Central Presbyterian will be holding it’s Annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on February 9th @ 5:30 pm! The cost is $7 per person & $15 per family (Limit 4). Our Ash Wednesday Service will be at Noon on February 10th. An Evening Ash Wednesday Service will be available at First Presbyterian @ 5:30 pm. We hope you can celebrate the beginning of the Lent Season.
Events
Men’s Chili Fundraiser!
The Men’s Chili Luncheon will be Saturday Jan. 30th at 11 am. The cost will be $7 per person and $20 per family of 3 or more. To go orders will be available for purchase! The proceeds raised will go toward various projects around the church and fund the Men’s bi-annual retreat. The men have previously used funds raised to paint the fences around the building, construct the VBS mural, and sponsor children at Christmas. We thank everyone for their support and hope to see everyone there!
Advent Season 2015
Advent Season is upon us once again! To prepare for the celebration of Jesus’ birth Central Presbyterian has a month full of activities! We’ll begin with the Annual Moravian Love Feast on 11/29. This traditional meal of sweet breads will be accompanied by a performance of the Moravian Love Feast Band. Our Christmas Cantata will be 12/20 this year. It will be a joint performance of the Central, First, and Faith Presbyterian Church Choirs. Finally we’ll be holding our annual Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at 5:30 pm on Christmas Eve. We hope to see you during this wonderful season!
Download the Poinsettia Order Form HERE!
PW Bake Sale
The Annual Presbyterian Women Bake Sale Fundraiser will be held on Saturday, November 21st at 9am in McElyea Hall! We’ll have a variety of Baked goods and “Gently” used items. Your contributions will help fund PW’s work with Neighbor to Neighbor, CASA, the Salvation Army, and Vera Lloyd. See Betty Coles for more information. We hope to see you there!
Trunk or Treat & Heritage Sunday
Truck or Treat returns Saturday, October 31st! We’ll be opening out Trunks for Treats of all ages starting at 3pm till 5pm! We hope a lot of our neighborhood children start their night with us! We can’t wait to see you there!!
UPDATE: We will be having Trunk or Treat RAIN OR SHINE! If it rains we will move the “trunks” into the Education wing. See you there!
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The next day will be Heritage Sunday. It’s our annual joint worship service with the other two PC(USA) congregations in Pine Bluff. This year we will be worshiping at Faith Presbyterian Church. Again, there will be NO SERVICE at CPC on Nov. 1st. Faith Presbyterian is located at 913 University Drive. We will be providing Bus Service from CPC to Faith at 9:15 am and 10:30 am. The bus will return after the completion of lunch at Faith. It will make 2 trips back to accommodate everyone. Please join us in this wonderful worship experience!
MASM Summer Fun Trip!
Mark your calendar for June 13, for our first Summer Fun Youth Trip. We will load up and head to Hot Springs to tour the newly remodeled Mid-America Science Museum. There is a sign up sheet on the bulletin board in McElyea Hall. We will leave at 10:00 a.m., eat lunch in Hot Springs, and then head to the museum. We plan to return around 6:00 p.m. Volunteers, chaperons, and donations are needed and welcomed to help with this trip.
A Busy Busy May!
We have a lot going on around CPC this month! Here are just a few of the things on the calendar that are happening soon!
Saturday, May 9th the CPC Men invite everyone to join them in the NAMI Walk at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock at 9 am. Click Here for more info and Click Here to Donate to NAMI!
Sunday, May 24th is Pentecost Sunday and we’ll be welcoming Lance Jones as our Guest Minster! We’ll also be taking up the Pentecost offering. Click Here to Give to the Pentecost Offering!
Sunday, May 31st is Youth Sunday. Our Youth and Youth Leaders are planning a wonderful service. You will not want to miss this time to see our youth in action as they lead our worship that day.
Shrove Tuesday & Ash Wednesday
Our Annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper will take place Next Tuesday at 5:30 PM. Come and enjoy a fabulous fellowship meal!
For Ash Wednesday this year we’re making a small change to what we do. We’re adding a second Noon Ash Wednesday service to our regularly scheduled Evening service that happens at 6pm. We hope this allows everyone who would like to attend a chance to participate in our Ash Wednesday services.
Crystal Bridges Field Trip
The Presbyterian Women have scheduled an overnight trip to Northwest Arkansas to visit Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art this February 20th and 21st. A new traveling exhibit called Van Gogh to Rothko:Masterworks from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is opening on Feb. 21st! A signup sheet is available for those interested in McElyea Hall. Since this will be an overnight trip there will be a deadline of February 12 for signing up. This trip is open to all members and friends! We hope that you can join us on this exciting trip!
New Year Chili Luncheon! Postponed!
Happy New Year! The Men’s Fellowship group will be holding our annual Chili Luncheon on UPDATE: Sunday January 25th after morning worship. We rescheduled due for to worship cancelation on the 11th. The 3rd Sunday fellowship luncheon will go on as scheduled. The cost will be $6 per person and $18 per family of 3 or more. To go orders will be available for purchase! The proceeds raised will go toward various projects around the church including painting the wooden fence around the building and it will also help fund the Men’s bi-annual retreat. We hope to see everyone there!

