Rev. Derek Rogers, Flowing Forth UMC pastor, said Philemon will be the third of four sermons in his February-March series titled titled “Small but Mighty.“ The series concludes Sunday, March 3, with “Titus.” Rev. Rogers said, “We are looking at the small books of the Bible, the stories that take up just a few pages. “These are books that we may have never heard of or even read. Typically we skip past them to get to the seemingly bigger, more important stories instead,” Rev. Rogers said.

On Sunday, Feb. 17, Oswego resident Rev. Roger Jenks spoke on “Esther” as guest preacher at Flowing Forth. Rev. Jenks, a retired Disciples of Christ pastor, is a church consultant.

He recounted how Esther, a Jewish orphan woman, the lowest in social standing, won a bachelor-style contest to become a queen of Persia. When asked by her cousin Mordecai to request mercy from the king for the Jews, Esther overcomes fear of death to do what was right.