2022 January Tapestry

The First Baptist Church of Redlands

T A PE S T R Y

Jan 2022

Wo v e n To g e t h e r I n L o v e : C o l o s s i a n s 2 : 2

A New Thing

A Message from Pastor Shawn This is what the Lord says— The One who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.

See, I am doing a new thing!

Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?

I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”

Isaiah 43:16-19 (NIV adapted) As we begin a new year it is evident that God is doing a “New Thing” around here. After the last two years especially, we have come to realize that we cannot assume that a new year is going to pan out as we expect. And yet, despite the fact that the last two years have screamed out this reality, it is true every year. We begin this year with some big changes.

We have said farewell to Richard Steffen who has faithfully served as our Minister of Music for 36 years.

We are excited for him as he moves into a new phase with a little more free time! It is going to be different without him, and we will miss him in that role, but God is doing a new thing.

We have welcomed to our staff Stephen Stark as our Senior Custodian. We are excited about the gifts that he brings to this position. We look forward to getting to know him better. God is doing a new thing.

We have two search committees who are beginning work among us, looking for the staff that will come join our team and bring with them the gifts that God has given them for such a time as this in the life of our church. God is doing a new thing.

Issue No. 1

Soon we will welcome Rhonda Bauer, who is coming as our Interim Choir Director. She will be with us for the next few months as we discern where God is leading us in our staff configurations in the future.

God is doing a new thing.

The Focus Group Task Force will be reporting their findings and recommendations at the Annual Meeting of the Congregation on January 30. We continue to pray for God’s guidance into the future ministry of our church. Even though change can be messy and even scary, we are confident that God is doing a new thing.

When we look at this passage in Isaiah, we see that the prophet is reminding the people of God of the mighty and miraculous things that God has done in the past.

If one would think about it, those things celebrated in the past, at the time, were messy and scary. Just as making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland disturbs the existing terrain—it could even feel like an earthquake—it is what brings new life and refreshment. As we look at what God is doing with and for us at this time, we must realize that new life comes with God doing a new thing.

What new thing is God doing in your life? Is it messy and scary—maybe even painful? What are the things that God has done in the past that you can hold on to as you remember God’s faithfulness to you? In what ways has God brought new life and refreshment in the past? Pray for the ability to trust God in the new thing that is being done in your life and the life of our church.

Let us look with great anticipation to what God is doing to bring new life and renewed mission to our lives and our church. Let this be a part of our daily prayers! Let us encourage one another when we are disturbed by the messiness and scariness that comes along with the new thing that God is doing. God, the one who has done mighty and miraculous things in our history is now doing a new thing! Let us celebrate the new life that is coming, even as we reflect on the new things God has done in our past.

See, God is doing a new thing!

Happy New Year in Christ, Pastor Shawn

COVER

MISSION

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A Message from Pastor Shawn: “A New Thing”

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Staff and Contents

MINISTRY

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Worldwide Prayer Concerns: Iran, Global Shipping; Honduras, El Salvador, Guatamala

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Submitted by Gregg Sneller: “Simeon”

NEWS

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Richard Steffen: “A New Thing! Do We Perceive It?”

10 Church News

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Cheryl Sneller: “Cherishing Memories And Looking Towards a New Year of Possibilities”

11 January Calendar

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Nathan Jones: “Latkes” Richard W. Steffen: “My Thanks to You”

S TA F F Rev. Dr. Shawn Zambrows Senior Pastor Rev. Cheryl Sneller Director of Children’s Ministry

Angel Florence Office Administrator angel@fbcredlands.org Isa Terrell Communications Specialist

Sally Rehfeldt Organist Nathan Jones Youth Director

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M I NI S T RY

A New Thing! Do We Perceive It?

by Richard W. Steffen, Minister of Music

“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.” (Isaiah 43:19 NIV) Even as Isaiah foretold of the Babylonian exile of the Hebrew people, he told of God’s protective love and care for the people. Here is what Barnes’ Notes on the Bible says about this passage: “Something that has not occurred, some unheard of and wonderful event, that shall far surpass all that he had formerly done.

It shall spring up as the grass does from the earth; or it shall bud forth like the opening leaves and flowers.

