Cumberland First Baptist Church

06/05/2026

✨ CFBC Book Club

Our monthly Book Club, established in 2011, meets on the third Wednesday of each month and explores books from a variety of genres through casual conversation and community. Whether you’re an avid reader or simply curious about joining in, all are welcome to share in a meal and great conversation.

🗓️ June 17 at 5 PM
📍 116 S. Muessing St
📖 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison: A powerful debut novel, published in 1970, that explores the devastating effects of internalized racism and societal beauty standards on a young Black girl, Pecola Breedlove, in 1940s Ohio. Pecola prays for blue eyes, believing they will make her beautiful and beloved, but her life unravels tragically as she endures abuse, and her yearning for white beauty leads to madness. The novel is a profound examination of race, class, and gender, told through the eyes of another young girl, Claudia, and is known for its rich language and unflinching look at the psychological damage of racism.

⚠️ You can pick up a copy of the book in the church office on the credenza to the left. Please sign your name on the orange sheet next to the number that matches your book.

To learn more, comment below, and we can put you in contact with Dan Von Pein or June Maple. Come join the conversation, connection, and community.

06/03/2026

This week we explored our responsibility as followers of Jesus to give support to those in need.

At Cumberland, we believe faith grows when we wrestle with life together, honestly, thoughtfully, and with grace.

💭 What do you think?
Rev. Marie Wiese said, “Our responsibility is to give, serve, and love. What is done with our generosity is not our responsibility. ..It is not our job to fix people.” How might this way of thinking influence our response to those in need?

We would love to see your response in the comments.

06/01/2026

🌿 What’s Happening at Cumberland FBC This Month?

A new month brings new opportunities to gather, serve, learn, and grow together. Here’s a look at what’s happening around CFBC this month:

Victory Field Trip: June 9 at 7 pm
Book Club: June 17 at 5 pm
Lunch Bunch: Every Tuesday at 12:30 pm
Worship: Every Sunday at 10 am

No matter where you are in your faith journey, you are welcome here. Come join us as we seek to live with compassion, ask honest questions, and build community together.

04/29/2026

Psalms Bible Study--Revised Schedule

04/01/2026

03/30/2026

Holy Week Opportunities! 4/2, 6 pm, Maundy Thursday Tennebrae Service commemorating the Last Supper. 4/5, 9 am, Easter Sunday Breakfast. 10 am, Easter Sunday Worship

03/01/2026

Sermon: "The Other Encirclement Theory"
Colossians 3:11-14

This Sunday, images of rainbows from last week's story of Noah give way to the meaning of circles in the world and in life before God.
How do you look at circles--curvilinear shapes with no ending, no way through--
do circles keep things out, or do they keep things in?
Are they symbols of exclusion or inclusion?
Do they keep people apart, as orchestrated in so much of today's politics,
or might circles speak to the universal, encompassing love of God which, in the words of the letter called Colossians, "bind everything together in perfect harmony?"

Come Explore!

02/22/2026

Sermon: "A Place of the Rainbow"
Genesis 9:8-17

Timeless stories often have timely implications. Biblical stories are no exception!
Come, revisit with us that long celebrated, pondered and even reviled story of flood and rainbow covenant,
associated with the biblical character Noah.
Come explore the back story to this story, rooted even more deeply in human literary history,
as well as its wisdom for the current age.
What can we learn anew from the rainbow? How are we a place of that rainbow? A people of it?

Join The Journey!

02/15/2026

Sermon: "A Feast of Love"

1 Corinthians 13:1-13



Here is an undeniable truism: hatred is alive and well on the face of the earth;
here is its undeniable corollary: love still rules over all things.

In a season of worship in which we have been naming hard truth, this Sunday on a Valentine's weekend will be all about the heart.

Join us, as we recall that the love which binds us, in its many forms, is far more potent and enduring than all the hatred, animus, and malice prevailing these days in both public discourse and public policy.

Paul, in his treatise on love in Corinthians 13, was right:
the great constant across the ravages of time, the uniting thread through all gain and loss and change, has been love.

Come, explore!

02/08/2026

SERMON: "Another Look at Resistance"
Matthew 5:38-48

We are living through troubled times for freedom in America.
Risks to our liberty would lure our Baptist forebears out to every street corner in defiance.

Jesus and the early church lived in a time not dissimilar in terms of the tug of tyranny.

We often interpret Jesus’ so-called “antithetical statements” in the Sermon on the Mount in purely individual terms.

But there is a strong social dimension to his call for nonviolent confrontation and an active love of enemies.

Street witnesses in Minneapolis by the thousands are case in point.

But the resistance that cost Jesus his life, and which calls to us now, is bigger, more sweeping. It concerns the way life in any era is structured and to whose benefit.

How shall we resist now? What would Jesus teach us?

Rarely have these questions felt more pertinent than on this knife’s edge of our republic, “if we can keep it.”

Come explore!