Sunday School: 9:30 AM
Worship Service: 10:30 AM
Women’s Bible Study: Thursday 10:00 AM
Men’s Breakfast: Saturday 7:00 AM
Shepherding groups are recessed for Thanksgiving.
Church Safety Meeting, TOMORROW, at 3:30 at the church
We need workers to help finish the new church shed. We need drywall finishers, electrical assistance in connecting power, and roofers to lay in the metal roof. Please check with Rick Koberna if you can help.
If you would like to be in the 2022-2023 church directory, please send your info (if we already have yours), please send your info to Candy Greenwood @: candyland52461@yahoo.com
We've gone through a week of fasting, but our commitment to those in need does not end here. You can still give to the Fast through the end of the month, and we can help those around us all the time. Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me" (Matt.25.40).
We're practicing after church every Sunday before December 18th. Parts are still available. See Kate Hilton.
Next Sunday, November 27th, we'll have our regular after Thanksgiving "soup and bread potluck" in grateful remembrance of the abundance we've enjoyed. We'll also have a reception for Billy and Terri Gibson who will be married in Scottsdale on Thanksgiving.
We viewed the film The Pilgrim's Progress recently at our church movie night. The story, written by the Puritan pastor, John Bunyan, in 1678 is an allegory of one "Christian's" journeying to heaven. It graph-ically speaks to the challenges and blessings of the Christian life.
It's particularly appropriate to review Bunyan's writing at Thanks-giving, and although he lived in England, his "Puritan views" flowed over into the Puritan settlements in America.
The spirit of Thanksgiving was alive among those Puritans, even though they experienced great hardship, like "Christian" in Bunyan's novel. They came together to celebrate "thankfulness" at the end of that second year after their first harvest.
For them, God was their great benefactor; He was their ever pre-sent help and encourager. For them Romans 8.28 was real: "We know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose."
So, we too must recover that Puritan faith and thankfulness at this time of year.
Life is indeed a journey, and the journey has its joys and its sorrows, but faith carries us through. Like "Christian" we know where we're going, and for "the joy set before us" we endure (Heb.12.1-2).
"Fixing our eyes on Jesus the author and perfecter of faith...we do not grow weary and lose heart" (12.2).
Pastor Tom Brown
“In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus”
(1 Thess. 5.18)
Pastor Tom Brown
Leizel is coordinating our soup day and with a taco bar in celebration of this wedding celebration…….You can call Leizel at Ph. # 619 438-5769.
Please join us for Billy and Terri Gibson’s celebration of marriage after church on Sunday, the 27th of November. They are getting married on Thanksgiving at Billy’s son’s house in Scottsdale.
CHURCH PASTORS AND ELDERS
Pastor Tom Brown
Pastor Jim Powell, Assoc. Pastor/Worship leader Elder Lee Copeland
DEACONS & STAFF
Bill Bujnowski, Lanny Dameron, Chris Lewis, Roger Brown, Lee Larson and Matt Greenwood
Lora Slater – Secretary ♥ John Greer – Media
Cyndi DiMauro– Bookkeeping
Tami Powell – Nursery/Kitchen
Jenny Brundage – Custodian
