175 Celebration Events Schedule

Living into Christ’s Call for Us and our Neighbors for 175 Years

Through the rest of 2026 we will be honoring the past, celebrating our current church community and looking forward to the future. We have a variety of activities planned and hope that you can participate in this time of celebration. Look for this page each month in Church Chat and follow the Sunday announcements prior to worship for current events. Check out the calendar on the church website and watch Facebook.

Major Themes for our Celebration

Assembling 175 food bags of “shelf stable” items to make a meal for a family. Collecting stories from previous and current members for a living memory album. Fun activities and learning events.

May Events

May 3: The Mission Team is preparing meals for the congregation to sample that can be assembled from canned meats and vegetables as we launch our 175 meal bags project.

Artist in residence Angie Cooper is painting a “family tree” which will be displayed in the Welcome Center. You are invited to write your name on a leaf to attach to the tree. The names of our founding families and previous members who contributed so much to our church will also be added.

May 31: Observing Decoration Day. The original Memorial Day was celebrated on May 30th and was called Decoration Day as family members decorated the graves with flowers. Congress changed the date in 1968 to a three-day holiday weekend at the end of May. Cassie Brooks will lead a tour through our White Lick Cemetery after worship and recognize the veterans and church leaders who are interred in their eternal rest. Invite your history buff friends who love to walk through old cemeteries.

Save the date: A White Lick 4th on July 12th. Food, fellowship with returning past members, sharing our stories. The highlight of our year of celebration.

Do you enjoy history?

We are looking for help from the congregation to write articles for local news media outlets about our church; collect memories from previous members; research our history; and update the history done for the 170th celebration posted on the church website https://www.whitelickpcusa.org/resources.

Photographers needed. We are looking for members who can capture our year in picture and video for a presentation at the end of the year.

If you are interested in helping with our 175th celebration contact Ginny Sheets or Cassie Brooks.