Christ Presbyterian Church, located on Tompkins Street in Cortlandville, welcomes you to our active and involved community of faith. The good news of Christ leads us to affirm and nurture each person's spiritual journey, to explore freely the challenge and wonder of the faith, and to reach out with love and compassion to the needs of the world.
As a welcoming, serving congregation, we seek to share God's grace through education, fellowship, music, and inclusive outreach ministries to those in physical and spiritual need.
Our worship focuses on the challenges of contemporary life and faith as we seek to know and follow God. Beneath our similarities our members share a diversity of approaches to belief. Most are seekers, confident in our beliefs but open to new revelations and deeper levels of spirituality.
Christ Presbyterian Church
is a member of Susquehanna Valley Presbytery and the Synod of the Northeast,
governing bodies of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). We are organized according
to the denomination’s Book of Order. Men and women are nominated and elected by the congregation to serve three year terms as ordained elders and deacons.
Session
The congregation’s chief governing body is comprised of 9 elected "elders" who represent the members. The Session is moderated by the pastor. There are seven Session committees, each moderated by an elder. The Session is responsible for the mission and governance of the church.
Deacons
Given authority for congregational care by the Session, __ members, and one youth delegate, are elected to three year terms. In addition to congregational care, Deacons may assume other duties as may be delegated to them from time to time by the session.
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