Third Presbyterian Church

03/29/2025

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In response to the continued Gun Tragedies in our community we are hosting a Gun recycling event called GUNS TO GARDEN!!

About the event :

Saturday April 5, 2025
9am-11am
Third Presbyterian Church
9990 Lewis and Clark
Moline Acres MO 63136

1. There will be gift cards for each firearm surrendered $50-$150!!!!
2. No questions asked about fi****ms and no identification needed!
3. Fi****ms will be destroyed on site by a blacksmith using an electric saw! These fi****ms WILL NOT BE REPURPOSED!!! Unlike other events!!
4. Fi****ms should be unloaded and in trunk or back of vehicle. You will not have to exit vehicle it will be a drive thru event.
5. The scrap mental from fi****ms will be gathered and made into garden tools for a community garden or a sculpture for our community.

Again this event is to help prevent gun tragedies! Together we can make a difference and save lives especially children who senselessly lose their lives as a result of fi****ms in the home!

We will also have gun locks while they last!!

Any further questions inbox me, text or call

Rev Cedric Portis
314-520-5962

03/16/2025

*ATTENTION*

In response to the recent storm in the st louis area, Third Presbyterian Church is making available storm clean up kits which include tarps, outdoor clean up buckets and other resources to assist in recovery.

These kits will be available TODAY on the church parking lot at 4:30pm!! Kits will be given out on a first come basis.

Third Presbyterian Church
9990 Lewis and Clark
Moline Acres, MO 63136

God First
Community Second
And we are THIRD Presbyterian Church!!

01/22/2025

At Third Presbyterian Church we hold our back to school drive in January when resources are depleted and students/teachers need a boost of resources to finish the year strong!

This year the recipient of a truck load of school supplies to finish strong is Glasgow Elementary school!!

Supplies delivered today, Staff and Students excited for the supplies.

“God FIRST,
Community SECOND,
And we are THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH!!”

11/02/2024

Community Coat Drive is right now from 9-1pm
Hundreds of new coat for the kids and adults.

Third Presbyterian Church
9990 Lewis and Clark
Moline acres MO 63136

Free pancake breakfast and coats!!!

Third church resourcing our community and meeting physical and spiritual needs!!!!

10/21/2024

08/14/2024

Editorial Prelude:
I have been a justice advocate in many spaces in this country for years, but i never thought one of the hardest fights against racism would be within the denomination I have been called to serve.

I am first to admit the actions one or a few does not constitute the position of the whole, but when those actions have such damaging financial consequences that stem nearly two decades, its very disheartening.

The attached article lays out some decisions that were made years ago to financially bankrupt Third Presbyterian Church within our own denomination, but with God on OUR side we have thrived and overcame these deliberate actions against us.

While some RESTORATION relief has been given, we are far from the REPAIR work that is needed. The majority group needs to understand the difference between Restorative justice and Reparations, they are different and one action does not accomplish both.

We are very thankful to God for what has finally transpired (restorative justice work) after a 17 year fight and there is more work to be done...the work of REPARATIVE JUSTICE!!

As I have said before the church is a place were I have experienced the deepest hurt but also a place where I have received unspeakable joy.

We are not in heaven yet and this situation is just proof that the societally struggles with racism continue EVEN in the CHURCH!!!

What does it mean to be a “friend” to colleagues in ministry when harm has been done? How can reparations pave the way to a more just future?   A catchy thematic worship song starts out every Sunday at Third Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Missouri. “Come on and get your praise on, you know...

06/15/2024

02/12/2024

Get ready for what God has for YOU!!!!!!!

IF God wanted you to be somebody else, God would not have created you…

That’s why envy and jealousy does not make sense… Why…Because it limits God… What am I trying to say….

To want what somebody else has is to assume what they have is the best that God’s got for you…

in other words, we can miss the something better that God has for us because we are concentrating on what they have and rendering us unable to see and receive what God has for us.

People always want what lies in the promised land, but they are not willing to cross the desert to get it.

The reason the grass looks greener on the other side is that God has positioned them to afford the water bill….

we have to stop coveting green grass, when we have been irresponsible with the seeds God gave and instructed us to plant in our own yard.

Remember this ………Imitation leads to Limitation… Don’t limit God by trying to imitate someone else……Let God mold you and make you into what you have been spoken into existence to be!!!!

Rev Cedric Portis