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The 3-3-2024 worship service is featured above. Bulletins can be found by clicking publications above.
The 2024 Tread Lightly for Lent Calendar mentioned during the service is available here.
- Join us for Holy Week 2024
Holy Week starts Sunday March 24th with our Palm Sunday Service and continues with our Maundy Thursday Service at 6pm. This will be a small service with a soup/sandwich potluck meal. We will have 2 opportunities to worship on Good Friday. The Sanctuary will be open for quiet mediation from 11am till 2pm . Our Worship service will begin at 6pm. Our Easter Services will start at 8:00am with a Easter Breakfast. An Easter Egg hunt is happening at 9:00am. And our Easter Morning Cantata Service will take place at 11am. We’ll be celebrating the One Great Hour of Sharing offering on Easter Sunday. For information can be found below. We hope to see you as we celebrate this Holy Week.
Join with Presbyterians worldwide in sharing God’s love with our neighbors-in-need around the world by providing relief from natural disasters, food for the hungry, and support for the poor and oppressed. This Lenten season, please give generously to One Great Hour of Sharing.
WAYS TO GIVE —
: Through Central Presbyterian Church
: Online at pcusa.org/give-oghs
: Text OGHS to 91999 to give
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You can help sustain the important ministries and programs that are supported by One Great Hour of Sharing Offering by making an online gift at any time throughout the year. Checks may be sentPresbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
P.O. Box 643700
Pittsburgh, PA 15264-3700.
- 2024 Pancake Supper
Our Lent schedule starts with our Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on February 13th at 6pm. The Cost will be $5 Per Adult, $3 for a children under 12. Bring the family for a heaping helping of Pancakes, Sausage, and all the fixings!
Our Ash Wednesday Service will be held on Feb. 14th at 6 pm. The choir will hold their regular Wednesday practice following the service.
- Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
Join us on Christmas Eve for our annual Candlelight Service at 5:30pm. We hope to see you there!
- CPC Women’s Bake Sale 2023
The Annual PW Bake Sale will be Nov. 18 from 9am till Noon! Need a pie, cake, rolls, or a selection of other baked goods for your Thanksgiving feast? The annual bake sale fuels the mission of our Presbyterian Women’s ministry and their mission campaigns! Mark your calendars to grab a delightful treat while supporting a great cause.
- The Fall Festival is Coming!
Join us for our annual Fall Festival on Join us for our annual Fall Festival or Saturday, Oct. 28th, 2023! We’ve moved the fun indoors this year! We’ll have our usual bounce house, candy, hot dogs, and games! Feel free to wear you costumes and bring a friend! We hope to see you there!
- You Are With Me
“God, you are with me.” What a powerful statement of faith that is!
How does that make you feel? Do you feel safe? Do you feel at peace? Do you sense the “blessed assurance” of God’s Holy Spirit in your life?
The psalmist says that even though we walk through “the darkest valley,” we fear no evil. The King James Version of the Bible, the one that many of us grew up reciting, says, “the valley of the shadow of death.”
The shadow represents the uncertainty in our lives. The uncertainty of floods, tornadoes, hurricanes,
earthquakes — climate change. The uncertainty of aggression through war, gun violence, human
trafficking and international tensions. The uncertainty of employment, inflation, illness — a global
pandemic. Yes, the shadow of death is all around us.Yet, in Christ, we can boldly proclaim, “You are with me. Your rod will protect me from uncertain foes
who wish to do me harm, and your staff will guide me on the right path for your name’s sake. I fear no
evil.” In so doing, you proclaim God’s presence of peace — peace amid uncertainty — in your own life.
As a community of faith, we receive the Peace & Global Witness Offering, and as we do, we extend Christ’s peace throughout our community and world even in these uncertain times. Twenty-five percent of the gifts we receive will stay right here in our church to work for peace. Another 25% will support the peacemaking efforts in the Presbytery of Arkansas, and 50% will go the Presbyterian Mission Agency for its ministries of peacemaking and global witness all around the world.
On October 1st, we will celebrate the Lord’s Supper on World Communion Sunday. Luke’s Gospel tells us on that very first Easter as Jesus was walking down the road to Emmaus, he met two disciples who were unknown to him. When they invited him to join them for a meal, Jesus took bread and blessed it. When he did, their eyes were opened, and their hearts were strangely warmed. They were in the “real presence” of their Risen Lord and Savior.
Our hope is that when we share this holy meal, our eyes will also be opened, our hearts will be strangely warmed, and we will recognize the presence of the Risen Lord among us. Then, we can boldly proclaim, “You are with me.”
Our Peace & Global Witness Offering enables the church to promote the peace of Christ by addressing systems of injustice in our own communities and across the world. Please give generously at our Sunday October 1st Worship Service, online by clicking this link, or text PCUSAPEACE to 41444 on your mobile phone. When we all do a little, it adds up to a lot. Thank you.
- Senior Citizen Event!
Central will host an upcoming Senior Citizens Event on Saturday September 9th @ 4pm. All are invited to join & bring a friend for pizza, bingo & a gospel singing performance. The event is free to the community & will be held in the fellowship hall of Central Presbyterian Church.
- Happy Easter
Our Easter Schedule is as follows…
9 AM Easter Breakfast
10 AM Easter Egg Hunt
11 AM Resurrection Sunday Worship Service.
During the Worship Service we’ll be collecting the One Great Hour of Sharing offering. One Great Hour of Sharing provides a way for those whose lives have been affected by poverty, hunger or disaster — whether natural or human-caused — to begin to repair the lives of their families and communities. It provides a way for the least of these, more often than not women and children, to become those veins of gold, binding their families and communities together in strength.
The three programs supported by One Great Hour of Sharing – Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, the Presbyterian Hunger Program, and Self-Development of People – all work in different ways to serve individuals and communities in need. From initial disaster response to ongoing community development, their work fits together to provide people with safety, sustenance, and hope.
You can give online here, you can text OGHS to 91999, or you can give through the offering on Easter Sunday.
- The 2023 Lenten Season Begins
Our Lent schedule starts with our Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on February 21st at 6pm. The Cost will be $8 Per Person, $20 for a family. Bring the family for a heaping helping of Pancakes, Bacon, Sausage, and all the fixings!
Our Ash Wednesday Service will be held on Feb. 22nd at 6 pm. The choir will hold their regular Wednesday practice following the service.
- Advent Services
We’ll be holding four Advent Services in the coming Days. This coming Sunday is our annual Christmas cantata, “The Thrill of Hope”.
On Tuesday, December 20th at 6:30pm we’ll be holding our Blue Christmas Service. A Blue Christmas worship service provides the opportunity for us to gather to carve out a time of quiet reflection, to honor the emotions of the season that are not so joyful, and to be reminded that we are not alone in this season.
Join us for our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at 5:30pm. Christmas Morning we’ll be holding our regular Sunday worship service at 11am. We hope you join us for all these wonderful services! And don’t forget to bring a friend!
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