Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Meetings for the Atherton Ward are held at 6500 E. Atherton St., Long Beach. 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, Relief Society and Elders Quorum on the second and fourth Sundays. Primary classes for children are held every Sunday during the second hour.

The reading source for this year is the New Testament. The reading assignment for the week of Dec. 11-17 is Revelation 6-14.

The “Come Follow Me” lesson manual says “Imagine a woman ‘travailing in birth and pained to be delivered.’ Now imagine ‘a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns’ hovering over the woman, poised to ‘devour her child’ as soon as it was born. To understand these verses of John’s revelation, remember that these images represent the church and kingdom of God and the peril they would face.”