By Brett Hetherington* January brought single-digit temperatures to the Ohio Valley, increasing community members’ needs for warm clothes and shelter. Once again, the Urban Mission located in Steubenville, Ohio answered the call, this time with a new executive director – the Rev. Dr. Kimberly Arbaugh. “Starting in the middle of January when it was negative [...]
By Brett Hetherington* Election day in Peninsula is a special day, and not just because citizens are given the opportunity to cast their votes for civil servants both local and national. For more than a century the people of Peninsula United Methodist Church (Northern Waters District) have made and served meals to the community on [...]
By Brett Hetherington* When Will Fenton-Jones, director of Multicultural Ministries, set out to create a space for clergy and laity in the East Ohio Conference to share a role-playing game experience no one in the group could have imagined that it would have led to ministering to people at one of the most family-friendly and [...]
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