“Pizza and Karaoke” on April 27

Mark your calendars for a fabulous, multi-generational, low stress, high fun event -- Pizza and karaoke at the church.

April 27 at 6 pm we will gather in Fellowship hall. We hope to have a great turnout for what promises to be a gut-busting good time.

If your last name begins with a letter found in the first half of the alphabet, please bring a salad, veggie or fruit to share. If your name begins with a letter found in the second half of the alphabet, please bring a dessert to share.

Concerts with at Cause at Central

Central Christian Church will be presenting a concert of chamber music for strings and piano on Sunday, April 22nd, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary. Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra members Michelle Black, Sophia Cho, Perry Scott, and Peter Vickery will join R. Kent Cook in performing works by Glière, Schubert and Shostakovich. 

Concert admission is free, with a suggested donation. Proceeds will go to support future concerts at CCC and to benefit the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra (MYO), a youth and family development program of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The program is designed to use the life skills learned through music instruction to engage youth in activities that discourage at-risk behaviors and keep them committed to staying in school.

Theology on Tap

Wed at 7 pm is session 3 of our conversations on Reading the Bible Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg. 

As time allows, please read Chapters 4 and 5, covering interpretations of the Creation stories and the early history of Judaism (reading 54 pages). 

Once again the group will be at Tomlinson Tap, upstairs at the City Market at 7 pm. 

The Theology on Tap group of millennials and friends is studying Reading the Bible Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg, beginning Wed Feb 7th at 7 pm at Tomlinson Tap. Each session will be 7 - 8:30 (or so) at Tomlinson Tap upstairs at the City Market. You do not need to be present for each session. Rev Jon Barnes will facilitate. 

 Session     

    1     Wed Feb 7      
    2    Tues Feb 20
    3    Wed Mar 7
    4    Tues March 20
    5    Wed Apr 4
    6    Tues Apr 17

Taizé

Central Christian Church participates in a city-wide rotation of Taizé prayer services. 

Central hosts Taizé on the first Sunday of every month in the sanctuary at 5:00 PM. We invite you to worship, pray and partake of the music.

For more information visit our Taizé page.

Quick Notes

Heidi Unruh, author, speaker, and consultant, will be with us the weekend of February 24th & 25th to help us learn how to build new connections and relationships in the neighborhoods around Central. After church on Sunday February 25th everyone is invited to stay for lunch and conversation about how the Central community can build relationships, and help our immediate neighbors build community. We can even better serve our neighbors. Please come to learn and help us shape this new direction. 

Did you miss getting your picture taken? Warren Lynn will return on February 25th to continue taking photos for our directory. Be sure to stop by the "Photo Spot" in fellowship hall after worship.

The special offering for Week of Compassion continues this Sunday.

Lenten Taizé Service

Lenten Taizé Service
5:00 p.m. March 4, 2018

Come, comtinue your Lenten journey with prayer, song and meditation.

Ash Wednesday Taizé Service

Ash Wednesday Taizé Service
7:00 p.m. February 14, 2018

Come, begin your Lenten journey with prayer, song and meditation.

January Class Offering with Keith Watkins

The Spiritual Growth Ministry Team and Green Chalice is pleased to announce that Dr. Keith Watkins (ecumenist, retired CTS professor and pastor, member of Central) will be offering a series of four classes after worship on January 7, 14, 21, and 28 based on Pope Francis’s “Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality”. Child care will be provided as requested. Please RSVP with the church office at 635-6397 or at office@indyccc.org.  The Encyclical can be downloaded at no charge and is also offered by several publishers in book form. This important document has been compared to Rachel Carson’s

Blue Christmas - Dec. 17 @ 5:30 PM

At Central Christian Church, we will gather on Sunday evening, December 17 at 5:30 to share in a quiet service which will allow us to express our struggles with the tension between our desire for light and our experience of lonely darkness.  The Blue Christmas service is offered to help us know we are not alone. We share the complex feelings of hope and despair as the truth of life and the hope of something different wrestle in our souls.
 
If you or someone you know is struggling this season, join us on December 17 as we explore the light that comes as a child in the night.

Concert for a Cause at Central

Central Christian Church will be presenting singer-songwriter Krista Detor in concert on Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. The award-winning recording artist has been called “America’s best kept secret” by Iain Anderson of BBC Scotland, and Rolling Stone referred to her as ”a small miracle.” Krista Detor is based in Indiana but has performed throughout the United States and Europe. More information about her recordings and concert schedule can be found at: kristadetor.com

Concert admission is free, but donations will be accepted. In addition to supporting the concert series at CCC, proceeds will go towards the Immigrant Welcome Center, a local organization empowering immigrants by connecting them to people, places and resources that enable them to build successful lives in central Indiana