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What's Happening This Week?
September 4th-September 10th
Friday Sept. 4th: Launch! College Age Group meets for a game night in the upper room. For information contact Pastor Danielle Garcia 965-1338x222 or dgarcia@fmcsb.org
Saturday Sept. 5th: Peer Counseling Classes begin 9-11am in the Counseling Center
Sunday Sept. 6th: Men's Prayer in the Counseling Center at 10:35am
Sunday Sept. 6th: Small Group information and sign-ups on the deck after all 3 services
Sunday Sept. 6th: First Sunday Cafe immediately follwoing 11am worship service. For college and Young Adults.Lunch will be provided. For information contact Pastor Danielle Garcia 965-1338x222 or dgarcia@fmcsb.org
Monday Sept. 7th: Noontime Prayer in the Sanctuary. All are Welcome
Tuesday Sept. 8th: Men's Bible Study at Mesa Cafe at 6:45am
Wednesday Sept. 9th: 5:30-7:30pm Family Worship led by Warren and Leanne Simandle (682-6809) in their home: 2322 Vista Madera. Join them for potluck dinner and worship. Children are welcome.
Wednesday Sept. 9th: FrontLine for JH/MS/HS Meets at 7pm. For details contact Pastor Doug or text 252-3216
Wednesday Sept. 9th: Pastor Denny's Bible Study at 7pm
Thursday Sept. 10th: DEPTH at 7pm in the Upper Room. See the below article for more information
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Launching College Age Group!
God wants to Launch each person into vibrant life, connection with Jesus, the study of Scripture, service, and authentic relationships. Through events, prayer, study, laughter, meals, and discussion, we get to know each other and support each other in the day-to-day activities of our lives. Join us in the Upper Fellowship Room on any Friday evening at 7:00pm for games, events, discussion, & prayer.
Friday, September 4th - Ice Cream Sundaes and Game Night
September 6 at 12:30pm - Free Lunch at First Sunday Café
Meet in the Upper Fellowship Room following the 11:00 worship service on the first Sunday of every month.
Contact Danielle for a ride or more information: 965-1338 x222 or dgarcia@fmcsb.org
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OUTDOOR FELLOWSHIP GROUP POTLUCK PICNIC
Friday (Sept.4) starting between 5:00-5:30pm!
For those of you staying in town this weekend, get ready to kick off the Labor Day weekend with an Outdoor Fellowship Group potluck picnic dinner at Shoreline Park!
Let's meet at one of the picnic areas near the upper parking lot of Shoreline Park (i.e., parking lot near San Rafael).
Show up between 5:00 - 5:30pm; we will eat by 5:30pm.
Please bring the following:
Dinner & drinks for yourself
A food dish to share
Plates, cups, utensils
Camp/beach chair (you might want to bring a picnic blanket also)
If you have any questions, please call Karen at 679-3217.
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D.E.P.T.H.
(Discussing Eternal Perspective Towards Holiness)
"SURPRISED BY JOY:
How suffering impacts our spiritual lives"
Thursday, September 10, 2009
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Upper Fellowship Room
This is an excellent time to learn about the issues important to Christians in our culture. Join us to hear Pastor Kari Morris-Guzman, a pastor from our Redlands Free Methodist Church, and her husband Aaron share from their life experience. The topic is "Surprised by Joy." Aaron and Kari have been married for 7 years. Aaron is a music teacher in Riverside and Kari is an Assistant Pastor at Brookside FMC in Redlands. Three days before their third wedding anniversary in July 2005 they were involved in a rollover car accident. Aaron only had minor injuries, but Kari sustained massive damage to her spinal cord. Her C5 vertebrae was shattered leaving her paralyzed from the shoulders down. After spending almost 6 months in a Colorado rehabilitation hospital, Aaron and Kari returned to California to resume their "new" life. God has been faithful through their journey just as He promised. Aaron and Kari desire to serve and glorify God even in challenging circumstances
For more information or to request childcare, please contact Pastor Danielle Garcia at 965-1338x222 or dgarcia@fmcsb.org
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Adult Bible Fellowship Presents:
"Christianity and India's Religious Traditions"
Taught by Dr. Chandra Mallampalli
September 13, 20, 27
9:30 a.m.
