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.
Friday, October 27, 2006
The Scoop at The Place - October 26th, 2006
This Week At The PlaceWe look forward to seeing you at The Place this Sabbath. This week Pastor Simon will be preaching at The Place. This week's sermon is titled "The Community of Discipleship" which will focus on Luke chapter 10 and is the fifth in Pastor Simon's series on discipleship. There will also be a musical response by Shearin Matute.
We invite you to Sabbath School this week. Our Sabbath School classes meet at 10:30 a.m. Rob Randall will be leading the general adult Sabbath school which is studying the book of Romans.
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!
You are also invited to attend our community prayer time at The Place every Sabbath before Sabbath School starting at 9:45 a.m. Come and pray for our church or bring your special needs.
And-we appreciate your faithful giving. You may return your tithes and offerings at The Place or online by clicking on the link provided.
Fall Fest-This Saturday Night
Coming up this Saturday night, October 28th is our annual Fall Fest. This year's celebration will be held in the NPAA cafeteria starting at 6:30 p.m. Please come dressed in your favorite retro gear as this year's theme will be the 70's. We will have a pumpkin carving contest as well as karaoke for kids of all ages. Our dinner menu will be soups, cornbread, and dessert. But...we need you to help us with this by signing up to bring something. You can still sign up to bring soup, cornbread, or dessert this Sabbath in the lobby.
Our Fall Fest is one of our church's highlights of the year and will include our very own Fall Fest Band!! Please plan on coming out and enjoying this truly festive time together!!
Baby, Baby, & Baby Shower
The New Year will see our membership growing yet again
with new additions coming to: the Liversidge family, Shea family, and Brandon Fausset family. Our church is planning a combined shower to prepare for these blessed ones on Saturday night, November 18th at the Bachmann’s home in Westlake. Watch for details in the upcoming weeks. If you would like to help with snacks please call Cindy Andregg@(805)376-1115. This should be a really fun time.
All ladies are registered at babies r us.
Saturday November 4th
We invite you to join is on Sabbath, November 4th, to hear the CAES choir as they will be singing at The Place.
Also happening on the fourth of November is a special concert at Pepperdine University in Malibu. Jars of Clay will be having a concert starting at 6:30 p.m. This is a general admission concert and tickets are $18. If you are interested in going to this concert, please sign up in the lobby this Sabbath or contact Pastor Simon.
November Social
Save the date! We will be heading out to our local Ice Skating rink in Simi Valley on Saturday night, November 11th for a night of cold fun. Stay tuned for more details.
Mommies Ministry
We are pleased to announce that one of our mommies, Lillia Ochoa has given birth to a little girl. Kennedy Alcala was born last Saturday, October 21st. Both mommy and baby are doing well.
In order to celebrate this special time with Lillia, the mommies ministry will be organizing meals throughout the month of October as well as collecting money towards a gift certificate in lew of a baby shower. If you are interested in signing up to take Lillia a meal and/or interested in donating to the gift certificate, please contact Alisa Kalberg at 805-582-0304 or at ACKalberg@aol.com.
And-the mommies ministry will be having a Christmas party and gift exchange in December. If you would like to be part of this exchange, please contact Cecilia at cecilialiversidge@hotmail.com to fill out an information card. Stay tuned to next week's scoop for November's activities.
Small Groups
Are you interested in starting or being a part of a Friday Night Collegiate/Young Adult small group? If you would like to know more about this area of ministry or if are interested in starting another type of small group, please call Pastor Simon at 805-498-2300.
Ecuador 2007
We are already looking at tentative dates for the Ecuador Mission trip next year. We are planning on building another church in Southern Ecuador tentaviely from July 31st through August 12th. We are being assigned the exact project and date THIS WEEK! If you would like more information about this mission project, please contact Pastor Simon at 805-498-2300.
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