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(August 6, 2026) An Important Update on Our Preschool Construction Project Dear Pasadena Community Church Family, As we look toward the future of our ministry and the exciting move of our renowned preschool to the Life Enrichment Center,”the Building Oversight Committee wants to share an important update regarding our construction progress. To ensure we exerciseContinue reading “Changing General Contractor for the LEC/Preschool renovation”

If you ask the Recovery and Reuse Committee members to list their toughest decisions, the top of the list would be finding a new home for the pipe organ. But a close second place would be deciding what to do with our large inventory of stained glass. Click here and remind yourself of what isContinue reading “Straight talk about the future our PCC stained glass”

As part of the construction project that will move the PCC preschool into the LEC, workers will turn most of what is now our stage into two classrooms. That means a wall will be where the curtain is now. Our current plan is to move the curtain in front of the new wall. The committeeContinue reading “Moving the altar into the LEC”

(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 aContinue reading “Unanimous 94-0 vote to sell the pipe organ”

(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 DULYContinue reading “The Text of the Sunday Organ Sale Motion”

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 HolocaustContinue reading “The curious story of the Holocaust railroad spike”

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.Continue reading “A Sunday with 10,000 people at PCC”

(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 onContinue reading “Updates from the Churchwide Meeting: Preschool, LEC Upgrades, Organ sale”

(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 oneContinue reading “Using our history to create new glory”

(June 9, 2026) The Church Council unanimously approved a plan to improve the sound abatement in the Life Enrichment Center. The LEC Improvement Committee spent the last several weeks meeting with contractors who presented various ways to reduce the echo that makes it difficult to hear clearly in the gym. The Committee presented the ChurchContinue reading “LEC Upgrade Update: Contract signed for Sound Improvement”