Parma Christian Church

The sanctuary is open for worship, but please don’t take any chances with the temperature! Blessings on this chilly morning!

This morning was the first of a series of services at Parma Christian Church as we move toward selling our building and property and ceasing our ministry to the parma community, and journey toward becoming a legacy congregation ! Today we celebrated the congregation’s memory/memorial garden and began distributing the bricks to the respective families. It was a heart-wrenching day but also one of love and joy. This is the chancel with the 65 bricks!

The reason change is so difficult in many churches is that members fall in love with methods, not with the mission.

A method is a way of doing things: programs the church runs, the style of music, the architecture of a building or facility, a staffing or church leadership structure (all of which cost money).

Those are all simply methods that can and should change with every generation or more frequently.

The mission is what you’re doing (like reaching people with the love and hope of Jesus), and it never changes.

The more you focus on the mission, the easier it is to change the methods.

From Carey Nieuwhof

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Praying for Turkey and Syria

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Something to think about!

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