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Women's Beach Walk Canceled in Support of Walk For Life Network
Life Network's 19th Annual WALK FOR LIFE
Date: July 25th, 2009
Time: 9am - 11pm
Location: Casa Las Palmas, Chase Palm Park,
323 E. Cabrillo Boulevard
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Why?: Because Life is Valuable
More Information: Visit www.friendsoflifenetwork.org or click HERE
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Verdugo Day
Verdugo Community Church is an inner-city congregation in our Southern California region. It is an historic church with a small
congregation that has been unable to keep up their facilities. On August 15th our church along with 20 other
churches in our region are gathering together to help
upgrade their facilities. We will be painting, removing a block wall and
cement, replacing electrical, removing an old piano, and the like.
We need volunteers to make this happen!! We will leave the
church parking lot at 7:30 am on Saturday August 15Th and carpool down to Verdugo Community Church. We will be doing some painting and some electrical work as
well as just good old clean up work. Lunch will be provided and we should be
back in Santa Barbara by 5:00. It will be a day of working together as well as
fellowship and blessing a church that needs some help.
For more information, please contact the church office at 965-1338 x221.
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Men@Nacimiento 2009
Free Methodist Men's Retreat
September 18-20th
Come To The Water!
If you would like to join in a preparatory prayer time for this retreat, join us in the Counseling Center at 10:35am on Sunday mornings. For more information contact Don Farnsworth at 455-8880 or don.farnsworth@cox.net
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Attention Women: Save This Date, March 19-21 2010!
SAVE
THE DATE: Ladies, plan on joining us in Cambria
March 19-21, 2009 for our Women's Retreat weekend and start saving just $5 per
week now and it will be paid!
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Santa Barbara Meals on Wheels Needs Volunteer Drivers
Can you spare 2 hours one day a week to deliver hot, nutritious
meals to the elderly and homebound of Santa Barbara? The hours are from
approximately 10:15 am - 12:15 pm, and Meals on Wheels (MOW) currently has both
weekday and weekend routes available. They are also in need of "on
call" drivers that can fill in if the regular driver is unavailable. You
will use your own car - and MOW will reimburse you for mileage!
The rewards for delivering Meals on Wheels are
so great. They deliver 7 days a week 365 days of the year. They are a
non-profit all volunteer organization except for one hired staff person
and the contracting of food preparation from Valle Verde. If you can
spare a couple of hours one day per week or can volunteer occasionally please
call the MOW office at 683-4565 Monday through Friday and ask for Leanna. You
can also call or email Mark Huston for more information. His contact
information is: markhuston1311@gmail.com
or cell # 895-1262.
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Church Finances
In this time of financial struggle, Thank you for remembering
your church family!
Offerings Needed YTD: $343,225.81
Offerings Receive YTD: $338,073.71 (98.5%)
Still Needed YTD:
$5,152.102
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FM FlashPoints: What In The World Are We Doing?
>> Soap Suds Shop
In June 2008, Clearfield FMC (PA) member Phyllis
Bauman organized the Soap Suds Shop in the church basement in response to a
local "pay it forward" contest. She knew people receiving government assistance
cannot use the money to buy cleaning supplies or hygiene products. She used funds
donated by the church to open the shop. She didn't win the contest (which would
have reimbursed the church), but the shop stayed open and has since served 437
families (3,298 people, including multiple visits).
>> FM Parish Nurse Honored
Diane DeStefano, volunteer parish nurse at Mt.
Carmel FMC (IL), "summer" nurse at the Wabash Conference campgrounds (IN), and
a critical care nurse at St Mary's (Evansville, IL), received the 2009 Clinical
Nursing Practice Excellence Award from St. Mary's. She was cited for always
using "critical thinking in her practice ... to ensure the continuity and
coordination of care for her patients."
>> Helping Senior City-zens
In November 2008, and again in May 2009, New
Hope Ministries FMC (Mayfield Heights, OH) partnered with the mayor's community
council for a city-wide clean-up day focused on elderly residents' yards. "It's
important to show the community and our government officials how seriously we
take the responsibility of being salt and light ... ," says Pastor Tom Tewell.
Through volunteer efforts like these, "city hall realizes it has friends in 'high
places,'" he adds
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FMCSB
Our Mission is to win
people to Christ, establish them in the faith, and equip them for ministry.
Free Methodist Church of Santa Barbara
1435 Cliff Drive
Santa Barbara, California 93109
805-965-1338
www.fmcsb.org
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Important Dates
Mon. July 20th:
Joint CDCC and Property Finance Meeting
Sat. July 25th: Life Network Walk
Sat. Aug. 15th:
Verdugo Day
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Memory Verse
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.
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