The First Baptist Church of Redlands
TA PE S T RY Woven Together In Love: Colossians 2:2 MARCH 2017
ISSUE No. 3
A MESSAGE FROM PASTOR SHAWN
A Pastoral Letter
Recently Dr. Samuel Chetti, the Executive Minister for our ABC region asked if I would be willing to write a pastoral letter along with a few other pastors that would be distributed around the region. I decided I would share that letter with you as my Tapestry article this month. I hope you will find them to be words of comfort and encouragement. Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, One of the greatest forces that I encounter around me every day is fear. Whether I am feeling fear myself over big things or little things, whether fear is the motivator for my actions or inactions, or it is just an oppressive feeling that is present in my day, fear is a force in my life. But it’s not just in me. It is all around me and has been for a long time. It is a force that is causing us to be afraid of others, one that is resulting in a closing of ranks, a circling the wagons. Fear is not a new thing, but in recent months it has grown to be very powerful in our society and in our churches. I have observed in the past two people, whether family members or church family, who have disagreed on politics can debate and even argue with one another and in the end laugh and continue to love one another and work together. I am discovering that more and more people are at best avoiding any kind of discussion about politics and government when they don’t agree. At worst, I have seen people walk out on one another and even break off relationships. We find ourselves walking on eggshells around one
another at times. Preachers preach the same basic message that they did two years ago and now it is deemed “too political.” Churches, out of fear, are placing safety and security above the mission of the gospel. People spew out words of hate and anger and say it is in the name of “love.” It is hard being a Christian when you are afraid…or should I say being a follower of Christ. When I think of fear and what the opposing force is, words like courage, bravery and even peace come to mind. But scripture says, “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear…” (1 John 4:18). This statement is surrounded by a message about love which is rooted in God as love. The love that we have is rooted in being loved by God such that we do not have to fear even death itself. A love like that is a most powerful force, one that can with all its might hurl fear into the farthest point in the universe. This love is not a sloppy sweet emotion. It is the kind of love that Jesus is talking about when he says love your neighbor…a Samaritan, who is the “kind” that “your kind” has hated for generations. It is the kind of love that doesn’t stop at
loving neighbor but loves enemy and prays for the one who persecutes you. It is the kind of love that requires courage and bravery. It requires God’s Spirit being actively at work through us. It requires being willing to turn the other cheek, give up our cloak and walk the extra mile. It is this kind of love that must be the motivator behind all of our actions and words as the Body of Christ. This means the big things, as we discern our future and the outworking of our mission, and the little things, as in how we treat one another in person, on social media and behind someone’s back. We have a long road ahead of us and this is a matter of life and death. The very mission of the Church is dependent upon living in love not fear. My prayer is that as the people of God may we wake up every day and ask God to fill us with the love that casts out all fear. May the world know us by that kind of Love! Love in Christ, Rev. Dr. Shawn Zambrows Senior Pastor, The First Baptist Church of Redlands
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A Few Words From Pastor Deena: From Doom and Gloom to Praise and Glory!
