Cumberland Community Church

“MEETING YOU WHERE YOU ARE...
HELPING YOU FIND YOUR POTENTIAL IN CHRIST”

At CCC, our desire is to reach the unchurched people of the greater Cumberland Maryland,as well as Allegany, Mineral and Bedford County areas. This includes both people with church experience who no longer participate and those who have no church history at all. Our church is currently made up of both groups of folks. We are geared toward people in their 20s through their 40s, but welcome all who choose to give us a try.

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My name is Ron Yost. I am a native of Cumberland who recently returned after 20 years in Missouri and New Mexico. I have been involved in church planting for the last 15 years. CCC is my 4th church planting endeavor. God blessed us with the opportunity to help start a new congregation in suburban St. Louis, to restart an aging dying church in North Central Missouri, and start a new church in New Mexico. We believe God has brought us to Cumberland to stay and to start multiple new churches filled with people who are seeking answers to their spiritual questions. Our experience has been focused on unchurched people, those who went as kids, maybe never have been to church, and those who have left the church due to being hurt by religious people.

On a more personal note,I graduated from Fort Hill High School in 1981. Later,in 1983, I moved to Missouri where I met my wife Terri. We have been married for 25 years and have 2 grown children, Michael and Rachael.  While living in Missouri, I sensed God’s call to the ministry. At the age of 28, I began to pursue and complete the education I felt I needed to accomplish the task for which God was preparing me. I have always been what I consider a working class kind of a guy, so I struggled with whether God could really use me.

God has placed in me an intense desire and hunger to see people come to a radically life changing relationship with Jesus Christ. I know it is due to the fact that he set me free from 10 years of drug and alcohol addiction. If he could do such a thing for me, he can surely fix others who are in unhealthy or overwhelming life situations too. God has allowed us the privilege of workin with divorced folks, single moms, wayward teens, and teenaged mothers.

I am not a person who fits the typical “pastor” stereotype. In fact, there is not a traditional bone in my body. I don’t rely on “the way we’ve always done it”, but seek new ways to be actively involved in helping others as we journey together in search of God’s will for us on earth. I see potential in people and seek to help that potential be realized in the life of everyday ordinary people just like me.