Where everyone is welcome...NO EXCEPTIONS!
Welcome to Central Congregational Church United Church of Christ
An Open and Affirming Congregation
WELCOME
You are Welcome Here...
We are officially an ONA Church - Open and Affirming.
You are welcome here. You are celebrated here with all the diversity you bring in race, background, country of origin, beliefs and doubts, class, education, age, abilities. You are celebrated here with all the diversity you bring in gender orientation, gender identity; our LGB TQ+ siblings you are welcome here ….
In a world where it sometimes feels unsafe to be who you are you are safe here;
You are seen here
This is God’s home
This is sacred space
God is here with us and we are here with God.
We are a people who honor God experienced by us as father and mother, Christ and Holy Spirit, but we don’t have a religious test for participation. So come with your beliefs, questions and doubts. Just come…with an open heart to where God is still speaking in your life and ours.
Because, we seek to honor the dignity of every human being, speak the truth to one another in love, listen with compassionate hearts and walk humbly with each other and our God. We’re not perfect, neither are you, and you don’t need to be.
So bring your traumas and triumphs, your fears and fervor, your anxieties and awakenings, your worries and weariness, your joys and laughter.
Bring the sounds of children and the sounds of silence and the songs we sing together.
You are welcome here, you are safe here, you are loved here, you are home here.
About Us
Worship
Please join us - no matter your age or stage in life - young families, singles, seniors, empty-nesters or young adult - there's a place for you here at Central Congregational Church.
Come and see!
Worship is held at 10:00 am each Sunday in the Sanctuary September through Memorial Day.
Join us for Worship at 9:30am June - August in our Air-Conditioned Sanctuary.
Our Church building is easily accessible and air-conditioned.
We have plenty of accessible parking and an elevator
with trained staff to assist you.
Join us - come as you are! You are welcome here!
Pastor's Ponderings
October 2025 - Three Sisters
“Three Sisters”
The gardeners and farmers among us will recognize that term: Three Sisters. It refers to planting 3 particular crops together; usually corn, beans and squash. It was a farming practice of the indigenous peoples of our continent for thousands of years. Quite often that third sister wasn’t squash, it was pumpkin.
We have evidence that pumpkins have been cultivated in our country for over 7500 years. The earliest ones were small and hard and have gradually been bred to what we know today in our Pumpkin Patch. Interestingly these earliest pumpkins came from the same region where those in our Patch were raised.
The three sisters grew in harmony with each other. The corn stalk provided a natural pole for the beans to climb. The pumpkin provided ground cover to retain moisture and reduce weeds. The beans helped fix nitrogen into the soil. A beautiful harmony. That beauty extended to the nutritional balance with corn providing carbs, beans providing protein, and pumpkin providing vitamins and nutrients.
The pumpkin provided more as well. It could be dried and stored. The shell could become a bowl or carved into utensils. And parts were considered medicinal.
The indigenous peoples were good stewards of their resources. They sought to work in harmony with their environment for sustainability and vitality beyond that. This was for them strategic and spiritual; a way of doing and a way of being.
We seek the same in our stewardship. Our pumpkins raise funds for people who struggle with poverty and unemployment, some of the most challenging in our country. It also helps sustain the missions and ministries of our church. We seek to be faithful and impactful in everything we are and we do.
We are all stewards of our world. We do not own it. We receive from our ancestors. And we borrow it from our children. How we care for it under our watch, under our tender care; how we ‘Dream God’s Dream’, will be our legacy.
That’s why it is our stewardship theme. It’s more than the giving of pledges. It’s the giving of ourselves in harmony with each other for the sake of the impact we can have to honor our ancestors and sustain our world’s children into vitality.
From Pumpkin Patch to Pledging, we will.
See you in Church,
Rev Don
