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Messiah summer picnic August 11

The Messiah community is invited to a summer picnic at Fairgrounds Community Park in Ridgefield on Sunday August 11 at Noon. Come enjoy a bratwurst (meat or plant based) and fellowship and fun times! Please plan to bring a side dish to share. Everyone is also invited to bring a non-alcoholic beverage and a chair if you would like. The church will p...

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Pastors' Blog: Preaching series on Ephesians to run July-August

Preaching Series from Ephesians For the rest of the summer, beginning this Sunday, July 14, the epistle reading in our lectionary is from the Book of Ephesians. Of the total verses in Ephesians (155), nearly half (75) will be read during these seven Sundays. While authorship of this book is debated, we know it provides major teachings and exhortati...

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Volunteer opportunities available to prepare church house for new Pastors

Messiah is busy preparing the church house for the arrival of our new pastoral team. They will be living in the church house beginning around August 1. Our window of preparation time is small; therefore please consider offering help right away in the following roles: Social Media Marketing Director. We have a number of valuable items that we will b...

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Messiah approves call of new Pastors

Thank you to all our voting members who attended the special Call Vote Meeting held after services at the Hazel Dell campus on Sunday, June 23.  We had almost unanimous approval of the Call Letters and the Definition of Compensation forms prepared for Robyn Kistemaker and David Hively.  Those documents have been signed by our leadership t...

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Endowment Committee grants four requests

In the second quarter, the Endowment Committee granted four requests from the money earned on the Endowment Fund: - Two "easy access chairs" (tall chairs) will be ordered that match the ones already in the sanctuary. The four we currently have are not enough for those who need them. - The Messiah Quilters received money to purchase batting for quil...

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