Ministries

In order for people to be assimilated into the church and live a healthy life of a Christian, they need a place to give (ministry), and a place to receive (small groups). We believe excellent ministry occurs in small-group settings, where genuine concern and opportunities for sharing, discussion, prayer, and discipleship are shared. Such moments happen in…

LIFE Groups

L – Learning: Studies from a biblical perspective keep the focus of the group on true biblical fellowship.

I – Intercession is a very important element in our LIFE groups. The members and friends of our church pray for one another as well as the church, its ministries, and our community.

F – Fellowship is necessary for unity, vision, and sense of community to be sustained in our church. People need a sense of community, and LIFE groups are a way for people to establish and build strong relationships.

E – Extension is the group reaching out to people in the church who are not involved, or people outside the church in need of the kind of ministry these groups provide. To remain healthy, the groups need to be outward-looking.

To join a LIFE Group please contact the leader for times and places of meeting

Check out our events to learn more about the times and locations!

“Young Married Life Group”

Please contact Church Office for more information.

 

Men’s Breakfast

Meets at 8:00 AM at the church on the second Saturday of each month. Please see our events page for more details.

It’s important to give us the opportunity to address how God has designed women, their roles, and how they relate to one another in the home and church. At Christ Presbyterian Church, we are committed to nurturing women and equipping them for growth and service through Bible studies, seminars, retreats, fellowships, spiritual mothering, grandmother and single women events.

Inspire

Inspire is a monthly gathering of women from our church and beyond who share a focus of practical talents as well as individual stories. The time in Inspire is spent for fellowship and prayer in small groups. Visit our events page for upcoming Inspire gatherings!

Women’s Bible Study

Studies for women are designed to provide learning in a small-group setting, along with the opportunity to invite friends from outside of the church.

There are several Bible Study and Book Study opportunities for the ladies of our church. Check out our calendar on our events page for dates and times available.

Eric & Karen Brauer are workers with Serge. Eric is an Area Director, supervising Serge teams in Dublin-Ireland, Prague-Czech, and Cluj-Romania. In addition to supervising team-leading couples, Eric is a mentor/coach of national church planters/leaders.

For 15 years, Eric led the Serge facilitative church planting team in Ireland – equipping, training and coaching Irish church planters. In February 2017, Eric and Karen moved to Vienna, Austria with the hope of coaching and mentoring national church planters and leaders throughout the region.

Currently, Eric and Karen are working with church-leading couples in Austria, Czech Republic, and Germany. After two years of teaching high school art at Black Forest Academy (BFA) in Kandern, Germany, Karen has re-engaged her creative gifts, teaching, and relational skills to help children overcome their emotional issues as an ‘Art-as-Therapy’ ministry in Vienna.

Eric and Karen have seven adult children and two grandchildren, living in four countries on three continents: Talitha, Karis (married to Stephen), Corban (married to Amy) and Laurel (married to Jonathan), Joanna, Elyssa, and Emily. The younger two are in college in the States.

After both becoming Christians, Jay and Holly met at Ohio State University. Jay and Holly joined MTW’s church-planting work in East Germany in 2001. Their mission is to build a bridge between those who have never heard about Christ to the church. They focus on evangelism and reaching out into the community.

They have supported the work of two MTW church plants now under national leadership. Since 2005, Jay has been the team leader for MTW’s venture in southeastern Berlin.

Richey & Keli Goodrich grew up an hour outside of Dallas, Texas. They both felt a calling to spread the saving glory of Jesus in missions from the time they were around 19 years old. Keli wanted to do this as a nurse. Richey wanted to do this as a pastor, church planter, and theological educator.

In 1999, they married with the goal of answering Christ’s call together. Keli eventually became a women’s health nurse practitioner and Richey an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America. In 2010, they moved to South Asia to train indigenous pastors for the church in a global city. They loved their ministry, but after almost six years in the field they were denied visas and it became clear God was calling them elsewhere.

God has now called Richey and Keli to Sydney, Australia, to help reach the many Asians studying and working in this global city. They are excited by the team’s vision to raise up Christian leaders for the unreached peoples throughout Asia. Richey will serve as one of the pastors at Harbour City Church and aid in the university ministry to international students. Richey and Keli are joined by their four children:  Hadassah, Josiah, Hannah, and Jedidiah.

 

Gonaives, Haiti

The relationship between Guercy MeMe and CPC started after the 2010 earthquake in Port au Prince, Haiti.  At the time, Guercy was serving with MTW, coordinating teams from the U.S. coming to help in the aftermath.

Now serving in his home town of Gonaives, Haiti, Guercy is operating an orphanage of about 80 children, ages 18 months to 13 years.  Our relationship picked up again when Guercy contacted CPC about building a facility for the children.  Up to that point, the children were placed in the homes of families of a local church.  In 2014, a team from CPC went to Goniaves to see the start of the new building after raising the necessary finances.  Since then a second story has been added and an adjacent property purchased for a potential new school and micro-business.

We are blessed to be an ongoing participant with Guercy in the support of the orphanage.

We would invite your prayers for him, his wife Evelyn, and their young son, and to uphold the children there, that they would know Christ as Savior and serve Him faithfully in their city.

Jon and Sarah Pfeil have served as missionaries with Mission to the World (MTW) in Japan since 2006. Japan is a country well known for its technology and economic influence, yet few people realize that the Japanese are the world’s second largest unreached population (www.joshuaproject.net).

The Pfeils are currently partnering with Japanese pastor Seima Aoyagi to start Grace Harbor Church Tokyo in the Tokyo waterfront area. This area includes 146,000 people with only one other small church. Please pray for the establishment and growth of Grace Harbor Church Tokyo and pray for wisdom and resources for subsequent church-planting sites as the team seeks to reach this Tokyo waterfront area with the life-transforming power of the gospel.