The Scoop at The Place
The weekly newsletter of The Place Adventist Fellowship in Newbury Park, California. We seek to become mature disciples of Jesus, intimately in love with God, who express His love in creative service and fellowship.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
The Scoop at The Place - March 16, 2006
This Week At The PlaceWe look forward to seeing you this Sabbath at The Place and pray that you are having a blessed week! This week Pastor Simon will be preaching. The title of his sermon is "What are the Odds?" It is the tenth in his series on Prayer.
We hope your prayer life has been a blessing to you and your prayers are growing in strength. We invite you to join us in daily prayer for our families, our church and our community...especially at 3:00 p.m. daily.
All Sabbath Schools will meet (including the new music Sabbath School and discipleship class) at 10:30 a.m. Rob Randall will be leading the adult Sabbath school who are currently studying the book of Acts.
We also have the "Little Place" with Sabbath school classes for infants and toddlers, kindergarten aged children, earliteen classes, and youth sabbath school. Stop by and be blessed!
And, if you are not able to make it to The Place this Sabbath, please remember that you always have access to the sermons on-line (we even podcast!!). Check out all the new stuff at www.theplacechurch.com.
Also, our online photo directory is making great progress. We've been trying to get everyone's photo, but The Place is . . . well . . . a BIG Place! Please check your listing in the online directory. If your picture isn't there or you have a better picture you'd like to submit, please send your digital photo to Jeremy Bachmann through the link provided below.. Photos of spouses, kids, friends are welcome if they're too shy to ask. Individual head shots that actually look like you are ideal. Family photos are not necessary for this project. We can crop.
Contact Jeremy
Fellowship Luncheon & Bowling-This Sabbath
We will be having our monthly fellowship luncheon this Sabbath after church services. We invite you to stay for this delicious time of lunch as well as the wonderful time of fellowship. Bring your crockpots as this month's theme is soup, salad and dessert. If you would like to sign up to bring something (and we encourage you to do so), please contact Heidi Figueroa at 805-583-2154, or simply bring something to share.
And, later on that evening, we invite you for a night of bowling. Please bring your friends out to Harley's Simi Bowl located in ...you guessed it, Simi Valley. We will be meeting at 7:30 p.m. There will be a sign up sheet in the lobby this Sabbath in order to have a more accurate head count. Harley's is located at 480 E. Los Angeles Ave and the phone number is 805-526-4212. Hope to see you there!
Wild At Heart Men's Time
The next Wild At Heart Men's Time is scheduled for this Sunday, March 18th. Please meet at the park on the corner of Wendy and Kimber at 10 a.m. for a time of prayer, sharing, and games.
New Baby & Mommies Stuff
Congratulations go out to new parents Ken & Amy Miller on the birth of their little girl this past Monday. Kaia Cheyenne Miller was born on Monday, March 13th at 7:08p.m. She weighed 9lbs, 4oz and measured 21 inches. Parents and baby are doing well. We look forward to meeting little Kaia very soon.
We are having some wonderful mommy events this month- not all on Wednesday - so watch for that! But first of all, please know that our "Mommy of the Month" is Leila Silva!!! Her husband is going to be traveling for work a whole lot this month. This is a great opportunity for you to give her some extra tender loving care - but remember you can do these things as your schedule allows - there are no rules!!! Some of the things that Leila has requested are:
Prayer (so important we pray for Leila this month & keep Sally in your prayers as well!) Lisa has her yearly evaluations throughout the month of March and then the meeting to find out whether the government will continue to support her education at Conejo Elementary School is in April... Please pray specifically for this event as well as her whole family and the safety of Marcello as he travels this month.
She requested more than anything, to have the opportunity to get some projects done in her house, girlfriends to do those projects with and help with the kids while the work is being done. So, this gives you all the opportunity to shower Leila with a lot of love, take her out to lunch, send her a card, give her a phone call and pray pray pray!!! This is such a special part of the Mommies Ministry - because it truly is a way for us all to take care of our own!!!!!!!!!
OK, this month's events are going to be varied and fun - so here they are:
March 16 (this afternoon!!)- We will be taking a fieldtrip to Janss Park from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. It's a perfectly gorgeous day to take the little ones out to have some fun! Let's meet by the pond...
March 19 - Sunday - 3-5 p.m.- Let's all meet at Leila's house to help her with her house projects... Be ready to paint or refinish some furniture or anything else that comes up between now and then!!!
March 29 - Wednesday night is our monthly Girl's Night Out!!! This will be a game night!! We'll all just hang out and play table games and snack on goodies!! Denise Ramirez has agreed to open her home for this fun event!!! Fun Fun Fun!!!!
For more information about any of these events, you may contact Heather Richmund at 805-499-0398 or via e-mail.
Vespers-Next Friday Night
We will be having our next Place vespers next Friday night, March 24th at The Place at 7 p.m. Please join us for a time of praise, worship, and communion. We look forward to sharing this special time with all of you. Everyone is invited to come and commune together and to share communion.
February Financial Update
Once again, we would like to share with you about our finances so far this year. During the month of February we received $11,596 in tithe...which goes to our local conference. We also received $4,640 in offerings towards our local church budget. That is an unusually low amount for one month, and only about half what we need for our local church budget...which supports all our ministries at The Place and pays our rent! I know you have been generous in the past, but we encourage you to continue to support our local church as well as through your tithes. You may return these gifts at The Place or on-line by clicking on the link. God bless.
Mission Project-This Summer
Yes, it is true. We have made our commitment to build a church this summer in Tijuana, Baja, California. This will be another Maranatha project such as we experienced last summer in Peru. Except, this will be closer to home. The exact dates have not yet been determined, but it will be the second half of July. Now that we have committed The Place, we are looking for volunteers! First, we need to raise the $20,000 to build the church, and then we need to go there and build it! So, if you are interested in fund-raising or going as part of the project, or even COORDINATING the whole project (!!), let's talk... please contact Pastor Simon. We will meet together with those interested next Sabbath after church just for a few minutes to talk (March 25th.)
Pastor's Study-Wednesday Nights
We have begun our Pastor's study on Wednesday nights at The Place. We have been enoying the chance to really get into Christian/SDA doctrine. There is plenty of time for questions and awesome discussion. Our meetings are sheduled on Wednesday nights starting at 7 p.m. This week we will be looking at God the Father. We invite YOU!!
And-don't forget that we have many small groups that are going strong...some may even be closer to you than you think. Our new group for 18-30 year olds is meeting for the first time tonight! If you would like to find out more about small groups, or are interested in joining one, please contact Pastor Simon at 805-498-2300.
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