Over the past year and a half, residents from the Christian Village at Mason, Ohio—a senior living community—have expressed their gratitude to Cincinnati healthcare workers by sending more than 600 handmade cards.
In fall 2020, CVM resident Martha Brammer received a call from her son, Craig Brammer, CEO of the Health Collaborative. He asked his mother to create handmade cards to deliver to local healthcare workers to lift spirits and help them feel appreciated. Martha is a talented artist who was eager to help. She set a 100-card goal and recruited her neighbors to help.
“Everybody at CVM wants to thank those who take care of them, but they don’t know what to do,” Martha Brammer said. “This offered a solution . . . an easy project that’s extremely meaningful. There’s no doubt it made a difference for those who received the cards and those who created them.”
The card group has gathered many times and created more than 660 handmade cards that have been delivered to healthcare heroes around Cincinnati and at CVM’s healthcare center. Their work is ongoing.
“Cards go where people can’t go,” she said. “We can’t go into the hospitals, nursing homes, or COVID wings, but these cards can always go where others can’t go and offer a word of gratitude.”
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The International Conference On Missions recently provided a “by the numbers” report from its Nov. 18-21, 2021, gathering in Richmond, Va. Attendance was 3,920 on-site and 2,092 virtually. A total of 194 churches and colleges participated. Total offering was $63,500 (exceeding the $55,000 goal).
A 2-minute video recap is available for viewing here.
Also, ICOM’s Friday morning main session dealing with organizational accountability—specifically with regard to abuse and exploitation—is available for free online viewing until Saturday. A conversation between 2020 president Jeff Vines and Rapha International CEO Stephanie Freed begins at the 26-minute mark. Vines speaks openly about his disappointment and devastation in coming to realize his mentor Ravi Zacharias was guilty of sexual misconduct. The conversation is followed by Vines’s message about accountability.
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Forest Grove Christian Church in Winchester, Ky., celebrated their 150th anniversary over the weekend. The congregation met in the original sanctuary “where its ancestors worshipped at the inaugural service in 1871,” the Winchester Sun wrote in a feature story marking the anniversary.
Among those interviewed was Jim Lyles, who first walked through the FGCC’s doors in the early 1950s, when the church had temporarily halted services. Back then, Lyles and his sister, along with others, would gather in the sanctuary to sing songs together. The church reopened in 1956 and had a “very vibrant” period.
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Seymour (Ind.) Christian Church hosted a four-hour community wrap-a-thon Saturday where anyone could come to the church and get their gifts wrapped for free, the Tribune reported.
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The leaders of a Church of Christ-affiliated institution decided last week that the fall 2021 semester will be the school’s last. Ohio Valley University in Vienna, W.Va.—a school of fewer than 200 founded in 1953—“is working on a plan to help seniors finish their education at other schools,” president Michael Ross told the Christian Chronicle.
OVU has not met payroll since July, but an anonymous donor has committed $900,000 to pay employees their full salaries through the end of this year, a university official told the Chronicle.
Last Friday, the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission was set to consider a recommendation to revoke OVU’s authorization to confer degrees in that state.
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