Central Presbyterian Church

10/02/2022

This afternoon at 2, and everyone is welcome. Leslie does such an amazing presentation. Join us.

09/19/2022

07/16/2022

We are having another outdoor service on Saturday, August 13 at 7 pm. All are welcome to join us.

07/01/2022

06/21/2022

Over the holiday weekend we are holding our service outdoors, Saturday July 2nd at 7pm. Everyone is welcome to join us. Bring your own chair and plan to stay after too. There will not very a Sunday service the next day.

05/20/2022

We are holding a memorial service for Dorothy Henderson on Saturday, June 4th at 1 pm. Everyone is welcome. More information to follow.

04/15/2022

We still be starting a new Grief and Anxiety group on Monday, April 25 at 4 pm. Everyone is invited to join us. This is for anyone who is experiencing sadness due to the lasting effects of the COVID pandemic, grief of loss, or anxiety due to life challenges.

04/09/2022

Join us for Good Friday service at 5:00 pm

02/21/2021

High on the mountainside about 10,000 feet above sea-level, we climbed steadily upward. The top of Mt. Wheeler loomed above, a sheer face dropping down toward a glacier and the talus slope of a glacier moraine. Before long, occasional gnarled trees appeared, bleached white or gray because of the wind. We had reached a forest of bristlecone pine, the oldest living things on earth dating back 4,500 years. The oldest grow in the harshest of conditions, forced by wind and water to grow slowly with a density of wood that resists invading disease. Tenacious trees.

We stopped near a tree. A fellow hiker paused as well, staring at the tree. Before long he reached out to touch the weathered wood, and exclaimed, “This tree was living when Jesus lived. Can you imagine that?” I thought about those trees. How old were they before the first human ever touched them? How long were they here converting carbon dioxide back into oxygen before the first human breathed in that oxygen? Here was a living tree whose life spanned centuries. I felt in the presence of something holy, enduring, and precious to God.

Modern science teaches us that each time we breathe, we inhale billions of oxygen molecules. In fact, these molecules have entered the lungs of every one of the 150 billion human beings and billions of animals who have ever lived. Same air, same molecules. And molecules we breathe in now will find their way into all the humans and other animals yet to come. This natural physical act reminds us that we exist in a miraculous interdependent web of life created by God connecting us to God, to each other, to all of creation, now and over time.

This Lent as we reflect, discern, and reset our spiritual and moral compasses, take time to become mindful of your breathing. It will lead you to honor what God has done, and embrace God’s promise of what is to come.

01/23/2021

Thought for the Week Ahead:
Be fishers of men you help catch em and he’ll clean em

11/11/2020

Regrettably, in compliance with Governor Pritzker's orders regarding COVID-19, and the recommendations of Blackhawk Presbytery, we are suspending our weekly 10:30 AM Sunday morning worship services and meetings until further notice.