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 You have the time to do it Often I think I have too much to do and not enough time. Well, managing our time well can accomplish much. Solomon tells us that "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven." (Ecc. 3:1)Vicki and I have just finished a very busy month. To begin with, Ed and I have been spending part of every week up at camp and Vicki has been traveling down to San Clemente see our grandson, and his parents. While up at Pine Summit, I stay in various rooms that are available and live out of my suitcase. I had an invitation to speak in Green Lake, Wisconsin, and when my former church in Beloit, through facebook, heard that I was close, they invited me to speak one Sunday while I was in WI. My mom, who lives near Detroit, fell down the basement stairs and ended up in the hospital, so while I was in WI, she suggested I should fly over to Detroit to visit her. Of course, I was not going to pass this opportunity up. Since we were near Chicago and my son is at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, we thought we should visit him. Since our former Pine Summit Director John Welch is now directing the Salvation Army's Camp Wonderland in Southern Wisconsin, I thought I should stop by and see him. The same week, Hope Again was having their Walk-A-Thon and First Baptist Church in West LA was finishing their assessment, of which I was part of the team. Finally, I wanted to plan some time with my wife, Vicki, who celebrated her birthday the Sunday I was at FBC West LA. I had promised to take her away for a few days to celebrate, and after the assessment, I did. So, in a ten-day period, I actually did everything that was planned. We can make time to do the things we feel are important. Managing time well can accomplish much. Paul mentioned that we should be "making the most of every opportunity." (Eph. 5:16) I didn't watch much TV--the average household watches eight hours and 14 minutes--but I did finish a couple of books on the plane. I do have to catch up on a few TV shows. So, manage your time well and you can accomplish much.
Enjoy reading our newsletter.
 Jim SmithExecutive Director
CB Southern California
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| Easter Stories |  Oceanside - New Song welcomed 2,956 people during Easter with 71 salvations Easter week and 17+ the week following.
Honolulu - "We had the largest gathering of Christ-followers since coming to International almost 5 years ago. Each week we beat out the week before! There is really a definite work of God going on here and we can't explain why nor how. But I guess if we could, then God wouldn't be in it either."
Rialto - Including all four campuses, (Rialto, Wrightwood, Ontario, Beaumont) Sunrise had 15,700 people attend various Easter week celebrations, with 13,400 at the Rialto campus alone. On Easter weekend, the Ontario Campus had over 1,000. Most exciting is that there were 200 people that committed their lives to Christ over the week!
Apple Valley - Apple Valley Baptist held an outdoor Sunrise Service, along with their normal three morning services, which doubled their attendance to 1,300 on Easter.
Long Beach - Fil Am church had a musical on Easter and 140 in attendance compared with their normal 75. Four people were saved.
Rancho Cucamonga - Community Baptist Church doubled their weekend attendance and had 1,400 on Easter. During Easter week, they held a "prayer walk through" in various rooms of the church representing the stations of the cross. One teenage girl accepted Christ through the walk.
Lake Elsinore - Lakehills had 140 compared to their normal 70. Their youth group organized and lead an egg hunt Easter morning and shared the gospel with all the families and kids before the hunt.
Santa Barbara - Calvary combined their English and Spanish congregations for Easter and had over 400 in attendance.
Budapest, Hungary - Over 1,300 young people, all of them members of Faith Church, celebrated Resurrection Sunday in Budapest, Hungary. A friend who works at a Christian school in Hungary sent me a video link of the English version, the original (in Hungarian) is even better! Check it out!
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| Wisconsin Meetings |  Jim and Vicki Smith joined North Central CBA's Executive Director Don Shaw and his wife Betsy at their Annual Meeting at Green Lake Wisconsin April 21-23. Don invited Jim to lead a one day seminar of Improving Your Church Boards called "Staying Above the Line" and Vicki spoke at their women's breakfast.
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| Naturalization Information Session |  On May 22nd, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in partnership with Sunrise Church in Rialto, will offer a naturalization workshop for the public.
This FREE session will include:
- review of the naturalization process
- discussion of the naturalization exam/interview
- a mock naturalization interview!
Members of the church will help interested attendees complete the N-400, Application for Naturalization forms.
