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(Disciples Of
Christ) (562) 430-2286 |
August 2009 |
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2 Morning Service - Pastor
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4 Disciples Women 10 am Bible Study (Fellowship Hall) |
5 Men’s Singing Ensemble |
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9 Morning
Service - Pastor
– Dr. Carlos Piar |
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11 Disciples Women 10 am Bible Study (Fellowship Hall) |
12 Men’s Sing Ensemble |
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16 Morning
Service - Pastor
– Dr. Joyce Smith |
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18 Disciples Women 10
am Bible Study (Fellowship
Hall) |
19 Board Meeting – (Conference Room) |
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21 CWF Meeting - 11:00 am (Fireside/Conf.
Rm.) |
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23 Morning
Service - Pastor
– Dr. Carlos Piar |
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25 Disciples Women (Fellowship
Hall) |
26 Men’s Sing Ensemble |
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30 Morning
Service - Pastor – Dr. Carlos
Piar 5th Sunday Sing – (Location : tba) |
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Elders – Ralph Jacobs & Ø
Greeter – Kevin & Chrisy Bigelow Ø
Communion Setup – Beverly McCarthy Ø
Servers – Caroline Lindauer, Ø
Nursery – Rachel Wisterman Ø
Sunday School – Sunday, August 9th
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Elders – Ø
Greeters – Kevin & Chrisy Bigelow Ø
Communion Setup – Beverly McCarthy Ø
Servers – Kevin Bigelow, Chrisy Bigelow,
Shirley Gerstel, Johnnie Goodin Ø
Nursery – Marcia Crockett Ø
Sunday School – Lynnie Paterno Sunday, August
16th Ø
Elders – Terry Royce & Ø
Greeters – Kevin & Chrisy Bigelow Ø
Communion Setup – Beverly McCarthy Ø
Servers – Ø
Nursery – Rachel Wisterman Ø
Sunday School – Sunday, August
23rd Ø
Elders – Ø
Greeters – Kevin & Chrisy Bigelow Ø
Communion Setup – Beverly McCarthy Ø
Servers – Bob Lankford, Carol Lankford,
Caroline Lindauer, Felicia Ward Ø
Nursery – Marcia Crockett Ø
Sunday School – Sunday, August
30th Ø
Elders –Ralph Jacobs & Terry Royce Ø
Greeters – Kevin & Chrisy Bigelow Ø
Communion Setup – Beverly McCarthy Ø
Servers – Beverly McCarthy, Cathy Wallace, Rachel
Wisterman Ø
Nursery – Rachel Wisterman Ø
Sunday School – Linda Davis |
From
your Pastor’s study… Summer is the time for picnics at the park, for reading a thriller under an umbrella at the beach, the time for trips and vacations. Maybe it’s because the heat of summer discourages us from working; it’s too hot, it’s too much sweat, too much exhaustion. We all need time off to re-charge, to get away and relax so we can come back again with new energy and new vision. God himself wove the pattern of work-and-rest into creation. In the Genesis account God works for six days and rests on the seventh. This sets the pattern of time being set aside for re-Creation. If God himself “needed” to rest, how much more do we? When God issues the Ten Commandments, He commands (#4) His people to keep the Sabbath day holy and not do any work on that day. We have taken that to mean that we need to set a day aside to worship, but it is also a command to set a day aside to rest, to be renewed. God even created living things to operate on a daily pattern of work and rest (circadian rhythms); all living things sleep, for example, and we humans sleep about a third of each day. But God went even further: He commanded His people to observe the Sabbatical Year: every seventh year was to be a year in which the land was to be left fallow; it was given a rest. Why this biblical emphasis on rest? First there is an ethical aspect to this command to rest: Nothing – not human beings, not oxen, and not even the land – is to be exploited until it is totally exhausted or depleted. Creation endures when time is given for renewal. There is, therefore, an implied environmental ethic: we need to conserve and protect the environment and not exploit it to death. There is a work ethic implied here as well: we work to live, we don’t live to work; a caution against becoming a workaholic. But beside the ethical aspect to this rest command, there is a spiritual aspect: God’s invitation to us to enter into His rest (Heb. 4:9-11): “There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest.” With Christ, our destiny, our salvation, is secure and so we can truly rest. So go ahead and thank the Lord for helping you relax.
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