McCloud Community Presbyterian Church
Serving the Community of McCloud Since 1904 
P.O. Box 610
McCloud, CA 96057
(530) 964-2381 Voice
(530) 964-2158 Fax
Sunday Worship Services 11:00 a.m.
Adult Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Email to: Edie Adams at mcpc@snowcrest.net
 revision Sept. 21, 2008
Mission Statement
We are a biblically based church called to glorify
God through Jesus Christ both locally and globally.
 
Pastor
Reverend Dr. James Howe
Office Hours:
Wednesday & Friday
8:00 to 12:00

 

ABOUT OUR NEW PASTOR

Reverend Dr. James Howe began his ministry in the Parish of the Siskiyous on March 1, 2008.
 
Jim is a 1977 graduate of California State University, Chico. He attended Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA by extension from 1985 through 1989. He received his Masters of Divinity from Regent College in Vancouver, B.C., Canada in 1990 and a Doctorate of Ministry from Fuller Theological seminary in 2002.
 
Both Jim and his wife, Kerry, are very familiar with Siskiyou county. Kerry was born and raised on a cattle ranch near Granada. Jim worked at the Scott Valley Berean Church and Weed Berean Church as Youth Director. He also was the area director for Siskiyou County Young Life.
 
Jim served as Pastor at First Presbyterian Church, Bickelton, WA, from 1990 to 1995. In 1995 he was called to be pastor at Community Presbyterian Church in Waldport, OR where he served until February 2008.
 
Both Jim and Kerry eagerly anticipate the opportunity to serve the Parish of the Siskiyous.
Pastor Jim’s Parish Scroll Message will appear here each month.
Pastor's Message
October 2008
I have been thinking about how our identity impacts our trajectory. Who we understand ourselves to be affects how we live out our faith. One of the most common definitions of the church is a building. So the temptation to put a picture of the church on the front of our information is strong. But this is misleading because God is the one who defines the Church as a sent people. We are not the buildings we meet in, but we are a people called by God into the service of the kingdom. Mission is not only something we fund, it is the purpose we remain on earth to fulfill to the glory of God.
 
Listen to what our bibles teach us about the purpose for the church:
 
“I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” (Genesis 12:2-3, NIV) “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn." (Isaiah 60:1-3, NIV) "Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” (John 20:21, NIV) "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem (or McCloud, Mt. Shasta and Weed), and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8, NIV) “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God." (Revelation 21:1-3, NIV)
A church that is not missional is not really a church. It is a religious club. A church exists by mission as the sun exists by burning. When the sun loses its burn it ceases to be the sun. When a church loses its mission, it ceases to be a church.
Scott Thomas puts it this way, “Missional is an adjective describing all of the activities of the church body as they are brought under the mission of God (missio dei) to proclaim the good news of salvation through His Son Jesus Christ. Being on mission very easily becomes one activity in church among many others vying for attention. Over time, churches allow meetings, programs, traditions and other good things to cumulatively move the church from missional mode to maintenance mode. A church must continuously see itself as missionaries and all of its energies must be missionary.
Pastor Jim’s Parish Scroll Message will appear here each month.
October 2008
A missional church understands it has been sent into an irreligious world to proclaim the Gospel of Redemption that is made possible by the Son's sacrifice for our sins and the Father's love for us. Every believer is sent on this mission by God just as Jesus was sent on this mission (John 17:14-16, 18; 20:21). To respond to this calling is to be missional. To neglect it is to disregard the mission of God and to cease being the kind of church that is following Jesus.
We are like Jason Bourne, the character in Robert Ludlum’s books who loses his memory. We have an exciting opportunity to rediscover what it really means to be in mission together as a sent people. Where in the world? Where in McCloud, Mount Shasta and Weed is God sending you? We are blessed to be a blessing. We are a sent people.
Standing in the Apostolic
 

Tradition, Pastor Jim

 

Check out Presbyterian Global Fellowship, a key movement that can assist us in engaging McCloud, Mt. Shasta and Weed in new ways as churches that are committed to sharing the good news of Jesus Christ: http://presbyterianglobalfellowship.org

 
Passage of the Season

"Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again;

but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst..."
John 4: 13-14
 
ELDERS
DEACONS
Sybil Stewart - Clerk of Session
Annette Spitsen - Moderator
Edie Adams - Treasurer
Mary Selby - Vice Moderator
Greta Jones
Betty Gray - Secretary
Wilma Claro
Marilyn Black - Treasurer
Dan Selby
Laurie Zanni
Raymond Zanni
Fran Martin
Sandie Fantel
Margaret Stoner
Steve Jones

Grace Presbyterian Church - Weed, CA
National Presbyterian Website
Presbyterian Global Fellowship
Presbyterians for Renewal
What God is Saying
 
Services and Events for 2008
November
 
Nov. 2
Sermon: Blessed to Overcome Evil
Scripture; Eph. 6: 10-20
 
Nov. 9
Sermon: Blessed to Overcome Evil Part II
Scripture: Eph. 6: 10-20
 
Nov. 16
Sermon: Blessing the New World into Existence
Scripture: Eph. 6: 21-24
 
Nov. 23
Sermon: Pledges Dedicated
Scritpure: Mk 8: 27-38
 
Nov. 30
Preaching: Gerry Watson
 
December
 
Dec. 7
Sermon: Unholy Stock: From Sinners for Sinners
Scripture: Matt. 1:1-6