UPPER SANDUSKY — The Power Team will bring its community building performance to an area church and schools. The goal is to encourage audiences to discover their potential, bring positive to people, and motivate them to achieve their dreams.

ALGER — Alger First United Methodist Church, 101 E. Montville St., will be hosting its 40th Annual Missions Outreach Oct. 14-16. Theme is “God Is On the Move.”

A Gospel Meeting featuring speaker Joshua Ball is planned Oct. 9-12 at the Church of Christ, 10882 Ohio 53, Kenton. Meetings will be Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., and Monday through Wednesday at 7 p.m. Ball, of Hilliard, is the college minister at the Fishinger and Kenny Church of Christ in Columbus, where he has served for three …

ADA — The fellowship of First Baptist Church of Ada will be celebrating 150 years of ministry in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Sunday.

Inspired by her former youth pastor, Jackie Stalder now finds herself leading the same youth and family program she was once a part of as a youth at the First United Methodist Church in Kenton.

The Lima Chapter of Aglow International will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, Sept. 8 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Fellowship Hall of Church of the Good Shepherd, 224 Elm St., Columbus Grove.

CAREY — For the Year of Mercy Celebration at the Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation, Carey, on Sunday, Sept. 4, Rev. Mgsr. Michael G. Hohenbrink will preside at the noon Mass.

In the twenty-eighth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus concludes his Great Commission with the following words: “And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’’ Each of three women from a support group speakers’ bureau gave a five-minute presentation at one of the churches I served.