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WWW.WHIDBEYNEWSTIMES.COM
Come Worship With Us!
God-Centered Worship Christ-Centered Preaching Verse-by-Verse Teaching Worship: 1 PM 1411 Wieldraayer Road (off of Swantown Road) Pastor Keith McFaul 360-279-9713 www.GraceEvangelical.org
Promote your place of worship in the Whidbey News-Times for only $12.50 per week for a single size ad. Please call 360-675-6611
Missouri Synod
Adult Bible Study & Sunday School......9:00am Worship Service ......................................10:15am
Pastor Mark T. Hanson 360-675-2548 Preschool 360-679-1697
590 N. Oak Harbor St • Oak Harbor www.concordialutheranwhidbey.org
Oak Harbor Southern Baptist Church 50 SW 6th Avenue
Bible Study For All Ages.....9:15 a.m. Worship Services.....10:45 a.m. & 6 p.m. Wednesday Services..................6 p.m. Prayer Meeting & Student Ministries Child care for all services. Pastor Grafton Robinson Associate Pastor Lemuel B. Villano 675-6686 www.ohsbc.org
Whidbey Island Messianic Fellowship Where Yeshua is Lord Come Learn the Hebraic Roots of Your Faith
We welcome you to join us for worship and celebration
Meeting at: The Oak Harbor Christian School Bldg A 675 E. Whidbey Ave. Oak Harbor, WA 360-675-7189 Saturdays at 10:30am
First United Methodist Church
Tough Questions. Real Answers.
Worship Hours: Adult Sunday School: 9:00 am Worship Service: 10:00 am Children’s Sunday School 10:30 am
Everyone is welcome to join us! Youth Ministries-Choirs-Bible Studies Dave Johnson .........................................Pastor Jake Howell Director of Children & Youth Ministry Chet Hansen ............................Music Minister
675-2441 • oakharborfumc.org 1050 SE Ireland St • Oak Harbor
Word Of Everlasting Life & Faith Church
Best Western Hotel Conference Room 33175 State Route 20 Oak Harbor, WA. 98277-8713 360-682-2323
SUNDAY Bible Study 9:00am Worship Service 10:00am Come Worship With Us!
First Reformed Church
March 9 - “Doesn’t Science Contradict the Claims of Christianity?” March 16 - “How Could a Loving God Send People to Hell?” March 23 - “How Can I Trust Christianity When There are So Many Hypocrites?”
250 SW 3rd Ave 360.675.4837 www.frcoh.org
Thursday Bible Study 7:00pm
555 SE Regatta Dr. • Oak Harbor The Rev. Rilla Barrett The Episcopal Church on North Whidbey Island
A Member of the Anglican Communion Worldwide
360-279-0715 www.ststephensofoakharbor.org
Oak Harbor Church of Christ
Trinity Lutheran Church
1000 NE Koetje Street (Just North of Office Max)
“To Know Christ & Make Him Known”
Sunday Morning:
Bible Classes for all ages..............9:30am Worship Assembly......................10:30am Wednesday Night ..........................6:30pm Matt Oliver, Preaching Minister
www.churchofchrist-oh.org oakharborchurch@gmail.com
331-5191 • Freeland
www.trinitylutheranfreeland.com
Fall Schedule Sunday Worship 8:00, 9:30 &11:00 am Sunday School and Adult Ed 9:30 am Nursery provided for both services
CALVARY APOSTOLIC TABERNACLE
SOULS HARBOR
A SAFE PLACE TO CALL HOME Sunday Morning...............10am Sunday Evening............ 6:30pm Wednesday..........................7pm
632-7243
Pastor Greg Adkins
Matthew 28:18-20
• Nursery All Services • Small Groups • Sunday School • MOPS • AwAnA • Youth Groups Come worship with us!
