Candidates for Ministry Explore God’s Call on their Lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tslLMj6joY Fourteen people from the East Ohio Conference explored their call to ministry during the East Ohio-West Ohio Candidacy Summit held January 6-7 at Methodist Theological School in Ohio. The summit, a collaborative ministry of the East Ohio and West Ohio Conferences, is the first step for candidates who are discerning their call to ministry.  [...]

Rev. Orlando Chaffee: A Life Well-lived

By Rick Wolcott* Dozens of East Ohio Conference clergy came to celebrate the life of the Rev. Orlando Chaffee, 60, who passed away on December 18.  His colleagues, dressed in black robes with white stoles, processed into the sanctuary at the beginning of the funeral service. “Rev. Chaffee gave 32 years of his life to [...]

Working Together as the Body of Christ at Flat Rock

By Rick Wolcott* Flat Rock Homes has a 150-year legacy of caring for others.  What began as an orphanage founded by the Evangelical United Brethren Church in Tiffin in 1866 has developed into a multi-program health and welfare agency of The United Methodist Church that transforms the lives of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, [...]