The Community Church Connection

Blessings and God’s Love to all of you!

            Here we are in September and we’re seeing the exhilarating signs for the Fall Hiking Spree as we near the Metro Parks in our area.  We have the Munroe Falls Lake and Park area in our town of Munroe Falls.  The new Tallmadge Meadows Trail is just around the corner from our home, too, and includes two choices of walkways–short and long–some day I’ll let you know how the long trail looks!

            Exercise is a nice way to “fall” into this refreshing season, with the beauty of the changing leaves on the trees and shrubbery, and the peaceful surroundings to be enjoyed, as well.  Change is good for the soul.  Change helps us to grow, and moves us out of the humdrum of our lives, often altering our very moods from negative to positive.  Have you considered making a change in your life?  Consider these ideas:

- Join the choir - rehearsals are fun on Wednesday evenings!

- Ever considered a weekday Bible study?  If there’s an interest, there’s a way!

- Try out the Sunday School class for adults before church on Sunday mornings – I heard there are refreshments!

- Learn all you can find out a Bible figure using the church library or the public library or your computer!

- “Google” a subject or a place from Biblical days – then and now – I’m always looking for fresh ideas for sermons!

- Join me in our Wednesday Morning Devotions at 9:00 AM.  - midweek delight that ends in muffins!

            My prayer is that you will look forward to changes this month, BEING WITH US IN FELLOWSHIP AND WORSHIP, enjoying and appreciating all that God has in store for us to see, and experience the GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST with your friends.  

HAPPY SEPTEMBER AND GOD’S BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL!

Come and Worship,

Blessings to you and yours,

W. James Case, Pastor

Blessings and God’s Love to each of you,

It’s June.  How do we know that, besides looking at the calendar?  The children are nearly through with the school year and they’re counting the moments until the last day of school.  The mailman has brought many graduation announcements to our mailbox. What a joy it is to see our young people mature and get ready to meet the challenges of the work place, college, military or other demanding, goal-setting futures.

June is also a time for all people to spread their wings and grow.  This is all of us! Our church has made major changes in such a short time.  But, in all things we do, I promise we will do it with a “God First Attitude, “ keeping His Love in the headlines.

Commencement is the word they use for that final ceremony in graduations from high schools and colleges.  But it actually means “the beginning of something.”  Coincidentally, that’s where we are right now.  We, too, are at the beginning of something challenging.  Our church family is embarking on a new venture in hosting a Farmers Market on Saturdays and welcoming our friends and new families to worship on Sunday mornings.  Our church, yours and mine, is reaching out to the community around us in this journey with Christ we are undertaking together.  We know that, with Christ as our Leader, all ventures, all projects, all will bring the Glory of God and will be sanctified by God Himself.

There is a new energy in our church and it is supported by the very presence of the Holy Spirit.  In the Gospel of John, in the 16th Chapter, Jesus said to his disciples,

“It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.”

The Counselor ~the Holy Spirit ~ is here!

Be safe until we share the Good News of Christ Jesus again,

Pastor Jim

1 John 4:7-9