Recognizing Your Gifts
We appreciate the many ways this congregation responds to God’s blessings! We’d like to better address that also while giving everyone an opportunity to participate in the weekly act of […]
We appreciate the many ways this congregation responds to God’s blessings! We’d like to better address that also while giving everyone an opportunity to participate in the weekly act of […]
Dear Friends: Wow! Sunday’s Texas Barbecue was fantastic. You outdid yourselves yet again. A colleague of mine once said, “I don’t trust a church that cannot throw a party.” Washington […]
Don’t miss out on this chance to step away from your busy schedule for a day or more at Camp Christian’s Silent Retreat, October 22-26. This self-guided quiet time away […]
Dear Friends, Each day Elyria, Ohio, and Washington Avenue Christian Church feel more like home. When a box is emptied, collapsed, and recycled; when a favorite piece of art finds […]
The Book Club will meet on Thursday, November 15, at 6:30 p.m. in the Elders’ conference room to discuss, Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng.
This one-day Regional Assembly is very important. We will make decisions on how we are going to move forward during the next 12-24 months, as we transition from our interim […]
The story of Esther appears in this week’s lectionary readings. You know her story as one of the most epic plots in the Hebrew Bible. Haman enacts a scheme of […]
Dear Friends, It seemed that 15 months’ notice of my pending retirement was a long time. Now that the time has shrunk to 15 days, it seems like it was […]
Dear Friends, Things are swirling on every level right now. On the national level, two icons — Aretha Franklin and John McCain —are being mourned and memorialized. Aretha Franklin was […]
The August 5 Intergenerational Church School class will feature Polly Simmons presenting information about the work of Elyria Hospitality Center. Polly and her late husband, Bud, were Directors of the […]