grant amounts — $7,000 for Northern Lakes, $10,000 for TC Christian — that they plan to rely heavily on private donations to reach the grant line. arrival. After receiving a $200,000 estimate to make minor modifications to the Northern Lakes building, the church – which has launched a community fundraising campaign – is exploring options to cut costs while meeting licensing requirements. “When you’re just starting out, it’s hard to learn the process and try to figure out all the steps you need to take,” Burton says. “We all feel like we’re working extra part-time work to do it.”

Always, with the Detroit Free Press Recently reporting that Grand Traverse County has one of the longest waiting lists for child care centers in Michigan, leaders say they can’t ignore the urgent need they hear from families — and are ready to move on. forward to provide solutions. “Honestly, just look at the local waitlists — when you have that kind of need in the community, you can’t help but see if there’s a way to help out,” Butz says.

A new short film from a global missionary organization serving persecuted Christians tells the inspiring story of courageous faith faced by a Christian in northern Nigeria.

Release of Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) Rebecca: Nigeriathe true story of a Nigerian Christian woman who watched helplessly with her daughter as Boko Haram militants killed her husband and son and burned down their house.

“There was nothing we could do to defend ourselves,” she said. “I was devastated. I cried for several months.”

After the attack, Rebecca searched the charred remains of their home and recovered the Bible she and her husband had received as a gift from the church on their wedding day. She said she and her husband read this Bible together every day.

“I still use that Bible,” Rebecca said. “It reminds me of the faithfulness of God.”

“The Lord is the husband of all widows,” she added. “I turn to him for every need. That’s what I still cling to.”

The feature was released on Monday to coincide with the International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians (IDOP), a global movement of prayer for Christians around the world who boldly proclaim their faith, no matter the cost.

Todd Nettleton, media relations and message integration manager for VOM-USA and host of VOM Radio, told the Christian Post that he hopes the film personalizes the struggle that so many Christians face around the world.

“Each year for IDOP, we make a short film that churches will use, that families will use to put a face on persecuted Christians, to put a face on the people we pray for,” Nettleton said.

Nigeria is designated as a “hostile” nation in the VOM 2022 Prayer Guide, a designation for countries or large areas of nations where governments may attempt to protect the Christian population but Christians are still persecuted.

For Nettleton, Rebecca’s story is essential for the world to hear, and “it also illustrates the importance of the word of God for our persecuted brothers and sisters.”

In addition to Nigeria, Nettleton said there are other global hotspots where Christians face increased persecution, including China and Iran, which have faced growing unrest in recent weeks after the death. by Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old was arrested for failing to wear the mandatory dress code and died in police custody.

Nettleton said that since Amini’s death, the gospel has been spread as a sort of counter-culture message in response to growing discontent with the Islamic Republic among many Iranians.

“There are Christians among the protesters, not necessarily to protest but to be a witness of Christ, and to say, ‘Hey, we understand your frustration with the government, we understand your frustration with Islam, let me tell you talk about Jesus,'” Nettleton said.

Nettleton hopes “VOM’s IDOP resources this year will inspire hundreds of thousands of Christians around the world to pray for our family in Nigeria” and “spiritual members of our family in other restricted and hostile countries.”

When asked to share a story about the practical impact of a global effort, such as IDOP, Nettleton shared the story of Petr Jasek, who traveled to Sudan in 2015 on behalf of VOM to meet pastors and help persecuted Christians.

Jasek was arrested and later charged with conspiracy against the Sudanese government. He spent 14 months in a prison in Sudan, part of that time sharing a cell with Islamic State fighters.

“His life was in danger,” Nettleton said. “And yet, every night at 9 p.m.…the lights go out and Peter falls asleep right away, no matter what’s going on around him, no matter how much danger he’s in.…The lights go out. turn off and Peter immediately falls into a restful sleep.”

