Celebrating 2024 and Ringing in New Opportunities for 2025!

As 2024 comes to an end, we celebrate ending the year with a festive Christmas dinner for the community in Newark. Along with a meal of ham, sweet potatoes, green beans, jello, and dessert, we gave out the “Warm Wishes” bags (the ones we made after church in Heritage Hall), and two men immediately commented on how they needed gloves!

We also celebrate the work done by 1500 Trees, highlighting the 25 live trees that lined Main Street all through the holidays. Ten of our church groups sponsored and decorated 10 of those 25. All live trees will be planted in Licking County, enhancing our environment for years!

As the calendar page turns to 2025, we will continue learning about poverty and racism, growing more in the understanding of how people live in our county, barely getting by. On January 12, we will begin a new class on Bridges Out of Poverty. If you haven’t had a chance to take this 7-week course, please join this one! We will meet after worship until 12:15. Interested? Please talk to Ellen.

In addition, we will have a 3-part series to answer the Biblical question, “Who Is My Neighbor?" Speakers from around the area will inform us about the conditions of poverty in Licking County. Watch for details to learn more.