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We welcome the opportunity to worship with you and your family. We hope you are blessed by your visit and decide to come again. Here are a few things about us that might help you feel at home while attending our church.
Canaanville United Methodist
Church is a small country church. Generally, about 50 people attend
church each Sunday. Our congregation is somewhat diverse. We have
carpenters, nurses, professors, students, secretaries, teachers, postal
workers, social workers, domestic engineers; several races and
nationalities; old and young, though most of our young people are out
of high school now and some of them are starting families of their own.
We have a Youth Group that
recently has been to Ichthus,
a Christian Rock Festival in Wilmore, Kentucky and Aquire the Fire, a youth
rally in Cleveland, Ohio. Last year they did a mission trip to
Haysville, North Carolina and in February, 2006, they did an 8 day
mission trip to Nicaragua.
We have a nice nursery
with lots of new toys, a crib and a village streets carpet complete
with matchbox cars for those with little ones.
We are friendly and outgoing and always welcome new members. If you are looking for a small church where you will be welcomed, appreciated and can make new friends, we are the church for you. If you are just visiting the Athens area, stop in on Sunady morning; we welcome visitors.
Our Mission Statement:
To make and nurture disciples of Christ who reach out to the community
with Christian love
We have communion on the first Sunday of each month.
We use technology to assist our worship. We use powerpoint
to project words to hymns, responses and scriptures on the front wall.
You can hold your child or forget your glasses and not have to worry
about the hymnal or the bulletin!
Food and Fellowship Time is held on the Last Sunday of the month in the Fellowship Hall after the service. You are invited!
Nursery Care for pre-school and primary children is
available after the children's sermon on the lower level and in the Promised Land Play School. There is
a changing station in the downstairs restroom.
The Promised Land
Play School is a modular unit that has reading, activity, and
nursery centers with daycare quality equipment. The nursery has a crib
and a changing station.
Our facility is Handicap Accessible. With our new ramp
to the lower level finished in July of 2006, we are now 100%
handicapped accessible!
In April of 2007 we finished our Handicapped Accessible
Rest Room which is is located on the lower level of the church.
Safety - We have recently replaced all the wiring in our church,
adding emergency exit signs, lights and smoke alarms, and bringing our
church up to 2003 Electrical Standards. We have written Safe
Sanctuaries policy manual. All our youth and child care workers are
screened.
During Joys and Concerns many of us share our joys as well as our prayer concerns. Please feel free to share yours also. We will be happy to pray for your prayer concerns if you email them to us too.
All numbers in the bulletin refer to pages in the Methodist Hymnal unless followed by a TH which stands for Tabernacle Hymnal. If you don't hymnal crusing, the words to all the hymns are on the screen. Times when the congregation stands are indicated by an asterisk *
We are located near the intersection of State Routes 50 and
690 about 5 miles east of Athens, Ohio.
