This update covers January through June 2024. In an effort to keep the congregation better informed about its work, the Mission and Local Outreach Committee shares periodic informational updates.  In addition to increasing awareness about what it is doing in the community, nationally, and globally on the congregation’s behalf, these communications also encourage participation in hands-on mission opportunities.  Here is a summary…

As we begin 2024, look back on 2023, and look ahead to 2025 we want to take the opportunity to update you, our brothers and sisters of CMPC, on the current financial situation of the congregation.  This will be a very important year for the financial health of the church as we wrap up our third capital campaign and near the time…

The Session agreed to call a Congregational Meeting for Sunday, Feb. 4 after worship to present the 2024 budget and to hold a vote on the 2024 Pastor’s Terms of Call. In other business:          

The following was written by Elder and Chair of The Mission and Local Outreach Committee, Philip Davies, who has a unique perspective on the current conflict and humanitarian crisis in Gaza from his many years of work in the Middle East. Prayers for Gaza, December 20, 2023 The majority of my 40-year non-profit career in humanitarian relief and development work has been…

Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 CMPC made two trips to Gulfport, MS to help rebuild homes there.  That relationship continues to this day.  Over the years CMPC has supported Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders which started in MS following Katrina and continues to respond to hurricanes such as Ida, Florence and the tornadoes in Kentucky.  This year the Mission Committee provided some funds…

The Session unanimously approved the installation of a freestanding church sign on the southwest corner of the Shaker Drive entrance to the parking lot. It will be identical to the sign by the Amherst Avenue entrance and will also be erected and paid for by the Property Committee at great savings to the church. The sign will be located on a wide…

In an effort to keep the congregation better informed about the its work, the Mission and Local OutreachCommittee has decided to share periodic informational updates. In addition to increasing awareness about what it is doing in the community, nationally, and globally on the congregation’s behalf, these communications will also encourage participation in hands-on mission opportunities. Here is a summary of activity from…

After a 4-year hiatus due to Covid, a determined group of leaders – both pastors and laypersons – put together an amazing week of activities designed to provide the opportunity foryouth and adults alike to draw closer to God and one another with the GenOn Youth Summit2023 on the campus of Wheeling University in West Virginia. Patterned after LOGOS, it was abeautifully…

The Session agreed to hold Committee Night in Fellowship Hall on Monday, June 5, and all committee chairs and at-large members are encouraged to attend. The meeting, which was previously a monthly tradition before the pandemic abruptly halted in-person events, will open with a meal at 6:30 p.m., followed by a meeting at 7 p.m. The date will be announced in worship…

The Session embarked on a discussion of how to best launch the two visioning projects prioritized by the congregation in recent individual interviews and town hall meetings and reported by the Ad Hoc Visioning Committee. Tentative plans call for establishing a leadership team to tackle the housing and food insecurity initiative first, then perhaps eventually creating a similar model for the mental…