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The choir of St. Patrick Parish in Hubbard leads the congregation in song and worship during a recent Mass at Hubbard High School. The church caught fire in mid-January, and services currently are being held in the church hall while repairs are being completed.
With a year of online services and sitting in vehicles in parking lots, area churches and parishes slowly have been bringing people back to in-person worship.
Church leaders have been reaching out to their members and reassuring Valley residents that with proper social-distancing guidelines in place, worship services can be attended safely.
Though a decision that could form a new affiliation within the United Methodist Church will be postponed once more until 2022, a Columbiana County church is changing now.
The Rev. Abby Auman, district superintendent of the Mahoning Valley District of East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church, said moving forward with the new affiliation, which has a conservative view, is the former Boyce United Methodist Church in East Liverpool.
Now, it is Boyce Church.
Other churches are taking a “wait-and-see” approach, Auman said, because there isn’t a desire to leave under the current pathway. “They think maybe they may find themselves compatible enough with the new United Methodist Church,” she said.
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Though a decision that could form a new affiliation within the United Methodist Church will be postponed once more until 2022, a Columbiana County church is changing now.
The Rev. Abby Auman, district superintendent of the Mahoning Valley District of East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church, said moving forward with the new affiliation, which has a conservative view, is the former Boyce United Methodist Church in East Liverpool.
Now, it is Boyce Church.
Other churches are taking a “wait-and-see” approach, Auman said, because there isn’t a desire to leave under the current pathway. “They think maybe they may find themselves compatible enough with the new United Methodist Church,” she said.
Jan 9, 2021
AUSTINTOWN The West Austintown First United Methodist Church has a new addition with the construction late last year of a prayer wall featured in the front of the sanctuary.
The Rev. Jeff Harrison, church pastor, said that early last year he and other ministers with the Methodist Church Eastern Ohio conference looked at a place area pastors could go to further their learning, with the majority wanting to go to the Holy Land.
He said the Methodist Foundation of Ohio allows churches to invest money to help the local ministers, especially younger clergy, with furthering their education and training in pastoral leadership.