“True Love” is the title for August message series Have you ever wondered about the origins of Christian teaching about love? We take it for granted without thinking about it. Our new August message series called “True Love” promises to be an interesting one filled with human interest as well as basic Christian teaching. Your…
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Time to move back into our historic sanctuary
Winter worship has been great We have enjoyed our winter season worshipping in our fellowship hall. But, our desire is to get back into our sanctuary before Easter. Now that the weather is finally predicted to warm and it is only a few weeks until Easter (April 20), we are more than ready. As Robert…
Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Ministry Encourages
Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Ministry Encourages During my ministerial training, I interned as a chaplain at a nursing home. I was shocked to learn that many longtime residents of the home received no visitors. Jesus listed visiting the sick as one of those charitable actions that we can…
UM Response to a Hurting World
A website that illustrates the UM response to a hurting world. This morning in the message, I talked about how we respond as Christians to the brokenness of our world with prayer, compassionate action, and proclamation of the Good News. This afternoon, Caroline sent me a link to an interactive map of the “mission” work of the United…
Council approved donations to fuel banks
Council approves donations to fuel banks The monthly meeting of the Church Council was held in Copper Hill’s Fellowship Hall on the evening of January 7. There were ten in attendance, including Pastor Kelvin and JoAnne. One of the more important items discussed was our community charity donations. We will be sending checks to the…
Copper Hill Church thanks East Granby Firefighters
Copper Hill Church Thanks East Granby Firefighters As a way of saying “thank you,” Copper Hill UMC hosted their annual dinner for forty members of the East Granby Fire Department. We saw several old familiar faces and some young new faces, as well as more female fire fighters. Three years ago there were only one…
Children’s Sunday School Gifts
Children’s Sunday School Gifts Here at Copper Hill United Methodist Church, our children have been enjoying the Christmas season too in many ways. Not only did they participate in the inspiring children’s service which included “hanging of the greens” and bringing the crèche figures to the manger set in the front of the church, but…
Joint meeting of Council and trustees held
There were serious subjects under discussion at the combined Trustee/Church Conference, Tuesday evening. As you may have heard, we were gifted with an amazing finanacial opportunity. It can be a heavy burden for the leaders…where do we put the money? Who do we trust to help us formulate plans for using the money? How do…
Tomorrow’s message
Relationships cause us all lots of headaches. What advice does the Bible give us to help us through relationship difficulties? That’s the topic tomorrow for the last in our series, “How to Overcome.” It will be based on Colossians 3:1-17. We’ll also be learning a new chorus called, “Holy is the Lord God Almighty.” I’m…
Are you fighting a bad habit?
I think all of us know the frustration of fighting against a bad habit that we just can’t seem to break. We do well for a while and then get frustrated and discouraged when we let the habit win again. Whether its swearing, gambling, overeating or cigarettes, it’s not easy to break a bad habit. …