About CPC
Reaching People and Following Jesus
Our vision at CPC is to be a church that is FOR people because God is for people. We are FOR the One, helping people know and follow Jesus personally. We are FOR the Valley, loving and serving the community God has placed us in. And we are FOR the World, joining God’s work beyond our walls to bring hope and make a lasting impact.
FOR the One.
FOR the Valley.
FOR the World.
What we believe
We believe in one God, who made everything and keeps everything going. He is perfect and eternal, and He exists as three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He deserves all honor and praise, forever. (Genesis 1:1; Matthew 28:19)
GOD
Jesus is the Son of God and the living Word, and He became a real human being: conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, fully God and fully man in one person, forever. He died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins, just as the Scriptures said He would. Three days later He rose from the dead, body and all. He ascended into heaven, where He sits at the right hand of God as our High Priest, the one who speaks for us. (John 1:1, 14; Luke 1:34-35; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Hebrews 4:14-15)
JESUS CHRIST
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. He opens our eyes to our sin, draws us to Jesus, and lives in everyone who trusts Him. He gives new life, power for serving, and gifts for the good of the church. He teaches us and leads us into truth, and He seals us for the day God makes everything new. (John 16:7-15; Ephesians 1:13-14)
HOLY SPIRIT
Everything we believe starts here. The Bible is God’s Word: the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, inspired by the Holy Spirit, telling one unified story of God rescuing the world through Jesus. It is true, and it is the final authority on everything it speaks to. So we build our lives on it. (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21)
THE BIBLE
Left to ourselves, we are separated from God by our sin, and we cannot fix that on our own. The good news is that God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves. Salvation is His free gift of grace. When we put our faith in Jesus alone, God credits His righteousness to us and declares us right in His sight. That is what the Bible calls justification. It means we are fully forgiven, adopted as His children, and heirs of eternal life. (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 5:1; John 1:12)
SALVATION
The true church is everyone, everywhere, who trusts Jesus and is being made new by the Holy Spirit. Local churches like ours are the visible, imperfect expression of that family. We are at our best when the Bible is preached faithfully, baptism and communion are celebrated the way Jesus gave them to us, we take following Jesus seriously enough to hold each other to it, and we actually love each other. And we are waiting: the church looks forward to the day her Lord returns. (1 Corinthians 12:12-13; Acts 2:42-47)
THE CHURCH
History is headed somewhere. Jesus will return: personally, visibly, and bodily. He will judge the living and the dead, and He will finish God’s eternal plan and set everything right. So with the early church we pray, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” (Revelation 22:20)
JESUS’ FUTURE RETURN
Leadership & Staff
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Our Pastoral Team provides executive leadership for Community Presbyterian Church.
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The staff is a team of paid leaders who are committed to the pastoral, administrative, and overall care of the life of CPC.
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CPC is governed by elders, both staff and volunteer lay elders. Our elders are responsible for the oversight of the ministry of the church and are nominated and elected by the members of CPC. They seek to discern the mind of Christ as we follow Him in all that we do as a church.
The deacons represent the hands and feet of Christ, servant leaders who care for our church and our local community.
Current Elder List:
Susan Burroughs
Dave Danis
Leanne Drozdowicz
Kathleen Houssels
Eva Moon
Ryan Nickelson
Kirstin Nolte
Matt Plitt
Alex Powers
Brian Shepherd
Chris Sherry
Dana Van Egdom
Current Deacon List:
Aimee Poling
Ali Horn
Bryan West
Burnie Atterbury
David Perry
Jeffrey Browning
Jim Cowan
Katy Drucker
Laura Lescure
Laurie Loskot
Lisa Hammill
Lyn Kern
Mark Hopper
Mike Miller
Patty Fairchild
Patty Walker
Paul Kwon
Pete Damianakes
Renee Bullock
Robin Latendresse
Ryan Pearce
Teresa Tam
Tracey Shepherd
Our Denomination
CPC is affiliated with the EPC, a denomination of over 600 churches around the United States. We are a part of the Presbytery of the Pacific Southwest, as one of 32 churches from California and Nevada. The focus of this presbytery is: Ministerial Support (supporting new churches coming to the EPC in the Western Region), Church Planting, and World Outreach.
The EPC is a denomination formed in 1981 and had its beginning in the Reformation under John Calvin (1509-1564). The Constitution of the EPC consists of the Book of Order (comprised of The Book of Government, The Book of Discipline and The Book of Worship), the Westminster Confession of Faith (including the Larger and Shorter Catechisms), and the document Essentials of our Faith. All these documents are subordinate to Scripture, which is "the supreme and final authority" on all matters on which it speaks.