Copper Hill Church to Reopen We are happy to announce the reopening of Copper Hill Church for in-person services on Easter Sunday April 4, 2021 for our 9:30 AM service. We will be following the COVID-19 safety guidelines for all Methodist churches which Bishop Bickerton has established. Online broadcasting will continue at the same time. We…
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Faith that Surmounts a Crisis
Watch Virtual Service New strides Today we held our second virtual service. In keeping with our goal to be interactive, we included an additional speaker. Lay leader Robert Loomis debuted the first Virtual History Moment, talking about John Wesley’s concern for people through the classes and bands that he established to keep in touch with…
Copper Hill’s First Virtual Church Service
Message- The Healing Power of Faith and Prayer Watch the Service COVID-19 Faith-in-Action Plan Implemented In response to the developing situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, and in order to do our part to slow the spread of the virus, Copper Hill Church moved its worship service online today, Mar. 15, 2020. With Jonathan Griffin providing…
Copper Hill Church Plants Time Capsule
Our Celebration’s Climactic Moment After service on Oct. 23, 2016, Cooper Hill Church 200th Anniversary Celebration culminated in the planting of a time capsule beside the bell. We decided “plant” would be a good verb for the occasion for a church with green doors, agricultural roots and rural location. But whatever the word, the…
Our Founders Identified
Other history articles have talked about the circumstances surrounding the founding of Copper Hill United Methodist Church. In this article we want to ask the question, “Who were the people involved?” The founding pastor In the Methodist church, pastors are appointed during the summer and reappointed annually. The summary history that comes down to us…
Medallion Celebrates Our 200th Anniversary
What will be our anniversary memento? When there is a significant anniversary, we search for an appropriate memento. Copper Hill Church has had a medallion made in honor of the 200th Anniversary of its organization in 1816. One side features a line drawing of the church with its old bell tower….
Historical photo located
Picture discovered Bob Stewart has recently discovered and received rights to an historic photo of our church. It was in the care of the “Keeping Society” of Guilford, CT. The photo was taken by a photographer named C. L. Hubbard who traveled around in Connecticut in the 1890’s taking pictures of various churches. The date…
200th Anniversary Celebration Underway
Copper Hill Church founded in 1816 Our church has been planning and looking forward to this year for some time. Two hundred years ago in 1816, six lay persons, Aristarchus Griffin, Seth Griffin and Calvin Gillet and their wives under the oversight of Rev. Billy Hibbard of the Granville Circuit organized Copper Hill Methodist…
We’re Praying for Another Divine Visitation
Sometimes we are discouraged by the church’s decline Sometimes we look around and are discouraged that the work of God seems to be in decline. And it is not our imagination either. One key indicator, though not the only one, is church attendance. Stats show that the percentage of people attending church is down…
Reminder of new service time comes with new overhead video
Note to all — starting this coming Sunday, March 8, our Sunday service time changes to the new time — 9:30 AM. Just in time to celebrate this announcement, Christian Robison has taken some additional sky video footage of our church in winter showing the new doors and new sign. He has combined it…