Worship Services Sunday 8:30, 9:50 & 11:10 a.m. 679-1585
2760 N Heller Rd • Oak Harbor
Whidbey Presbyterian Church 1148 SE 8th Ave Oak Harbor
Worship Services 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
• Small Groups • Community Outreach • Youth and Family Ministries • Childcare All Services • Much More! www.whidbeypres.org
679-3579
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Whidbey Island 20103 State Route 525 Freeland
Sunday Service at 10:00 am
Minister: Rev. Dennis Reynolds Childcare Year-Round Religious Education Sept-June All are welcome 360-321-8656 www.whidbey.com/uucwi uuadmin@whidbey.com
The Catholic Church Invites You…. St. Augustineʻs Parish • 675-2303 185 N Oak Harbor St. ~ Oak Harbor
The City Of Refuge Christian Church “You Have The Right To Be Free”
Tuesday Bible Study 7:00pm Sun Service 11am • Sun Children’s Church 11am We Welcome All Pastor Yvonne Howard & the C.O.R.C.C. Family
656 SE Bayshore Dr, Suite #2 • 675-0935
Masses: Saturday Sunday Wed & Fri
5:00 pm 8:00am & 9:30 am 9:00 am
On the web: www.staugustineoh.org
St. Maryʻs Parish 678-6536 207 Main St. ~ Coupeville
Masses: Sunday Thurs
11:15 am 12:10 pm
NW 2nd Avenue & Heller Road Across the street from OHHS Stadium
Sunday Worship ......8:00 & 10:30 am Sunday School......................... 9:15 am Nursery Available
Sunday Evening Prayer 6:30 PM at St. Mary Catholic Church in Coupeville Jeffrey Spencer, Lead Pastor Pastor Marc Stroud, Associate Pastor
679-1561
oakharborlutheran.org
490 NW Crosby Ave., Oak Harbor 675-5008 Sunday Services 9:00, 10:30 & 11:45 am
www.oakharborfamilybible.org
Living Word Kids: 3 mos–5th grade all services Middle School Youth: Sundays 4:00 PM High School Youth: Sundays 6:00 PM Weekly Adult Groups Russ Schlecht ~ Senior Pastor
www.elivingword.org
A Church, A Family
A Spiritual Home Grace By The Sea An Anglican Expression of Faith The Rev. Paul Orritt
SUNDAY SERVICE
8:00 AM TRADITIONAL WORSHIP SERVICE 9:15 AM SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:30 AM FAMILY WORSHIP SERVICE www.gracebythesea.org
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Island Vineyard Community Church Pastor James Gallagher
9:15 AM SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:30 AM WORSHIP SERVICE www.islandvineyard.org
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2 CHURCHES - 1 BUILDING
555 SE Regatta Dr. Oak Harbor 679-3431
ISLAND VINEYARD COMMUNITY CHURCH
(The Pentecostals of Island County)
Located on Goldie Road
Lutheran Church
Woodard Road, Highway 525, Freeland
James Lindus, Pastor Dennis Hanson, Pastor Eric Ottum, Pastor Jerry O’Neill, Pastor Karl Olsen, Minister of Music
675-3441
Oak Harbor
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Join us for Sunday Service in the Main Sanctuary at 11:30am
40 NE Midway Blvd, #103 • Oak Harbor Pastor Dr. Thomas Stoneham Sr., Minister Donald Cole
Sundays 8:45am - Traditional 10:30am - Contemporary Nursery Available
GRACE BY THE SEA • AN ANGLICAN EXPRESSION OF FAITH
Concordia Lutheran Church
Saturday, March 8, 2014 • Whidbey News-Times
Harbor Highlights will be telling your stories HARBOR HIGHLIGHTS
By JOAN BAY KLOPE
For the past 20 years, I’ve happily written “Faithful Living‚“ for the Whidbey NewsTimes. It’s worked because of two factors: I love writing about issues of faith. I also believe such matters can be respectfully written in ways that bring people together. The longevity of the column undergirds my contentions. I’m pleased that I will continue writing about faith and the contributions of the faith community here on Whidbey. Another gift of writing a weekly column is the opportunity to tell stories and Whidbey Island is populated by a remarkable landscape of characters. Working with Publisher and Executive Editor Keven Graves and reporter Ron Newberry, we identified a shared vision for highlighting the life events of Whidbey Islanders in a column format. It is with enormous pleasure that I introduce “Harbor Highlights,” and I begin with a topic near and dear to a whole lot of us: When the majority of our winter days are gray, Whidbey Islanders like to get off The Rock in search of a sun break and a lesson or two. RETIRED NAVY Capt. Oz Allen and his wife, Jean Allen, have been venturing off their beloved Whidbey since their retirement began in 1979. Retiring here because of the services offered by Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, they carefully schedule travel into their lives. For 13 years they packed up their motorhome and drove down the West Coast to Baja, Calif., to camp with Navy friends and steep in the Mexican culture. When other parts of the world called, they occasionally took advantage of spaceavailable travel opportunities offered to military members and retirees. They learned that being ready to board a flight where vacant seats suddenly opened up wasn’t stressful to them. They liked the spontaneity and adventure of it all. Those flights took them to New Zealand and Australia and various locations in the South Pacific.
The Allens say they value their travel experiences because their parents worked long into their retirement years and died without experiencing the gifts and lessons of travel. They talk of seeing fantastic parts of the globe, experiencing the deep joy people living in relative poverty generously share with them, and spending treasured time together as a couple. Best of all, say the Allens, “Each time we drive over the Deception Pass Bridge we remind each other that we live in the most beautiful place in the world!” OAK HARBOR Mayor Scott Dudley and his wife, Christine, recently returned from a cruise down the Amazon River in Brazil. They, too, watched their mothers pass away before being able to see much of the world. They value travel as part of their shared life experience as a couple. For Christine, there is a moment each time she visits a new place when she is flooded with gratitude. “I’m frequently caught off guard and think to myself, ‘I can’t believe I’m actually here. I’m so blessed!’” she said. For Scott, travel not only gives him a chance to recharge, but to see how other communities respond to the needs of their residents. During their trip to the Amazon, he and Christine attended a Rotary Club meeting in the City of Manaus and learned that the club was donating a large wrestling mat to a local youth community center searching for ways to keep bored youth positively engaged. He also talked with a club member who weekly loads his personal boat with books and takes his floating library to tribes along the river who enjoy no access to a public library. “I like to see how people adapt, live, and cope with their environments,” he told me this week. “I also challenge myself to understand how people who have so little experience genuine contentment.” Then, Dudley said, he returns home with a renewed promise to never take the beautiful surroundings of Whidbey for granted. “There truly is NO place like home.” n Have a story, event or think someone needs to be recognized in Harbor Highlights? Please email suggestions to me at harbor highlights@gmail.com