Job Opportunity: Mount Pocono United Methodist Church

Mount Pocono United Methodist Church is seeking a dependable and skilled pianist to provide music for 2 Sunday worship services at 8:30 and 10:00 a.m. The pianist will support congregational singing, accompany the choir and vocalists as needed, and offer appropriate prelude, offertory, communion, and postlude music in collaboration with church leadership. To apply, please send a résumé or brief summary of relevant experience, two references, and your availability to Helen VanSise at kdops@ptd.net, 570 839-1646. Candidates may be invited to interview and provide a short audition.

West Side Pipe Organ Tour October 24

Five churches on the Wyoming Valley’s West Side will open their doors to organists and members of the public during a pipe organ tour on Saturday, October 24 planned by the Pennsylvania Northeast AGO Chapter. Participants will have an opportunity to see, hear, and play pipe organs at the Dr. Edwards Memorial Congregational Church in Edwardsville, Forty Fort United Methodist Church in Forty Fort, and Wyoming Avenue Christian, Dorranceton United Methodist, Holy Trinity Lutheran, and Grace Episcopal churches in Kingston. The program begins at 9:00 a.m. at Dr. Edwards Church, 668 Main Street, Edwardsville (corner of Church and Main streets) and ends at 12:00 noon at Grace Episcopal Church, 30 Butler Street, Kingston. Participants should meet directly at the first church of the tour. There is no cost to attend. For more information contact John Vaida, Dean of the AGO Chapter, at 570-650-6459.