{"id":70509,"date":"2016-07-02T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T22:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=70509"},"modified":"2016-07-02T11:10:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T15:10:33","slug":"oneidas-yeoman-joins-three-voices-ministry-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=70509","title":{"rendered":"Oneida’s Yeoman joins Three Voices ministry team"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cross-church1-150x150\"<\/a>The Three Voices Presbyterian Church consisting of the congregations of Verona First Presbyterian\u00a0Church, Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church in Vernon and Cochran Memorial Presbyterian Church in\u00a0Oneida Castle is pleased to announce that Michael Yeoman of Oneida has joined the ministry team.<\/p>\n

Yeoman recently graduated from the Lay Academy of the Presbytery of Utica and was formally\u00a0Commissioned to serve the Three Voices Congregation during a special service of the Presbytery of Utica\u00a0held in Forestport.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am extremely excited to be part of this exciting ministry,\u201d Yeoman said. He will be joining two other\u00a0Commissioned Lay Pastors \u2013 Peg Ward and Kevin Bailey who will all have similar ministry roles for these\u00a0churches and the communities that they serve.<\/p>\n

Yeoman is particularly excited about giving back to the church that played an important role in the\u00a0development of his Christian faith. As a child, he participated in the Sunday School program at Verona\u00a0First and was active in the Church\u2019s youth group as a teen.\u201cOne of my Sunday School teachers, Clara\u00a0Meier, whom I credit for giving me a good foundation in my faith, is still a very active member of the\u00a0church,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my Sunday School teachers, Clara\u00a0Meier, whom I credit for giving me a good foundation in my faith, is still a very active member of the\u00a0church,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Yeoman said that while there have been many changes in these communities and the world, the thing\u00a0that he has been most impressed with since joining the ministry team is that there has been one thing\u00a0that has remained steadfast within these churches and that is the genuine love that they have for God\u00a0and their commitment to serving their fellow human beings not only from their own congregations but\u00a0throughout their communities and beyond.<\/p>\n

The vision of the Three Voices Presbyterian Church is one family serving God together. It is from that\u00a0vision that they respond and commit themselves to faithfully love and serve their communities. They\u00a0place an importance on being there for others through worship, music and prayer; outreach; and\u00a0community events.<\/p>\n

Yeoman\u2019s family have served in a variety of church leadership roles throughout the past twenty years\u00a0with the First Presbyterian Church of Oneida where he served as an Elder and Sunday School teacher.<\/p>\n

His wife, Michelle, still teaches Sunday School and both of their daughters have devoted many years to\u00a0the church\u2019s music programs. Their oldest daughter, Amanda now serves as the Choir Director at\u00a0Oneida First.<\/p>\n

While Yeoman\u2019s primary goal is the spiritual ministry of the congregations that he serves, he is also\u00a0praying for a revival within the church universal.\u201cThere is far too much negative things going on all\u00a0around us that we need to impact lives with the message of hope and compassion and to bring\u00a0generations of families back to the church to strengthen the family unit and provide support, friendship<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is far too much negative things going on all\u00a0around us that we need to impact lives with the message of hope and compassion and to bring\u00a0generations of families back to the church to strengthen the family unit and provide support, friendship and uplifting encouragement all while worshiping God together as a broader Body of Christ,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

And while the goal may seem difficult, it is one that Yeoman feels is worthiest of pursuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Three Voices Presbyterian Church consisting of the congregations of Verona First Presbyterian\u00a0Church, Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church in Vernon and Cochran Memorial Presbyterian Church in\u00a0Oneida Castle is pleased to announce that Michael Yeoman of Oneida has joined the ministry team. Yeoman recently graduated from the Lay Academy of the Presbytery of Utica and was formally\u00a0Commissioned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-ilf","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cross-church1-150x150.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}