SHIFCO Recreation Room
It's time for a new year of exploring topics relevant to our Christian faith in Adult Bible Fellowship! You are invited to join us each week as various teachers present material designed to help us grow in Christ. We are excited to kick off the year with Dr. Chandra Mallampalli, a member of our church and tenured professor at Westmont College. Here is a description of the class:
Can a Christian practice yoga, meditate, or study other religions without compromising their faith? What are the most significant commonalities and differences between the Christian gospel and the rich traditions that have their origins in India?
This class will address these questions historically and Biblically by examining key interactions between missionaries and followers of Hinduism, as well as by examining key Hindu texts such as the Bhagavadgita.
A basic premise of the class will be that Christians have much to gain by studying other faiths, especially when it prompts them to reflect on their own faith, and discover things in scripture or tradition they may not have seen before.
Dr. Chandra Mallampalli has been teaching in the Westmont history department since 2001. Prior to completing a doctorate in modern South Asian history from the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Mallampalli earned an M.Div. from Fuller Seminary. During 2007-2008, Dr. Mallampalli was on sabbatical in India and the United Kingdom where he did research for his book project, "Race, Religion and Family in the Deccan, 1800-1880."
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WOMEN'S LUNCHEON
Sat. Sept. 26 at 12-2pm
"Dealing with Stress,
Anxiety & Depression"
How do we handle the stress we experience, as well as feelings of anxiety and depression? What are some ways we can cope with these without relying only on medications? Are there ways we can prevent the harmful effects of stress in our lives, as well as lessen anxiety and depression?
All women are invited to join us on Saturday, September 26th from 12:00 - 2:00pm in the upper room for a salad lunch and presentation on "Dealing with Stress, Anxiety and Depression" taught by Cheryl Wayman, MA, MFT, Director of our Cliff Drive Christian Counseling Center. This wellness event is a great opportunity to gain new insights into how to deal with stress in our life, connect with other women in our church, as well as to invite friends who may be new to our church or dealing with these issues themselves.
Please RSVP to Cheryl Wayman (cwayman@fmcsb.org or 568-3838x229) or the church office by Sun. Sept. 20, and reserve free childcare if needed with Nelda (965-1338x226) by Sun. Sept. 20 as well. |
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PREPARING FOR SUNDAY
This Sunday we will be asking God to heal our blindness, just as he did the man born blind. As you prepare consider the words of this scholar:
"John is careful to tell us that Jesus performs this miracle "having said these words" (9:6). What words? The words of 9:5-"While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." The miracle follows the claim in order to validate it. 9:5 echoes Jesus' claim in 8:12 (read), spoken shortly after the Feast of Tabernacles which lit huge lamps at the Temple to commemorate the pillar of fire in the wilderness-signifying God's presence and guidance. Jesus is claiming to be the sole source ("I and I alone") of spiritual enlightenment to a spiritually blind humanity (contra pantheism: "We already have the divine light; we're just ignorant of this"). In other words, Jesus' unique ability to restore physical sight to a congenitally blind man both illustrates and validates his claim to be the only One who can provide spiritual revelation and understanding to a spiritually blind humanity.
But although Jesus graciously grants all of us access to his spiritual light, this does not automatically enlighten us. Jn. 8:12 tells us it is our response to this light that determines its effect on our lives. Like the sun that softens butter but hardens mud, so Jesus is the light who has radically different effect on our lives depending on how we respond to him. Light received results in more sight; light rejected (exposes and) results in greater blindness. The rest of chapter 9 illustrates this principle positively in the man and negatively in the Pharisees."
See you Sunday!