After serving his sentence, Jasek returned home to the Czech Republic and learned that his congregation had faithfully prayed for him every night at 8 p.m.

When it’s 8 p.m. in Prague, it’s 9 p.m. in Sudan — the exact time the lights went out and Jasek fell asleep.

“He knew immediately that it was their prayers that had been behind his ability to fall asleep so quickly and his ability to rest so well, even in prison, even when he was in danger,” Nettleton said.

“So when people ask me, ‘Does it matter if we pray? Does it make a difference if we pray?’ I always think of Peter who went to that prison in Sudan and the prayers of his own congregation that enabled him to do so.”

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GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – In the past two weeks, there has been a shooting at Shiloh High School, a lockdown at Brookwood High School and a fatal shooting near Norcross High School.

Channel 2’s Matt Johnson was at the New Mercies Christian Church in Lilburn, where parents and pupils will speak about the recent violence.

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Parents and students are eager and desperate for a safer campus.

Some of the people who organized the event say it takes a community to solve a crisis.

Lawrence Williams says he had no hesitation in opening the doors of New Mercies Christian Church after the recent violence at schools in Gwinnett County.

“Sometimes when he hits home and knocks on your front door, you feel the urge to know that something needs to be done,” Williams said.

Williams is moderating a “code red” town hall, a week after Norcross High School student DeAndre Henderson died near campus in a shooting.

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The superintendent, along with the county police chief and others, will be part of a panel to discuss school safety and conflict resolution.

In recent weeks, Channel 2 has reported on a cutter stabbing at Grayson High School, shots being fired at Shiloh High School and multiple threats at Brookwood High School.

“It’s important (to) start today and allow today to be kind of a spark and a domino effect,” Williams said.

This school year, the school board voted to relax the court’s standards, in part to reduce the number of minority students punished.

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Some believe this has led to an increase in fights and violence.

“Other kids who are left behind, teachers who are left behind, they have a right to a safe environment,” parent Steve Smith said.

The panel will hear pre-submitted questions and the meeting will not be open to public comment.

“Yet (that) the community can’t talk seems like a bit of a dog and pony show,” Smith said.

Other organizers like Wayne Ellison are hoping for a productive discussion without finger pointing.

“The message I hope parents walk away with tonight is that we need everyone on deck,” Ellison said.

The meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. and will include approximately 20 questions from the public that were sent out in advance.

Channel 2 Action News will have full coverage on WSB tonight at 11 p.m.

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“I was leaving the Garden, the evangelical church and the only version of myself I had ever known. I was choosing who I wanted to be, but I had no idea who she was.”

In her new book, “Heretic,” writer and self-proclaimed “recovering scholar” Jeanna Kadlec weaves her personal experiences of drifting away from the faith of her youth with a broader reflection on the greater social and political damage done to United States by the popularity of evangelical Christianity. At a time when the diehard Christian whole’s lust for power leads them to back falsely repentant sleazes like Donald Trump and Herschel Walker, there is an even greater need for his insights into how this religion wields such power. control over his followers.

Why do people, especially women, stay in such an abusive religion? What do you need to leave? Kadlec can’t answer these questions for everyone, but as someone fully immersed in adulthood, to escape after discovering her lesbian identity while marrying a preacher’s child, he there is a lot to learn from his journey.

Salon spoke with Kadlec about her book, how evangelicals are trying to rebrand old-fashioned patriarchy, and how her pain of losing her community carries over in an era of growing GOP radicalism. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

In recent years, the percentage of Americans affiliated with a church has dropped dramatically. This is almost exclusively due to the fact that people leave evangelical churches when they grow up. So why do you think this is happening? And what do you think are the impacts?

The evangelical church of recent decades has lost much of the flexibility it had cultivated at the turn of the century. It refused to evolve and reconsider the humanity of other people the way other parts of Christianity did, in light of the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement. By hooking up with, and then really getting into bed with, far-right politicians, they have amassed a lot of power. They were able to do things like introduce abstinence-only education in public schools. They seemed to have great success trying to institute their own religious values ​​in the mainstream.

