Making Christ's Love Visible
On Saturday July 21, everyone is invited to come and help make some improvements at our new West Outer Drive Campus. There will be something for everyone to do! Inside work and outside work – any skills you have will be put to use.
For those interested in carpooling from Redford Aldersgate, there will be a breakfast at 8 am and we can head over to the other campus together.
Plan to join us!
Today was the launch of our new “One Church in Two Locations” merger with West Outer Drive United Methodist Church in Detroit. What a wonderful day! One worship service at West Outer Drive was full of people from both congregations – we had music from all different groups within each church and a blessing of Pastor Frederick and his wife Pamela.
Pastor Jeff’s message began with a long list of people to thank, and a reading of Mark 2:1-12, and ended with a short message from Bill Ritter, Director of the Methodist Union, one of the major funders of this partnership. You get to hear everything in between….
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This Sunday, July 1, we have just one worship service at our West Outer Drive location, at 11 am. All are welcome to come and see the building and meet the newest members of our congregation!
Effective July 1, Redford Aldersgate and West Outer Drive will become “One Church in Two Locations” thru an official merger. Following our time together on July 1, each congregation will resume their normal summer worship schedules with worship at 10 am at Redford Aldersgate and at 11 am at West Outer Drive.
Please plan to attend a special Charge Conference on Sunday June 10 at 1 pm. We will be serving lunch after church so it’s easy to stick around!
We are taking a crucial vote on our potential partnership with West Outer Drive UMC in Detroit. In February, our church voted to enter into a conversation with West Outer Drive about creating a merger/adoption that would result in “One Church, Two Locations”. Both churches voted to enter the conversation at that time. Since then, Pastor Jeff and a transition team has spent time looking at funding, programming, staffing and building issues. Much of this information has been presented in a series of handouts that have been available at church for a few weeks.
But now it is time to decide. Our District Superintendent will be with us. We need to hear from you and make a decision as a congregation about the future of Redford Aldersgate. Hope to see you there!
UPDATE:
The congregation voted to approve this merger – stay tuned for more info!