Overview:
The Rev. Charles R. Slaybaugh, Jr. was welcomed enthusiastically as our minister in June, 1983. In January, 1984, we began a year-long bicentennial celebration to commemorate 200 years of Methodism. At the begining of 1984, our building debt was $276,656. The annual amount budgeted for the Building Fund was $37,494. Generous congregational giving enabled the church building debt to be paid five years ahead of schedule, and a service was held to burn the church's mortgage on November 19, 1989. An instrumental part of the church's outreach to others in the past ten years has been enthusiastic support for the "Mission Can," which stand in the hallway to accept contributions for worthy causes locally and throughout the world. Recent monthly causes have included Habitat for Humanity, Bosnia Crisis, Salvation Army, and YWCA Sponsors Fund. Among other Annual Mission programs were the "Down on the Farm" to buy three heifers for Africa in 1991, "African Harambe" to supply a water well for folks in Sierra Leone in 1996, and "In Your Own Backyard" to furnish two rooms on the campus of the United Methodist Children's Home in Mechanicsburg in 1997. Other highlights for which we can be proud in the last decade include redecorating and re-equipping the church nursery; carpeting the upstairs hallways; hiring an Assistant to the Pastor; making the church handicapped accessible; equipping the office with a computer; forming the Young Adult, Older Adult, and Singles Ministries; and... |
