Nehemiah Mission Opens Its Doors to People Needing Shelter

By Pastor Jim Szakacs* It’s common for the dormitories at The Nehemiah Mission in Cleveland to be a revolving door for short-term mission teams coming and going to and from neighborhoods around the mission site. But that wasn’t the case most of last year – and probably most of this year – due to the [...]

Annual Race at the Rock goes Virtual

By Brett Hetherington* Every summer for 14 years, Flat Rock Homes, Care Center, and Community Services has hosted a fundraising event known as the Race at the Rock. Individuals, families, teams and congregations have traveled to the site of the East Ohio Conference Health & Welfare agency in the Firelands District to participate in a [...]

Church Service Meets in the Unlikeliest of Places

By Brett Hetherington* In May I had the pleasure of spending time with the Rev. Betsy Schenk as she and volunteers from Amboy United Methodist Church (Western Reserve District) served food to long-haul truck drivers. Schenk is also a licensed chemical dependency counselor and spends much of her time serving the patients of Glenbeigh Recovery [...]