Church Offers Help and Hope in Fight Against Opiate Addiction

By Rick Wolcott* The Addiction Policy Forum reports that 144 people died in the United States every day in 2016 from a drug overdose. “This is an epidemic unlike any other,” said Elaine Georgas, executive director of the Alcohol and Drug Addictions Services (ADAS) Board of Lorain County.  “If more than 52,000 Americans died last [...]

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Annual Conference 2018 A reminder that the dates announced at the conclusions this year of both the East Ohio Conference session and the West Ohio Conference session were changed in July. Annual Conference 2018 for East Ohio will be held at Lakeside Chautauqua June 11-14.  Youth Annual Conference 2018 will be June 8-10. Financial & [...]

Film: A Quiet Passion – rare biopic that invites the viewer into a new way of understanding

On DVD and Blu-Ray, Video on Demand, iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play, Fandango Now and VUDU. Review by Rev. Bruce Batchelor-Glader The poetry of Emily Dickinson is loved by millions of people, including young adults and aspiring writers. Her poems are short and easily memorized, but also evocative of deeper themes. Two of her primary [...]