1890        Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church is founded with 22 charter members.  The Louisville Presbytery Commission includes members from Highland and Second Presbyterian Churches.

1891        The first service is held in the new sanctuary.

The Sunday School buys shares in The Lapsley, the first Congo River missionary steamboat.

1914        The Education Wing is dedicated and the pipe organ installed.

1916   We begin the Harvey Browne Mission (which becomes Harvey Browne Presbyterian Church).

1924        First candidate for ministry taken under care of presbytery (Mr. Samuel Cramer, Jr.) and first member to enter mission service (Miss Vienne Crammer)

1925        The church provides total support for missionary Gertrude Sloan in China until 1929.  (In 1929 for Dr. and Mrs. Louis Brand in Korea and in 1938 for Reverend and Mrs. Glenn Maxwell in Brazil)

1920s   Mission work near Ohio River culminates in founding of Hunter Memorial Presbyterian Church

(reabsorbed into Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church in 1938).

1937        Louisville flood: The church and members take in persons displaced by the flood.  Members work as chauffeurs, traffic police, cooks, nurses, and messengers.

1942        Monthly news bulletin The Broadcast begins and is mailed to the 65 men and women from the church in the service. (It later becomes Westminster Ways.)

1948        The day school kindergarten ministry is established.

1951        The new separate education building is dedicated.

1952        The Mission Closet for Furlough Home is organized and chaired by Crescent Hill women for the next two decades.

1961        The church provides for the Crow’s Nest, a cabin at Cedar Ridge Camp.

1971        Crescent House, a tearoom to benefit the Autistic School, opens in our Lord House.

1975        CHPC is a founding church of United Crescent Hill Ministries.

1980        CHPC sponsors a Hmong family from Laos, the Mouas, and later their family members are also brought from the refugee camp in Thailand.

1981        The Woosley Scholarship Fund (now the Woosley-Leake Scholarship Fund) helps church and neighborhood youth attend college.

1995        CHPC assists in the resettling of a family from Bosnia.

1999        CHPC becomes active in Habitat for Humanity

2000        CHPC assists with resettlement of Sudanese Refugees

2002    CHPC joins the Covenant Network and signs the Call to Covenant Community.

2004-2005 CHPC participates in the Reconciliation and Mission program.

2006    CHPC receives Lily Grant for National Clergy Renewal Program which allows our pastor, Jane Larsen-Wigger, to have a 12-week sabbatical.  Jane travels in Appalachia and Guatemala. CHPC receives preachers from Appalachia.  CHPC receives Carlos Lara Gabb from Guatemala through the Mission to the USA program of the PCUSA.

2007    Adults take Environmental Learning Tour to Appalachia

            Middle School Mission Trip to Appalachia

            High School and Adult Mission Trip to Guatemala

2008    Ordained and installed six deacons

Began discussing the Guatemala Partnership Task Force

2009    Returned to Guatemala and established a partnership relationship with Estoreño Presbytery around Lake Izabal.

2010    With the leadership of the Reverend Lengulula Kashama started a French Outreach Ministry.