This summer we have several events scheduled that will be fun for the whole family and provide some great fellowship! Mark your calendars for:

June 22-27th - VBS see above article for details

 

July 11th - Annual Church Softball Picnic. This years picnic will be held a little earlier in the summer so mark Saturday July 11th on your calendar and plan on bringing family and friends to Stow Grove Park for a day filled with fun, fellowship, softball and BBQ!  Look for more information and softball singups next week.

 

Aug. 15th - Verdugo Day. Join us as we travel to Verdugo Free Methodist Church and bless them!  Several churches from our Southern California conference will be getting together to clean and spruce up this inner city church. This will be a day of fellowship, working together and BBQ.   

 

Cans For Causes would like to thank those who particpated in the past year for their faithful support. We have completed our 1- year trial period for the program and for various reasons have decided to discontinue the program, effective immediately. Over the past year, we have been able to raise $700, which will be split to support Eden projects and Pura Vida Costa Rica!

In this time of financial struggle, please remember your church family:
 
Offerings Needed YTD:  $281,960.00
Offerings Receive YTD:  $281,836.87 (99.96%)
Still Needed YTD:          $123.13  
 

The Seven Festivals of the Messiah
Presented by Rev. Warren Simandle
 
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.