Bishop Bickerton an excellent speaker
Bishop Thomas Bickerton of the New York annual conference of the United Methodist Church thrilled the congregation at Copper Hill church by his visit on Sunday, December 11. He brought an inspiring message titled, “Joy Unspeakable” which reminded the congregation that our spiritual relationship with God is intended to be a deep and lasting source of joy, whatever the circumstances in our lives. But he challenged us that in order for this to be so, we would need to choose joy over grumbling in our daily lives; we would need to choose the perspective of faith over the problem of fear.
Visit part of 200th celebration
The visit capped the 200th Anniversary Celebration of the church. The children of the church delighted everyone with a beautiful rendition of the traditional Carol, “I Saw Three Ships.” The interesting history fact for the morning was the reading of an Isaac Watts hymn from the 1878 Methodist hymnbook. In that hymnbook there was only one melody line of music on the page along with words for three hymns and a doxology, all of which could be sung to the tune above. A Coffee hour followed the service.
Thanks to Paul Mandirola, Nancy Collins, Bob Stewart and Lisa Griffin for the pictures.
