By Jamie Greiner & Julie Greiner* Focusing on family-friendly and healthy meals, Christ United Methodist Church (Tuscarawas District) in Alliance recently held a free three-week teaching session called Cooking for the Soul. Fifteen women participated in the crockpot class. The Susie Buckel Circle started just last year and decided to try a new mission project. [...]
Category: Community Service
Helping Hands
By Rev. Kimberly Arbaugh* Seventy youth and adults from 12 Ohio Valley District churches recently lent a hand to support the Urban Mission in Steubenville. The volunteers worked for several hours to make the holidays a little brighter for those less fortunate. They sorted gloves, coats, scarves, socks and food, helping the Urban Mission prepare [...]
The Nehemiah Mission: Send Me to the City
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 [...]