A Confirmation Story As I posted two weeks ago, on Pentecost Sunday Copper Hill Church had the privilege of confirming three more junior teens. The journey of the 2020 confirmation class has been a long one. It started with in-person classes after church. but those were interrupted by COVID and replaced by online Zoom sessions….
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Palm Sunday a Highlight
During the winter months, Pastor Kelvin held a six session confirmation class with three students. The sixth graders studied basic beliefs of the Christian church, learned about the liturgies they participate in from week to week, and discovered more about their local United Methodist Church here at Copper Hill. Pastor Kelvin asked the three to…
Palm Sunday Celebration Was Joyful
Five new members joining our church was the high point in our Palm Sunday service. Brandon Collins, a sixth grader was confirmed and joined with his grandparents Chris and Nancy Collins standing with him. Four adults also took on the covenant of membership; each one sponsored by a member of the church; Ken D’Annolfo, who…
Palm Sunday at Copper Hill Church
This coming Sunday, March 29, is Palm Sunday, the time in the church year when we remember the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem at the beginning of his last week. The Sunday gets its name from the historical fact that the disciples and the crowd laid palm branches in the path where the donkey…
Reviewing the Basics of Christian Faith
Reviewing the Basics of Christian Faith Every church needs to regularly teach the basics of Christian faith both so that newer disciples can learn and so more seasoned Christians can be reminded. Both Paul and Peter wrote of the value of such reminders (2 Tim. 2:14; 2 Peter 1:12). During March and early April, Pastor…
Exceptional Palm Sunday service
There was lots of joy and praise and excitement at Copper Hill United Methodist Church this Palm Sunday morning. Two sixth-graders, Hunter Prevost and Christopher Collins, had completed basic beliefs class with Pastor Kelvin Jones and were ready to be confirmed. Five additional new members were ready to reaffirm their faith and join the…