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Unanimous 94-0 vote to sell the pipe organ
(June 28, 2026) By a unanimous 94-0 vote, Pasadena Community Church members made the difficult decision to offer the sanctuary pipe organ for sale. ( See the motion here. ) The members agreed that PCC would consider donating the organ to a recipient who would make honorable use of the instrument that has been a…
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The Text of the Sunday Organ Sale Motion
(June 23, 2026) This is the motion put forward for a churchwide vote by the One Board Church Council. The Council unanimously recommends that church members approve the motion. The vote will occur Sunday June 28th, 2026, following the 11a.m. service. RESOLUTION OF THE CHURCH CONFERENCE OF PASADENA COMMUNITY CHURCH, INC. AT A DULY…
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The curious story of the Holocaust railroad spike
Anita Marshall and Rev. Sidney Tompkins have spent hours combing through boxes upon boxes of decades of church archives and found a box that held a jaw-dropping discovery. They found a railroad spike preserved in Lucite, presented to PCC by the Temple Beth El. As you can see, the spike reportedly came from a Holocaust…
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A Sunday with 10,000 people at PCC
Our Recovery and Reuse Team has been scouring our church archives for historical clipping, photos and treasures and they ran across some attendance records that will floor you. On Easter Sunday, February 25, 1951, church volunteers counted 3,435 cars carrying 10,305 worshipers on our 14 acre campus. That is the largest attendance in our records.…
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Updates from the Churchwide Meeting: Preschool, LEC Upgrades, Organ sale
(June 14, 2026) Preschool update: Pastor Mark told the special churchwide meeting that the best hope is that the City of St. Petersburg will finally approve the building permits that will allow the renovation of the LEC to begin, which will lead to the opening of our new preschool.Repeated delays have put new pressure on…
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Using our history to create new glory
(June 14, 2026) You will remember that about a year ago, we began clearing out a couple of storage sheds, and one of them contained more than 130 solid Black Walnut pew ends that were once in our sanctuary. We sold about 110 of them, and we donated some to charitable causes, such as one…
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