8-year-old Shares God’s Gift of Music

By Caroline Johnson* Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter services keep many church families busy during Holy week. Toss in family gatherings and dinners, and an Easter egg hunt or two and you would be hard-pressed to find a busier time of year – for children or adults. Eight-year-old Owen Buxton found time to add [...]

Good Friday on the Green

Canfield United Methodist Church (Mahoning Valley District) took the message of Good Friday to the village green this year. Families and individuals from the congregation designed, created and displayed visual interpretations of 10 scriptures that follow Jesus’ journey from betrayal to Crucifixion. Visitors were given a brochure that contained each scripture verse and that described [...]

Planting Seeds

By Rev. Jim Humphrey* 9 “As it is written: ‘They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor; their righteousness endures forever.’ 10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 11 You will [...]