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GOOD NEWS FROM GREENWOODS COMMUNITY CHURCH Greeting from Greenwoods! We have been selected to host Chris Tomlin’s Worship Night in America simulcast on 10/25/2016 at 7pm! Please join us! Thank you for dropping by and checking us out - we would love the opportunity to connect with you! Pastor Trip Weiler To order your tickets, […]
How did the characters and the creatures of the Nativity view the birth of Christ? Join us on Sunday, December 22nd at 10:30 AM and discover the wonder of Christmas! The program is family oriented so there will be something for the youngest to the oldest. Join us on Christmas morning as well, at 10:00 […]
For more than 15 years Greenwoods has sponsored an annual pre-Christmas performance of Handel’s Messiah, and this year’s concert promises to be better than ever. A fifty-voice community choir, superb soloists (including bass John Cheek of the Metropolitan Opera), and a chamber orchestra will join in presenting one of the grandest musical compositions ever crafted, […]
Rekindle the Passion for Awakening Conference October 5th, 2013 Collinsville Congregational Church Rekindle The Passion For Awakening [Click Here for More Information] The Upper Housatonic Valley Region, which embraces much of Litchfield and Berkshire County, abounds in natural beauty, culture and history. Yet there is a spiritual barrenness which has made the region resistant […]
Seven weeks ago, a Christian pastor, an American citizen, a 34 year-old husband and father of two, was sentenced to eight years in Iran’s dreaded Evin Prison. His crime? Undermining the Iranian government by creating a network of Christian house churches in an attempt to sway Iranian youth away from Islam. In other words, he […]
On Tuesday, we’ll celebrate another new year, but what will the year 2013 bring? For my daughter Lynn, it brings her 38th birthday. I’m not sure she is very much excited about that. Still, I remember her birth on the first of January 1975. There in Lindenwold Hospital, I proudly held that tiny baby girl […]
10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:8-11 Recently, the news media was abuzz with the […]
I recently read an article based on a Gallup survey of 450,000 Americans in 2008 and 2009, which stated that the perfect salary for happiness is $75,000. a year. Now, one wonders if that is equally true across our nation. It costs substantially more to live in Connecticut, for example than it does in Tennessee, […]
One Sunday a young boy went to church with his family. His parents expected him to learn how to sit respectfully through an entire church service, and they hoped he might learn a little something from the sermon as well. Services typically lasted an hour to an hour and a half. So, it was a […]
Three years ago this April, in the waters of the Indian Ocean, just off the African Coast near Somalia and Kenya, the cargo ship, Maersk Alabama was seized by a small band of heavily armed Somali pirates. In an act of true bravery, the ship’s captain, Richard Phillips sequestered the entire crew of 19 seamen […]
