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Members of the Board of Stewards of Knights Creek Church
dedicate a new sign at the church at Knights Creek Road at Scio as it shortens
its name to a community focus to help make it easier to remember. From left are
Richard Livergood of Belmont, board vice-chair; Dale Burgess of Wellsville,
board chair; Pastor Carl and Linda Kemp, Scio; and Anita Baird Jones,
secretary/treasurer, Belmont.
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SCIO -- Knights Creek Church at Scio has switched to a new
community name. The long-time Knights Creek Evangelical Methodist Church has
shortened its referenced name to just Knights Creek Church to try to “avoid
confusion and eliminate a mouthful of words every time someone wants to
remember or use our name,” according to Pastor Carl Kemp.
A new sign, bearing the abbreviated name, has been erected
at the church at 2987 Knights Creek Road (County Road 9).
The pastor said the church, which also refers to itself as
“The Country Church With the Heart of Christ,” has been located at the same
site since 1880, becoming an Evangelical Methodist Church some 60 years ago.
He said more than a dozen different denominations with the
word Methodist in them exist throughout the United States and people often are
confused as to the doctrine or beliefs of each.
“By going to a basic community name, we invite interested
individuals to visit us, become acquainted with the attributes of the church
and inquire about specific doctrine,” Pastor Kemp said.
The international Evangelical Methodist Church, itself, is
the product of several mergers of national and international denominations over
the years. It continues on the principles that the “only infallible proof of
any genuine church of Christ is its ability to seek and save the lost, to disseminate
the Christian spirit and life, to spread scriptural holiness as taught by the
Lord Jesus Christ in the Word of God (the Bible), over all lands, and to
transform all people through the Gospel of Christ.”
Knights Creek Church, in practice of these beliefs, holds
regular services at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sundays, a Bible study at 7 p.m.
Wednesdays, and Sunday School from 9:45 to 10:30a.m. that help provide
perspective between common, everyday life issues and struggles and the word of
God and the love of Jesus Christ.
The church also helps carry out its mission through
significant community outreach, including a 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. weekday
public prayer gathering for individual, community, county, state, national,
world and other concerns; Celebrate Recovery | Celebrate Victory support on
Saturday nights for individuals struggling with any type of hurt, hangup, habit
or life issue, along with The Landing ministry for struggling teens; a free
Community Dinner each Sunday following its 11 a.m. morning services and on
other special occasions, along with community birthday and anniversary
celebrations on the fourth Sunday of every month; free music lessons by
appointment for children and adults after the dinner and at other times of the
week; free First Friday of the month rotating community cafe and movie nights;
and a Friday night Christian growth group for children, teens and young adults.
Knights Creek participates in Celebrate Recovery Inside
facilitation at Allegany County Jail, including a focus on better connecting
inmates with family members on the outside fo rbetter support through Celebrate
Recovery when offenders are released; activities of the Mission Genesee Valley
coalition of Allegany County churches, other Christian organizations and
individuals seeking community transformation and revival throughout the area;
the Hope Center community outreach and reading assistance ministry at
Wellsville for children and adults; presentation of Grief Share and Divorce Care
Surviving the Holidays seminars during the Thanksgiving to Christmas holidays
period, and Help Grieving Children for adults presentations during the year at
various county locations; and other community engagements and associations.
Further information on Knights Creek Church is available at
www.facebook.com/KnightsCreekChurch or chk@reborn.com or (585)808-7323.
Information on the international Evangelical Methodist Church and its beliefs
is at https://emchurch.org.
