If health concerns or even just a busy schedule makes joining us in person a challenge, we welcome you to join us online. Every Sunday, we’ll livestream our services via Facebook Live, and welcome you to join us for an online Fellowship Hour via Zoom (password to join is CPC).

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Charis Smith

Charis has attended Central since 2019 when she joined the choir, and enjoyed getting to know its wonderful members. She was promoted to soprano section leader and subsequently became a Central member with her family in 2022. That same year she was inspired to apply for the vacant positions of Music Director and Church Administrator and a unique dual position was created that allowed her to draw on her time as a professional musician and her business executive experience.

Charis has an undergraduate degree in Vocal Performance from Wheaton College and a Masters Degree, also in Vocal Performance, from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She enjoyed a decade and a half of performing worldwide with memorable solo performances at Carnegie Hall, with the Colorado Symphony and at the Vatican, among many others. She is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the Presbyterian Association of Musicians and a member of Actor’s Equity Association. She is supremely grateful for the support of her husband Ryan and daughters Ahna and Liza, who humor her by singing in her choir.

Glenn Ross, Concert Manager

Glenn joined the staff at Central in 2021 with two decades of leadership in the classical arts. With a wealth of knowledge in all areas of performance and operations, Glenn brings valuable technical and administrative experience to his role at Central Presbyterian Church.

Glenn is also a musician and professional photographer, with a focus on portraiture, live music, and events. His work has taken him around the World and his imagery has been featured in esteemed publications, magazines, books, and newspapers.

Glenn holds Bachelors degrees in Business and Philosophy and is involved in various community-based organizations. He enjoys writing, helping others, learning new skills, and traveling to new places.

Molly Dowling Brown, Director of Mission & Faith Formation

Molly has been a member at Central since 2004 and joined the staff team in 2018. From 2013-2015, Molly served as the Director of Central Presbyterian Church’s Health Assistance Site which assisted Coloradans in health insurance enrollment.

Molly worked for over a decade on behalf of Federally Qualified Health Centers here in Colorado. Prior to that, she taught middle school social studies in North Carolina. Molly holds a BA in History from Davidson College (Davidson, NC). As the Director of Mission and Faith Formation, Molly believes faith is built via serving others in need in one’s community.

Molly and her husband, Adam, have 3 daughters: Caroline, Morgan, and Francee plus two canines…Murray (a goldendoodle) and Sylvester (a standard poodle).

Molly enjoys mountain and beach trips with her family, hiking, photography, water aerobics classes, dining out, and a good happy hour(s).

Louise Westfall, Pastor

Louise Westfall became Central’s senior pastor in 2011, following pastorates in Cleveland, Detroit, and Iowa. She received a Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Theological Seminary. She has co-authored two Bible studies– The Face Is Familiar: Remembering Unnamed Women in Scripture, and Peacemaking in Mark: Restoring God’s Community of Men and Women. Her dissertation Listening Beyond Our Differences: Conversations about Abortion was honored with a faculty prize.

Louise believes the Church is a community of transformation and the congregations she’s served have resettled refugees, built homes with Habitat for Humanity, tutored urban school children, converted a closed church into a Boys and Girls Club, and helped enroll people in affordable health insurance. Her leadership has helped make connections between suburban and urban, Black and White congregations, and among Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Increasingly she considers the Communion cup a central symbol of faith representing God’s love poured out for all, and the Table a place where everyone is welcome.

Louise is the mother of a son, Paul, an attorney in Washington DC.

Our Community

Together in Faith.

At Central, our engagement with our community doesn’t stop at Sunday services. We offer a variety of connection opportunities for our congregants ranging from formal choirs to casual meetups over a beer to discuss how our faith helps us navigate the complexities of modern living.

Upcoming Community Events

Music and Choirs

Chancel Choir

The Chancel Choir is a non-auditioned choir of adult and high-school aged singers as well as 4 professional singers / section leaders that sing weekly from September through May in Sunday morning services. We welcome singers of all experience levels.

Bell Choir

The Handbell Choir provides music for special services throughout the year. Ringers from 9th grade through adult are welcome.

For Kids & Youth

Nursery

Our nursery is a clean, warm, and welcoming place with experienced and trained professional staff ready to take care of your children’s every need. The nursery is open on Sundays from 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and is available for ages 0-6 years.

Bible Story Room

On Sundays, after the Passing of the Peace in worship, children 3 years through 1st grade are invited to our Bible Story Room. Here they will participate in a special program that follows the Montessori philosophy of storytelling, reflection and response.

Central Youth in Service

Youth (8th-12th grade) meet after church head out into the wider community and take part in afternoon service projects including projects with our partners like Metro Caring and Rainbow Alley. These afternoon projects are a convenient way for youth to earn school sanctioned community service hours while building community. Friends are always welcome and encouraged to come!

Confirmation

Confirmation is a year-long learning opportunity and important step in one’s faith for middle school students. We have fun, play games, pray, read scripture, are paired with a mentor, use art & writing to express our journey, eat together, share our faith stories, and write a statement of faith.

Family Ministries

Intergenerational mission trips

As part of our Summer of Service, Central offers opportunities for families to participate in service work together. Recent trips have included service projects for La Puente in Alamosa, CO, travel to Havana, Cuba in partnership with the Presbytery of Havana, and a Civil Rights learning pilgrimage in Alabama.

Adult Ministries

Theology on Tap

Join us at one of Colorado’s excellent breweries to sample craft beer and have conversation about things that matter.

Sunday Faith Formation

Sunday morning groups meet to discuss and learn about issues of faith and our collective faith journey. These conversations typically happen immediately before or after worship.