6PM Saturday Service, Dec 9th is CANCELLED

ATTENTION: 6pm Saturday night service for December 9th is cancelled due to inclement weather. Sunday services will occur as normal this weekend.

THE SEARCH FOR MEANING | ECCLESIASTES 8:2-9:10

Why Advent?

During the Advent season we anticipate together the arrival of the Christ-child.

It’s good to anticipate. Without the wait, there would be no wonder. Into the darkness a great...

Missional Mindset | The Extraordinary Give

CFC loves the ExtraOrdinary Give. This past Friday, our missions team was thrilled to give away $21,000 to several local ministries.

Here’s why this is so exciting:

• God is working in...

THE SEARCH FOR MEANNG | ECCLESIASTES 5:8-7:14

Do you have a dream? If it’s not somehow connected to God, then it can end up becoming a nightmare. The ability to enjoy anything comes from God. (Eccl. 2:25). That is why it’s so important...

THE SEARCH FOR MEANING | ECCLESIASTES 5:1-7

This passage is about worship! What a break from the meaningless things Solomon worshipped and found so vain. How should we approach God? What does it mean to guard our steps, to stand in awe of...

MY CFC & Online Giving

CFC has recently upgraded our church management system to the web-based platforms Elexio Community & Elexio Giving. We hope that our online community through Elexio will help you get plugged into...

THE SEARCH FOR MEANING | ECCLESIASTES 3:16-4:16

Freud and Frankl were two brilliant psychologists who lived in Vienna just before World War II. Freud specialized in man’s search for happiness and Frankl specialized in man’s search for...

Live Worry Free | A Testimony by Tricia Garber

“WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST NEED?”

This was the question posed to us at the beginning of the teaching session of week 4 of the Women’s Fall Bible Study, Live Worry Free. We were asked to write...

THE SEARCH FOR MEANING| ECCLESIASTES 3:1-15

There are seasons for things.

We don’t like unpleasant seasons. We rush. (At least I do).

We try to be like everyone else.

We don’t like change.

What current season are you in?

There...

Trick or Treat Night | A Missional Mindset

I didn’t grow up trick-or-treating. It wasn’t something that was part of our church or family culture, plus we lived in the country, so there wouldn’t have been many houses to go to.

As an...

THE SEARCH FOR MEANING | ECCLESIASTES 1-2

Join us in following the greatest life experiment of all times. Solomon (the author) describes the endless amounts of wealth, pleasure, wisdom, and prestige he experienced, and still found life...

CFC Features | Sierra Wood

THE KINGDOM OF GOD | OCTOBER 14 & 15

Wouldn’t you love to live in a world with no evil? Whether it is hurricanes, raging fires, mass shootings, sexual assaults, greedy corporations, or sickness, we are constantly aware of the...

Orphan Care Ministry Update

A few weeks ago, I saw a glimpse of God’s kingdom at our first annual Adoption & Foster Care Picnic. Kids of all different backgrounds and ethnicities running, laughing and dancing to worship...

THE KINGDOM OF GOD | OCTOBER 7 & 8

Nearly every Sunday of my youth my brothers and I would load up in the car and head over to St Michael’s Catholic Church in Mt Airy, MD for the 10:30am Mass. And every week we would recite the...

Meet CFC’s New Student Ministry Director

We are excited to announce that in about two weeks Douglas Kersten, along with his wife Leah, will be arriving here in Lancaster to become the next Student Ministry Director for CFC. Douglas is...

Welcome the Daniel Family

On behalf of the core team of volunteers for the relocation and resettlement of the Daniel family, we thank you for the ways you have gotten involved or will get involved in supporting this...

THE KINGDOM OF GOD | SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 1, 2017

When you add leaven to bread dough it quickly permeates and puffs it up. What is leaven? What does it represent in the Bible? Leaven has something to do with the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 13:33)....

Lisa Jurgensen Memorial Service

It is with sadness that we say “Goodbye’ to Lisa this week and join her family in grieving and reflecting on her life. Lisa battled with cancer for ten months and the Lord decided to take her...

THE KINGDOM OF GOD | SEPTEMBER 23 & 24, 2017

This short parable has much to say about another hidden flaw trying to infiltrate the Kingdom of God- human pride. Whether the small size of a mustard seed (our faith), or the large size of a...