ABOUT US
This congregation began life in 1976 with a few families.
At that time, there was not a main line church of the reformed faith in Orland Park.
Our first home was the little, white, steeple church on 143rd Street in Old Orland Park.
We moved to this larger facility in the fall of 1990 and now have a growing membership of over 300.
We are a diverse, energetic, concerned and devoted community of warmth and friendship.
We are singles, couples and families that span four generations.
We extend a welcoming hand to Christians of all denominations who share a desire to worship, pray, serve and find answers.
Our commitment to Jesus Christ is communicated through worship, education, fellowship, mission outreach and personal involvement.
Should you wish to join this church, New Member Inquirer's Classes are held after worship service
on a Sunday during a specific month, four times a year. Those desiring to join this church will be received at worship service
after participating in an Inquirer's Class.
PASTOR'S MESSAGE
The Presbyterian Church exists to love, worship and serve God. This
church family strives to meet this commitment by living, loving, and acting
as Christians who know, love and serve Jesus Christ in our changing world.
The reconciliation of humanity to God requires our faithful declaration of
the Good News of which God has done for us. God calls us to embody the Gospel,
with all its implications, into the life of the people of this church as individuals and as a community of believers.
This church family strives to develop community experiences where we can
make discoveries within ourselves and about our faith. This congregational
experience can nourish Christian life as we share with others who are making similar discoveries.
The Presbyterian Church in Orland Park has a "relational" style of ministry
relating love of God and love of neighbor. We strive to put our faith to
work in all the relationships in our lives—with God, ourselves, our family,
our community and the world.
—Rev. Scott Estler
MISSION STATEMENT
We believe that we were called by the Holy Spirit to establish a church community in Orland Park.
As a church in the midst of a growing area, we have been given a special challenge:
The challenge of interpreting the gospel in such a way that it becomes an energy-charged reality in our lives,
capable of shaping our lives as Christians, and of influencing the future shape of this community.
Furthermore, we believe we are called to be a church in mission to the immediate community and world.
By responding in word and deed to the human needs and social issues of our area and world,
we affirm Christ�s commandment to �love God with all our hearts, minds and souls, and our neighbors as ourselves�.
Our faith has affected the shape of our lives in the past, and now we feel the need to support each other
in faith with our children and to be a particular community in which all who gather, young, and old or in-between,
may feel the joy, the power, the oneness, the love, which make the church truly representative of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Because we come from different backgrounds and church affiliations, we can be, with the help of God,
a church which offers wide opportunity for Christian experiences and spiritual growth, as well as a church which
fosters in each individual member a deep spiritual commitment and a sense of belonging.
In order to meet this high calling, we have invested our time, our talents and our money.
With the help of God and our brothers and sisters in faith, we will continue to grow, spreading in
ever-widening circles the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Adopted: May, 1976