The prophet describes the anxious care which God would show in protecting his people.” John Wesley, who - along with his hymn-writing brother Charles - is widely credited with the start of the Methodist movement, wrote about this passage in 1765: “A new thing: such a work as was never yet done in the world. Now the scripture often speaks of things at a great distance of time, as if they were now at hand; to make us sensible of the inconsiderableness of time, and all temporal things, in comparison of God, and eternal things; upon which account it is said, that a thousand years are in God’s sight but as one day.” (Wesley, John. Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament: Harper Collins Publishers Inc.) And hear again these exciting words from the revelation of Jesus Christ to his servant John: “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes.

There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.’

He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’ ” (Revelation 21:1-5a NRSV)

There it is: NEW! We recall how we have had open hearts and minds in discerning God’s new work for us in the past.

In our Ministry of Music, the addition of handbells by a gift from Alice Kubera 35 years ago created the opportunity for a new dimension to our music program: handbell ensembles. After new hymnals were shared with me at the Conference for Church Musicians at Green Lake, Wi, in 1990, we chose The Worshipping Church as our new hymnal 30 years ago. Our new youth choir Rejoice was started 25 years ago, and musical equipment for that group was purchased through the Robbins Endowment Fund for new ministries. And new percussion equipment for our children’s choirs was purchased two years ago with a gift from Wanda Steffen. All through these years new music has been a part of our worship experiences. New music for choirs brought from national music conferences and all of the new worship songs introduced by our worship music leaders have enriched our worship time together in meaningful, refreshing ways. Then we were blessed by our Tech Team: 14 months of worship services released on Sunday mornings that became “spiritual food” for our souls in our worldwide faith community during this pandemic; from their research and from their experience, we worshipped using the YouTube format a new way. And then we had Christmas 2020 - complete with a virtual cantata by our Worship Choir and Friends – which was truly a new encounter for nearly all of us.

So let’s discern the tasks that God has for us to do this new year; let’s really “perceive it.” Let’s pray for the energy we need to respond to God’s plan.

Let’s tell the Good News as we are empowered by new things: that new style, that new way, using that renewed energy that God is giving us. Let’s dedicate ourselves to good work as our church proclaims anew that the kingdom of God is here, being that needed salt and light in the world.

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Cherishing Memories And Looking Towards a New Year of Possibilities

by Pastor Cheryl November and December were months of participating in meaningful traditions for First Baptist Church of Redlands. Joining together we experienced the Agape Gratitude Sunday and focused our hearts on service and thanksgiving and collected needed items for Redlands Family Services and the Tijuana Mexico Mission.

We engaged in the season and activities of Advent. On the Church lawn was erected the Advent themed boards to witness to anyone who passed by that God still proclaimed hope, peace, love and joy for the nations. The sanctuary was transformed during the “Hanging of the Greens” event with green wreaths decorating the pews and red poinsettias surrounding the chancel area. White decorative Christian symbols and colorful baubles joined the sparkly lights on the towering Christmas tree. We enjoyed the singing of familiar Christmas carols, the worship bands and the choir presentations of weekly song and a meaningful Cantata. And how about the Junior Disciples Chimes Music Makers’ group?

The generations were side by side as we used our creativity during intergenerational craft night and met weekly for warm dinners and fellowship.

Some Sunday School groups met for a Covid safe Christmas party. On a chilly Friday night families snuggled together with blankets and sleeping bags for the movie night. Santa was warming himself under the propane heater in the portico greeting the children from a safe distance.

We grieved and remembered our loved ones and friends during the “Longest Night Service” dinner and memorial service. In contrast we celebrated Jesus’ upcoming birthday on the family friendly Christmas Eve and consumed bagels and other goodies during our Sunday after Christmas Bagel Bar. Notice a theme anyone? In the last months of 2021 we were finally allowed to gather as an intergenerational family of Christ followers.

Quoting God I must say “IT WAS GOOD”!

Now what is ahead for us?

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What will we add to our beloved FBCR traditions in 2022? It is a new year of possibilities so let’s offer up our God given talents and gifts to God’s vision for us personally and corporately. Let’s welcome others to our Lord Jesus and a place among our Church family. I am confident the Spirit of God will direct us into strengthening previous ministries and beginning new ones. It will require time and effort from you and me. It will take all of us asking God how the First Baptist Church of Redlands family can make a difference in our neighborhoods, work and learning places, our communities, our nation and our world.

