{"id":170099,"date":"2023-09-11T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=170099"},"modified":"2023-09-11T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T18:40:11","slug":"local-church-holding-ribbon-cutting-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/09\/11\/local-church-holding-ribbon-cutting-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Local church holding ribbon cutting, more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trinity Global Methodist Church at 220 South Walnut St., Van Wert, will be celebrating its relaunching of its mission to help connect people of all ages to Jesus on Saturday, September 30, with a 9 a.m. ribbon cutting and an open house immediately following until 2 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A free oil change will also be available to all single parents, widows, or widowers from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. For planning purposes, only 20 reservations will be accepted for this service. Reservations must be made by calling the church office at 419.238.9541 no later than Monday, September 25, with the following information of the car needing an oil change \u2013 the year, make, model, and engine size (if not on the engine cover, look for a 3\u201dx2\u201d white label under the hood).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trinity Global Methodist Church, which is grounded in Bible-based teaching and committed to sharing the hope of the Gospel of Jesus to everyone, has been a locally established church serving Van Wert and surrounding communities for 160 years. (See our rich history below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, we offer two worship services (8 a.m. and 9:15 a.m), Sunday School classes for all ages, Children\u2019s Ministry, Youth Ministry, Adults Ministry, and many opportunities for outreach and missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf 1863 – Van Wert Mission of The Evangelical Community was established and met downtown.
\u25cf 1872 – First church building was built
\u25cf 1881 – English replaces German as the main language spoken in services
\u25cf 1914 – New building (the old sanctuary) was built due to flood damage to previous one
\u25cf 1946 – Merger of United Brethren and Evangelical denominations – name changed to Trinity Evangelical United Brethren
\u25cf 1957 – Educational wing was built
\u25cf 1968 – Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren denominations combine – name changed to Trinity United Methodist Church
\u25cf 1971 – Old Sanctuary was remodeled
\u25cf 1975 – Parking lot completed
\u25cf 1991 – New sanctuary completed
\u25cf 2006 – Old Sanctuary was renovated
\u25cf 2023 – Left United Methodist Church and joined the Global Methodist Church – name changed to Trinity Global Methodist Church<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted information Trinity Global Methodist Church at 220 South Walnut St., Van Wert, will be celebrating its relaunching of its mission to help connect people of all ages to Jesus on Saturday, September 30, with a 9 a.m. ribbon cutting and an open house immediately following until 2 p.m. A free oil change will also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 02:17:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170100,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170099\/revisions\/170100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}