Nan Nasser On Oct. 30, Mountain Shadows Presbyterian Church (MSPC) celebrated its 25th anniversary. What started with a small group of people trying to establish a Presbyterian Church in the Catalina area has resulted in a congregation “centered in Christ, caring for community.” This special service included a hymn composed by SaddleBrooke resident Steve Cupo,…
Award-winning poet Janet Rives will present a poetry reading at Mountain Shadows Presbyterian Church (14240 N. Oracle Rd. at Mountainaire) on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 1:30 p.m. Rives is the author of two poetry collections, “Into This Sea of Green: Poems from the Prairie” and “Washed by a Summer Rain.”
Mountain Shadows Presbyterian Church, located at 3201 E. Mountainaire Dr. in Catalina, will be celebrating Palm Sunday on April 10 and Easter Sunday on April 17, with services for both days at 10 a.m. Pastor Rachel Srubas will be leading both services, which will feature exuberant music. All are welcome! Face masks are recommended for…
Nan Nasser On Sunday, March 1, friends and members of Mountain Shadows Presbyterian Church (MSPC) enjoyed an afternoon at SaddleBrooke Ranch, celebrating the 20th Ordination Anniversary of Pastor Rachel Srubas, and 20 years of MSPC being centered in Christ, caring for community. The event began with a social period at the Sol Ballroom, followed by…
Nan Nasser Mountain Shadows Presbyterian Church will celebrate Easter Sunday, April 12, with two services; one at 8 a.m. on the ramada and a second, identical service, at 10 a.m. in the sanctuary. There will be choral and instrumental music supporting the service. Easter lilies will decorate both the memorial garden and the sanctuary, and…
Nan Nasser Six young women arrived in Tucson to begin a year as a young adult volunteer in an ecumenical, faith-based period of service provided by Presbyterian Church. Under the auspices of Presbytery de Cristo, the women will work with six different area agencies, addressing the root causes of poverty. These volunteers are between the…
Nan Nasser Mountain Shadows Presbyterian Church (MSPC) will participate in a program designed to raise awareness of hunger in our area and ways to help alleviate it in our geographic area. Since many of the congregants live in Pinal County, it became obvious that there is a serious problem with hunger in that area. In…
Nan Nasser Mountain Shadows Presbyterian Church (MSPC) began the season of Lent on Ash Wednesday, March 6, and it lasts for 40 days, not including Sundays. This marks the 40 days that Jesus spent in the desert, fasting and resisting temptations. It is a solemn observance and preparation for the death of Jesus and His…
Reverend Denise Edwards has been introduced to the congregation of MSPC as a Parish Associate and has been named a temporary Presbyterian member by the Committee on Ministry of Presbytery de Cristo. She was ordained by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and pastored congregations in Ohio before coming to Arizona with her husband Ruling…
Nan Nasser and Shawne Cryderman It is not often that a church can admit it has been assisted by a series of criminal actions, but Mountain Shadows Presbyterian Church in Catalina has been such a recipient. Community Circle Players, founded in 2016 by Susan Sterling and Shawne Cryderman, has produced two dinner theatre murder mysteries,…