The First Church of God in Providence: The church will hold its annual youth-centered event, Rescate, which will feature theatrical plays, dances and preachings focused on issues facing young people. This year’s theme is “Awakening.”

The featured speaker will be Dennis Sempebwa, a Uganda-born minister who is also president and founder of Eagle’s Wings International, a global leadership development ministry dedicated to empowerment.

Rescate will be held tomorrow at 7 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, which will include conferences with Sempebwa, followed by a church service at 5 p.m. at 786 Elmwood Ave.

The event is free and open to the public. English translation will be available.

For information, visit www.esperanzajuvenil.com.

Church tag sale: The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, 99 Camp St., will hold a red-tag sale on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Furniture, household items, books, clothes and knickknacks will be for sale, as will hot dogs, hamburgers and refreshments.

The event will be held in the school building, next to the church and rectory. For information, call (401) 272-4515.

Community celebration day: The Mount Hope Community Baptist Church will host its annual community celebration day on Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. at the Billy Taylor Park at Camp and Cypress streets. The entire community is invited to bring lawn chairs and enjoy an afternoon of free food, beverages, fellowship and music.

Church pastor Olivier Bala announced that the church congregation is committed to re-establishing the annual church community outreach effort. Bala expects to “Bring Hope to the Hopeless” as the roughly 270-family congregation volunteers and provides for this first day in the opening salvo of a comprehensive neighborhood campaign to serve the needs of the Mount Hope community at large.

The church has partnered with Teen Challenge, an organization that works among teenagers and socially minimalized people. Tables will be on site to offer various social services information. Sodexho has contributed the food. Musical entertainment will be provided by André Lovelle and his Gospel Ensemble.

For information, call Gilda Hernandez, co-chairwoman of the event, at (401) 454-0052, or e-mail hope4u2@verizon.net. The church Web site is hope4u2.org.

Hunger Banquet: St. Francis Chapel and City Ministry Center in conjunction with Grace Church is hosting its annual Hunger Banquet at Hotel Providence on Sept. 17, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Local area restaurants and bakeries are donating soup and bread.

Tickets are $10 and are available at St. Francis Chapel, 275 Westminster St., St. Mary’s on Broadway, 538 Broadway, or at the event.

The proceeds will benefit the Poverello Center, which houses the Food Center and the Wellness Center and the chapel’s Bread and Blessings Program, which feeds the homeless three times a week at Beneficent Church.

Conference at St. Patrick Church: The church at 244 Smith St. will hold an “Embrace Your Faith” conference on Saturday, Sept. 6, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is being held in the spirit of the church’s observance of the Year of St. Paul, which runs to June 29 next year.

The conference presenter is Marie Noel Keller, R.S.M., executive director of the Institute on Sacred Scripture at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pa. The sister’s topic, “Saint Paul, Pastor in Practice,” will focus on who St. Paul is compared with who many people think he is — misconceptions versus reality. Sister Marie Noel will use two of St. Paul’s letters, Philippians and 1 Corinthians, to show St. Paul the Pastor in practice.

The event will begin with Mass at 9 in the church and will continue with the presentation in the church hall.

The $10 registration fee includes lunch. Checks should be made payable to St. Patrick Church and should be sent with name, address and telephone number to St. Patrick Church, 152 Holden St., Providence, RI 02908. Tickets will not be mailed; they will be held for attendees and presented on the date of the event.

For information, call (401) 421-7070.

Chapel Gallery: Retro Future, a selection of the Rev. A. Bill Comeau’s recent paintings inspired by an extended study of the work of Amedeo Clemente Modigliani and Vincent van Gogh, will be on display during September in the Mathewson Street United Methodist Church Chapel Gallery, 134 Mathewson St.

A Gallery Night reception is scheduled for Sept. 18 from 5 to 9 p.m., and will feature an artist talk, music and poetry. Organ concerts are scheduled for 7 and 7:45 p.m., and the fourth-floor meditative labyrinth will be open.

Comeau considers himself foremost a storyteller. New England born and bred, he is the pastor of United Church of Christ of Assonet, Mass. He began in ministry in his late teens having attended the University of New Hampshire, Hartford Seminary and Andover Theological Seminary. Comeau also spent 30 years in advertising, winning awards for his originality and creativity.

As a visual artist, he works in pastels, acrylic and mixed-media and is a member of the Providence Art Club. He is also a published playwright, poet, songwriter and a musician (guitar, piano, vocal) who has 24 albums to his credit, membership in ASCAP and three Grammy nominations. His plays have been published by Baker Plays, Samuel French and Contemporary Dramatists.

His books have been published by United Church Press and Upper Room Press.

Gallery hours are Sunday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and by appointment.

For information, call the church at (401) 331-8900, or visit www.gbgm-umc.org/mathewsonstumc.

Prayer Ministry Team: Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church, 163 Bellevue Ave., holds a prayer ministry on the first and third Mondays of the month at 6:30 p.m.

Everyone is welcome.

For information, call team director Sister Stephanie Jones-Pringle at (401) 274-9050.

Pray the Rosary: The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Chapel, 399 Fruit Hill Ave., North Providence, offers a prayer group for families on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in the Holy Family Chapel.