Our Pastor

Pastor Greg Hogan

Pastor Greg Hogan has accepted the call as Pastor of our church. He will begin his ministry on July 1, and his first sermon will be on July 3. Pastor Greg received a unanimous call from the vote of the church.

Pastor Greg and his wife Karen have been residents of Hudson for the past 20 years. Karen is the Director of Behavioral Health at the Cleveland Clinic. The Hogans have 4 children, Nancy and her husband Andrew, Gregory Jr., Kyle, and James. They have 2 grandsons, “Ender” and Alan.

Pastor Greg is coming to us following a 9-year ministry at Charlestown United Methodist Church in Ravenna. Greg has a total of 31 years of experience as a senior pastor. His undergraduate degree is in Religious Education and English; he has studied at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Luther Rice Seminary, and Methodist Theological School of Ohio (Delaware, OH).

During his ministry, Greg has been a member of several organizations in the communities he served. Among them are: City Councilman in Seven Hills, Ohio, Chairman of the Broadview Heights Human Resources and Senior Advisory Board, the Lions Club, the Kiwanis Club, N.A.A.C.P., and the Recovery Resources Problem Gambling Advisory Council. Greg and Karen are active volunteers with the Humane Society of Summit County on Darrow Road.

Dr. Karen Hogan (DNP) is a graduate of Francis Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case-Western University. She has been a CNO, Director, and Manager in several hospitals in the region. She has been on the faculty of CWRU, CSU, KSU, and CCC. She is president-elect of the FPB alumni association.

What is One Great Hour of Sharing?

For over 75 years, the One Great Hour of Sharing Offering (OGHS) has been helping Christians bring God’s hope and healing to hurting people both in the US and around the world.

OGHS’s mission is to support domestic and international development, fight poverty and its consequences, bring aid and relief to communities torn by war or ravaged by national disaster, provide advocacy and resettlement assistance for refugees and displaced persons, and combat injustice in its many forms. OGHS provides funding and hands-on assistance in collaboration with local and international partners.

Each year, OGHS is gathered by several denominations and Church World Service (CWS) under a single theme developed by the ecumenical OGHS Committee.  In the United Church of Christ, the Global H.O.P.E. team oversees the distribution of the offering. You can learn more about this team at www.ucc.org/global-hope.

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