JULY 30, 2018

Church and Society AN INVITATION: To Participate in Reviewing the 2020 Draft Social Principles East Ohio Conference’s Board of Church and Society invites all members of the Conference to provide comment on the newest revision of the Social Principles. First articulated over a hundred years ago and endorsed by a wide body of religious denominations, [...]

New Way UMC Charters as New Church Start

By Rick Wolcott* “This is historic,” Tuscarawas District Superintendent the Rev. Benita Rollins said.  “In my 36 years in ministry we have not chartered many churches.” On a rainy summer night, parishioners gathered upstairs at the Perry Grange in Massillon – in the worship space that has been home to the New Way faith community [...]

Sharing the Living Water of the Gospel

By Rev. Lee Ann Dunlap* The day in Rio Bravo, Mexico was hot, and we were sweltering even in the shade at the elementary school. But the mother and her little ones waited patiently in the cement courtyard for their turn to see our medical mission team that she hoped would help her family. Though [...]