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Copper Hill hosts visit by Bishop Thomas Bickerton

Posted on December 15, 2016December 17, 2016

Church council and children with Bishop Bickerton
What a privilege to have Bishop Bickerton visit our church

 Bishop Bickerton an excellent speaker

Bishop Thomas Bickerton of the New York annual conference of the United Methodist Church thrilled the congregation at Copper Hill church by his visit on Sunday, December 11.   He brought an inspiring message titled, “Joy Unspeakable” which reminded the congregation that our spiritual relationship with God is intended to be a deep and lasting source of joy, whatever the circumstances in our lives. But he challenged us that in order for this to be so, we would need to choose joy over grumbling in our daily lives; we would need to choose the perspective of faith over the problem of fear.   

Visit part of 200th celebration

The visit capped the 200th Anniversary Celebration of the church. The children of the church delighted everyone with a beautiful rendition of the traditional Carol, “I Saw Three Ships.”   The interesting history fact for the morning was the reading of an Isaac Watts hymn from the 1878 Methodist hymnbook.  In that hymnbook there was only one melody line of music on the page along with words for three hymns and a doxology, all of which could be sung to the tune above.  A Coffee hour followed the service.

Thanks to Paul Mandirola, Nancy Collins, Bob Stewart and Lisa Griffin for the pictures. 

hamming it up with Bishop Bickerton
Bishop Bickerton spoke on "Joy Unspeakable"
children's choir
Our children's choir sang very well
Children and church council with Bishop Bickerton
hamming it up with Bishop Bickerton
Our children sang for the bishop
children's choir sang very well
JoAnne leading children's moment
Gathering for the picture
Church council children and Bishop Thomas Bickerton

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