Join us on October 7, 2012, as we celebrate World Communion Sunday and receive the Peacemaking Offering. On this day we join with Christians around the world to celebrate the unity that we find at  the Table of the Lord. We also receive the Peacemaking Offering to support the efforts of our congregation, our synod, our presbytery, and PC (USA) to spread the peace of Christ.

Remember that 25 percent of the Offering will be used in the congregation for our peace-making activities.  The other 75 percent will help our partners in the presbytery, synod, and General Assembly in their efforts to make this a more peaceful world.

World Communion Sunday    

The origin of World Communion

In 1933, a Pittsburgh pastor, Hugh Thompson Kerr, had a unique idea. What if churches all around the world celebrated Holy Communion on the same Sunday? He contacted leaders of various denominations worldwide. His idea was met with such warm enthusiasm that celebrating the sacrament on the first Sunday of October is now an annual affair. It unites Christians throughout the world, or in the words of the popular hymn:

In Christ there is no east or west,
In Him no south or north;
But one great fellowship of love
Throughout the whole wide earth.

World Communion Sunday (originally called World Wide Communion Sunday) originated in the Presbyterian Church (USA). In 1936, for the first time, the first Sunday in October was celebrated in Presbyterian churches in the United States and overseas.  From the beginning, it was planned so that other denominations could make use of it and, after a few years, the idea spread beyond the Presbyterian Church.

The Department of Evangelism of the Federal Council of Churches (a predecessor body of the National Council of Churches) was first associated with World Wide Communion Sunday in 1940 when the department’s executive secretary, Jesse Bader, led in its extension to a number of churches throughout the world.

Please, join with us and Christians around the world in celebrating the Sacrament of our Lord, Jesus Christ.