MISSIONS
MINISTRY
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Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace) Youth Winter Retreat
Rev. Dr. Shawn Zambrows Senior Pastor shawn@fbcredlands.org Rev. Dr. Deena Barwick Associate Pastor of Family Ministries deena@fbcredlands.org Richard W. Steffen Minister of Music rwsteffen@gmail.com
Worldwide Prayer Concerns: Kazakhstan, Congo Upcoming Missions Opportunities Marilyn Peck Memorial Gift
Linda Gentile Organist Dr. Jesica & Nathan Jones Youth Directors youth@fbcredlands.org
CALENDAR
FELLOWSHIP
Angel Florence Office Administrator angel@fbcredlands.org
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Get To Know: Paige Mann
Marion Gil Communications Specialist marion@fbcredlands.org
Getting Woke
Dennis Chenevert Buildings/Grounds
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A few words from Pastor Deena
From Doom and Gloom to Praise and Glory! Five weeks ago, a few sojourners and I embarked upon an inductive study of the book Habakkuk – a minor prophet. There wasn’t one of us who had read the book of Habakkuk (in our collective memories) and none of us had certainly done an in-depth study of this book. When Habakkuk started his book, he was down in the valley wrestling with God over all the evil he saw taking place and asking God “why didn’t God do something about it?” By the end of the book, after hearing God’s word and seeing His glory, Habakkuk described himself like a deer bounding confidently on the mountain heights. His circumstances hadn’t changed, he had changed and now he was walking by faith instead of sight. Our small group wondered if they too could make that change by studying this prophet’s book. Habakkuk is referred to as a minor prophet; however, his lesson from God was anything from minor. In a nutshell, Habakkuk’s story is this: He sees all the evil and greed taking over the city; with the faithful being oppressed, taken into slavery, or slain. He asked God, “…how long shall I cry for help and you will not listen?” (v1) God does answer him and said “…write a vision, make it plain … there is still a vision for the appointed time; wait for it; it will surely come.” (v2,3) Habakkuk answers God with ‘I don’t think you understand, Lord – it is terrible here! This is what is going on: selfish ambition, covetousness, exploitation of people, drunkenness, violence and idolatry.’ God responds with three assurances: 1. God’s grace –
“God, the Lord, is my strength; he makesmy feet like the feet of a deer, and makesme tread upon the heights.” -Habakkuk, V19 “the righteous live by their faith”; 2. God’s glory – “…the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord”; and 3. God’s government – “… the Lord is in his holy temple, let all the earth keep silence before him!” To which Habakkuk begins to worship God instead of complaining. He does so by recalling all that God has done, remembering God’s promise, or covenant, to Abraham. If Habakkuk had responded only on his feelings, he would never been able to make a confession of faith to God. Habakkuk knew and saw a nation heading for utter destruction under the Babylonian rule; however, made a covenant with God “I wait quietly for the day of calamity to come upon the people who attack us. (v16)” … I will wait quietly … how many of us can say, let alone do, this? One of the marks of faith is a willingness to wait for the Lord to work in our lives. Habakkuk closes his book with “God, the Lord, is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, and makes me tread upon the heights.” (v19) Every week, we closed with discussion with what this meant to us and wrote a note to ourselves on “what we would practice the next week.” Here are some of the practices we collectively wrote over the five weeks: put anger aside and look for a better way to react, stop debating with God and wait for God’s action, pray for God’s answers and not for God to answer our wants and needs, asking ‘what is my idol? Do I have something that owns me – something I can’t do without?’, be more honest with God, try not to second guess God’s timeline, look/ observe to see if God is using evil in some way to eventually conquer evil and let the good/righteousness survive, pray more often for people who are under oppression from the evil doers, look for the assurances from God in the midst of evil surrounding us, pause to examine our own hearts, be aware of our own debating with God trying to change God’s mind, and be more realistic/ honest about our own faithful walk with God. We also talked about doing additional inductive studies on other minor prophets in the future. Habakkuk summary: Habakkuk teaches us to face our doubts and questions honesty, take them humbly to the Lord, wait for God’s Word to teach us, then worship the Lord no matter how we feel or what we see around us. God doesn’t always change the circumstances, but God can change us to meet those circumstances. That is what it means to live by faith.