Eventually, those children they were raising grew up. We had grown up in this very harsh environment that had no flexibility. And we had specifically grown up in churches that required an absolutely extraordinary amount of cognitive dissonance. A lot of us, we go to public school, we’re exposed to different ways of living, we’re exposed to people who have different ideas of how the world should be. We see that ideas like purity, no sex before marriage, abduction – all these really extreme principles – are not necessary to be a good person. For so many evangelicals growing up and leaving the church, we can’t stand the cognitive dissonance any longer.

I was married to a man, but realized I was gay. There was absolutely no room in my religion for questioning, for doubt. It’s very black and white, which of course explains why it fits so well with the far-right turn the Republican Party has taken.

Why do you think evangelicals in particular have struggled so hard to moderate themselves? Members of mainstream churches, even Catholicism, are often more moderate or even liberal than their churches.

With majority Catholics and Protestants, there is a certain respect for people’s privacy. Evangelicalism is based on a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and also on this impulse to convert others. They expect you to believe with all your heart. It occupies your whole life. It’s not just showing up to church, it’s being a strong supporter of your workplace. There is so much emphasis on this outward demonstration of “inner transformation.” It is very difficult to be a nominal evangelical. It might be easier to walk away and casually come back with other types of Christianity. This allows for a smoother relationship that isn’t as closely watched by the community.

It probably predates that, but I noticed in the early 2000s that this idea of ​​”complementarism” started to be floated by evangelicals, seeming to be a response to feminist critiques of their rigid gender hierarchies. What is complementarism?

Complementarianism is essentially a “separate but equal” doctrine of how gender works within the church.

It’s this idea that men and women — and there are only men and women — are the two genders created by God, and that they fulfill separate but equal roles. We are supposed to believe that these roles are equal, even though men are still in charge. A woman’s ultimate job – as a wife, as a mother – is to submit to men. The word I would use for complementarism is simply “patriarchy”. Or “sexism”. It’s a term that some pastors and theologians coined to defend the very unsexy idea that a wife’s place was at her husband’s feet.

We’re getting a firehose of reminders of how evangelicals think these days, such as in reaction to the overthrow of Roe v. Wade. Their rhetoric is coming back into the mainstream. Abortion advocates present forced childbirth as a favor they do for women. There was a woman in the Washington Post who argued, for example, that 13 is an “absolutely phenomenal” age to be a mother. I have the impression that this rhetoric is quite normal in evangelical circles.

Seeing Roe knocked down was devastating, but it wasn’t surprising either. The way I grew up was always the goal. The churches in which I grew up, [overturning] abortion was preached from the pulpit. It was a major problem. I came of age in the late 90s and early 2000s. At that time, there was this whole fear campaign going on in the churches about how they were losing. That they were losing “God’s country”. Abortion has often been presented as the singular problem through which they could take over America.

It was very consistent with the other things being preached around gender roles. The expectations of young girls who became women were marriage and motherhood. The pinnacle of being a godly woman was to get married and have children. And of course, we weren’t going to abort any of those babies, because any pregnancy was God’s will. There was never any discussion, never any recognition of how pregnancy could occur outside of marriage, or how even married women could want or need an abortion.

Everything that happens to a woman’s body is God’s will, which is just a coded way of saying that whatever a man does to you is God’s will.

What’s crazy to me is that – in the evangelical pundit class, anyway – they’re getting away from the abortion issue. Just like they won! They don’t talk much about abortion. All the energy is directed towards this total collapse of queer and trans people, people being non-binary. Their social networks, their shows, it’s all the time trans panic.

At this point, evangelism is just completely rotten. There is no redeeming what he has become.

They are so deeply driven by fear and target other people – especially people who have far less power than those who preach from the pulpit.

