From Senior Pastor: Benjamin L Geiser

As Senior Pastor I consider it a privilege to welcome you to First Love Church. It is our hearts desire, that you would be able to receive the very thing that God has brought you hear to receive. I am confident that you will find First Love to be a place of warmth and comfort.

First love is an evangelical church that believes in solid biblical truth as well as loving obedience. The church was founded upon the scripture from 1John 4:19 “We love because He first loved us” God’s love is the motivation for everything we strive to do. God made the ultimate sacrifice of love by sending His son Jesus Christ to die for the sins of all mankind. We are here to tell the world about God’s great love.

Some of the many ways we share the message of His love is through God directed outreach programs, children’s ministries, adult bible studies, Sunday morning worship and solid biblical teaching. We have a strong passion to see individuals grow in his or her walk with Christ. We also recognize the importance of each believer understanding his or her gifts and how they are to be used for God’s glory.

As pastor it is my aim to provide Godly leadership and teaching that will help people draw closer to the life changing power of God and His love.

If this is a place that God is possibly leading you to call your church home please let us know. Please fill out the visitor info card and indicate that you would like to meet with the pastor. It would be my honor to meet and pray with you as to God’s direction in your life.

Thank you for visiting. May God richly bless you as you worship with us.

In Christ never ending abundance.
Pastor Benjamin L Geiser

Ben & Lisa Geiser have been married since July 27th of 1991. They have four wonderful daughters, lovingly known as the "Little Geiser Women". Moriah 8, Olivia 6, Hannah 3, Monica 1. Ben & Lisa originally came to First Love 7 years ago. They started out by fulfilling the role of Worship Pastor. Over the course of of their history with First Love thay have filled the positions of Worship Pastor, Associate Pastor, Interim Pastor and now Senior Pastor. Pastor Ben graduated from Circleville Bible College with a degree in Theology & Counseling.

Church Office: 740-927-1568
Church Fax: 740-927-2593 (phone first)

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We are a United Brethren Church.

UNITED BRETHREN - Fact Sheet

Official Name: Church of the United Brethren in Christ, International (for the worldwide fellowship, which includes churches in 13 countries).
Church of the United Brethren in Christ, USA (for the United States churches and their mission districts--Mexico, Haiti, and India).

Founded : 1767, in Lancaster, PA

Highest Governing Body: The General Conference, which meets every four years, with about 70 delegates from all over the world. The United States National Conference meets once every four years, also, but with authority over just the US ministries.

Highest Official: Each national conference is responsible for electing its own highest official. In the United States, that person is the Bishop, elected every four years. The various national conference leaaders comprise an international Executive Committee, which meets annually between sessions of the General Conference.

• Total Churches: 600
• United States: 250
• Elsewhere: 350
• Total Membership: 47,300
• United States: 25,000
• Elsewhere: 22,300
• Total Attendance: 41,500
• United States: 25,150
• Elsewhere: 16,350

Most UB Churches are Located: Of the 250 UB churches in the United States, 180 are located in Pennsylvania, Ohio, northern Indiana, and Michigan. Beyond the US borders, we have churches in: Canada, Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mexico, Hong Kong, India, Macau, Thailand, Costa Rica, Haiti.

The United States has ethnic ministries in:

• Los Angeles (9 Hispanic congregation)
• Phoenix (1 Hispanic congregation)
• San Antonio, Texas (2 Hispanic churches)
• New York City (2 Chinese, 3 Jamaican congregations)
• New Jersey, Boston, and Philadelphia (Sierra Leonean congregations)
• Florida (3 Haitian churches, 1 Jamaican church, 1 Hispanic church)
• Columbus, Ohio (1 Hispanic church launched in 2001)
• Chicago, IL (1 Hispanic church)

Official Publications of the United States Church:

• Connect , a four-page newsletter, is distributed monthly, free of charge, through UB churches (mostly in their worship bulletins).
• A four-page missions publication, Impact , is distributed the same way.
  Higher Education: The United Brethren church, USA, owns Huntington College , a liberal arts school with about 1000 students, located in Huntington, IN.

Basic Documents

Our Confession of Faith , which was adopted in 1815 and has never been changed, spells out the fundamental doctrines we cling to.

We also have a brief Constitution ,which was adopted in 1841 and has been amended only a few times. Then there’s the Discipline, which goes into a lot of detail about membership standards, ministerial licensing, church organization, and other things.

A set of Core Values identify some things that have characterized us over the years.

At the international level, there is a set of four documents which bind the various national conferences together: the Confession of Faith of 1815, the Core Values, the International Constitution, and the International By-laws.

Oversight : Governing bodies operate at various levels, with the US National Conference at the top. Here's a list of these groups , with links to their constituencies.