GNOC Banquet
Gerhardt Neighborhood Outreach Center Annual Banquet November 2nd, 6-8 pm at Shadow Lake GNOC is our partner in ministry on Rochester’s Northeast Side where our Joy Family Medicine office is located. Help us support our brothers and sisters!...
Read MoreSt. Patrick’s Day
When we consider St. Patrick let’s put aside the leprechauns and shamrocks and all the fanciful trappings that have come to surround the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day for a moment and consider the man himself. Who was Patrick, and what did he do? A good place to find out is Thomas Cahill’s engrossing book, “How the Irish Saved Civilization” which clearly relates Patrick’s pivotal role in the remarkable story of Ireland’s part in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. In the meantime, David Jeremiah’s meditation...
Read MoreProclaiming Peace
Missions Works Home & Abroad We were given the opportunity to share about the witness and work of His Branches at a wonderfully missions-minded gathering yesterday afternoon and evening at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Greece, NY. The event was called “Proclaiming Peace – Missions Works Home & Abroad” and we shared the podium with, as the title promised, gracious men and women serving both at here in Rochester and overseas. Rev. Andrew Selle spoke from the Word and personal experience about peacemaking with examples from his own life and ministry in Africa,...
Read MoreLight and Life – Fall 2015
Take a break! MCCF is hosting a Regional Conference on Saturday, October 17 in Rochester, New York and you don’t want to miss it! Click here for the whole scoop, then sign up and invite your friends. And here’s a PDF brochure you can print and use to help us get the word out! Light and Life – Being living letters in a post-Christian...
Read MoreKingdom Ventures eBay video
Our friend Rebecca Fadner got a birthday present Tuesday from eBay. A national online ad campaign launched featuring Kingdom Ventures Inc., the fair trade retailer she runs with her husband, Glenn. The eBay Thanks You campaign launched Tuesday with videos on its YouTube eBay channel of the Michael J. Fox Foundation, designer Jonathan Adler, two for-profit companies, a customer and the Ogden-based Kingdom Ventures. Glenn and Rebecca Fadner, who run Kingdom Ventures, say they’ve already watched the video a dozen or more times and are pleased with the final outcome. They didn’t know what to...
Read MoreIn God We Trust
COMMUNION ON THE MOON July 20, 1969 Forty-four years ago two human beings changed history by walking on the surface of the moon. But what happened before Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong exited the Lunar Module is perhaps even more amazing, if only because so few people know about it. “I’m talking about the fact that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the surface of the moon. Some months after his return, he wrote about it in Guideposts magazine. And a few years ago I had the privilege of meeting him myself. I asked him about it and he confirmed the story to me, and I wrote about in my...
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