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Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace)
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Those three words – in Latin or in English – give us calm and tranquility. The Latin words are a portion of the Agnus Dei from the Roman Catholic Mass: it is asking God to have mercy and grant peace on those who are worshiping. The first use of those words that we know of are from the year 687 AD: they were introduced into the Mass by Pope Sergius I. The 3rd line of Latin text of the Agnus Dei is: “Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.” And in English it is: “Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.” The words in the Agnus Dei are said to be based on the greeting that John the Baptist gave Jesus when he saw Jesus coming to him to be baptized: Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29 (KJV) These three Latin words have been set to music many, many times. And it is frequently sung as a round; we use it as a warm-up occasionally in Worship Choir rehearsals. And that was the name of the service I sang in last month: Dona Nobis Pacem. The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, now 15 years old, hosted the Festival of Worship again this year. Organized by Fuller Theological Seminary, the guest conductor was the English composer John Rutter. What an experience: singing in a 1,000 voice adult choir, sitting next to the 150 voice children’s choir, hearing the Dobson organ there which has 6,019 pipes, worshiping with a full sanctuary which seats 3,500, and being inspired by the composer/ conductor whose music has blessed me over and over during my 44 years in church music since college.
By Richard W. Steffen, Minister of Music
The last movement of Rutter’s choral work Mass of the Children is “Finale (Dona nobis pacem).” That finale was the last choral selection of the service I sang in, and the service bore the name of that movement. Rutter wrote the work in 2003, and it came as a result of a tragedy. Two years earlier his son was hit by a car coming from a choir practice and died. Having heard it on the 10th year anniversary of the writing of Mass of the Children at the ACDA National Conference in Dallas in March of 2013, I was truly touched by it. And then the Inland Master Chorale sang the Mass with the guest advanced women’s group Voix Enchantee from Citrus Valley High School the following October. A wonderful YouTube video recorded in Valencia, Spain, is available online: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=wgjFw1JS2FE Peace: what is said about it? 1. Bishop Augustine of Hippo (born 354 AD): “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” 2. Gautama Buddha: “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” 3. Mahatma Gandhi: “There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only ‘peace.’ But it is Christ - the Lamb of God - who gives us peace. On Christmas Eve, the Worship Choir and Angel Joy Blue sang: “Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth.” On Palm Sunday, we will sing: “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!” In the four Gospels in the New Testament, “peace” is found 24 times (BibleGateway.com). Three times in the Gospel of John Jesus says: “Peace be with you:” 1. in
The words in the Agnus Dei are said to be based on the greeting that John the Baptist gave Jesus when he saw Jesus coming to him to be baptized: Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29 (KJV) John 20:19 when Jesus appeared to the Disciples; 2. In John 20:21 when Jesus spoke to them again; and in John 20:26 when the disciples were together and Thomas was with them. (Reading John 20 again is very inspirational!) And Paul the Apostle wrote this final greeting to the church at Thessalonica: “Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with all of you.” And “Shalom”: the Hebrew word for “peace.” In Isaiah 26:3-4, we read: “Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace – in peace because they trust in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord God you have an everlasting rock.” Later this month Hilary Craw will be singing the very moving “Shalom” from the pop/rock/Broadway style musical Saint Judas Passion by Steve Engle. Pacem, Shalom, Peace: in our hearts, our families, our church, our country, and our world. May we strive in the season of Lent to make ourselves open to receive that gift from God.
Youth Winter Retreat By Jesica & Nathan Jones, Youth Directors
We decided we couldn’t really call our winter retreat “winter camp” this year because we spent our President’s Day weekend in an awesome cabin in Lake Arrowhead that was heated and fully furnished with 4 full bathrooms and a fully equipped kitchen. Even so, the total cost to our youth was roughly half of what we’d have spent at a traditional camp! While we worried a little bit about doing all of our own cooking, cleaning, programming and planning, the help of our parents, volunteers, and youth made our weekend a great success. We owe particular thanks to Garrett for leading our worshipful singing on guitar and mandolin and to Hilary for her joyful presence, support, and leadership, and to our waffle chefs, Liam and Sam. We spent the long weekend in discernment and fellowship. In discernment, we looked to where God is leading us by reflecting on how we have engaged in both our youth programming and “big church”, as the youth termed it, and by reflecting on where we’ve found fellowship, fun, and also meaningful connection and growth. We also considered how we are experiencing transformation in our lives and how we might discern how God is leading us to transform our church and youth program. We also spent some amazing time in fellowship together. We enjoyed the snow (while it lasted), board games, a double-elimination Wii tennis tournament, worshiping together, making blankets for Deborah’s House, and preparing and eating good food together. It was truly a great weekend and we’re looking forward to bringing new energy and ideas to our youth program supported by the strengthened connections and relationships we’re growing with each other and with our Lord.