With this reversal of Roe, they got what they fought for and raised funds for decades. But now they need something new, because they can’t survive without fear, negativity and absolutely rampant hatred. They won on abortion, so they transferred it to trans people, and specifically to trans children. It is devastating to see the lack of humanity that exists within this church.

You write very movingly about how there was this heartbreak about your lost faith. It’s something that people who’ve never been in it don’t fully understand. We want to believe that it is easy to walk away.

It’s a grief I still have, even with my passionate feelings about the devastation the church is wreaking on this country right now. I still have a lot of grief for the people and the relationships I had. Humans are social creatures. We crave belonging. Whether it’s losing family or a group of friends, or even if someone has been made redundant and you’ve lost a colleague, losing people in your life who you were once very close to is devastating. For me, much of the grief of this loss of faith is tied to the loss of community. Members of this faith community did not think they could continue to have a relationship with a lesbian who had left my husband. I was not to be associated with.

Grieving is really complicated. It’s not so black and white to say that because someone belongs to this church, he’s just bad. Or because someone votes in a particular way, never showed you love and kindness. Relationships tend to have more layers than that. Even if there is a breaking point, where this relationship is no longer possible, that does not mean that it is easy to give up.

I feel like it’s something, because of Trumpism, that more people relate to these days than ever thought they would.

There are no cut-and-dried answers. People cutting off their families is also a very common problem in the queer community. With a lot of my friends, it’s like, do you cut off family members who vote for Trump? Don’t you cut them? Under what conditions do you still talk to certain people? Who is it safe to continue talking to? It’s really different for everyone. It follows your own personal integrity and what feels emotionally safe to you. And that can also always change. But yeah, it’s definitely something a lot of us are going through right now. And it’s, it’s really hard.

BENTONVILLE — The Quorum Court heard a quick update on early voting Thursday night.

County Clerk Betsy Harrell told the 15-member Quorum Court that there were no major issues with the vote.

“We have great election staff who work year-round to make sure everything runs smoothly,” she said.

A total of 16,379 early votes were cast Monday through Thursday, according to the county. Total turnout so far is about 9% of registered voters in the county, Harrell said.

The Quorum Hearing Room on the third floor of the County Administration Building is one of 13 early voting sites. The voting device had to be dismantled and secured before the start of the Quorum Court meeting.

Harrell said the location, where a total of 2,114 early votes were cast, is popular with voters.

Early voting continues until November 7. Election day is November 8. NewLife Christian Church at 103 Riordan Road in Bella Vista — the only early voting location in that city — will not be open for early voting Monday due to an event, said county election coordinator Kim Dennison.

County Judge Barry Moehring briefed justices of the peace on a preliminary agreement between the county and the towns of Cave Springs, Decatur, Gentry and Highfill with Pafford Medical Services to provide emergency medical services to much of the western part of the county.

The department made the announcement on Tuesday. The contact is for four years, County Public Safety Administrator Robert McGowen told the Quorum Court.

The agreement was necessary after the current provider, Northwest Health, decided to exercise an early termination of the contracts, citing financial reasons, according to a statement from the county.

The annual amount of the grant to Pafford Medical Services will be $1.51 million for four years, with the amount split proportionately between the county and the cities, according to the release.

Hope-based Pafford Medical Services will take over in January from Northwest Health, which is obligated to provide services until then.

The financial terms of the agreement provide for coverage of out-of-pocket costs for emergency ambulance service. Medicare, Medicaid and third-party insurers would continue to be billed for the service, according to the statement.

Reimbursable coverage is an added benefit for West Benton County residents, potentially saving hundreds of dollars or more for those who use the service. The contract with Northwest Health does not include the benefit, according to the release.

“We’re very excited about this,” Moehring said.

At the end of the meeting, County Attorney George Spence told the Quorum Court that he would step down. He will stay until March. He was a county attorney for 15 years.

