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Feb 28, 2022 · COLUMBUS, Ohio — Central Ohio is reacting to a series of NBC4 Investigates reports last week featuring a Columbus church which som e former members have called a cult.More than 60 former members ...
- Jamie Ostroff
Welcome to MBC! We are so glad you are here! We suggest you arrive 15-20 minutes early so we are able to meet you at our Welcome Center, and assist you in any needs such as child check-in, layout of the building, or access to the elevator lift. Come as you are. Some dress casual, some dress more formal. Prior to the service, order a free ...
- As A Child, What Was Your Relationship to The Church?
- Did You Ever Question Your Faith?
- What Did You Want to Do with Your Life?
- How Did Military Service Affect Your Faith?
- What Did These Nepalese Believers Teach You?
- What Did You Do After Your Time in The Service?
- Why Did You Leave?
- So What Was The Plan?
- Can You Give Me An Example of A Specific Mentoring Relationship?
- How Did You Decide on Columbus?
I grew up in the church. My great-grandfather on my mom’s side started Faith Memorial Church, an Assemblies of God church in my hometown of Sandusky, Ohio. My grandparents and parents were believers. I was baptized at the age of 7 or 8.
When I got to my late teenage years, I started realizing I was having a harder time finding my place within the church. Was the faith I grew up with someone else’s faith handed down to me? In my journal, I was asking things like, Lord, where is your presence? I went to a Christian school, and I would watch all my friends, one by one, fall away from...
At the time, I had no idea. I went to college to study business. I wanted to pursue something more secular and enlarge my world. I joined the National Guard in 2000.
I met some Nepalese Christians. I listened to them tell their incredible stories about planting churches underground, and I had the opportunity to visit one of them. If they were discovered, they would have been jailed and deported. You would have expected their worship to be quiet, but it was loud and intense; they raised their hands; they jumped ...
It made me realize how high the stakes were in real faith. In the underground church, what’s the point in worshiping God half-heartedly when that worship experience may cost you your life—literally? When people count the cost and the cost is high, the appropriate response is to give God everything you have.
I was hired as a youth pastor and worship leader in Toledo, Ohio, and served there from 2004 to 2009. We were growing. Lots of kids were being impacted. I thought in my heart I was going to be a youth pastor until the day I died. The whole I’ll-do-whatever-it-takes for me was less about a physical church and more about the style of ministry. Are we...
There was no disagreement, moral issue or scandal. It just became clear that the time had come to look for something else. I started applying for campus pastor and youth ministry roles because I didn’t see myself as a church planter or pastor. After a few months, nothing opened up. My wife had just given birth to our second daughter, and we didn’t ...
I didn’t have a plan. I didn’t have a clue how to plant a church. We wanted to look for something outside of Toledo because we had been leading 500 to 600 young people, and I didn’t want to do anything that would negatively impact the church I had been serving. But that’s all I knew. That’s when we got connected with the Association of Related Chur...
Pastor Rick Bezet of New Life Church in Arkansas looked me in the eye and told me he believed in me. At the time I wasn’t even a pastor. I was just a young guy with a dream. I thought, You don’t even know me. It was so shocking at first that I didn’t even believe it. He said, “If you ever need anything, here’s my number. Just call me.” It took me a...
My wife and I drove to Asheville, North Carolina, and met some friends there. I’d read about the city and thought this could be the next Jesus movement, but when we got there, I just couldn’t connect. We were driving through the Blue Ridge Mountains and we were freaking out because we didn’t know where in the world we were supposed to go. We were a...
Ohio Family Church, Columbus, Ohio. 816 likes · 138 were here. Affiliated with the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification familyfed.org
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Sep 19, 2019 · When millennials walk through the doors of a church, they want to hear truth, even if they don’t believe it themselves. They want to see you as honest and authentic. Culture and values are shifting so quickly, definitions and standards are changing. But God’s truth is alive and eternal. You don’t beat around the bush.
6 days ago · Lima, Ohio Jeanne Helmig (born Jeanne Evonne Wolf) passed away on May 24, 2024, at 12:05 p. m. at St. Rita’s Medical Center surrounded by family. She was 92 years old. Jeanne was the daughter of Clyde and Bessie Wolf born on November 12, 1931, in Lima, Ohio. On December 12, 1952, Jeanne married a soldier, Donald Helmig. She was always very proud to be an army wife. During their marriage ...
164 effective leader at St. Cyprian’s...and beyond. wisely married a most remarkable woman, Emma Bouvier, ten years his junior. Three years later a Bishop John J. Hartley was known for getting third little girl, Louise, was born. Their life, full of things done. A man who loved generously, helping fun and opportunity, had Emma’s example ...
