Gallion gifted $400,000?      First UCC in Galion sent donations for the Iraqi refugees. Fifty-two years ago refugees were fleeing Hungary. Thousands of miles away in Galion, Ohio the ladies of the then First Evangelical and Reformed Church raised money to sponsor three of these refugees, a man, a woman and an eight year old boy.  read the rest

  Summer's coming, send your  youth or volunteer   You can plan a retreat, send your youth, your child, your young adult, or yourself to camp.  Click the sign.

Camp Debt Reduction CHALLENGE    Together Pilgrim Hills and Templed Hills were $600,000 in debt in 2007. While this is a large sum, if divided equally among all the adult members of every Ohio UCC congregation, it ends up being only $ 5 each to retire the entire debt! That's pocket change! "It Makes Cents" is a special collection to put our camps back "in the black."  read the rest

    Ohio Peace Network  -  The Ohio Peace Network encourages the exchange.

  National Youth Event  moves youth to commitment and faith  Distribute the attached brochure. Or see the national web site and send (pay for) a youth to attend from your church.

 

 Webguy wants info -nwoa.org can tell your ministry.  We give a web site to every church where you can put pictures and words.

  • Look over your church link listed in the menu above.

  • See if it is current, and what a prospective member might see if they check out your site.

  • Then tell the the webguy what needs corrected. His goal is to have an accurate website for any church who wants to tell their story.

 

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Northwest Ohio Association

 

Our Church's Wider Mission takes each local church to another place in the world. Discover more. Widen and deepen your church's faith, witness and membership.

  Rev. Busch Reflects

   Sometimes the weather is not as expected.  This past Sunday when I left Tiffin to visit one of our churches, it was raining.  Along the way I was noticing how green the yards and fields were getting.  I also noticed many fields had water on them.  Farmers are anticipating planting and I wondered how wet the fields will be when they are ready to plant the crops.  read the rest

 

A Broad Range of Emotions-John Thomas

  LOOKING FOR A LOCAL MINISTRY /MISSION TO SUPPORT? The Disaster Response Team of the Ohio Conference is in need of additional emergency response equipment. Due to the frequency and extreme nature of the recent flooding in Northwest Ohio, read the rest