By Rev. Audrey Sudberry-McDonald* The lobby was teeming with excitement and expectancy as women, young and mature, arrived at Celebration United Methodist Church (North Coast District) on Saturday, November 15 for its first annual Women of Faith Conference. This year’s theme, “Faith, Family and Fortitude: Pathways to Success,” incorporated Proverbs 31:10-31 and Philippians 4:10-13 as [...]
"It is a fascinating character study and a satirical black comedy. Jake Gyllenhaal gives the definitive wide-eyed performance as Lou Bloom and Dan Gilroy’s wonderful script gives him several inspired speeches in which he shares the motivational principles that have helped make him a success-driven man," says Rev. Bruce Batchelor-Glader, EOC's movie reviewer. Read entire [...]
By Rick Wolcott* “There is work to be done here.” With those words, spoken by then North Coast District superintendent the Rev. Dan Drew, the idea of The Nehemiah Mission of Cleveland was conceived on August 3, 2003. Over the next 10 years, 12,000 volunteers from across the country have come to Cleveland, completed 1,200 [...]
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