When the pandemic forced Janet Purdie’s layoff from her full-time job at Leeds in New Kensington, it was a sure bet she wasn’t going to sit around the house. A seven-year parishioner at BridgePoint Church in Tarentum, Purdie ramped up her volunteer efforts at the site along East Ninth Avenue
A Tarentum minister is inviting people to worship in Riverview Memorial Park on four Sundays this summer. The Rev. Val Schubert from BridgePoint Church, an Assemblies of God ministry along East Ninth Avenue, said services will be combined with children’s crafts, music and food in hopes of drawing people to
Eight-year-old Ayden Sanders didn’t have to look hard to find a book that suited his fancy. He picked several from among hundreds that now line the walls of the basement at BridgePoint Church in Tarentum and plopped down at a pint-sized table to read. “I love it here,” Ayden said.