NEWS BRIEFS: Unity guest speaker set for weekend … and other items

PORT ANGELES — Connie Munroe will present “We Are All Family Now” at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Munroe will be the guest speaker at Unity in the Olympics, 2917 E. Myrtle Ave.

Sunday service begins at 10 a.m.

Child care is available.

For more information, call 360-457-3981 or visit www.unityintheolympics.org.

Supper and show

PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula Evangelical Friends Church will host “Supper and a Show” at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Friends will serve homemade soup, bread, rolls and cookies at Friends Church, 1291 N. Barr Road.

During dinner they will show the 2018 documentary “Human Zoos: America’s Forgotten History of Scientific Racism.”

This family-friendly film screening is free and open to the public.

For more information, call Diane Hanes at 360-417-0422 or visit www.pefcpa.com.

Bible School

PORT ANGELES — Bethany Pentecostal Church will hold a vacation Bible school from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday, July 15 through Friday, July 19.

The school will be held in the church, located at 508 S. Francis St.

The free school is open to children who will be starting kindergarten through sixth-grade in the fall.

There will be games, snacks, crafts, music and Bible stories.

Attendees are encouraged to bring change to donate to a nonprofit digging wells in Tanzania.

The school’s theme is “Roar” and the event will feature safari decorations.

For more information, call 360-457-1030.

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