One Hundred Years Already?!
Potluck, music, and good friends! Dress for your favorite decade over the past 100 years!
Processing from the temporary building to the newly built church, April 15, 1923
Getting the Word Out
Can you post occasionally about CPC on our neighborhood Listserv or Nextdoor? Email mark.turner@mac.com if you can help. We also have a brand new Instagram account! You can follow us here. We’re also on Facebook and Youtube. Thank you!New to the Parlor
Racial Justice Library–The Racial Justice Team has launched a small library in the parlor. You can borrow books using the sign out sheet. If you have any recently published or recommended books focused on racial justice you’d like to contribute or recommend, email annlordeman19@gmail.com.
Little Food Pantry—Our children and youth are now collecting for a second month of contributions. We’re already receiving donations, including some from families the Girl Scout troop that meets in our parlor during the week. Thank you!
Please bring non-perishable food, toiletries (including feminine hygiene supplies), and cleaning supplies for our little food pantry in the parlor cabinet. Requested items include regular size (not Costco) boxes of cereal, jars of peanut butter, cans of chicken, tuna, and salmon, and shampoo, soap, and toothpaste. Once a month, we’ll take your contributions to a local food pantry.
Upcoming Events
Poetry Hour, 3/19—This group will meet online at 4 pm. All poetry lovers welcome! For the Zoom link: info@cpcchurch.org.
Lenten Series: Grief & Loss; a Spiritual Encounter, 3/21—This group is meeting online from 7-8 pm once a week during Lent. We’ll talk about personal experiences of grief and loss in the context of our faith, using poetry, scripture, and memoir. For the schedule and Zoom link: pastor@cpcchurch.org.
Bible Discussion Group, 3/26—We’ll meet in person and online after worship and coffee hour. We’ll discuss Sapphira from Acts, chapters 4-5, using chapter 12 of Bad Girls of the Bible. For the Zoom link: info@cpcchurch.org.
Arts & Culture, 3/27—This group will meet at 7:30 pm on Zoom. Nancy Paulu Hyde will lead a discussion on “Art in a Political Age.” For details and the Zoom link, email Trish: mckenziedc@gmail.com.
Spirituality & Aging: The Path Ahead, 3/28—This group will meet at 7 pm the last Tuesday of each month, thru June. We’ll follow the six-part series, The Path Ahead: Spirituality and Purpose in Later Life, developed by Seabury Resources for Aging. For the Zoom link: pastor@cpcchurch.org.
Dinner and a Movie, 3/31—A Catholic church of Montreal hires a group of young actors to reinterpret the annual passion play for modern times. When they do, they run into artistic conflicts, political roadblocks, and faith challenges. “Jesus of Montreal” (1989) will prepare us for Holy Week and our own interpretive questions. (In French, with subtitles.) We’ll have a light supper at 6:30 and watch the movie at 7.
RSVP for dinner by Wednesday, March 29, at dsackdc@gmail.com.
Weekly Events
– email info@cpcchurch.org for info and/or Zoom links –
Morning Meditation—Join Pastor Ellen for half an hour of peace and quiet via Zoom, each Wednesday at 8 am. Zoom link: Meditation.
Sunday Morning Worship— We’ll meet in the Sanctuary and on Zoom each Sunday at 10:30 am. Zoom link: Worship.