A NOBLE ROAD LANDMARK: PARADISE LOST?
- Marcelo Atanasio

Noble Road Presbyterian Church has been a beacon of light in this community for 90 years.  Our spiritual outreach includes worship, counseling, baptisms, weddings, and funeral services.
We partner with Noble Elementary School, providing school supplies, winter gloves and hats, and holiday angel gifts.  Noble and Roxboro Schools have supported our fundraising for the Liberian Dougbe River School and church.  We donate money, food items, and holiday angel gifts to the Heights Emergency Food Center, as well as provide clothing, household items, and services to Family Promise temporary shelter in Cleveland.
We are a gathering place for the Girl Scouts, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Recovery, Emotions Anonymous and Heights Interfaith Council meetings.  NACA (home ownership information) meets here monthly. We are home to Abundant Praise Church and Kingdom Life Faith Ministries. Church activities open to the community include the community garden and meal, strawberry festival, rummage sale, pancake breakfasts, dances, advent meal festivities, and the silent auction. We share Lenten and Advent services with other Heights Lutheran Churches, as well as being an active member of the Heights Interfaith Council. For over 20 years we were home to Discovery Preschool until recently. Due to the ever changing economic environment, rising costs, and declining membership, we are facing a financial crisis. Is there any help on the horizon? Fundraising ideas and donations will be accepted and appreciated!
Noble Road Presbyterian Church – 2780 Noble Road
Phone – 216-382-0660
E-mail – nrpc@sbcglobal.net

Advent & Christmas at Noble Road Presbyterian Church

Join us on

Wednesday, December 14

We are continuing our tradition of fellowshipping and worshipping with our neighboring Cleveland Heights congregations during the season of Advent. A light soup supper will be served at 6:30 p.m. followed by a brief worship service at 7:15 p.m.

 

Sunday, December 18

10:00 a.m. Worship Service

11:15 a.m. Silent Auction

12:15 p.m. Advent Potluck Luncheon

followed by Children’s Christmas Play “A Stable Mouse”

followed by Christmas carol singing.

 

Saturday, December 24

7:00 p.m.  Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

 

Sunday, December 25

10:00 a.m. Christmas Day Worship Service

Heights Observer Covers the Discovery Wonder Garden

The Discovery Preschool summer camp had its second successful year of planting and harvesting the Wonder Garden.  Please read what the Heights Observer had to say about it.

Noble Road poet Mike Barkoot gets noticed

We have a poet in the congregation. Mike is the subject of a brief story and a photo gallery published today by the Cleveland Heights edition of Patch, a local news site. The woman with Mike in several of the photos is Jan Giles, also a Noble Road member.

Media page

Please be sure to visit the Media page for podcasts and videos of church events. Let us know what you think!

The first shovel has been planted

Here’s video of the groundbreaking for the classroom and orphanage buildings at the Dougbe River School.  This took place on October 27.  Construction will begin soon and we hope to open the school in the spring.

Isaac and Francis are in Liberia again

The list of things they hope to accomplish on this trip is long, including:

Groundbreaking for the classroom building of the Dougbe River Presbyterian School
Establishment of the Local Board that will operate the school on a day-to-day basis
Beginning of the faculty hiring process
More networking with Liberian officials

Read all about it on Francis’ blog at the school’s remodeled and much improved website, www.drpsl.org

Visiting our partners at Hopewell

Isaac Monah and John Luttermoser spent Sunday, May 2 in Holmes County, Ohio at Hopewell Presbyterian Church, where a small, generous congregation has become one of our partners in the Dougbe River Presbyterian School Project.

50 Days of Spreading More Light

Happy Easter!!

By way of celebrating this season of new life – Noble Road Church will be searching high and low for ways of spreading our understanding of what resurrected life looks like: that is, to recognize beauty is to be found in our humanness, and that in the darkest places of our lives God is present.

Many of the LOUD voices representing Christianity in our culture would lead people to believe that Christians are a bunch of bigoted hypocrites who resemble nothing about Jesus.

In Jesus, we see compassion. In Jesus, we see an advocate for justice. In Jesus, we see comprehensive hospitality. In Jesus, we see the authentic love of God.

And so we strive to speak out against injustice wherever it may be found. We strive to welcome anyone who is looking for a place to be, and especially those who find that society has placed barriers for inclusion. We strive to be authentic to the command to love God, neighbor, and self. And we are self-aware enough to know that we don’t always do what we strive to do. But strive we must.

If you happen to be strolling by this site and like what you hear or have questions, please leave a comment. If you live in the Cleveland area and want to try us out, or invite us to share ministry with you, please do.

Blessed Easter!

Dougbe River school groundbreaking scheduled

With funds coming in more quickly and the project gaining momentum and attention, the General Board of the Dougbe River Presbyterian School project has scheduled groundbreaking for October 27, 2010.

This is another milepost in the journey, and certainly not the finish line.  We are still roughly $10,000 away from being able to construct the classroom building and open the school — and perhaps more than a quarter of a million dollars away from building the boarding-school campus that is Isaac Monah’s vision, and will allow us to serve children from all 12 villages in the Twarbo Region of Konobo District, Grand Gedeh County.

But our progress has clearly accelerated, and the board is confident that by the final quarter of 2010 we will be able to construct the classroom building.  With a curriculum to plan, teachers to hire, and a lot more that needs to be done, it should be a busy and exciting year.