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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
Kazakhstan In 2 Timothy 2:9, Paul wrote about being imprisoned for the sake of the gospel-then added, “but the word of God is not chained!” This can still be true today, as we learn from the story told by Voice of the Martyrs of Pastor Kashkumbaev, who was imprisoned for his Christian faith in Kazakhstan. In 2013, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison on five different charges. (After its breakaway from the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has sought to develop its own national identity by fostering Islam and suppressing Christianity.) When Pastor Kashkumbaev learned he would be sent to a psychiatric ward, he was worried that he would be given powerful drugs there that would cause him to lose his mind. But a visit from a friend reminded him that God was still in control. God gave Pastor Kashkumbaev peace and helped him view his fellow cellmates in the psychiatric ward as sick children. He prayed for them, helped them, and shared compassion and love with them. These same fellow cellmates intervened when Pastor Kashkumbaev was given his first injection, and the doctor ordered that he would not get any further drugs. Pastor Kashkumbaev used his written “confession” to share his testimony about what Jesus had done for him. In his counseling sessions with the psychiatrist, he was able to share about how Christians aren’t called to return evil for evil. Pastor Kashkumbaev was able to help a prisoner who was a heroin addict through the withdrawal process and share the peace of Christ with him. Even as he was stuck in prison, Pastor Kashkumbaev was able to share Christ’s love and lead many others to faith in Christ. In 2014, he was released from prison and four of the five charges were dropped. Praise God for his faithful care of Pastor Kashkumbaev through this ordeal. Pray for others around the world who are similarly suffering for their faith to also experience miraculous provision.
Congo
Glen and Rita serve as our ABC missionaries in the Congo, and Glen shared in a recent email about his recent visit to the village of Kipalanga. Though there has been a church there since about the 1930s, the last missionary to visit the village was Doris Wiseman in the 1970s. The village is very difficult to reach by land from Kikongo, where Glen is based. But he was able to visit recently with his powered parachute! If you aren’t clear on what that is, you can Google “Glen Chapman powered parachute” or check out this video: goo.gl/pjXt1U And with the help of images from Google Earth, Glen was able to virtually survey the landing site before his trip. The powered parachute safely ferried Glen along with all his equipment: generator, conductors, speaker, computer, and projector! This allowed him to show movies, including the JESUS film in their own tribal language. He was able to visit with people in the village and explore their valley. Sunday he preached to an overflow crowd about Philip’s encounter with the Ethiopian in Acts 8. When it was time for him to return home, the winds shifted to his favor and he was able to safely take off and return home, before a storm rolled in that night. On Monday, Glen taught his classes at the college, which would not have been possible if he had to make a land journey. Praise God for the way that the gospel is moving forward in new ways in the 21st century! Praise God for his protection of Glen as he travels by powered parachute. Pray for the ministry of Glen, Rita, and all our missions partners in and around Kikongo.
-Jonathan Peske
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If you have information to share about the persecuted church or news from the mission field, please share it with Jonathan Peske.
Upcoming Mission Opportunities By Liz Laine, Missions Commission Chair
Rainbow Acres, Arizona June 11-17 Rainbow Acres is a Christian Community with heart that empowers persons with developmental disabilities to live to their fullest potential with dignity and purpose. These adult residents are called ranchers. Ranchers are assisted by Vocational staff to find jobs where they experience success. This may be on campus or in the surrounding community. The purpose of the trip is to help with a new or ongoing work project, such as painting and interacting over meals with the ranchers. Approximate cost per person is $200 which includes meals, lodging, a contribution to R.A. for work supplies and car pooling transportation. Open to those aged 13 through adult. For further information, talk to Pastor Shawn. A sign up sheet is in the office.
