Sunday April 17th was Rail Trail clean-up day in Copper Hill as a part of the larger effort organized by the Farmington Valley Trails Council. While Lisa Griffin and Sheri Mandirola and children had participated last year, this year our church council voted to officially participate as a church and to list it on…
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200th Anniversary Celebration Underway
Copper Hill Church founded in 1816 Our church has been planning and looking forward to this year for some time. Two hundred years ago in 1816, six lay persons, Aristarchus Griffin, Seth Griffin and Calvin Gillet and their wives under the oversight of Rev. Billy Hibbard of the Granville Circuit organized Copper Hill Methodist…
Celebrate Easter at Copper Hill Church
You will receive a warm welcome.
Brush fire behind our church today
As our church council was deliberating at their meeting this afternoon, a neighbor, Les Martin, burst in asking us to move cars and announcing that there was a brush fire behind our church. He had already called 911. The building on the left in the picture is the St. Pauly clothing donation shed but the…
Lenten/Easter message series focuses on Jesus’ life
Close-up camera shots of things or people are very revealing. They help us immensely to spot details that we might otherwise miss. I have chosen this analogy because our goal in the Lenten Easter series of messages is to look at passages in the Gospel account of Matthew that give us close-up pictures of Jesus….
We’re Praying for Another Divine Visitation
Sometimes we are discouraged by the church’s decline Sometimes we look around and are discouraged that the work of God seems to be in decline. And it is not our imagination either. One key indicator, though not the only one, is church attendance. Stats show that the percentage of people attending church is down…
Preparing for one cold Sunday
We do plan to hold worship this Sunday(Feb. 14) at Copper Hill Church. However, we are planning to meet in the fellowship hall rather than the sanctuary because it is more efficient and effective to heat. As most of you know we have struggled to get our heating in the sanctuary adjusted correctly to…
Characteristics of love are the topic for February
Love is a very popular subject all over the world. Unfortunately in America, the sexual aspect of human relationships dominates the conversation in a way that it should not. The result is the statistically shown decreasing ability of the American populace to stay married. So it is vital to review the characteristics…
Two Boats, One Gospel, an outstanding testimony!
This is an awesome post for Black History Month by a new professor at Northeastern Seminary. It is sobering and inspiring all at once. https://esaudmccaulley.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/two-boats-one-gospel-black-history-month-and-the-churchs-witness/