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Church Service Day is an annual opportunity for Ohio Christian University (OCU) students to practice giving back to area churches and charities through hands-on work projects completed all on a single day!
Church Services Day 2018, undertaken on September 26, proved a worthy addition to this traditional service-above-self event! About 400 students lent their energies to 31 work projects in local churches, residences, and charity organizations.
After an early breakfast, students formed into teams and received directions to and instructions for their projects. Eager teams headed out to project sites in a steady rain that gradually diminished. By mid-morning, the gray cloud-cover broke, pierced by warming fall sunshine.
This years’ service sites included nineteen churches, a homeless services center, a school, a downtown parking lot, a mission center, and seven individual residences at locations ranging from Circleville to Ashville, Chillicothe, Columbus, Grove City, Lancaster, Lockbourne, and Williamsport.
Typical duties included cleaning windows and carpets at Grove City Lutheran Church, weeding and mulching flower gardens, trimming hedges, and digging a drain trench at Riverside Bible Church, and washing vans and preparing lunches for the homeless at the Dream Center at Rock City Church in Columbus.
The OCU servants-heart teams achieved laudable results in their half-day projects. Recipients of the goodwill efforts expressed their gratefulness with broad smiles, warm handshakes, and “Thank Yous” and “Bless Yous.”
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Ohio Christian to host UNALTERED Tour
Published: January 31, 2019
Ohio Christian University will be hosting The Silver Ring Thing's UNALTERED
Tour, an event for teens and their parents, in the Ministry and Performing
Arts Center on Saturday, April 13th. The mission of the tour is to lead
students into the fullness of life and their goal is to empower a generation
to know the truth and experience freedom and flourishing through the Gospel
of Jesus Christ.
Acknowledging the reality that today’s students are anxious, broken, and
confused, and that they are shaping their identities in likes, comments,
affirmation, gender, sexuality and more, UNALTERED
Ohio Christian University will be hosting The Silver Ring Thing's UNALTERED
Tour, an event for teens and their parents, in the Ministry and Performing
Arts Center on Saturday, April 13th. The mission of the tour is to lead
students into the fullness of life and their goal is to empower a generation
to know the truth and experience freedom and flourishing through the Gospel
of Jesus Christ.
Ohio Christian University will be hosting The Silver Ring Thing's UNALTERED
Tour, an event for teens and their parents, in the Ministry and Performing
Arts Center on Saturday, April 13th. The
Archived Articles of Interest
Students further Kingdom at summer camps
Published: June 16, 2016
Ohio Christian University is excited to announce that our annual camp teams
have kicked-off for 2016. A group of 49 OCU students will be ministering to
27 camps this summer in seven different states—Ohio, Kentucky, New York,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Georgia, and Indiana.
Students scheduled to serve have been hand-selected through an application
and interview process, as well as received over 50 hours of training in
preparation.
Student Camp Leader, Mekayla Deffenbaugh, shared her experience with camp
teams saying, "OCU Camp teams has given me the opportunity to expand my
comfort
Ohio Christian University is excited to announce that our annual camp teams
have kicked-off for 2016. A group of 49 OCU students will be ministering to
27 camps this summer in seven different states—Ohio, Kentucky, New York,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Georgia, and Indiana.
Students scheduled to serve have been hand-selected through an application
and interview process, as well as received
Ohio Christian University is excited to announce that our annual camp teams
have kicked-off for 2016. A group of 49 OCU students will be ministering to
27 camps this summer in seven different
Area Students Compete in Reading Quiz Contest at OCU
Published: May 27, 2016
Ohio Christian University was honored to host the seventh annual Pickaway
County High School and Middle School Battle Over Books competitions on March
18th and May 9th, respectively.
A quiz-show style competition, where teams earn points by providing correct
titles to questions about books, provide a fun and challenging way to
recognize students for their love of reading.