2017 Biennial Mission Summit, Portland, Oregon June 30-July 2 An American Baptist gathering where people come together for faith – stretching worship, preaching and fellowship. Registration is only $40 as we are a contributing church. Meet our new CEO of International Ministries, Sharon Koh, and get an update on our missionaries and other global workers. Sign up sheet is in the office.
Marilyn Peck Memorial Gift By Janet Roberts
Miriam Circle is preparing to send a gift to ABWM Women and Girls Mission Fund in memory of Marilyn Peck. Grants from this fund enable women and girls worldwide to access opportunities for education, employment, health care, spiritual growth, and leadership development. Contributions for this memorial gift may be placed in the ABW box in the church office. Make checks payable to “ABW First Baptist Church.” Designate “Marilyn Peck Memorial” on the memo line.
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Get To Know: Paige Mann
Page was born an only child in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she grew up. Her first memory of a religious gathering was with Intervarsity Fellowship where they did inductive Bible study. [For the rest of us: inductive study means asking two questions (1) what did this passage mean to the people who first heard it (2) what does it mean to us?] The group also ate together after the study. This was a big draw for a poor college student. Here many of her questions answered in a non-judgmental atmosphere. Her roommate encouraged her to make “the jump” to being a baptized believer. She attended a “Walk with God” retreat and decided she was ready for baptism. She was baptized in 1990 by the leader of Campus by the Sea Bible study. She came to Redlands when her husband (Sanjeet) got her a job in the library at the University of Redlands. Her favorite Hymn is “It Is Well with My Soul.” She is drawn to it because it has a positive message but recognizes the cost of joy. She also appreciates the background of the hymn: Horatio Stafford had a flourishing business and a joyful young family which had already survived the death of their youngest son and the Chicago fire. When the business grew prosperous again, he decided to take his family on
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By Ann B. Smith
The family prayed that God might spare them, but also for the courage to survive whatever might come. a vacation to Europe. Something came up and Stafford was not able to go with his family on the date their passage was booked. Four days later, in the middle of the Atlantic, the passenger ship collided with an iron-hulled Scottish ship. The family prayed that God might spare them, but also for the courage to survive whatever might come. The four Stafford children were among the 226 passengers who drowned. Mrs. Stafford was saved by a sailor looking for survivors. When she got to shore, Mrs. Stafford wired her husband: Saved alone. What shall I do? Her husband took the next ship to join his grieving wife. According to a later daughter, he wrote “It is Well with My Soul” on this journey. Page picked The First Baptist Church of Redlands for many reasons. First, it was a church where she would not be anonymous as she might have been at larger churches. Second, both she and Sanjeet felt comfortable. Third, she liked how the building itself encouraged worship. Lastly, some of her friends
come here. Her favorite Bible story is from the Old Testament where Jacob wrestles with God (or with an angel, depending on your translation). In case you’re fuzzy, Jacob has sent his family and his flocks across the river to meet his brother (hoping to buy him off) when a figure appears. They wrestle all night and the being is forced to injure Jacob’s hip before he can overcome the human. The point, in Jacob’s view, is to obtain the being’s blessing – which he gets. Page likes the physicality of it. God descends from his omnipotence to contend with this human being on equal terms. There is no status difference, no politeness, and no winner. God calls a halt to the contest and blesses Jacob, changing his name from “Supplanter” (Jacob) to “One who prevails with God” (Israel). Page is a member of the Lectionary Sunday school class where she often contributes to and occasionally leads discussions.