A Blessed New Year Pastor Cheryl

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Latkes

by Nathan Jones Applebaum goes on with journalistic rigor to document how buckwheat or rye would have served in the potatoe’s place in Eastern Europe and anyway, it all goes even further back to Jews’ history frying cheese pancakes in Italy in celebration of Judith, whose name after all sounds a lot like Judah Maccabee of Hanukkah fame, right? But outside the similarity of the phonetics, it turns out there really isn’t much of a Jewish biblical connection between Judith’s cheesy pancakes and the Hanukkah story, and the cheesy part itself only appears in a rarer, somewhat dubious text that appeared in some medieval Catholic Bibles.

I recently read a terrific 2015 article from The Atlantic titled “Everything You Know About Latkes Is Wrong” by Yoni Applebaum. If you’re interested in food, the Bible, or a brilliant, holiday-themed read, I highly recommend it. As I have contemplated all of the changes happening in our church that gathers on the south corner of Cajon and Olive, meditating on this article has provided me great comfort in recent weeks, though when it comes to its thesis, I could hardly disagree more.

Applebaum argues that “there’s nothing traditional about the contemporary American latke” and he has a point. While latkes are often celebrated for their connection to the miraculous oil of Hanukkah, Latkes themselves–made with potatoes and fried in oil–couldn’t possibly go back too far in Jewish cultural tradition because potatoes were first cultivated in the Andes region of South America.

Europeans found out about their potential for golden-fried goodness and then took them back to Europe in the 16th century, but they weren’t widely cultivated there until the 18th century.

Applebaum doesn’t just take a knife to the potato’s traditional role though, he also bursts the traditional bubbl(ing oil) association with Hanukkah. In latkes’ journey through Eastern Europe before arriving in America, they would have been fried in schmaltz, not oil. Not familiar with schmaltz? Think of that bacon or sausage grease someone in your family may have saved in a jar for later use to fry something like breakfast potatoes, but schmaltz would have been rendered from goose or beef fat. Of course, once Eastern European Jews emigrated to America with their latkes, they wouldn’t have been using oil then either, and cookbooks and advertisements of the period record that they tended to use America’s own miracle fat, Crisco.

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All things considered, you might find yourself persuaded when Applebaum concludes that when it comes to Jewish cultural history, latkes are thoroughly not traditional, they’re simply “a shredded Andean tuber, fried like a buckwheat pancake, which was substituted for Italian cheeses, once eaten to honor a mistaken reading of obscure variants of an apocryphal text.” In Applebaum’s journalistic, Truth-o-Meter treatment, latkes fail the purist’s traditional test. But what qualifies as tradition? A cultural practice handed down unchanging across the generations? Or is tradition a cultural practice that represents the culmination of a history lived by a people, a living record of inheritance renewed by change and adaptation?

I must concede that no Jew from Abraham to Moses on through to Jesus, nor anyone else living through the subsequent 1600 years of Jewish cultural tradition would have recognized a potato as a traditional ingredient. Latkes’ fried Hanukkah decadence could hardly differ more from Passover’s inarguably traditional and decidedly unleavened matzo. Latkes may fail to capture and preserve a single cultural moment or practice as matzo does, but surely latkes record and pass on a tradition of adaptation, of a diverse cultural heritage that is synthesized in the latke and becomes tradition.

This interpretation resonates with my own experience of family tradition, culture, and food in which influences from Welsh, Puerto Rican, and other cultural practices blend together. For my family, it simply wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without my greatgrandmother’s buttermilk biscuits and my abuela’s arroz con gandules (a Puerto Rican rice dish). Neither is a perfectly traditional historical artifact, particularly the rice because since I’ve become vegetarian, abuela now heretically prepares it without chicken or chicken broth, and often without ingredients that are hard to find outside Puerto Rico. Caribbean cuisine generally and my grandmother’s rice in particular seems akin to

latkes in that they were formed through the synthesis of many different traditions, including ingredients from Eastern (black pepper, cilantro, rice), African (the gandules or green pidgeon peas), European (oregano), Indigenous American (chile peppers), and other peoples.

