Human beings excel at discovering patterns. This is, of course, a manifestation of God-given intelligence. Trained chimpanzees may be able to string together all sorts of words using sign language, but they'll never progress in language acquisition far enough to make the mistake every English-speaking toddler does in saying something like, "Mommy goed to the store." No one...

This is the fourth and final part of a brief statement approved by the ECC Session to help further clarify what we mean by the ECC Purpose Statement. Our purpose statement reminds us that our primary God given calling is to be faithful followers of Jesus....

Our purpose statement also provides a process for how we intend to grow and live as followers of Jesus. We follow Jesus faithfully by loving God, loving one another, and serving the world. Hence our purpose statement, what we are trying to accomplish, is also our process for getting there....

Here is the second part of a brief statement approved by the ECC Session to help further clarify what we mean by the ECC Purpose Statement. The purpose statement is designed to remind us what it is that God requires of us as followers of Jesus....

There is research that shows that the most effective churches doing ministry today are those that have a clear sense of purpose. With that in view, the Session has continued to think about what our church’s purpose statement means and how it can be used to bring clarity and focus to the ministries of ECC....

Why Community Groups? What possible reason do we believe you should be involved in Community Groups? Here are three reasons that exist behind Community Groups at ECC....

We have chosen to include our children in our regular worship services at ECC rather than having a separate children's church. Why is that? And how can we, as grown-up members of the congregation, support our families as they seek to train their children in worship?...

This might be the most important thing our men do...and perhaps the hardest thing: devoting an evening to prayer together. ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about the youth group's summer plans, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to give an update on our latest venture, the RYM Florida Conference. First of all, a big thank you is due to the congregation for generously supporting our trip. Between the Rent-a-Student jobs and our spaghetti dinner fundraiser, we had an easy time raising all the trip co...

I have experienced the community of believers here at ECC in a very real way recently. You all have taught me what it means to care for each other. ...