Posts by Jim C (Page 15)
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
For the week of 2 Nov, the Central Southeast Ohio Association Calendar of Prayer lifted up The United Church of Mount Sterling. Please keep Rev. Dan Shipley and the members and friends of the United Church of Mt. Sterling in your prayers. For the week of 9 Nov, the Calendar of Prayer lifts up the Association Department for Preparation for Authorized Ministry. This is the department responsible for helping those who feel called to the ministry discern what their call…
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
Sorry, I’ve been out and missed a couple so allow me to catch up. The Central Southeast Ohio Calendar of Prayer lifted up Second Congregational UCC, in Marrietta for the week of 19 Oct, please keep the members and friends of Second Congregational in your prayers as they discern a path forward after the death earlier this year of their pastor of 45 years, Pastor Dick Saltzwedel. The Central Southeast Ohio Association Calendar of Prayer also lifted up the Association…
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
The Central Southeast Ohio Association Calendar of Prayer lifts up St. Paul’s UCC, Glenford this week. Please remember Rev. Beth Bateson and all the members and friends at St. Paul’s in your prayers this week.
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
This week the Central Southeast Ohio Association Calendar of Prayer lifts up Hospice Ministries at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, OhioHealth, and Heartland Hospice this week. Please remember all CSEOA Authorized Clergy called to all Hospice Ministries in our Association in your prayers this week.
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
I guess I’m running late again with this, sorry. For 28 Sep, the Central Southeast Ohio Association Calendar of Prayer lifts up St. Paul UCC, Columbus this week. Please remember Pastor Alan Hicks, Licensed Minister and all the members and friends of St. Paul in your prayers this week.
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
The Central Southeast Ohio Association Calendar of Prayer lifts up Our Sister Associations of the Ohio Conference. Southern Ohio Northern Kentucky Association (SONKA) and Rev. Katherine Anadein, Designated Association Minister; Northwest Ohio Association (NWOA) and Rev. Dan Busch, Association Minister; Eastern Ohio (EOA) and Western Reserve Associations (WRA) and Rev. Rita Root, Associations General Minister.
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
This week the Central Southeast Ohio Association lifts up in prayer St. John’s Evangelical Protestant UCC, Columbus. Please remember Rev. Gini Lohmann-Bauman, and all the members and friends of St. John’s in your prayers this week. Also, this week, special prayers for the friends and family of Rev. Dan Vander Ploeg who passed away on 16 Aug at the age of 76 and was laid to rest last Saturday in Minnesota. Dan served on the Ohio Conference staff during the…
Core Values: Part 2 – Leadership
This is our second of five posts introducing and discussing the core values discerned at our congregational gathering in September 2013, this time the core value is leadership. This one actually came as a bit of a surprise to me when the search committee tabulated the results from the event in September. I really expected to see “mission” here, the more I thought about it, though, it did make some sense. There are several important aspects to this core value.…
Summer Activities – an Experiment
Summer is the time of year when churches seem to go on vacation just like everyone else. Other than Vacation Bible School, maybe a work trip, and sending a few of the youth to camp, things usually slow down dramatically. The Membership Action Board has scheduled the Summer Pot Luck for after church on Pentecost (8 June), to kick off the summer, but as far as I’m aware, that’s it. We’re going to try an experiment here. In the comments…
Where your support has gone
Some folks asked for this info from Sherry Clausing’s presentation last month. The Grace Church Endowment has been very generous in supporting her many trips to El Salvador with Eye Care International over the last few years and the last slide of her presentation showed some of the many ways that your money has supported worthwhile projects that Sherry saw or became aware of while in El Salvador. The include, but are not limited to, the following (in no particular…