Claremont Presbyterian Church is a vital, inclusive, suburban faith community, which is celebrating its fiftieth year. Our membership totals 700 people. In our corporate faith journey, we focus on worship, education, mission (both local and global), and spiritual development in seeking the mind and heart of Christ. We welcome all persons into full membership regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, social or economic status, physical or mental challenge.

Located at the far eastern edge of Los Angeles County, at the foot of the San Gabriel mountains, Claremont is a town of nearly 35,000 residents which has grown up around the (now) seven affiliated Claremont Colleges. It is a typical bedroom community in many respects-- tree-lined streets with mostly single family homes surrounded by congested freeways–but the influence of the colleges, the Claremont School of Theology, as well as three retirement communities is apparent in town and in our congregation. The educational attainment of our congregants is generally high, and CPC counts as members a number of college faculty and administrators. Several internationally known religious scholars have been and continue to be active in our congregation.

We are a congregation that is especially ecumenically minded, believing in the validity of covenants and traditions other than our own. Our long-standing and solid relationship with Pomona's Temple Beth Israel reinforces and testifies to that belief. We are a congregation that attempts to draw our membership and leadership circles as widely as possible. The Session adopted an inclusiveness statement in 1993, which states, in part, that we are called into Christ's church not by the merit of our lives, but by God's grace alone. The Session signed the Call to Covenant issued by the Covenant Network of Presbyterians which calls us to "seek the gift of unity among all who confess the name of Jesus Christ as Lord."

Claremont Presbyterian Church seeks to be an integral part of the public life of Claremont and the San Gabriel / Pomona Valleys and many CPC members are active in the civic life of the community. The church and its individual members and staff are active in the Inland Valley Council of Churches, as well as the Claremont Ecumenical Council, and CPC keeps a high profile in Presbytery and Synod activities.

Claremont Presbyterian Church is a member church of San Gabriel Presbytery
http://www.sangabpres.org

The Synod of Southern California and Hawaii

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PC(USA)

http://www.pcusa.org