Religion
Accomplished professor to honor MLK Jr. at GCC
In honor of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., Grove City College will host Timothy Russell, president of the Memphis Center for Urban Theological Studies, at 7 p.m. Jan. 19 in Harbison Chapel to present �Jesus, Plain and Simple � �Love Your Enemies.��
The event is free and open to the public.
Russell has served as associate pastor of the Covenant Fellowship Reformed Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pa., and pastor of the Geneva Reformed Presbyterian Church in Beaver Falls, Pa. Russell has also worked for Prison Fellowship Ministries as the program director for western Pennsylvania. He served at Geneva College as the director of financial aid from 1990-1995 and as the college chaplain from 1995-2005.
Russell�s presentation will focus on Luke 6:27-36 and King�s perspective on loving one�s enemies.
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Though it’s hard to see light at a tunnel’s end, it’s there all along
This coming Sunday (Aug. 22) at my church--Grove City Alliance--we’ll be having our first Cardboard Testimonies service.
In short, a cardboard testimony comprises a piece of cardboard with one side featuring a short written expression of some area of your life in which you’ve met with adversity; the other side, when flipped over, expresses how God met that adversity, interceding and walking with you through it, leading to change.
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Church happenings
Local churches plan a variety of activities for coming weeks.
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Vacation Bible school programs set
Area churches plan a variety of themed activities for their summer vacation Bible school programs.
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New pastor to shepherd JC church this summer
George Bert opened the recent Jackson Center Presbyterian Church service in which Rev. Edwin McElroy was guest speaker. Various speakers have filled in since the Rev. Terry Greenlee retired due to health reasons on April 25.
The church will welcome a new supply pastor, Rev. Charles Crane, Aug. 1. At that time, the worship hour will begin earlier, at 9:15 a.m. -
Tragedy in Amish Country: Living Levi’s example
I first met Levi almost 20 years ago. He was about 12. We had just purchased our land from his parents, Jake and Nancy. Being old-order Amish, Jake and Nancy needed a ride to the attorney’s office, so we drove them and new-born Chris, their youngest, to finalize the transaction. Thus began a very special friendship between two families.
Every Christmas Eve, our little family of three and Jake and Nancy’s larger family (five children at the beginning, but more recently including four daughters-in-law, one son-in-law, and 13 grandchildren) gather for Christmas fellowship. -
Solid Rock, BiLo team up to form new ministry
Those who wish to tighten their belts in food spending have a new option in Grove City.
Solid Rock Assembly of God on South Broad Street has launched a program similar to Angel Food Ministries.
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Hope in Christ is intrinsic to love
The Bible teaches us in the book of I Corinthians 13 that incredible hope is an intrinsic aspect to love. However, love is often tried in light of our humanness.
We may ask, “How can we hope for change in others and ourselves when we fail so many times?”
“How can someone change when they have been so hurtful?” -
Scotch Hill rededicates 158 year old church
Members of Scotch Hill United Presbyterian Church, 489 Centertown Road, Pine Township, have begun the holidays right with fresh improvements to the parish.
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New ministers welcomed at Wayside
Wayside Community Chapel in Findley Township recently gained a new pastor.
The Rev. Lester “Les” Rowan and his wife, Kristina “Kris,” had their first official Sunday at Wayside on Sept. 27.
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Center Presbyterian welcomes new pastor
The flock at Center Presbyterian Church in Slippery Rock has found a new shepherd.
The Rev. William C. Mumaw began his ministry at the church on Aug. 30. He will be formally installed as pastor at a 2 p.m. service on Sept. 27. - More Religion Headlines
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