By Rick Wolcott* For 100 years Ontario UMC (Mid-Ohio District) has been active in school ministry. To celebrate the milestone, church leadership invited all 215 employees of Ontario Local Schools to an in-service day luncheon last August. In meeting with the district superintendent to plan for that lunch, the Rev. Peg Welch inquired how the [...]
By Rick Wolcott* “This is historic,” Tuscarawas District Superintendent the Rev. Benita Rollins said. “In my 36 years in ministry we have not chartered many churches.” On a rainy summer night, parishioners gathered upstairs at the Perry Grange in Massillon – in the worship space that has been home to the New Way faith community [...]
New Philadelphia First United Methodist Church (Tuscarawas District) celebrated Pentecost on May 20 by holding its annual Change the World Sunday. The day began with the normal three celebrations of worship combined into one 9:00 a.m. service. Rev. Jim Humphrey preached from James 2, putting faith into deeds and actions, and commissioned the congregation to [...]
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