CLICK HERE to read up-to-date posts and see photos from this year’s Youth Mission Team and their July 7-14 trips. One trip begins in Cleveland, where you’ll see them doing service projects with students from all over New England. They also visit the UCC Headquarters in Cleveland. The other group begins their service projects in Maine, with the Maine Seacoast Mission’s Housing Repair Program. Both groups come together for the National Youth Event at Purdue University in Indiana. The National Youth Event, held every four years, provides an opportunity for over 3000 youth (ages 13 to 18) to gather for worship, workshops, faith, fun and fellowship.… [Read More]

Reserve Your Place at the Annual Meeting Lunch

Members of Central Congregational Church are cordially invited to attend the 160th Annual Meeting at 11:45 a.m. on Sunday, June 3, 2012

Luncheon to follow in Chapel Hall  12:30 p.m.

Hosts: Joan Harrison   Larry Kellam   Laurel McLaughlin

MENU

• Assorted Fruit  Green Salad
• Chicken Salad Wrap
• Strawberry Shortcake
• Coffee & Tea

Please make luncheon reservations by downloading this form Annual Meeting Reservation Form and returning it along with your check payable to Central Congregational Church by Wednesday, May 30.

Tickets are $10 per person

If you are unable to mail in your reservation and payment, please call the church office at 331-1960

We look forward to seeing you there!… [Read More]

Rebecca Spencer offers the opening prayer in the U.S. Senate in Washington DC on April 19th, 2012.

All are welcome to join our inspired congregation as we celebrate Palm Sunday and Easter Week. We offer a wide range of activities for adults and children and joyous Palm Sunday and Easter celebrations. We look forward to seeing you!

Palm Sunday, April 1

Worship Service 10:30 am
Preceded by the outdoor procession with Jasper (the donkey), palms,
choir, & children at 10:10

Maundy Thursday, April 5 7:30pm

Service of Tenebrae and Communion

Preceding worship, our Deacons invite you to a potluck supper in Chapel Hall.

Tenebrae, Latin for Shadows, is a service of lessons and is accompanied by the gradual extinguishing of light.… [Read More]

James and Marian deBoer offer greetings from the southern hemisphere! They arrived safe and sound in South America in February. To demonstrate the importance of stewardship, they put this short video together  sharing  what they’ve been up to as part of their Global Ministries work in Resistencia, Argentina:

Please take a look at this great video that showcases our ongoing mission to New Orleans.

This was our fifth trip to help rebuild that wonderful city after Hurricane Katrina left 80% of it underwater in 2005. This year twenty-nine of us worked in three teams on two houses and Beecher Memorial Church!

INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR ELAINE PAGELS WILL DISCUSS “REVELATIONS, VISIONS, PROPHECY, AND POLITICS IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION” IN A LECTURE AT CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

Princeton Professor Elaine Pagels will explore what she views as the strangest and most controversial book of the Bible – The Book of Revelation – in a lecture Friday, January 6 at Central Congregational Church in Providence. The 6 p.m. event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Pagels will discuss its author, John of Patmos, and the wartime circumstances that impelled him to write as he did – and how it got into the Bible.… [Read More]

Wondering what you can do to help nearby Massachusetts in the aftermath of the tornadoes which have devastated 19 communities there?  Church World Service has issued an urgent appeal for Emergency Clean-Up Buckets filled with the necessary supplies for cleaning after such a disaster.

The Rhode Island Conference is joining the Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont Conferences in an effort to collect as many of these much-needed buckets as possible.

Central Congregational Church’s Rev. Claudia Demick will coordinate our efforts in RI.  If you have questions you may reach her at claudia@centralchurch.us… [Read More]

As we gather together in small groups to discuss stewardship, the Stewardship Committee wants to remind us all of the “4C’s for 3C”:

Caring, Community, Commitment & Contribution for Central Congregational Church

2011-2012 Stewardship Campaign Accomplishments & Aspirations

Church Leadership

Accomplishments:

• Central has consistently hosted services of worship praising God, preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ and offering spiritual support and challenge to members of the congregation and the wider community.  These regular services have been augmented by seasonal services during Lent and Advent as well as numerous services for weddings and funerals and celebrating the sacraments of baptism and communion. 

Please join the Gallery Committee, artist George Delany and Central Church’s Poet Laureate Ilse Kramer for this special night of verse and art.

Central members who have been posted on the Poets Page will read from their work. Cathy Clasper-Torch will provide music to set the mood.

Friday, March 11th from 6PM to 9PM.

Please be sure to invite a friend! For more information contact Jim Scott or Ilse Kramer.