I suspect for many, Hanukkah wouldn’t be Hanukkah without the inclusion of a particular relative’s particular way of preparing latkes. For families whose traditions and cultural foods have developed with many different influences, be they Andean tubers, Italian cheeses, or Eastern European schmaltz, surely we should celebrate this diverse cultural heritage and history as a necessary component of our cultural tradition. Latkes should be thought of as traditional not least because they represent both the cultural distinctiveness and synthesis that reflects their people’s history. This kind of tradition is worth recognizing and valuing, one that binds together a history of diverse cultural influences like so many grated slivers of potato held together with flour and egg, and made crispy and delicious to be shared with family at the holidays whether they’re fried in schmaltz, Crisco, Hanukkah-inspired olive oil.

I have found comfort in meditating on the synthesis of tradition and change as I see change and tradition in motion all around us at FBC Redlands, first as we’ve transitioned from lockdowns into a new era of living with COVID, more recently with the loss of stalwart members, and now with significant changes in our staff. My first instinct seems to be to follow Applebaum’s example, to take a fairly narrow view of what counts, of what is deemed valid, worthy. Can it be Christmas without Richard Steffen leading our choir in a cantata? It never has been in my living memory!

Can we really appreciate our worship leaders without Jim’s chili? How could it be Thanksgiving without Paul and Cathy organizing the Family Service donation drive?

Odd as it may sound, as I’ve meditated on latkes and how they both defy and embody tradition, I’ve felt better about the prospect of change. I’ve realized that while I love our traditions, at the founding of FBC Redlands, Richard wasn’t conducting, Jim wasn’t cooking, and Paul wasn’t helping everything else to happen smoothly behind the scenes. I’m sure the idea of electric guitars in worship, female pastors, worship videos, and youth BYF via Zoom would be totally foreign to Arthur Gregory. Yet, his commitment to our church wasn’t conditional upon continuing this tradition or that and in fact, his love for and commitment to our church are still bearing fruit and strengthening our ministry. It may be that in 100 years or in one year, our church’s traditions will be similarly foriegn to me, as changed as a buckwheat pancake fried in goose schmaltz becoming a grated potato pancake magicked into golden deliciousness without oil inside some newfangled air frying cooking contraption. But if they’re rooted in the same love of Christ, as new traditions come to be as families gather together, celebrating and worshipping, growing and serving–though in ways we might find utterly unrecognizable–I suspect that at their heart those new traditions will also be totally familiar, both old and new, and beautiful. They might even be crispy and delicious.

My Thanks to You

by Richard W. Steffen

What a wonderful day! The joys of December 19, 2021, will stay with me forever. The focused, prepared, talented participation of folks from all ages in the cantata God Came Near that day was so inspirational. And then we experienced the beautiful reception in the Chapel! My very heartfelt appreciation and thanks go to many people involved in the preparation and hosting of the lovely decorations and delicious food. And the tasty nachos: wow! I thank Bruce Laycook, Pastor Shawn Zambrows, Sally Rehfeldt, and Veronica Young for the sharing they gave during the program of the reception. The gift for my attending the ACDA Conference next March in Long Beach, the beautiful plaque that will hang in our home, the many cards, the hugs, and the warm conversations will always be remembered. This “home” that you have given my family and me for these many years is for me a little glimpse of heaven. Thank you.

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M I S S ION

Worldwide Prayer Concerns “But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and persecution, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.”

Hebrews 10:32-33

Iran

Global Shipping

Voice of the Martyrs In a recent magazine, Voice of the Martyrs shared the story of Ramtin Soodmand and his family. Ramtin had worked as a leader and evangelist in Iran for about 30 years, but always in secret since unauthorized Christian activity is illegal in that country. Then in January 2021, when Ramtin and his wife were watching a movie together at home, plainclothes officers appeared at his door and informed him that they knew of his activities in the underground church. They offered him a deal by which he would become a puppet of the government: he would pastor a church of members chosen by the government, in which he followed the directives of the government. If he refused their offer, they would arrest him immediately. Ramtin knew others who had been persecuted and even killed by the Iranian government, including his own father and the pastor who had baptized him. He told them that he would cooperate, but only to avoid immediate arrest. In the two days they gave him to report to the government offices, Ramtin made arrangements to leave the country in secret. His wife, daughter, and son fled soon after. Pray for Ramtin and his family as they start a new life in a new place. Pray that they experience God’s care and provision for them as they wonder if they made the right choice. Pray for other Christians who are risking everything to share about the love of Christ with others in Iran.