Getting Woke By Lisa Olson
You may have heard of a group of church members recently getting together to discuss the book “The Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism.” I thought I’d share a little bit about why I’m participating in these important conversations. On Martin Luther King day this year, I decided to read his letter from the Birmingham jail. MLK’s most famous speech is the “I have a dream” one, and it is easy to read about white children and black children holding hands, feel warm and fuzzy inside, and then move on to Tuesday. The letter from the Birmingham jail is not that “dreamy” MLK. It is a response to
“The Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism” was the topic of discussion at Lisa Olson’s book review group this past month.
the white moderates, and some of it feels like a sucker punch. Here is one part I want to excerpt: “Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will...When I was suddenly catapulted into the leadership of the bus protest in Montgomery, Alabama, a few years ago, I felt we would be supported by the white church…Instead, some have been outright opponents, refusing to understand the freedom movement and misrepresenting its leaders; all too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stainedglass windows.” Gulp. I decided to do some more reading and learning. Last year, a lot of people celebrated Susan B. Anthony from the women’s suffrage movement. I think I clicked “like” on a Facebook post or two. But then I learned that Susan B. Anthony had campaigned against black people getting the vote, because she assumed white women were smarter than black men. Whoa, how did I not know that? I knew that black people were disproportionately incarcerated. But I think my unspoken attitude was, wow, that’s horrible, but you do something wrong and you have to go to prison, right? Then I learned that the prevalence for using and selling drugs is the same for black people and white people, but black people are imprisoned at six-fold higher rate (Alexander, The New Jim Crow,
2010). There is a lot more to that statistic, and I realized I needed to learn about it. So I, along with some other people from FBCR, have started reading, watching, and listening. It’s often uncomfortable. Sometimes it can feel paralyzing (“Even if I try to do/say something right, even that’s not good enough!”). Sometimes I catch myself wanting to discount anecdotes I read. Sometimes I feel defensive (“I didn’t participate in slavery or segregation! I haven’t done anything wrong!”). But it shouldn’t be about how the discussion makes me feel. Given what our brothers and sisters have endured, I think we can handle sitting through feelings of guilt, resentfulness, or resignation, and focus on listening to them tell us what their lived experience is. You may have heard of a phrase “get woke” or “stay woke.” This is describing people who feel like they have opened their eyes in a new way to what is around them it terms of racial justice. None of us who are discussing these issues at church are experts on racial justice; most of us are Caucasians; and all of us realize we have a lot to learn. But we want to be better allies to those of different ethnicities and cultures. We would love you to join us in figuring out how. On Friday, March 10th at 6:30 PM, we will be watching and discussing the documentary “13th.” Contact redlandslisa@gmail for more info.
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Happy March Birthday To...
Photo courtesy of Cathy Zander Local Outreach Commission recently donated 6 shoe racks to the clothing room at Family Service. The donation was very much appreciated by Family Service.
Family Service Association Easter Food Bag Guide
Local Outreach will be collecting for Family Service on March 19, 26 and April 2. Below is a list for 1 box. First Baptist donated 10 last year! Awesome, and we hope for more this year! We are grateful to the youth that will assemble the boxes for us. We hope this list will guide your giving, to help make another family’s Easter more festive. Thank you! Flour (5lb bag) Canned Fruit Sugar (5lb bag) Canned Corn Cooking Oil Canned Green Beans Cheddar Cheese Soup Cream of Mushroom Soup Apples (5lb bag) Potatoes (5lb bag) Cake Mix Rice Frosting Beans Roasting Pan $10.00 gift card to Stater Bros. (Most clients have a Stater Bros. within walking distance) Any extra special holiday items that can make their Easter more festive (candies, treats, decorations, etc.)
Film Discussion
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The racial justice discussion group invites you to watch the documentary “13th” on Friday, March 10th, 6:30 PM in Field Hall. This in-depth look at race and the prison system contains language and violence only appropriate for mature teens and up. A discussion will follow the documentary.
