Ebenezer UMC will welcome former pastor for homecoming

Ebenezer

UMC will welcome former pastor for homecoming

Ebenezer United

Methodist Church will have its homecoming celebration this weekend, featuring

former pastor Dr. Francis Ford as guest minister.

The event is

planned for all day Sunday, June 9, beginning with Sunday school at 9:45

a.m., worship at 11 a.m., and dinner following the worship service.

Ford was pastor

at Ebenezer from 1960-1965 when he entered full-time ministry and enrolled

at Candler School of Theology at age 33. He has served churches throughout

Georgia during his 47 years of ministry.

In 1978, Ford

was the first minister in Georgia to win the Bishop's Award of Excellence

in scouting. In 1981, he was awarded the United Methodist Rural Fellowship's

Distinguished Service Medal during the annual conference. In 1988, at

age 56, he returned to school to earn his doctorate. Last year, at 69,

he began taking piano lessons and now fills in for his church pianist

when she is absent.

"Ebenezer

will always be special to me," Ford said. "It is where God used

his people and church to lead me into the full time work of building the

Kingdom."

Ebenezer UMC

is at 680 Ebenezer Church Road between Peachtree City and Fayetteville.

For more information, call the church, 770-631-0306.

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