Denny
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Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED Training
We will be offering Red
Cross First Aid/CPR/AED Training for Disaster Team Members Only. This is
a one day, six hour certified class. Sunday, August 27th from 1:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Please contact Bonnie Bosma if you are interested asap. (805.564.2367)
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Peer Counseling Training Classes
Our fall series of Peer Counseling Training Classes will meet from 9:00-11:00am on Saturday mornings beginning September 5th in the Counseling Center. These classes are required training for all staff and volunteers participating in parish health ministry, small group and Bible study leaders, and are recommended for those who teach classes of all ages, work with people and serve in leadership positions in the church. This 8-week session will include the topics of: crisis intervention and counseling, communication, conflict resolution, setting appropriate boundaries and avoiding burn-out, substance abuse and codependency, grief counseling, healthy development of children, adolescents and adults, as well as spiritual preparation for ministering to hurting people. Call Cheryl Wayman (568-3838x229) for more information and to schedule a required interview. Spaces are limited!
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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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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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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
Fri. Sept. 4th: College Age Group Launches! Meet at 7pm in Upper Fellowship Room
Sat. Sept. 5th: Peer Counseling Begins
Sun. Sept. 6th: First Sunday Cafe immediately following 11am worship service. For college and Young Adults.
Thurs. Sept. 10th: DEPTH
Sun. Sept. 13th: Children & Adult Sunday School Starts Up!
Wed. Sept. 16th: Women's Ministries Team Meeting
Thurs. Sept. 17th: Senior Lunch at SHIFCO
Fri-Sun. Sept. 18-20th: Men@Nacimiento 2009
Mon. Sept. 21st: CDCC Board Meeting
Sat. Sept. 26th: Women's Wellness Luncheon at Noon
Sun. Sept. 27th: CPR/First Aid Training 1-7:30pm
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Announcements!
Church Reformation Trip has been Cancelled.
Small Groups are Starting Up! Small groups are a great way to grow in your faith, meet new people and have great fellowship. Join us on the deck after all three worship services for information about new small groups and to sign-up. For more information contact Colleen at 965-1338x225
DEPTH is back! See the article for more information or contact Pastor Danielle Garcia 965-1338x222 or dgarcia@fmcsb.org. We are Launching a College-age small group! Spread the word Friday September 4th at 7pm the college-age group will be meeting for a game night in the upper room. For information contact Pastor Danielle Garcia: 965-1338x222 or dgarcia@fmcsb.org. Bible Study Leaders MeetingSunday September 13th at 12:30, right after the 3rd worship service. Lunch will be served! Fall Membership Class Want to learn more about the history of Free Methodists and what we believe? Want to become a member of the Free Methodist Church of Santa Barbara? Pastor Denny will be presenting his Membership class this October. Beginning Sunday October 4th and running each Sunday during the month of October. Dinner will be served and childcare will be provided. For more information call the church office 965-1338 x221
Attention Women: Save This Date, March 19-21 2010! Plan on joining us in Cambria March 19-21, 2010 for our Women's Retreat weekend and start saving just $5 per week now and it will be paid!
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Opportunities To Serve
DRIVERS NEEDED FOR COLLEGE MINISTRY We are looking to build a rotation of drivers to pick up Westmont students who want to visit/attend our church. Drivers leave the church parking lot at 10:10am, drive to Westmont College's Dining Commons parking lot on upper campus, and then leave Westmont no later that 10:40am to have students here for the 11:00 service. After third service, drives return students to Westmont. If you are over 25, our students would appreciate your service! Contact Pastor Danielle Garcia at 965-1338x222 or dgarcia@fmcsb.org
YOUTH MINISTRY OPENINGS
We have opportunities for more people to join the leadership team of this exciting and rewarding ministry. Two new leaders joined the team this past week! If you are interested contact Pastor Doug to get an application and set up an interview. Contact info: 965-1338 x224, dranck@fmcsb.org or text @ 252-3216
CHILDREN'S MINISTRIES has options for you to be part of a vital and kingdom-building experience as we gear up for a new school year. Contact Nelda (mcshead@mcssb.org or 964-2612) to find out more.
There are openings and orientation available for:
- sitters for infants & toddlers Sunday morning or special services (must be adult for infants & at least 13 for toddlers)
- teachers for Sunday School
- sitter supervisors for 3rd service on Sundays
If there are other ways you'd like to be involved, please let us know.
"There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord." 1 Cor. 12: 4-5
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