Arlene Lannon — 1 Daniel Winter — 2 Bob Leonard — 2 Sydney Keierleber — 4 John “Jack” Joyce — 4 Allison Jensen — 7 Violet Allen — 7 Angela Keierleber — 7 Fred Ford — 7 Tim Savage — 9 Ellie Huynh — 10 Sarah Whitley — 10 Mary Wolfe — 10 Nathan Jones — 11 Christine Carpenter — 12 Lillian Peske — 13 Ashley Hansen — 14 Don Craw — 16 Aaron Zureick — 16 Mason Wolfe — 17 Tom Kirkpatrick — 18 Erykah Hopkins — 19 Caleb Lim — 19 Dorothy Somers — 20 Joseph Peske — 21 Marion Jensen — 22 Shelby Pleiss — 22 Lily Applebee — 25 Wendy Peske — 26 Shannon Pleiss — 28 Andrea Zureick — 29 Angelica Beltran — 31 Queenie Fernandez — 31
SEND YOUR CONDOLENCES It is with great regret we share the passing of:
Peter David Aug. 31, 1939 - Feb. 23, 2017
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Pray for Richard Steffen
Pray for our Choir
8:45 a.m. Nursery/Toddlers 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Worship Service 11:30 a.m. Fellowship Time 11:45 a.m. Prayer Meeting 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Photo Directory Picture Make Up
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8:45 a.m. Nursery/Toddlers 9 a.m. Ministry Brunch, Judson Hall 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Worship Service 11:30 a.m. Fellowship Time 11:45 a.m. Prayer Meeting
Pray for Missionaries
Pray for the Hopeless
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Pray for the Angry
8 a.m. Men’s Breakfast at 7 p.m. Executive MeetPlymouth Village ing, Lounge 4-6 p.m. GriefShare, Lounge
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8 a.m. Men’s Breakfast at 7 p.m. Prayer Meeting, Plymouth Village Lounge 4-6 p.m. GriefShare, Lounge
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Pray for Pastor Deena
Pray for the US
11:45 a.m. ABW Miriam Circle, Plymouth Village 6 p.m. Men’s Fellowship
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7 p.m. Ash Wednesday Service, Chapel
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8 a.m. Men’s Breakfast at 7 p.m. C.E., Mezzanine Plymouth Village Worship, Board Room 4-6 p.m. GriefShare, Local Outreach, Library Lounge Fin. & Prop., Judson Hall
for our 14 Pray Commissions
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Pray for Ministry Brunch
Pray for Diaconate
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Pray for the Grieving 6:30 p.m. Diaconate Meeting, Lounge
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8 a.m. Men’s Breakfast at Plymouth Village 4-6 p.m. GriefShare, Lounge
Pray for Sound Team
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Monday
8:45 a.m. Nursery/Toddlers 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Worship Service 11:30 a.m. Fellowship Time 11:45 a.m. Prayer Meeting
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Sunday
10-11 a.m. Play Day in the Nursery
5:45 p.m. Birthday Night Dinner 6:45 Classes
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Pray for Loved Ones
10-11 a.m. Play Day in the Nursery
Pray for the Homeless 5:45 p.m. Thursday Night 10-11 a.m. Play Day Dinner in the Nursery 6:45 p.m. Classes
for those in War 31 30 Pray Torn Countries
5:45 p.m. Thursday Night 10-11 a.m. Play Day Dinner in the Nursery 6:45 p.m. Classes
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Night Dinner 6:45 p.m. Classes
Pray for Guidance 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Photo Directory Picture Make Up
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9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Put It Together, David’s Corner
Pray for Peace
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Women’s Bible Study, David’s Corner
Pray for Believers in Other Countries
Pray for Healing
Saturday
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for the Strength 16 5:45 p.m. Thursday 17 Pray 18 to Forgive
Pray for Acceptance
for Family 10 Pray Service
10-11 a.m. Play Day in the Nursery
Pray for Birthday Celebrants
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