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Address: SunriseChurch
2759 N. Ayala Dr.
Rialto, CA92377
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| Doctorate Completed | |
Congratulations to Pastor Dave Hotelling who will receive his Doctor of Ministry from Masters Seminary on Sunday, May 9 at the graduation ceremony held at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles. Dave has been at Palm Springs Baptist for five years and has been working on his doctorate program for three years. Eighty-nine Seminary students will be graduating along with seven doctoral graduates. His dissertation was on "How to do an Expository Sermon on the Old Testament." Congratulations to Dave for completing his studies. Twenty-one members of PSBC will make the journey to join in the celebration.
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| HAITI | Delta Ministries
 Delta is now prepared and ready to receive construction teams who want to serve under Haitian leadership to rebuild houses, churches and ministry centers. A hospitality house is available to house and feed teams of up to 25 people. Teams will need to cover their own costs for travel, lodging, food and local transportation, plus contribute a minimum of $400 per team member for the construction material cost associated with their project. Churches, campus ministries and individuals interested in volunteering for ministry in Haiti should contact DELTA Ministries (800-533-5822 / www.deltaministries.com) for details and an application.
World Vision's Pastors' Vision Trip
 Dominican Republic and Haiti Cost $199 (not a typo) August 10 - 18, 2010 World Vision is sponsoring this trip for Pastors of medium to large churches who want to learn about World Vision's transformation model of development and discover how your church can make a big impact on a needy community. You will see World Vision's model at work, meet US, Dominican and Haitian pastors and learn from each other. Included...all travel including, flights, hotel, meals and ground transportation,and Materials (The Hole In Our Gospel by Rich Stearns). Please call Terah Brown if you are interested as it is filling up fast! Cell: 310.383.6450
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| To Save A Life |  By the Numbers
According to USA Today (Apr 16), "Ten's of thousands of movies are made each year, (and) only about 650 get any form of distribuation..." To Save A Life, produced by New Song Church in Oceanside, (CB church) made $2,496,508 with limited screenings! Jim Britts, New Song Oceanside's Youth Pastor, was honored by Doug Fields at the Simply Youth Conference in Chicago as the "Most Influential Youth Pastor of The Year" for his writing and producing of "To Save A Life." The "To Save A Life" youth curriculum and "To Save A Family" adult curriculum are being used in thousands of churches across the U.S. and Canada
Movie Event Package 10% Discount
 Now that To Save A Life is out of theaters in most areas, you can show it to your church before it's even out on DVD with a Movie Event Package! Outreach is the exclusive provider of public licenses for To Save A Life (it will not be covered by CVLI), so even when To Save A Life comes out on DVD you'll need to get a title-specific license. As a CB church, New Song would like to help get the word out and are able to offer a 10% discount using this code: TSAL1CB. For most churches, the cost is $299 before the discount. Contact Outreach for more information at Outreach.com. You may also get the Church Friendly Version if you wish.
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| Comite Hispano Presenta |
Desayuno Para Varones
Sabado 29 De Mayo
IGLESIA DE BELL GARDENS
7301 Perry Road
Bell Gardens, CA 90201
8:00 AM - COSTO $5
INFORMACION: Pastor Jesus Rubio
Tel. (562) 355-0989
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| Church Plants | Mountain View Bible Church
 Members of MVBC in Alpine, CA are looking over their new location. The church is just over a year old and they have outgrown their rented school property necessitating finding a new rental property, which they did, right near downtown Alpine. They have a month to build it out and hope to move into their new location in June. Congratulations to Pastor Eric Motl and Jon Lutz and the rest of their leadership team. Sunrise East
 Sunrise planted a new church in Beaumont this spring. Since Easter they have been averaging 160 attendees and had 14 people in their new members class last week. Pastor Doug Story is the Pastor of the Beaumont Campus and joins Pastor David Gaunt (Ontario) and John Hill (Wrightwood) as Campus Pastors of Sunrise Church, led by Pastor Jay Pankratz (Rialto).
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| West LA Assessment |  On Sunday, April 25, Stan Rieb, from the Rocky Mountain CBA and CBAmeria National offices, reported to Executive Pastor Jim Leonard and the leadership of First Baptist of West LA the findings of the Assessment study team, consisting of Stan, Ed Reingrover and Jim Smith. Members of the congregation had opportunities to share opinions through focus groups and an extensive survey. Results will help the church to see improved health, focus and vision for the future, along with assisting them in setting goals in order to prepare for the search for their new Senior Pastor. The study took about two months to complete. Assessments are available to all churches through CB Southern California.
