Each June members of the Worship Committee (who provide guidance for Central’s traditional worship service) and the Celebration Worship Leaders (who provide leadership for Central’s contemporary worship service) and related staff gather for a worship planning retreat. The purpose of this retreat is to come up with ideas for the different sermon series that [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Disciples Are……?
Posted in Weekly Enews on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Voicing Our Faith
Posted in Weekly Enews on June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This past Monday evening Central’s Session examined the incoming Deacons, Elders and Trustees and approved them as ‘ready to be ordained’. The Book of Order requires this examination as the next-to-last step in the New Officer process.
It all started last fall when the Nominating Committee began to meet and consider and pray about those [...]
A Window But Never A Box
Posted in Weekly Enews on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the books I read last week while I was away on Study Leave is A Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren. McLaren is one of the great thinkers about the American Christian Church in the 21st Century, and boldly prophetic about where he imagines the Church to be heading in the coming years. [...]