About Us

First Presbyterian Church of New Castle, Indiana is a strong evangelical Presbyterian Church (USA) congregation of Whitewater Valley Presbytery in the Synod of Lincoln Trails. We are committed to God's work of renewal in the power of the Holy Spirit for our community and the larger body of Christ in the world.

God's vision for our church, as it has been revealed to us, is to offer a warm, inviting sanctuary to all of God's children:

a place where we can all grow in our love relationship with God
a place where youth can be introduced to and witness the power and glory of our Lord
a place where the elderly and the infirm can be comforted and assured that we are all God's children whom God loves completely
a place where we are equipped and empowered in spreading the Good News that Jesus died for our sins and is alive today reaching out to the world around us
a place where all who enter seek to have the Holy Spirit fill their hearts

This vision is one that will make this body of Christ a shining beacon for the community, a beacon so bright that people are attracted and drawn to its warmth and love as they see God at work to fulfill His purposes.

The Rev. Rex Espiritu, Senior Pastor

The Rev. Arthur Whitaker, Pastoral Assistant
Mark Middleton, Director of Music
Andrea Hughes, Organist
Ruth Love, Treasurer
Donna Blake, Secretary
Gloria Herron, Secretary

Shane Pribble, FUMC (iMPACT) Youth Director

Jerry Krupp, Clerk of Session

Visit our blog site at Renewing.NewCastleFPC.org
The First Presbyterian Church (USA)
Building Community through Christ,

Renewing Fellowship in the Spirit

Growing in Christ

Come! Join with others, growing spiritually in faith in Christ through the study of God's Word. Contact us at the church office@newcastlefpc.org or call 765.529.3703 for more information.

Christian Living At Sunday School (C.L.A.S.S.)

Christian Living @ Sunday School — CL@SS.NewCastleFPC.org

Autumn C.L.A.S.S. Sunday School classes

Christian Living At Sunday School classes will be grouped in a number of categories, including:

Contemporary Issues,
Life
Application,
Scriptural Studies, and
Special Topics

Adults

Paul's Letters to the Church in Greece led by Dan Riley
For Parents Only: "Getting inside the head of your kids...." led by Melissa Espiritu and Jim Howard
A Heart Like His - The Story of David led by Dee Dorr (This class is geared toward women.)

Children

Toddlers: Sherri Bergum, Amy Maddy, Karri Ring, Cyndi Rusch
(team teachers)

Children and Worship: Gloria Herron, Karen Pavy

1st & 2nd Grades: Mary Krupp
3rd, 4th, 5th, & 6th Grades: Patti Lansinger
7th & 8th Grades: Pastor Rex

High School: Bob & Jennifer Malloy
Commitment Class: Rev. Rex Espiritu
Children’s Church: Various Leaders

Opportunities for Service
Exercise your gifts, serving the body of Christ in the world. Contact us at the church office@newcastlefpc.org or call 765.529.3703 for more information.

Visitation Care Ministry

If you have an interest in being of service to the Lord in a caring ministry of visitation, please let us know via e-mail to the church office@newcastlefpc.org or by phone at 765.529.3703

Handicapped accessible

Childcare

Christian Living At Sunday School (C.L.A.S.S.)

Sunday School at 9:00 a.m.

Sunday Worship 10:30 a. m.

YOUTH GROUPS

Junior and Senior High Youth Group

iMPACT - inspiring young Methodists and Presbyterians Acting in Christ Together

in partnership with First United Methodist Church

at Church St

Sundays from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Make an iMPACT for Christ!

We are a Stephen Ministries Church
http://www.stephenministries.org/

South Sudan Mission
http://southsudanfriends.org

Our Missional Journey

Corporate History

It was a cold January morning in 1844. A missionary of the Presbyterian Church made a trip on horseback from Richmond, Indiana to New Castle. His mission for this trip was clear. He was called to start a Presbyterian Church in a rural community.

First Presbyterian Church in New Castle stands at the corner of Church and 12th streets. The church still has a clear mission: one that calls its members to seek guidance from the Lord, that leads the church to nurture a growing faith in its members, that seeks to draw those who lack faith to allow their hearts to be opened, and that continues to provide a foundation on the belief that Jesus Christ is the Truth, the Light and the Way.

Testimonial

Our desire is to have a worship service that provides an atmosphere of confident, inspiring, joyous, and enthusiastic praise and worship. We pray for a service that blends various music styles in such a way that we recognize our traditional heritage while transforming the lives of believers and effectively attracting seekers.

First Presbyterian Church, New Castle, Indiana is a confessing church in the renewal network of evangelicals in the Presbyterian Church (USA), committed to upholding the biblical and constitutional standards expressed through the historic and confessional Christian faith in the reformed tradition. We are supportive of the ministries of Presbyterians For Renewal and other church renewal minded ministries and missions such as the Presbyterian Global Fellowship.

The Elders on Session are continuing in the process of being challenged in the task of prayerfully discerning the Lord's leading, guidance, and direction for our ministry and mission in view of the PC(USA) General Assembly 2006's recent adoption of the report and [amended] recommendation(s) of its Theological Task Force on the Peace, Unity, and Purity of the church (PUP).

For more details/information on this and links to other related issues, please see Pastor Rex Espiritu's Perspectives page on his web site at RexEspiritu.net

First Presbyterian Church

Building Community through Christ, Renewing Fellowship in the Spirit, Transforming People by God's Grace