Wall Street Journal Between the grounding of the EverGiven and the backlog at the Port of LA, many of us have become more aware of the global shipping industry and the role cargo and container ships play in moving goods around the world.

But sometimes things don’t go right onboard, and the crew of the ship ends up stranded in limbo: waiting for their pay, running out of food, and wondering when they will be able to get home. The Journal reported on the plight of the 11 men aboard the ship Haj Abdullah who languished for three months when their ship developed a crack in the hull after a storm and began taking on water. The ship became stranded in Somalia when it ran out of fuel and couldn’t buy more. The crew was not allowed to leave the ship due to the hazardous cargo onboard. The insurer canceled coverage because they said the ship wasn’t seaworthy. The ship’s owner had seemingly abandoned the ship. They were sailing under the jurisdiction of Sierra Leone. This is not unusual: in order to save money on shipping costs, many ships are now registered in poorer nations such as Sierra Leone.

But when the crew asked Sierra Leone for help, they weren’t able to get it for months. Finally the hull was able to be mended and the ship was able to continue towards its original destination of Tanzania, where they are hoping to finally reach an end to their odyssey. Pray for the crew of the Haj Abdullah, and the more than 1,000 other sailors who are facing similar situations on cargo ships worldwide. Pray that they would be treated justly and not be abandoned when problems arise.

Honduras, El Salvador, Guatamala WorldVision.org Pray for people living in the “northern triangle” nations of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. Pray for economic opportunities in these nations that would give good jobs to lift people out of poverty. Pray for the government to be able to protect its citizens from violence. Pray that 2022 would bring new hope and opportunity so that parents can provide for their families and build up these nations.

- Jonathan Peske If you have information to share about the persecuted church or news from the mission field, please share it with Jonathan Peske.

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Update from the Chapmans

Simeon

Submitted by Gregg Sneller In Congo, this time of year, we often had a Christmas pageant. The Congolese are great actors and turn the Biblical stories into great cultural dramas. In the pageant, for example, the platoon of soldiers steal the show with their “keystone cops” version of the Roman soldiers.

Another perhaps more serious character is the aged Simeon. He was the one who waited and watched being convinced that he would not die until he saw the Messiah.

There is a Simeon in Congo at the village of Kinkosi too. A couple years ago, we began sending assistance to the village of Kinkosi to upgrade their church. In the 1980s, the people at Kinkosi had put up concrete walls for their church, but had never been able to complete the roof.

One of our last graduates at the Kikongo pastoral training program (before it turned into a university) took it upon himself to complete the church project that had long fallen into neglect.

As we prepared last year to help Kinkosi put up a roof, we realized that the existing walls had not been built upon a suitable foundation.

It required tearing down the existing walls, and digging a whole new foundation. The project turned into helping Kinkosi with a whole new building project, from the ground up.

The effort to build the church became a community wide project. Without trucks to transport building material, everyone pitched in to carry sand, stone, lumber, and during the dry season, water. Everyone that is, except Simeon.

Simeon is the name that was given to a Kinkosi village elder. He had reached an age far beyond the average Congolese life expectancy. Every morning , he would put his chair in front of his house with a view of the construction site. He kept a close track of everything going on. People who noticed his interest in the church project named him “Simeon”. He declared that he was not going to die until the building was finally completed.

We departed Congo before the church was completed, but the work has gone on in our absence. Recently I received some photos of the building near completion. It is encouraging that in our absence, the work is moving forward.

This will be our last Christmas as missionaries with IM. We celebrate the fact that after over 140 years of missions in Congo, Christianity has a firm foundation.

Thank you for your prayers and support throughout our time of ministry in Congo.

Glen and Rita Chapman

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Ne ws HAPPY January BIRTHDAYS TO...

