When: June 22-27, 9:00-11:00 a.m.
What: Rome: Paul and the Underground Church (Go to www.group.com/vbs and click on Rome for an overview)
Who: Preschool-adult (ages 3 & up)
Where: FMC & CDCC
Contact: Nelda Nutter (mcshead@mcssb.org or leave a message at 964-2612)
We Need:1) Prayer support 2) A legion of adult & youth volunteers (shopkeepers, actors, game leaders, music leaders,  teachers, set-up & take-down workers, crafters, snack preparers, scenic background painters...& more) 3) Donations (see below)

Ready to travel back in time? Join us in Rome!
We'll explore the caves of the Underground Church, meet the Apostle Paul, create cool Bible-times projects, experience thrilling dramas, play high-energy games, sample tasty snacks, hear unforgettable music and meet new friends. The days of the early Christian Church will come to life as we sneak away from Roman guards, play games like first century Roman kids did, work in the shops at the marketplace, and visit with Paul during his house arrest.

 

Items you can save/purchase/make/lend/donate now-June 15:
carpet rolls/cylinders (to make into Roman columns)
refrigerator/large furniture boxes (for scenery cut-outs)
paper grocery bags
newspapers
toilet tissue rolls
paper towel rolls
pizza cardboard/rounds
aluminum vegetable/fruit/soup cans (clean & w/o labels)
"Simply Orange"-style plastic juice containers
frozen juice can lids
broken tiles or mosaic tiles
wide aluminum foil
foam pool "noodles"
beeswax sheets
candle wicking
elastic headbands
green silk leaves (for laurel wreaths)
silk floral garlands (or flowers we can make into garlands)
black spray paint
faux stone paper

brown vinyl
jute or heavy brown twine
wooden fence slats or shipping pallet slats (to make shop signs)
décor (Roman urns/vases/pedestals/fountains/statues, baskets, sheer fabric & draping, silk trees & potted plants)
 

The Seven Festivals of the Messiah
Presented by Rev. Warren Simandle
 
May 24 (Introduction)
June 7, 14, 21, 28
9:30 am
 
SHIFCO Recreation Room
(418 Santa Fe Place-across Cliff Dr. from the church)
 
The festivals of the Old Testament Pentateuch are some of the most fascinating, yet least understood topics in the Bible.  In Leviticus 23, Moses is instructed to institute seven Israeli Holy Days or holidays celebrating festivals for the spring and fall harvests.  Unbeknownst to him, the festivals were an incredible foreshadowing of the full scope of Christ's redemptive work. 
 
An introduction to the festivals will be presented on May 24th, followed by a four-week exploration of the spring festivals during the month of June.  Join us for an indepth examination of the festivals, their prediction of Christ's Passion and the birth of the church, and the foundational truths to be learned through them.
 
Warren Simandle, an alumnus of U.C. Berkeley, Cal-State Hayward and Fuller Seminary, served with Young Life for 12 years.  He teaches math and physics at Santa Barbara High School and is a doctoral candidate in Hebraic studies.  He and his wife Leanne, a licensed minister in worship and music, began a family-oriented home church ten years ago and now lead a family worship small group for our church congregation.
 

John 3:16 & 17
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." 

John 1:1-18
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
 
6There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. 7He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. 8He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. 9The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
 
10He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God- 13children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
 
14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,[d] who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
 
15John testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' "  16From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. 17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only,who is at the Father's side, has made him known.