Our Church History

Anticipating a need for a new congregation in this area, Orange Presbytery purchased property on Liberty Road in 1965 and called Angus W. McGregor as organizing pastor in 1969. A small group began meeting in the pastor’s living room, later moving to the cafeteria at Southeast Junior High School. During the next two years, a community of worship, service and study developed. They reached out to persons for whom “traditional” church held little appeal by offering an alternative experience in worship and program.

CIC was officially organized as a Presbyterian congregation of 109 members in December of 1971. With $189 in the church account in 1972, 41 families took on a $240,000 debt in a leap of faith and built our current building, which was occupied in June of 1973.

James M. Rissmiller became pastor in 1978. The building debt was paid off in 1987 and by the end of 1991, membership numbered 336.

In 2003, Frederick A. Beck was called as pastor of CIC, and the church continues to grow in spirit and numbers.

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