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Weekly Newsletter – March 15th, 2021
While in-person worship is suspended Central has moved to a weekly newsletter that is sent out on Monday to keep our members and friends updated on Central’s services, missions and ministry during the pandemic. Click the button below to download the newsletter in PDF format. Click here for back issues of Central newsletters.
Weekly Newsletter – March 8th, 2021
While in-person worship is suspended Central has moved to a weekly newsletter that is sent out on Monday to keep our members and friends updated on Central’s services, missions and ministry during the pandemic. Click the button below to download the newsletter in PDF format. Click here for back issues of Central newsletters.
Weekly Newsletter – March 1st, 2021
While in-person worship is suspended Central has moved to a weekly newsletter that is sent out on Monday to keep our members and friends updated on Central’s services, missions and ministry during the pandemic. Click the button below to download the newsletter in PDF format. Click here for back issues of Central newsletters.
Weekly Newsletter – February 22, 2021
While in-person worship is suspended Central has moved to a weekly newsletter that is sent out on Monday to keep our members and friends updated on Central’s services, missions and ministry during the pandemic. Click the button below to download the newsletter in PDF format. Click here for back issues of Central newsletters.
Lenten Spiritual Practices
Lent is a forty-day season that begins with Ash Wednesday during which we prepare our hearts for Jesus’ death and resurrection. Like Advent, Lent has certain traditions we might use personally or in worship to observe this season. It is common in Christianity for people to practice fasting during Lent. Fasting, most commonly from food, but also from another practice or obsession, “reveals our excessive attachments and the assumptions that lie behind them. Food is necessary to life, but we…
C3 Survey
Our church is one of 24 congregations participating in Vibrant Faith’s Creating a Culture of Calling Initiative. This project is one of 13 hubs in the US and Canada working with about 350 congregations in the Called to Lives of Meaning and Purpose Initiative. The Initiative leaders are inviting us to participate in their evaluation and research of the entire Initiative. You can help! Please complete this 20–30-minute survey by March 15, 2021. The Initiative and hub leaders will share…
Weekly Newsletter – February 15th, 2021
While in-person worship is suspended Central has moved to a weekly newsletter that is sent out on Monday to keep our members and friends updated on Central’s services, missions and ministry during the pandemic. Click the button below to download the newsletter in PDF format. Click here for back issues of Central newsletters.
Ash Wednesday 2021
Wednesday, February 17th, 7 pm via Livestream Message: Predictions: Problems or Promise? by Pastor Jack Mannschreck Make Your Own Ashes Think of something you’d like to change in your life—a transformation you’d like to work on in your life or a bad habit you’d like to overcome. Write that hopeful transformation or bad habit on a piece of paper. Place the paper into a fireproof bowl and burn the paper. Crush the burned remains with the back of a spoon.…
Words to the Cross Study
Wednesdays, 7 pm to 8:30 pm, February 24 through March 31 via Zoom Often during Holy Week, typically on Good Friday, the church will observe “The Last Seven Words” of Jesus. These are the last phrases Jesus uttered while he suffered and died on the cross. The late Dr. J. Ellsworth Kalas, once a professor of preaching at Asbury Theological Seminary devised a concept of Words to the Cross. These words to the cross, such as a Word of Scorn,…
Weekly Newsletter – February 8th, 2021
While in-person worship is suspended Central has moved to a weekly newsletter that is sent out on Monday to keep our members and friends updated on Central’s services, missions and ministry during the pandemic. Click the button below to download the newsletter in PDF format. Click here for back issues of Central newsletters.