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…
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Brush fire behind our church today
As our church council was deliberating at their meeting this afternoon, a neighbor, Les Martin, burst in asking us to move cars and announcing that there was a brush fire behind our church. He had already called 911. The building on the left in the picture is the St. Pauly clothing donation shed but the…
Lenten/Easter message series focuses on Jesus’ life
Close-up camera shots of things or people are very revealing. They help us immensely to spot details that we might otherwise miss. I have chosen this analogy because our goal in the Lenten Easter series of messages is to look at passages in the Gospel account of Matthew that give us close-up pictures of Jesus….
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…
Characteristics of love are the topic for February
Love is a very popular subject all over the world. Unfortunately in America, the sexual aspect of human relationships dominates the conversation in a way that it should not. The result is the statistically shown decreasing ability of the American populace to stay married. So it is vital to review the characteristics…
Copper Hill Church participates in Prayer Day for the General Conference
A small group of folks met in the fellowship hall at Copper Hill Church on Saturday morning, Jan 30, and spent about 45 minutes in prayer for the upcoming General Conference. Pastor Kelvin called the group together in response to the call by Bishop Jane Middleton for people in the New York Area Conference to…
January Message Series Looks at the Early Days of Jesus’ Ministry
Followers of Jesus constantly need to go back to the stories of his ministry to refresh our minds about what was important to him. Otherwise, our ideas can be formed more by our culture than by Jesus. So this month we our message series will review some of the earliest incidents and instruction…
Children’s Christmas Sunday 2015
Sometimes traditions are a joy. Such is the case with the annual Christmas Children’s Sunday at Copper Hill Church. 12 children participated. More than half served as readers and all helped decorate the altar rail and table and carry forward and place the figures for the nativity scene. The service ends with candle…