Church

CHARLESTOWN " Charlestown United Methodist will be celebrating its 150th anniversary on Sunday. The church was dedicated on Oct....  Read Story.

Trinity Lutheran Church in Kent is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. A group of Lutherans built and dedicated a structure for worship in 1909 on South Water Street. The present congregation worships on that spot to this day, although there have been numerous physical...  Read Story.

First Christian Church of Kent(Disciples of Christ) will be celebrating Music Sunday on Nov. 8 at the 10:45 a.m. worship service. There will be no 8:30 a.m. service that Sunday so that all cantake partin the worship...  Read Story.

The Episcopal Church issued a statement saying it will "continue to explore the full implications of this in our ecumenical relations." No one expects a sudden mass exodus out of the Anglican Communion because of the Vatican...  Read Story.

The United Methodist Church of Kent recently re-dedicated its peace...  Read Story.

RANDOLPH " The second annual "Walk for Food" sponsored by The Southwest Portage County Ministerial Society was held recently in...  Read Story.

Judge Sheila G. Farmer, president of the Ohio Judicial Conference and presiding judge on the Fifth District Court of Appeals, was the recipient of the sixth "Lex Christi" Award on Thursday. The award was established in 1998 to recognize an exemplary man or woman in the legal profession for commitment to the high ideals of that profession and the needs of the local community. The title, Lex Christi, refers to the law of Christ, which reveals God's standard of truth and justice for the well-being of the human...  Read Story.

STREETSBORO " The Streetsboro Church of Christ is hosting gospel meetings tonight through...  Read Story.

Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, retired bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland, will be the speaker at the next "Come and See" meeting at 7 p.m. Nov. 3 at St. Martha Parish,...  Read Story.

New Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, 6728 Adams St., Ravenna, will honor its pastor, the Rev. B.J. Grant, aon Sunday. Grant is celebrating 21 years of service to the...  Read Story.

FALL CREEK, Wis. " On the first Sunday morning of October, pastor Steve Scott looked far beyond the surroundings of his western Wisconsin congregation to find worthy subjects for their prayers: recent natural disaster victims in Indonesia and the Philippines. There's nothing unusual about clergy taking inspiration from headlines, but for Scott it's instinctive. He spent 23 years as a journalist at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, most of the last five as religion reporter for Minnesota's second-biggest...  Read Story.

Bishop George V. Murry, S.J., will celebrate a special Mass at St. John the Baptist Church, Canton, at 2 p.m. Sunday to mark the wedding anniversaries of 112 couples who are being honored for a total of 5,188 years of wedded life ranging from 25 to 70...  Read Story.

Conversation continues at the first of the 2009-10 season of the Portage County Deanery's Dinner and Doctrine, held on Oct....  Read Story.

The 13th Annual Red Mass, a traditional celebration for those who serve in the judicial and legal professions, will be held at 12:10 p.m. Thursday at St. Columba Cathedral, 154 W. Wood Street in...  Read Story.

The United Methodist Church of Kent, 1435 E. Main St., offers another performance in its year-round concert series at 4 p.m. Sunday in the church...  Read Story.

BRIMFIELD " Gospel singing will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday at New Beginning Fellowship Church, 4567 S.R....  Read Story.

Holy Cross Anglican Church, 1046 Lake St. in Kent will celebrate missions, both foreign and domestic, on...  Read Story.

MOGADORE " Mogadore Christian Church. 106 S. Cleveland Ave., will celebrate Homecoming 2009 in honor of its 177th anniversary at 10:30 a.m. on...  Read Story.

The United Methodist Church of Kent, 1435 E. Main St., will celebrate Consecration Sunday this week with a...  Read Story.

Hillel at Kent State University recently dedicated its new building, the Cohn Jewish Student Center, with a celebration crowd of more than 400 students, alumni, community members, donors and visiting dignitaries from around the...  Read Story.