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| Still Time to Sign Up | |
 Men's Retreat is only a few weeks away.
Jay Pankratz, senior pastor of Sunrise Church in Rialto, will be our guest speaker and Gregory Hooper and his band will again lead our music. Make the journey to join in the celebration.
Call camp at 909.866.5801 and ask for Vickie or email vickie.alderson@pinesummit.com or check out our web site at cbasc.com.
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| Pine Summit | Thank You
 Maintenance worker Cary Steinbacher stands by 28 batteries donated to Pine Summit. In April, we sent out an appeal for some golf cart batteries and a video projector needed at Pine Summit. We didn't have the money to get these necessary items but God answered our request in an amazing way. Someone read our need and knew his neighbor had some new batteries he was trying to get rid of. He got us in touch with his neighbor who donated the 28 batteries!!! Most of them worked. Thank you, Lord, and thank you, fellow readers. We also received at least one smaller video projector we can use in our smaller rooms. We still need a new projector for our chapel, but have received an inquiry about helping with this need.
Cooks Needed Pine Summit is looking for two Christian cooks to work at camp this summer. Please call camp at 909.866.5801. We also still need college students to work up at camp in many other areas like kitchen, recreation, housekeeping and more.  Online application if interested. |
| Walk of Hope |  Barb Golike, from First Baptist Church Fallbrook, joins others in the Walk of Hope fundraiser for Hope Again on Saturday, April 24. Hope Again raised over $20,000 toward their ministry of serving the poor, homeless and disenfranchised in the Hollywood area for Christ by bringing a message of hope with a home for women, a home for men and a safe haven for women with children.
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| Community Impact |  Pastor Ed Carey of Hope International Church in Hollywood stands with one of the many volunteers that help collect, sort and distribute more than one ton of food per day received from Trader Joe's and other supermarkets in the Hollywood area four times a day. Bread is free and available just outside the church door all day long. They have a fantastic ministry to the community and are willing to host groups interested in helping them.
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| Resources | Vision Builders
 We want to thank everyone at CB Southern California for the opportunity to be among the exhibitors at your 2010 Annual Meeting.
It was nice to see old friends and meet some new ones. We enjoyed talking to all of you.
We want to congratulate Pastor Jim Leonard of First Baptist Church in West Los Angeles. He was the winner of our drawing for the digital camera. Pastor Leonard told us the timing was great, he wanted to have it for their Easter Service.
For a no-obligation review of your building needs or plans, please give us a call at (818) 897-6200 or send an e-mail to VBGinfo@VisionBuildersGroup.com. Computer Needs John Angus has been a tremendous help to us in our move this past month with all our computer changes. Working from Lincoln, Nebraska, he has fixed our computer problems in Upland and Big Bear Lake. We would highly recommend him. For over 15 years, Basics & Beyond has been helping home users, small businesses and non-profits with all their computer needs, including hardware, software, Internet, networking, wireless, training, remote access and more.
They offer everything from on-site computer repair to phone and remote support, system troubleshooting, system upgrades and migration, remote access, wireless and firewall setup and more. If you have a computer-related problem, they can solve it. Go to basicsandbeyond.net or call John Angus at [402] 708.4951.
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| 2010 CBSC Board Members |
Our new board members at our April 29 meeting, left to right:
Chris Gillespie: SP, Apple alley Baptist Church
Gary Golike: SP, Fallbrook First Baptist
Jim Smith: Executive Director, CBSC
Pat Cottrell: SP, Calvary Baptist - Huntington Beach
Pol Pili: SP, Fil-Am Christian Fellowship, Long Beach Dave Metzger: SP, Lakehills Community Church, Lake Elsinore
Rolman Mazariegos: Associate Pastor, Calvary Baptist, Santa Barbara
Sam Petitfils: Associate Pastor, Sunrise Church - Rialto
Sam Williams: Associate Pastor, Community Baptist - Rancho Cucamonga
Rod Wilson: President, Seminario de las Americas - El Monte |
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Have a great day and thanks for reading our newsletter. For those who have pets, here's some trivia. A cat's night vision is six times better than a human's. Most dogs don't like to be left alone, so they howl. Leaving the radio on might help. When a cat gets stuck in a tree, put an open can of food at the bottom and they will find their way down in a couple of hours.
Sincerely,
Jim Smith
CB Southern California
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