“You have been an incredible partner for this Court of Quorum,” Moehring told Spence. “We will miss you incredibly.”

In new cases, the justices of the peace approved:

• Wellness Pet LLC to Decatur for participating in the state tax refund program.

• An application to the Arkansas Economic Development Commission for state grant funds in an amount not to exceed $5,000 to assist the Humane Society for Animals Inc.

• Establishment of the mileage rate for 2022 to be collected in 2023: general fund, 5 mills; Road Fund, 1.9 thousandths; and Ambulance Service Improvement District 0.2 mil. The county volunteer is Road Fund 2.0 mills, Historic Preservation Commission at 0.2 mills, and Emergency Medical Services at 2.0 mills.

• Reclassification of $1 million in EMS expenses from the County Emergency Medical Services Levy Fund to the US Bailout Fund for Qualified EMS Costs due to anticipated future increases.

• Reclassifications of $10 million in eligible payroll costs to be paid from the U.S. bailout and $9.3 million for government services to be paid from the bailout income replacement fund for expenses since January 1st.

The county finance committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. on November 3 to continue discussions on the 2023 budget.

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will be in the parking lot of First State Bank of Purdy in Monett collecting donations for Fight for a Cure from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Friday in October. Food truck vendors will be on hand to sell concessions. Fight for a Cure 2022 t-shirts will be available for $20. The shirts will also be available at the fire station until October 31.

Lawrence A. Witt National Guard Armory Storm Shelter is only open to the public from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday in case of bad weather. The monthly book club meeting, hosted by Seth Atwater of Atwater Healing, will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, October 28 at the Event Center at Life360 Resource Center, 801 Lincoln, on the classic novel, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”

St. Lawrence School will host Trunk or treat from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 28 inside the school. The parade will take place at 1:30 p.m., also indoors.

The Pierce City Betterment Committee is hosting its first Chili Cook-off and Bazaar from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, October 29, at South Park in Pierce City. The event will include a chili contest, bake sale and craft show. Competitors hoping to earn bragging rights and a trophy for best chili are encouraged to register by October 15. For more information, call Mick Hagebusch at 417-205-5590 or Ben Slagle at 417-4891462.

St. Mary’s School autumn festival will return this year on October 29 in the gymnasium. It all starts after the 4 p.m. mass. Halloween Costume Contest at 6 p.m., Little Debbie Cake Walk, Chili Cook off – 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will be named. Chili dinner from 5:30 p.m. Games for children from 6:30 p.m. and much more. Everyone is welcome.

Countryside Christian Church, 1200 E. Eisenhower St. in Monett, is hosting a the comeback from 10 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 10.

Greg Strickland, grandson of Bob Strickland, one of the founders of Countryside Christian Church, will serve as the evangelist. For more information, call 417-7371578.

St. Lawrence Church in Monett, 405 Seventh St., will host his fall party, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday, November 6. The meal includes turkey, ham, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, corn, salads, bread, and dessert. All homemade by the PCCW. Cost for adults is $10; seniors 65 and over, $8; children 5 to 11, $6 and children 4 and under free.

Hobbs-Anderson American Legion Post will host a free veterans day dinner 5-7 p.m. Nov. 9 at The Post on Broadway. Veterans and their spouses eat for free. Non-veteran guests can also eat for $8. Ed Scheuerman will entertain.

Monett Area Community Foundation Nonprofit Fair and Grant Round Launch: Change of Seasons Non-Profit Fair will take place on Thursday noon Nov.

10, at Monett City Park Casino. The event will feature information about the organization’s impact on the community. The event is open to the public.

The Monett High School Theater Department will present “Classified, a Musical” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 10 and Friday, November 11 at the MHS Performing Arts Center, 1 David Sippy Drive in Monett. Based on a book by Kyle Homes, the performance depicts a dystopian world where a student’s class rank, determined by grades and test scores, governs everything from where they stand to what their future holds. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, and $5 for students.