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CSEOA Prayer Calendar
The Central Southeast Ohio Association Calendar of Prayer lifts up CSEOA Department for Church and Authorized Ministry (DCAM) this week. Please remember the members of the Department in your prayers this week. Chair – Mr. Jim Clausing and Members – Rev. Eric Williams, Dr. Cynthia Tyson, Rev. Sarah Reed, Rev. Sigrid Rother, Rev. Leslie Taylor, Mr. John Botti, Rev. Win Strout, Rev. Herb Hicks.
Oops…
Mea Culpa!! I got a notice yesterday (it may have actually come in Friday night, I don’t remember) that a hacker had planted a phishing page on our website. I had, unfortunately, stopped being quite as diligent about looking at the logs from the website on a regular basis. I’ve looked at the logs since then and I believe I know how they got the content on here. I’ve changed the password I believe they cracked and removed the stuff…
Pastor’s Piece/Peace – Aug 2014
Thanks to so many of you that have commented to me that I will be missed as your pastor, of Grace Church. Departing on August 24 as my last Sunday with you, I will miss you. For many of you, I have had the privilege to be present with your family doing a time of joy or a special time of need such as a surgery or the loss of a loved one. I continue to pray that the love…
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
The Central Southeast Ohio Association Calendar of Prayer lifts up The Oasis, Pickerington this week. Please remember their Pastor, Rev. Deb Click and the all members and friends of The Oasis in your prayers this week.
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
The Central Southeast Ohio Assoiciation Calendar of Prayer lifts up North Congregational UCC, Columbus this week. Please remember their Pastor, Rev. Eric Williams and all the members and friends of North Church in your prayers this week. Also, please keep our interim Association Minister, Rev. Roger Miller in your prayers, he has been nursing an injured back. The doctors have determined that he indeed does have a compression fracture and now has a slight infection which has delayed surgery. He…
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
The Central Southeast Ohio Association Calendar of Prayer lifts up Mt. Carmel UCC, Clearport this week. Please remember their Pastor, Rev. Marilin Miller and the all members and friends of Mt. Carmel in your prayers this week.
Core Values: Part 5 – Welcoming Community
Note: This final entry in our core value series of posts was authored by the chair of our search committee, Johanna Pearce In recent months, as our congregation worked through the process of becoming ready for a new pastor, we sought to identify our core values. As we talked, the word welcoming echoed through discussions. Everyone seemed to believe Grace welcomes those who join us for worship, fellowship, VBS, chicken noodle supper, mission, outreach, and more. Folks said one of…
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
Sorry, I’ve been remiss in not getting these posted the last two weeks, so we’ll catch up here and try to stay on top of things going forward. The Central Southeast Ohio Association Prayer Calendar lifted up the Department for Church Vitality for the week of 6 July. Please keep Rev. Scott Schieber and the members of the Department in your prayers. The Department oversees the Association Covenantal Elders and provide resources to assist the congregations of the Association to…
Grace UCC Calls a New Pastor
A huge thank you to everyone who showed up Saturday evening to meet Rev. Mindy Quellhorst and Andy, and on Sunday morning to hear her preach. At the Congregational meeting following worship, we voted to call her as our next pastor and she accepted our call. The current plan is for her to move at the end of August or beginning of September and she hopes to join us in time for Rally Day. There will be more about Pastor…
Bill George 1923-2014
Many of you probably already heard that one of the saints of our congregation passed away on Wednesday.  You can find his obituary here. The funeral will be this coming Wednesday. Please keep Maribel and the family in your prayers. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written,‘For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as…