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(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”

(June 3, 2026) Florida United Methodist Conference Property Management Workshop PCC One-Board co-chair Gary Butler and Lay Leader Al Tompkins attended a class at the UMC Annual Conference on June 3, 2026, presented by representatives of “Foundry Commercial,” an Orlando-based firm that works with the Florida UMC Conference on matters of real estate sales, churchContinue reading “Lessons about property management from experts at the UMC Annual Conference”

(Update June 5, 2026) Thanks to a generous gift from Rev. David and Grace Lindsay, Pasadena Community Church will soon have a Memorial Wall, a place to remember and honor our church family and friends. The wall is being built inside the Rev. Sidney Tompkins Prayer Path. The wall and walkway are complete, and theContinue reading “The PCC Memorial Wall Near Completion”

The committees that have been gathering information about what we should keep and what we should sell or rehome are ready to tell us what they have learned and make some key recommendations. There will be two meetings, June 14th, to learn what committees have discovered and now recommend, and June 28th, an important voteContinue reading “Sundays June 14 and June 28: Important all-church meetings”