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Thus begins the current mission statement of Takoma Park Presbyterian Church (TPPC). We are a small, but active church in Takoma Park, Maryland working for social justice from Silver Spring to Jinocuao, Nicaragua.
Our church is known as "a church for all people" because our congregation is made up of people of many races, cultures, occupations, ages, and sexual orientations.
We welcome all to join our worship on Sunday at 11 AM, our Sunday School classes for children and adults at 9:30 AM, and we welcome you here as well.
Note : starting June 6th, worship services will begin at 10 AM for the summer. There will be no Sunday School until the fall. On September 5th, worship will begin at the normal time of 11 AM.
The TPPC Worship Committee invites everyone to our End of Summer / Back-to-School worship service on Sunday, August 29 starting at 10 AM. We will have our service at the Sanctuary followed by a potluck at the Assembly Room. Please bring a dish or more to share with joy. Bring also your backpacks / briefcases as we will having a blessing ceremony at the Assembly Room.
As we share God's abundance among ourselves, we encourage you to bring a can or more of non-perishable food items to donate to the Shepherds Table.
Our congregation isent the international Charter for Compassion to our denomination's General Assembly, and the General Assembly voted to become the first "mainline denomination" to sign on to the Charter.
A YouTube video on the charter is available. For more information, access the article on the Charter in TPPC News.
The Sunday School classes need your help to help children all over the world. On September 5, we will gather together again to assemble Church World Service School Kits. These kits give children in impoverished schools, refugee camps, or other difficult settings some of the basic tools for learning. Please take a look at the display and collection box in the window, in the back of the sanctuary.
To assemble a School Kit we need:
We particularly need: 70 Sheet spiral notebooks, big erasers, and 30 cm rulers.
Note that on Saturday, August 28, 10 –11:30 a.m., parents and family members are invited to join Sunday School Teachers and helpers in preparing the classrooms, and reviewing the teaching schedule. Sunday School will begin again for the year on Sunday, September 12 at 9:30 AM.
Starting in September and continuing this fall, the combined women's circles will meet on the second Saturday of the month in the church parlor. This second Saturday of the month is tentative and might need to be adjusted, but we'll try to keep schedule changes to a minimum.
The group will finish up the Book of Joshua, and start studying the Book of Revelation on September 11, beginning at 10:30 AM and then stop for lunch and fellowship together at 12:30 (so, please bring a sandwich).
Come join us!
Yes—it is gleaning time again! What better way to celebrate the bounty of Mother Nature than to take the donated excess produce from our farmers market to Shepherds Table.
We need two-three volunteers to help on September 12th. It's a simple job- meet at 1:50 pm in front of Roscoe/Clock at the Takoma Park Farmers Market with plastic bags (some garbage-size also and boxes) and just ask the vendors for any extra food they are willing to donate to Shepherds Table. No hard sell, but most vendors will give us something. Then we deliver the food to the kitchen at Shepherds Table and their chef turns it into delicious food for over 100 people.
For more information contact gleaning@takomaparkpc.org.
The annual meeting of the local chapter of the More Light Presbyterians will be held at TPPC on Sunday, September 26, 5:00 -8:30 p.m.
This meeting will feature workshops on "Making Space in Worship for a Bigger God," expanding the ways we perceive and worship the Divine. There will be a worship service and we will share a delicious meal.
Six times each year, several members of our congregation join DC Cares to cook a noon meal for the homeless at Saint Stephen and the Incarnation Church in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, DC. Loaves and Fishes provides a variety of services to homeless men, women, and families in the DC area, providing social service assistance as well as meals for people in need.
Our next opportunity to serve at Loaves and Fishes is September 26th.
If you can help, please let us know by sending an email to loavesandfishes@takomaparkpc.org before August 17th.
As part of National Capital Presbytery’s 2010 “Year of Evangelism,” oneday workshops on storytelling will be offered to members of NCP congregations by SpeakeasyDC (www.speakeasydc.com) a local nonprofit that teaches and promotes personal storytelling. See a video of workshop veterans at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kETIaYIuKWQ. One of the sessions will be held at TPPC on October 9th.
This session is free to NCP participants (a $95 value). The workshop is limited to 18 students, with no more than 6 students per congregation. All are welcome! Great for 20- and 30-somethings!
A flyer (PDF) can be found at the NCP website.
Pastor Greiner invites you to join him in weekly mediation. You are welcome to come for sitting and walking meditation for 45 minutes. Discussion follows on a book about meditation; currently we are reading Pema Chodron's Comfortable with Uncertainty. The group is lead by the Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center, whose mission is to nurture all who wish to practice Mindfulness. Thich Nhat Hanh, a widely-known Vietnamese Buddhist monk, author and activist, is the key inspiration for this group.
For more information see the website; http://www.stillwatermpc.org/ or call Pastor Greiner at 301-270-5550.
TPPC now has a virtual bookstore, hosted by Cokesbury.com for TPPC.
You can access the virtual bookstore by clicking on the "Virtual Bookstore" graphic
to the right of this text.
Vistors to our virtual bookstore will be able to order books from Cokesbury.com at a discount, with a percentage of qualifying sales going to support TPPC.
Takoma Park Presbyterian Church
310 Tulip Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912
Phone : 301-270-5550
Fax : 301-270-8405
email : office@takomaparkpc.org
Rev. Mark Greiner, Pastor
Una Kettering, Office Administrator
James F. Cubbie, Director of Youth Ministry
Dr. James Bingham, Director of Music
Wilbert Glover, Building Manager.
Julie Rosenkrans, Children's Worship and Music Director
Webmaster : Brian C. Monsell