Central Christian Church DOC - Springfield, MO

Join us in person or online for our worship service: October 25, 2026 at 9:30 a.m.

November 8, 2026 Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost | November 8th, 2026Rev. Geof...

“Did you hear me?”

If you grew up hearing that question, you know it was never really about your ears. It meant: are you going to do something about it?

Turns out God has been asking the same thing for a very long time.

In Deuteronomy 6, Moses gathers the people of Israel at the edge of a new beginning and tells them what matters most: “Hear, O Israel.” Love God with everything you’ve got—heart, soul, and strength. Let those words sink in. Pass them down. Speak them at home and on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. It’s a lesson that echoes through the generations, one Jesus himself pointed to when asked what matters most.

This Sunday, Rev. Geoff Weinman preaches “Hear.” We are called to love people—to tell about God’s love, share it, and show it in how we live. We’ve had plenty of practice with the hearing part. The acting part is where it gets good.

And speaking of things worth hearing: our Chancel Choir and Choral Scholars will lift their voices, and our historic pipe organ will fill the sanctuary with a sound that’s hard to describe and impossible to forget. It’s worship you can feel as much as hear.

For generations, Central Christian Church has made its home in historic Midtown Springfield. Through it all, one thing hasn’t changed: Everyone is welcome here. No exceptions. No fine print.

📍 Central Christian Church, 1475 N. Washington, Springfield, MO
⛪ Worship: 9:30 AM
☕ Fellowship: 10:45 AM
📖 Sunday School: 11:00 AM
🌐 centralchristianspringfield.org
📺 Can't join us in person? Watch the livestream on YouTube:

Image: Frederic Edwin Church, “Moses Viewing the Promised Land,” 1846, oil on academy board, private collection

Join us at 7:00pm this evening, October 29, 2026 as our Choir Director, Marvin Murphree, sings the songs from his many roles thorughout his career.

Click the link below to see the concert.
https://youtube.com/live/i-Rkt_dUYNg?feature=share

Join us for All Saints’ Day—a special Sunday of remembrance.

The Beatitudes in Matthew 5 aren’t a list of rules. They’re Jesus looking out at an ordinary crowd, people who were grieving, worn down, hungry for things to be made right, and calling them blessed. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” He ends with a promise: rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven.

1 John 3 picks up the same thread. “See what love God has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are.” Not someday. Right now. And the letter admits plainly that what we will be hasn’t been revealed yet. We don’t have every answer about what comes next. What we do have is a promise that it’s more than we can imagine, held by a God who loves us.

That’s the heart of Rev. Geoff Weinman’s message, “Great in Heaven.” On Sunday we’ll speak the names of the saints from our church family who have died this past year and give thanks for a love that death doesn’t get the last word on.

The music for this service will be something special, with the great hymns of the saints and music that lifts the heart and comforts the soul. Then we’ll gather at the Lord’s Table, where everyone is welcome.

Central Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has been a home in Midtown Springfield for generations, and our doors are open to everyone. Whoever you are, whoever you’re missing, there’s a place for you here.

REMINDER: Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday morning, so set your clocks back an hour and enjoy the extra sleep!

📍 Central Christian Church, 1475 N. Washington, Springfield, MO
⛪ Worship: 9:30 AM
☕ Fellowship: 10:45 AM
📖 Sunday School: 11:00 AM
🌐 centralchristianspringfield.org
📺 Can't join us in person? Watch the livestream on YouTube:

Image: Fra Angelico, “Christ Glorified in the Court of Heaven”, c. 1423-24, egg tempera on wood, The National Gallery, London, England

The newest edition, and the correct edition, of Central Christian Church's newsletter, "The Call" is now available. Please click on the link below to see the issue.

https://centralchristianspringfield.org/newsletter

Join us in person or online for our worship service: October 25, 2026 at 9:30 a.m.

Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost | October 25, 2026 Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost | October 25th, 2026Rev. Geof...

Someone once handed you God’s love. Who’s next in line?

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Apostle Paul wrote a letter to a young church in Thessalonica. He hadn’t arrived there in great shape. He and his companions had just been beaten and thrown in jail in Philippi, and the reception in Thessalonica wasn’t much friendlier. They could have kept their heads down. Instead, they spoke up.

And Paul is refreshingly honest about how they did it. No flattery. No sales pitch. No angling for praise or a paycheck. He says they were gentle among the people there, like a mother tenderly caring for her own children. And because they had come to love those folks so deeply, they didn’t just hand over a message. They gave of themselves. (1 Thessalonians 2:1-8)
That’s how the good news has always traveled. Not through polished speeches, but through ordinary people who cared enough to show up.

This Sunday, the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Rev. Geoff Weinman brings us “Entrusted with the Message.” Think about who handed God’s love to you. Maybe a grandmother, a Sunday School teacher, a neighbor who sat with you through a hard season. Now it’s in our hands. We hear it, we live it, and we pass it along to a world that needs to know God loves every single person in it.

For generations, Central Christian Church has been sharing that message from the heart of Midtown Springfield. Whoever you are, wherever you’ve been, whatever you’re carrying, there’s a seat for you here, and a place for you at the Table.

📍 Central Christian Church, 1475 N. Washington, Springfield, MO
⛪ Worship: 9:30 AM
☕ Fellowship: 10:45 AM
📖 Sunday School: 11:00 AM
🌐 centralchristianspringfield.org
📺 Can't join us in person? Watch the livestream on YouTube:

Image: Rembrandt van Rijn, “The Apostle Paul,” c. 1657, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Faith isn’t something you just believe. It’s something you do.

That’s the heart of this Sunday’s message, “Faith and Labor,” from Rev. Geoff Weinman. Our scripture, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, is likely the oldest writing in the entire New Testament.

Paul wrote it to a brand-new congregation in Thessalonica, a busy port city where he’d been run out of town after only a few weeks. He had every reason to worry they wouldn’t make it. Instead, he opens with gratitude. He tells them he gives thanks for them constantly, remembering their “work of faith, labor of love, and steadfastness of hope.”

That word “labor” matters. In Paul’s language it means the kind of work that wears you out. Sore muscles. Long days. The effort you give when no one’s watching and you’re tired anyway. These folks weren’t keeping their faith tucked away for Sunday. They were living it out under pressure, and they did it with joy.

And people noticed. Paul says word of their faith spread all through the region, so far that he didn’t need to tell anyone about it. Their lives did the talking.

Most of us know something about that kind of labor. Raising kids, caring for aging parents, showing up for a job, a neighbor, a community that needs us. Paul reminds us that this every day, wearying, faithful work is holy, and it’s how the good news gets told.

🎶 PLUS, it’s Jazz Sunday! Our worship will be filled with exceptional music and special guests, so expect something a little different and a lot joyful. 🎶

Central Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has called Midtown Springfield home for generations, and EVERYONE is welcome here. Bring a friend, bring your questions, bring yourself.

📍 Central Christian Church, 1475 N. Washington, Springfield, MO
⛪ Worship: 9:30 AM
☕ Fellowship: 10:45 AM
📖 Sunday School: 11:00 AM
🌐 centralchristianspringfield.org
📺 Can't join us in person? Watch the livestream on YouTube:

Image: Norman Lewis, “Phantasy II,” 1946, oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City

Join us in person or online for our worship service: October 11, 2026 at 9:30 a.m.

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost | October 11, 2026 Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost | October 11th, 2026Rev. Geoff We...