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Milton Baidya

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Nina Zureick

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Lori Powell

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Natalie Olson

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Sam Zureick

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Brian Wolfe

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Rhys Jones

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Craig Baker

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Joseph DeRoulhac 16

Mike Freire

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Ed Irvin

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Michael Harmon

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Carolyn Sullivan

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Aidan Huynh

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Dori Dominguez

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Sanjeet Mann

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Seth Medlin

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Johnie Nottingham

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Janie Mendoza

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Allison Quient

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Taylor Herron

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Cathy Zander

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Joyce Smith

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Mark Estey

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Judy Miller

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Elise Huynh

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Riley Miller

WEDNESDAY Dinner January 12 – Scalloped potatoes with ham, Roasted Vegetables; Peach Cobbler for dessert January 19 – Tamale Pie, Spanish rice, Roasted Vegetables; Carrot Cake for dessert January 26 - Oven Fried Chicken, Baked Beans, Roasted Vegetables; Brownies for dessert

In Memory

Submissions for the Tapestry should be sent to tapestry@fbcredlands.org by the 15th of each month.

Herb Dominguez 7/20/29 to 12/11/21

Christmas Offering IN memory Jonathan Peske in memory of Hugh Huntley Shawn & Rod Zambrows in memory of Richard Colunga Vicky Miller in memory of Charlie Miller, Paul Zander and Jim Creech Sunny Hyon in memory of Paul Zander Dianne Creech in memory of Jim Creech Lloyd Howard in memory of Mary Howard Sandra Pickett in memory of Opal Pickett

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Pray for Newness

Pray for God’s Kids

Children’s Ministry

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1/30: 30th Annual Meeting

11:30 a.m. BYF

10:15 a.m. Worship in-person: Sanctuary and Livestreamed

9 a.m. Sunday School Classes

23 Pray for Honduras 30 Pray for Orphans

11:30 a.m. BYF

7 p.m. Executive Council online

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24 Pray for Selflessness 25 31 Pray for Optimism

7:15 p.m. Choir Practice

6:30 p.m. Dinner in the Chapel

5:30 p.m. Gatherings

El Salvador

7:15 p.m. Choir Practice

- Martin Luther King Jr. Day -

Pray for Your Neighbors

6:30 p.m. Dinner in the Chapel

Livestream Team

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7:15 p.m. Choir Practice

6:30 p.m. Dinner in the Chapel

10:15 a.m. Worship in-person: Sanctuary and Livestreamed

17 Pray for Commission Meetings

7 p.m. Commission Meetings

5:30 p.m. Gatherings

Pray for Kindness

Pray for the Displaced

6:30 p.m. Commission Meetings

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Pray for Forgiving

Wednesday

11 Pray for people with Chronic Illness

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Tuesday

5:30 p.m. Gatherings

Pray for Strength in Relationships

Pray for Iran

Pray for Reconciliation

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Monday

9 a.m. Sunday School Classes

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11:30 a.m. BYF

10:15 a.m. Worship in-person: Sanctuary and Livestreamed

9 a.m. Sunday School Classes

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10:15 a.m. Worship in-person: Sanctuary and Livestreamed

9 a.m. Sunday School Classes

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Sunday

Pray for Law Enforcement

Pray for Missionaries

Pray for Guatamala

Patience 6:30 p.m. Men’s Fellowship (check with leader)

27 Pray for

6:30 p.m. Men’s Fellowship (check with leader)

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6:30 p.m. Men’s Fellowship (check with leader)

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6:30 p.m. Men’s Fellowship (check with leader)

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Thursday

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Pray for a Soft Heart

28 Pray for Flexibility

21 Pray for Job Seekers

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Pray for Medical Staff

Understanding

29 Pray for Good Health

7 a.m. Walking for the Health of It

22 Pray for

7 a.m. Walking for the Health of It

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9 a.m. Women’s Bible Study: “Spiritual Gifts”

7 a.m. Walking for the Health of It

Poverty-Stricken Areas

7 a.m. Walking for the Health of It

1 Pray for the New Year

Saturday

7 Pray for Global Shipping 8 Pray for

Friday

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FBCR @ Night Beginning Wednesday, January 12 our new schedule will be 5:30 Gatherings Children: “Bible Explorers” Youth: “Devotion and Fellowship” Bible Study: Hosea led by Glen Chapman Parent Support and Friendship group led by Meridyth McLaren Coffee and Conversation 6:30 Dinner 7:15 Choir Practice