All four Pickaway County high schools —Circleville, Logan Elm, Teays Valley
and Westfall —plus Logan Hocking High School competed in this
year’s high school event. The middle school challenge included Canal
Ohio Christian University was honored to host the seventh annual Pickaway
County High School and Middle School Battle Over Books competitions on March
18th and May 9th, respectively.
A quiz-show style competition, where teams earn points by providing correct
titles to questions about books, provide a fun and challenging way to
recognize students for their love of reading.
All four Pickaway
Ohio Christian University was honored to host the seventh annual Pickaway
County High School and Middle School Battle Over Books competitions on March
18th and May 9th, respectively.
A quiz-show
Students serve with World Gospel Mission in Argentina
Published: May 16, 2016
Ohio Christian University students had the opportunity to minister abroad in
Argentina during Spring Break 2016. Professor Jamey Gremillion, OCU’s
Intercultural Ministries Director, led the team of six, which included
Liliana Burgos, Ben Caplan, Andrew DeMint and Lindsey Lawler, along with
Jammie Wilhelm, who serves as an AGS Director and Professor.
The team had the privilege of remodeling a kitchen for an elderly woman who
feeds nearly 60 neighborhood children every weekday. In two days, the team
removed the old cabinets, storage area and counter-tops, replacing them with
a custom-
Ohio Christian University students had the opportunity to minister abroad in
Argentina during Spring Break 2016. Professor Jamey Gremillion, OCU’s
Intercultural Ministries Director, led the team of six, which included
Liliana Burgos, Ben Caplan, Andrew DeMint and Lindsey Lawler, along with
Jammie Wilhelm, who serves as an AGS Director and Professor.
The team had the privilege of remodeling a
Ohio Christian University students had the opportunity to minister abroad in
Argentina during Spring Break 2016. Professor Jamey Gremillion, OCU’s
Intercultural Ministries Director, led the team of
OCU WGM Paraguay Task Force Team Report
Published: May 13, 2016
When I first began planning our 2016 OCU WGM Task Force Teams, I knew right
away that this was the team God planned for me to lead. There were no
lightening bolts, no clear direction other than this was the one.
I had the privilege of getting to know my university team members well:
Austin Caldwell, Barbee Graves, Haley Robbins, Austin St. Pierre, Kiirsten
Truex and Andrea Williams. (Yes, we had a high rate of name repetition for
such a small group and, yes, we managed to have to some fun with it along the
way!)
Raising funds for our trip was easy…for some on our team, and for others
When I first began planning our 2016 OCU WGM Task Force Teams, I knew right
away that this was the team God planned for me to lead. There were no
lightening bolts, no clear direction other than this was the one.
I had the privilege of getting to know my university team members well:
Austin Caldwell, Barbee Graves, Haley Robbins, Austin St. Pierre, Kiirsten
Truex and Andrea Williams. (Yes, we
When I first began planning our 2016 OCU WGM Task Force Teams, I knew right
away that this was the team God planned for me to lead. There were no
lightening bolts, no clear direction other than
OCU WGM Argentina Task Force Team 2016
Published: May 13, 2016
On February 5, 2015, a WGM Missionary couple serving in Argentina came to
OCU’s Global Café and shared their vision for reaching young adults. Due
to the sensitive nature of their work, we will not use their names. Their
ministry was so exciting to our students and Professor Gremillion that they
returned to OCU on the following Monday and Tuesday to speak in a few select
classes.
This couple has discovered a unique way to implement a program similar to
what has been called Community Health Evangelism (CHE) at WGM. This type of
outreach seeks to meet the felt needs of non-believers in
On February 5, 2015, a WGM Missionary couple serving in Argentina came to
OCU’s Global Café and shared their vision for reaching young adults. Due
to the sensitive nature of their work, we will not use their names. Their
ministry was so exciting to our students and Professor Gremillion that they
returned to OCU on the following Monday and Tuesday to speak in a few select
classes.
This
On February 5, 2015, a WGM Missionary couple serving in Argentina came to
OCU’s Global Café and shared their vision for reaching young adults. Due
to the sensitive nature of their work, we will not
