Adult Fellowship and Bible Studies

Adult Book Study

Throughout the year various book studies are announced with various meeting times. Please scroll down for information.

Martha Circle

Martha Circle meets the 3rd Tuesday of the month, usually meeting in the Fireside Room for a book study. Please scroll down for 2024 meeting schedule. 

Seafarers

This is an adult social group that usually meets on Fridays. They sponsor various mission activities and facilitate a book exchange one Sunday a month.

CPC Book Discussion

Every month a book is chosen to be read. On the last Sunday of the month, after Service, we meet for fellowship and book discussion. Please scroll down for the 2024 reading list. 

Lent Study on Zoom

Tuesdays, March 4 - April 15, 2025

3:30 pm to 5 pm

How’s your spiritual life these days? Is it the firm foundation you want it to be, you need it to be? If not, what needs to change? Lent (the 40 days leading to Easter, excluding Sundays) is the perfect time to reflect on our earthly and spiritual lives.

How are you preparing for Good Friday and the joy of Easter? If you’re looking for a way, please join Laura Levin for a video sermon- and Bible-based study for Lent. If you’re absolutely new to the Bible, YOU ARE WELCOME! If you are a Bible scholar, YOU ARE WELCOME! (And can help Laura, lol!) These are NO PRESSURE gatherings where seekers come to learn what they can and contribute only what and when they wish.

The Psalms are the “hymnbook of the Bible,” and have a beautiful way of expressing the human condition and our relationship with God. Pastors Timothy Keller and David Bisgrove from Redeemer Presbyterian Church shed new insights on specific psalms. NO BOOK PURCHASE IS NECESSARY, although there is a corresponding 40-day Lenten devotional which participants may choose to purchase.



Martha Circle

Meeting in-person or on Zoom,3rd Tuesday afternoons at 1:30 pm

All meetings will be hybrid (in person in the Fireside Room and on Zoom) until further notice.

The Martha Circle study this year is: Let Justice Roll Down God’s Call to Care for Neighbors and All Creation


3/18/25 - Food Justice: The Bible portrays the earth as yielding food in abundance, and today’s agricultural scientists say it could provide food for all. We can learn to produce food with justice and peace and feed a starving world. 


4/15/25 - Water Justice: Water is so essential, and its presence and absence so impactful, that both Scripture and contemporary events reflect its multidimensional effects on human life. 


5/20/25 - Air Quality: The wind itself often signals a holy moment, and is related to both our breath and God’s, both our spirit and God’s. 


6/17/25 - Climate Change: Scripture teaches us to listen to prophets who warn of threats, avoid complacency and self-concern, and participate with joy in the work God has given us to do. 


9/16/25 - Economic Climate Justice: The Bible’s economic wisdom never promises to eradicate poverty: “You always have the poor with you,” it says instead. But we can reduce suffering and strengthen the entire social network.


10/21/25 - Intergenerational Justice: Like the authors who reflected midstream on the meaning of ancient Judah’s story with God, who held onto unrealized hopes for their future, we have a story with God, a story whose meaning is changing. 


11/18/25 - Sustaining Creation’s Health for All: Scripture and modern science help us see nature’s wisdom more clearly and lead us to seek just ways to care for the earth and one another.



Earline Barfield and Margaret Pasholk invite any women of the church to join in this Bible study and prayer time.  

Please Contact Us if you would like to join the meeting. 

Seafarers of CPC

Meeting in-person

2nd Friday of the Month at 12:30 pm


Join us for a time of fellowship, a devotional and prayer time.

Please Contact Us if you would like to join the meeting. 

Since we usually met for lunch before, feel free to bring a munchie or a cup of tea to enjoy during the meeting.  

CPC Book Discussion📚

 (2025 schedule)

Join in the discussion, open to all who read the assigned book, 

no club to join. Usually 11:30 on last Sunday.

Meeting on Zoom


CPC Book Group 2025 List


March 30 - James by Percival Everett. The story from the perspective of James the traveling partner of Huck Finn on the raft. 303 pgs.


April 27 - The women, by Kristin Hannah, 464 pages. Novel about a young woman from a somewhat wealthy family in Coronado who joins the military as an Army Nurse and is sent to Vietnam including the front lines. Book talks about social life of the medical staff and what happens after she returns to the US.


May 25 - The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich. Story about 2 orphans growing up in a small town in North Dakota in 1932. 368 pages


June 29 - Work Song by Ivan Doig. About the 1917 copper mine in Butte Montana. Pages 275


August 31 - The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy. A Jack Ryan novel. 656 pages in the latest paperback release. Russian/US submarine interaction.


September 28 - The heaven and earth Grocery Store by James McBride. 375 pgs. A story about people who are struggling with ambitions, successes and disappointments.


October 26 - The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths. Mystery set in England. 288 pages.


November 30 – Vision of sugar plums by Janet Evanovich. A Christmas story that will give you a good taste of Stephenie Plum in this long running mystery series.