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 [...]
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 [...]
Missions UMC Conferences Come Together to Offer Help – and Hope – in Puerto Rico Forty members of our joint mission team from the East Ohio Conference and the Western Pennsylvania Conference spent the last week of June in Patillas, Puerto Rico, on the southeast coast of the island just west of where Hurricane Maria hit [...]
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