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News and thoughts
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…
Core Values: Part 4 – Faith
This blog post for our Core Values series is based on one of the central ideas of all of Christianity: faith. It almost seems redundant to call this a central idea of Christianity, because faith itself is often defined as a set of ideas. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus encourages his disciples to believe in him as the Messiah, and that through this belief we gain eternal life (John 5:24). This is only part of the picture of faith that the…
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
The Central Southeast Ohio Association Calendar of Prayer lifts up Immanuel UCC, Zanesville this week. Please remember their Pastor, Rev. Mitch Reed and the all members and friends of Immanuel in our prayers this week.
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
This week the Central Southeast Ohio Association Calendar of Prayer lifts up Highwater Congregational UCC, Newark. Please remember their Pastor, Rev. Scott Schieber and the all members and friends of Highwater in your prayers this week.
Habemus…Pastor?!
After many months of deliberation, prayers, soul searching, and people searching, the Grace United Church of Christ Search Committee is proud to announce that we have indeed finally found what we have been looking for–a new pastor (well, a candidate to present to the congregation)! Over the next few days, members will be receiving a letter introducing you to our recommended candidate and we hope that you will feel the same about this person as we do now. We have…
Core Values: Part 3 – Fun/Joy
As I review the core values selected by our church, I am so pleased at how many touch upon the Fruit of the Spirit. As we read in Galations 5:22 But the Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness. I was particularly happy that fun/joy was included. For me, church is a joyous experience. It fills me. It makes me whole. It gives me peace and joy. Nothing is a better example of this than…
Vacation Bible School 2nd call
Just a reminder, Vacation Bible School starts in just over a week on 16 June. You can register online at http://cokesburyvbs.com/graceuccvbs2014 or you can download a flyer, registration form, and permission form from our website. We’re looking forward to another great week of spreading the Good News.
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
This week the Central Southeast Ohio Association prayer calendar lifts up the CSEOA-Nicaragua partnership with Iglesia Mision Cristiana. Please remember our partners and the members and friends of all the IMC churches in your prayers this week. Also pray for all those from the Association going on mission trips to Nicaragua this summer including the youth from Davids UCC in Canal Winchester.
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.…
CSEOA Prayer Calendar
The Central Southeast Ohio Association Calendar of Prayer lifts up Grace UCC, Columbus this week. Please remember Pastor, Rev. Ron Hall and Associate Pastor, Rev. Elaine Fennell and the all members and friends of Grace in your prayers this week.