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Showing posts with label Venango County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Venango County. Show all posts
Friday, March 28, 2025

The Church in Franklin (Venango County) PA: How are we doing? - What serving here more than a decade has shown me.

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  My wife Nicole and I moved to Franklin, PA in January of 2012.  I'm not a native Pennsylvanian, but we've invested our lives in th...
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Thursday, December 5, 2024

An opportunity to elevate our conversations as a Christian community...

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  My own frustration as a pastor at the sub-biblical and non-theologically engaged arguments taking place on social media, often by individu...
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Thursday, February 22, 2024

Venango County businesses were harassed based on social media rumors; again - We need to be better than this.

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  It is happening again.  For the second time in the last six months {see links at the bottom for my posts on the first incident}, local bus...
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Thursday, November 9, 2023

Why plans to build a "Christian" Nationalist Retreat Center in Franklin, PA is not a good idea for the local churches or our town.

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The view from the Allegheny River Retreat Center My wife and I moved to Franklin in January of 2012 when I was called to be the new pastor a...
Monday, August 7, 2023

Local Torah Club leaders offer to privately train church pastors using material from FFOZ whose authors admit amounts to a "different gospel."

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 A local pastor who received the letter below shared it with me out of concern about this effort, I am sharing it here with the names, phone...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Is my role in the fight against the Torah Clubs (FFOZ) personal? Absolutely, and it should be, this is why.

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  The Mustard Seed Mission committee accepting an award for Outstanding Service from Venango County Human Services in 2012.  This was our te...
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Thursday, February 16, 2023

The Franklin Christian Miniserium's warning against the Torah Clubs and the First Fruits of Zion

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To the Christian community in Venango County, February 2023 Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, as men and women called by God an...
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Sunday, November 8, 2020

An effort by the Venango County Christian Ministerium to show support during the pandemic to healthcare workers: signs available 11/17

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  In light of the new surge of COVID-19 cases both locally and nationally, many of the area ministers have been looking for a way to show su...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

What if we don't need a new church plant?

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In 2016, Pastor Charlie Cotherman led the planting of  Oil City Vineyard Church  just upriver from us in Oil City.  I know Charlie, and God ...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Interaction with: "Keeping a church going is a tough cross to bear" by Peter Greene

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In this morning's News-Herald/The Derrick is a column from Peter Greene, retired Franklin High School English teacher regarding the chal...