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In the News: Press Releases
“Sacrifices for God and Country” (Worthington,
OH)
Perhaps for the first time, the bagpipes will
play this Memorial Day Sunday (May 27th) at
Worthingway Middle School on 6625 Guyer St., in
Worthington. There, at 10:00 a.m. Columbus Christian
Assembly will present a short message and music
program, commemorating “Sacrifices for God and
Country.” Jeff Fleeman will perform “Mansions of the
Lord,” a musical score popularized in the Mel Gibson
film, We Were Soldiers. It is especially meaningful
to Fleeman since his own son, a Marine reservist,
has been deployed to Iraq three times.
Church elder John Myer, who himself served in Europe
in the later years of the cold war, said, “We
shouldn’t think of Memorial Day as a means to
glorify war or even to promote agreement with it,
but to remember the selfless courage of those who
gave their lives. This sacrificial attitude also
lies at the very heart of the Christian faith.”
New Church Comes to Worthington Neighborhood
(Worthington, OH) Over one hundred folks will
be trekking in to Worthingway Middle school on
Sundays for meetings of the new Columbus Christian
Assembly. In the short term, this will lead up to an
open house ceremony set for April 22, 2007. Leaders
hope that the church will in time be an asset to the
greater Columbus community, beginning with the
Worthingway neighborhood. “We try to get everyone
involved, even our children” said elder Mike Puskas.
“We don’t want bored, squirming teens sitting
through meetings. So we put them all in charge of
music—in the adult meetings.” Where that might
summon images of chaos or ill-fitted music styles in
the minds of some, Puskas is non-plussed. He added,
“Now these same kids find themselves mulling over
all kinds of Christian music and the best way to
present it to people. They’ve even started writing
their own songs. We encourage them because we want
them to know that we take their life with God
seriously.”
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