Posts from March, 2005
- 31 Mar
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No commentsUpdate from Jana Hoobler
Jana Hoobler reported on March 23:
“At our Macau Association Annual Meeting last weekend, we voted to move ahead with planting a church on Taipa by naming the center “Living Stone Church.” Our target date for the first worship service is February 26, 2006. It’s so exciting to get to this point in the process! I’ve [...]
- 31 Mar
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No commentsMissions Trip to Guatemala
This summer Randy Fennig will lead a short-term mission trip to Guatemala where the United Brethren Church has a small presence of about seven churches. This will be an opportunity to assist them and help connect them to the global UB church. There are two church building projects that a team may be involved in. [...]
- 31 Mar
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No commentsChristmas Packages for Prison Inmates
Over the Christmas season, First UB of Findlay made 100 Christmas packages for the local inmates at the county jail. Packages containing socks, candy, Bibles, Christmas cards with a stamped envelope (so the prisoners could write their families) were placed in clear Ziploc bags and given to the jail warden to be passed out on [...]
- 31 Mar
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No commentsLiving Water Church Buys Property
Pastor Chris Mullett reports that on January 29, Living Water Church in Bridgeport, W. Va., closed on its first piece of property, which consists of two-and-a-half acres with a small metal building on it in Bridgeport. “We are in the process of remodeling the building in the hope of worshiping there Easter Sunday. We are [...]
- 31 Mar
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No commentsRegional Meetings in Central Conference
A number of significant changes in the denominational structure will be voted on at this summer’s US National Conference. These include proposals to dissolve the current annual conferences so that the whole US is part of one conference, and the move to make the denomination a membership organization in which local churches would sign a [...]
- 31 Mar
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No commentsResignation of Pastor Bill Pitts
Bill Pitts, pastor of the Lancaster UB church (Lancaster, Ohio) has resigned, surrendered his ministerial credentials, and re-connected with his former denomination to start another congregation in Lancaster. A large number of people who were a part of the Lancaster UB church have left and gone with him. The conference is working to provide an [...]
- 31 Mar
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No commentsPastors Spring Break Day at Camp Cotubic
Camp Cotubic has invited all pastors in Central Conference to a Pastor’s Spring Break day at the camp on Tuesday, May 10.
- 31 Mar
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No commentsWork Crew Returns from Jamaica
Everett Bleakney was part of a work crew that went to Jamaica in the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan. They worked on private homes damaged in the hurricane. They constructed a kitchen for one family, repaired and replaced roofing on another home, prepared and poured a foundation on the church extension, and did some interior work [...]
- 20 Mar
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No commentsDayton Church has New Roof
The reroofing project at the Daytona Church in Florida is now complete. A total of 30,000 square feet of roofing was replaced on the church buildings. The reroofing project was the result of the damage done by last year’s three hurricanes that impacted the Daytona Beach area. The people of Daytona UB are grateful for [...]
- 20 Mar
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No commentsClosing of UB Church in Manlius, Ill.
The Grace UB church in Manlius, Ill., has closed.
