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

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

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

Isaac and the Kasers: Clockwise from top left, Glenn, Hal, Heather and Linda.

Hopewell became involved in the Dougbe River project through a connection between Isaac and a family in that congregation, the Kasers. In 2007, the year Isaac went back to his home region in Liberia and felt the call to launch a school there, he was also involved in the care of Hans Kaser, who was being treated for brain cancer at the Cleveland Clinic. By the time Hans passed away in October of that year at the age of 44, Isaac had become close to the family, and the family had become interested in Isaac’s mission.

Left to right, elders Isaac Monah and John Luttermoser of Noble Road Presbyterian Church, Rev. Chris Stewart of Hopewell Presbyterian Church.

Hopewell’s Session and its pastor, the Rev. Chris Stewart, also were inspired to participate. They invited Isaac to make a presentation during a worship service, took a special collection for the school, and made it clear they intended to be long-term partners and contributors. Glenn Kaser, Hans’ father, became a member of the Dougbe River project’s General Board.

On May 2, Isaac made a second presentation at Hopewell, and about three dozen people in rural Ohio once again opened their hearts and their wallets for the people of Twarbo Region, Konobo District, Grand Gedeh County in rural Liberia.

The photos with this post were taken in the Hopewell sanctuary after the May 2 service.

For more about the project in Liberia, click on the Dougbe River tab at the top of the page.

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!

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.