Services

Blessing of the Ashes

No matter what kind of service/memorial you may hold for your loved one, you will want to also consider holding a blessings of the ashes at the Celebration Resurrection Chapel or Memorial Courtyard.

As with all the other choices you might consider about inurning your special person, we want to be sure that we help in any way which makes the service valuable to you and your family.

Here are just a few of the ways people have planned a blessing:

A private family blessing is scheduled before or after a funeral. In most cases, it is after a full sanctuary service, especially for people who belong to other churches and will have their pastor/priest follow them to the columbarium. But whatever timing is comfortable for you, we can discuss how to blend those activities.
A private family blessing only. Small services in the Chapel or Courtyard can be scheduled along with the blessing. Your pastor or priest can conduct the event, or you may have family or friends who want to lead the celebration.
Music and filming can be provided on a limited basis.

We are always there to help but do our best to be unobtrusive. Yes, it is a time of sadness and regret, but it is also a time to begin your healing process toward the time when your loved one remains with you in a positive, not a negative, way.

Father Richard

Reverend William Lewis

… and other leaders of your choice

Celebration Ressurection Chapel & Memorial Courtyard Committal Service and Inurnment Procedure

Set the date of the Committal Service and inurnment with your pastor/priest. You may work through the CPC administration office or one of the volunteer counselors as well.
The pastor at Community Presbyterian Church and/or ordained clergy from the deceased’s faith shall conduct the Committal Service and place the urn with ashes in the appropriate niche. The urn with the ashes may be placed in the niche by family member (s) as designated by the pastor/priest. In the absence of these choices with the approval of the person’s power of attorney, the remains may be placed in the niche by a Church volunteer counselor.
The price of reservation of a niche includes engraving on the cover of the name (s) of the deceased, with the years of birth and death. No other engraving is permitted.
The procedure to open the niche entails the following: On the day of the inurnment the Church will remove the marble niche plate cover from the niche, place the urn in the niche, and then the plate will be replaced.
Flowers – We allow modest displays of live plants, cut flowers and silk flowers. For your convenience and to protect the floors, please use the iron plant stands we have provided.

For the complete list of rules concerning the CRC&MC, please see the full “Policies and Regulations” document.

Choosing a Niche at the Columbarium

Please take your time when considering your choice of a niche/niches:

Purchasing well before the need arises allows you the opportunity to make this and all of your other late life decisions without pressure nor when in grief, times when we don’t think very clearly.
If you wait until your spouse or other loved one has a terminal condition it is a hard judgment call whether to involve him/her in the choice of niche. It is better if he/she is included but it may be too emotional a question for your loved one at such a time.
Many of us debate whether we should utilize a long-held family burial plot, wait to be buried or inured near our children or commit to a niche in Celebration where you have enjoyed many years. One possibility is to split your ashes, taking a niche here but reserving some ashes for a treasured location in your history, for an urn held by family members in some other place important to you.
Do you want to be inside or outside? In the quiet or in nature?
You might choose a niche based on the verse at the top of that wall. (See below.)
Some people make the choice based on how the sun reflects on the wall.

Columbarium chapel and courtyard:

Wall A I am with you Always
Wall B I have Prepared a Place for you
Wall C I will Wipe the Tears from your Eyes
Wall D The Spirt of the Lord is in This
Wall E Cast all your Cares on Him
Wall F God is our Strength
Wall G God has given us Eternal Life
Wall H This Life is in His Son (I John 5:11)

Pricing

Celebration Resurrection Chapel and Memorial Courtyard Quick Facts
The only sanctuary for the cremains of your loved ones in the greater Celebration area
A quiet place of beauty, rest and grace
A family legacy
Available to all people of faith

Price: Per niche (holds two urns) $5,550

15% discount COMMPRES member $4,718

10% discount local churches OR military $5000

20% Second Family Niche

4% credit card surcharge

This fee includes the niche inscription ($300 value) and use of the columbarium for niche blessings. Maintenance fees are also included plus Lawn Care, Janitorial Services weekly. Recent upgrades: new roof, new interior and exterior paint, new flooring, new exterior fixtures, fountain care.

Visitation Hours: Using the path from Mulberry Street you and your family and friends may visit at any time. Special codes are needed for the exterior entrance and the door to the Chapel.

Urn size for 2 urns in niche: 11.5 inches long
5.5 inches wide
8 inches high

Services

Blessing of the Ashes

Celebration Ressurection Chapel & Memorial Courtyard Committal Service and Inurnment Procedure

Choosing a Niche at the Columbarium

Pricing

To learn more about the Columbarium, arrange a tour or obtain pricing information, please contact the church office at (407)566-1633 or click below to send us a message.