Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Meetings for the Atherton Ward are held at 6500 E. Atherton St., in Long Beach. The sacrament service is held every Sunday at 10:30 a.m., followed in the second hour by Sunday School on the first and third Sundays, and Relief Society and Elders Quorum on the second and fourth Sundays. Primary classes for children are held every Sunday during the second hour. Members who are unable to attend Sacrament services in person can request a link from Bishop Mike Gravley at 562-212-8641.

The reading source for this year is the New Testament. The reading assignment for the week of Aug. 21-27 is 1 Corinthians 1-1 7.

The devotional “Come, Follow Me” says “During the months that Paul spent in Corinth, ‘many of the Corinthians hearing him believed, and were baptized.’ So it must have been heartbreaking for Paul to hear, just a few years later, that there were divisions and contentions among the Corinthian saints and that in his absence they began to heed the ‘wisdom of this world.’ In response, Paul wrote the letter we now call 1 Corinthians.”