ADULT ACTIVITIES
Our group meets once a month for quilting and craft making. We organize the "kitchen circles" for carry-in dinners and lunches, and for meals after funerals. Our regular meeting is the first Thursday of each month. All women who attend First Mennonite Church are welcome. We have a time of sharing, discussing and learning how we can be in a closer relationship with God. When we are close to God, everything else falls into place.
SMALL GROUPS
CARE AND SHARE GROUP and THE WAY are two intentional small groups of 8 -12 persons. Issues of significance can be discussed here, and we can minister to personal needs, as well.CORNERSTONES is an group that meets monthly for fellowship and recreation.
ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL
PATHFINDERS
Meeting in the church parlor, we usually follow the uniform lessons with a Mennonite-produced curriculum. Special issues are also addressed, especially in the summer sessions. At the present time (Jan 2008) we are holding an intergenerational Sunday School.
Choir, about 2001
Click the photo to hear the choir sing "Morning has Broken" (Note: 3.6 mb file, recommended for broadband) Recorded ca. 2003
For more choir music on "My Space", click HERE (Recorded Christmas Eve, 2006)
MUSIC in WORSHIP
ADULT CHOIR. As of Jan 2008, our Adult Classical Choir is on hiatus, following retirement of the Director. For those for whom music is an important part of worship, both as makers and as listeners, there are other opportunities.
SOLOISTS AND GROUPS. We are blessed to have many people with musical talent who volunteer to provide special music, both instrumental and vocal.
MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT. Both piano and a fine Moeller pipe organ are used for congregational singing, offertory, prelude and postlude. Following Mennonite tradition, we sometimes sing four-part acapella hymns. Four part singing is encouraged, though certainly not required!
Pancake flipper RELIEF SALE PANCAKE BREAKFAST
The Mennonite Central Committee has an annual "relief" sale in Kidron, Ohio, always on the first weekend in August. First Mennonite, joined by the Apostolic Christian Church of Rittman, is responsible for a pancake and sausage breakfast at 6:30-10:30 that feeds about 1000 hungry people. We frequently have about 70 volunteers helping with the work, and enjoy the fellowship and the realization that we are giving significant help to a good cause.