Mission

National & International

Youth Mission Caravans
Youth and their adult advisors have been participating in annual summer Mission Caravans for generations at CPC. In 2009, Caravans worked on construction and rehab of homes in West Virginia and Virginia, as well as volunteering with special-needs children at Camp Courageous in Iowa. For more information, including dates, registration forms and opportunities to provide scholarship assistance, contact Deb Helms, Director of Youth Ministries, or look under Education/Youth/Summer Mission Caravans.

CROP Walk
Each Fall, usually on a Sunday afternoon in October, CPC joins other local churches in our community's Church World Service CROP Walk. The goal of this event is: Neighbors walking together to take a stand against hunger in our world. Together we raise awareness and funds for international relief and development, as well as local hunger-fighting. Specific dates and information will be posted as soon as they are available. For more information, contact Rev. Dean Lindsey.

Presbytery of Chicago
Welcome to the Presbytery of Chicago home page. The Presbytery of Chicago, a regional governing body of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), serves 106 congregations and 39,000 Presbyterians in Lake, Cook, and DuPage Counties in Illinois. We support the many ministries and missions of the Presbytery through our financial gifts and volunteer hours. For more information, contact Rev. Dean Lindsey.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Special Offerings
Over the course of each year, we receive four special offerings that support numerous national and international ministries on behalf of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). For more information on how these offerings are used, you can go directly to the following links:

Christmas Joy Offering

One Great Hour of Sharing

Pentecost Offering

Peacemaking Offering

Cuba-La Iglesia Presbiteriana Reformada
Community Presbyterian Church has a sister church relationship with the Presbyterian Church in the city of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. In addition to financial support, we send and receive delegations of church members in order to build relationships and understanding between our two congregations and communities. We are hoping to send a delegation to Cuba in the spring of 2008.

Although our sister church does not have a website, you can find more information regarding our denomination's work in Cuba at the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) website.

Rev. Daniel Izquierdo
Moderator, Presbyterian-Reformed Church of Cuba
and pastor of our sister church, near Havana,
San Antonio de los Baños.

Young Adult Volunteer Service
We encourage our young adults to participate in our denomination's one-year Young Adult Volunteer program which offers opportunities for service in the United States and around the world. We encourage our young adults to participate in our denomination's one-year Young Adult Volunteer program which offers opportunities for service in the United States and around the world.

For more information regarding financial support and volunteer opportunities in mission, contact Rev. Dean Lindsey

TEN PERCENT of the 2007-2008 Capital Campaign funds were designated for Mission. The Mission/Benevolence Committee has been very busy for the past two months researching and exploring different areas for CPC’s gift! We have put much prayer and thought into our three final choices, and we want you to know that we will be sending funds to: Cameroon: to build granaries to alleviate hunger in several towns Cuba: to build a men’s dormitory at the Presbyterian Camp located in the middle of the island (similar to our Saugatuck)  Westmont’s Peoples’ Resource Center (PRC) — a nearby food pantry that is supporting nearly 550 families this year See the pictures and link for further details about this wonderful gift to people near and far! Food Sovereignty
Fruit drying in western Cameroon
	Fair Fruit dryer, Jeanne Noubissi proudly presents our five different products
(Right) From their first sorghum harvest, a family in the village of Mambaria carries a bag of grain to the push kart to be brought to their community's grain banks as reimbursement for the food they had borrowed earlier on during the lean season. The bags weigh 100 kg (1 kg is equal to 2.2 lbs), so it takes two or three people to carry one.
This couple use their donkey to help transport the in kind reimbursement of the food they borrowed from the Gagala grain bank. The bowl with grains on the woman's head is the standard measure used as the interest on one bag of grain. (Right) Another family in Gagala takes out the bag of grains they had set aside from their first harvest to reimburse the food they borrowed from the village's grain bank.
Throwing the grains into the wind to separate the chaff from the "wheat" i.e., sorghum. You can see three columns: one of kernels, one of chaff and one of dust.	A partially built granary.