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, April 03, 2008
The Scoop at The Place - April 3, 2008
This Week At The PlaceWe look forward to seeing you this coming Sabbath. This Sabbath Pastor Simon will be preaching over the story of Joseph. This week's sermon is titled "Who's Your Daddy?" and focuses on Genesis 46. This week the CAES choirs will be blessing us with music. Chad Reisser is leading praise and worship time.
We invite you to attend Sabbath School this week. We have children's Sabbath Schools for all ages, including our cradle roll, kindergarten, primary, junior/earliteen, and youth Sabbath school classes that meet at 10:30 a.m. Elder Rob Randall will be leading the adult Sabbath school which is studying the book of Romans. 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. If you would like to pray for our church and our community or if you would like to be prayed for, we invite you to come and share in this powerful time together.
And, we invite you to support the ministry of The Place financially. You may return your tithes and offering donations online to The Place by clicking on the link (or, of course, at The Place.) Thanks so much for your support! God bless.
Visitor Luncheon & Hospital Ministry This Sabbath
We invite all visitors and new members/attenders to our monthly visitor luncheon this coming Sabbath. This month's luncheon will be held at Ron and Patti Fausset's home located at 1827 Summer Cloud Drive in Thousand Oaks. This month's hosts are Ron & Patti Fausset and Richard and Arla Caraboolad.
All members are welcome as well, we just ask that you bring food to share if you are not a visitor or new member. Thanks!
Also this Sabbath afternoon, we invite you to come for our first Sabbath of Hospital ministry. Our newest ministry is about going to local hospitals/nursing homes to sing to patients, give them flowers and get to share the love of Christ with them. Pastor Steve will be leading out, but we would love you to come. If you are interested in participating, please meet at Simi Valley Adventist Hospital in the main lobby at 3 p.m. For any other questions, please call Pastor Steve @ 805 657 6979. Anyone is welcome...even if you don't sing well!
Youth & Young Adult Stuff
YOUTH:
- Small group EVERY Thursday night at Carlson’s 7-9 pm. Food & bible study.
- Hospital Outreach - Sabbath, April 5th (singing, passing out flowers and talking with patients.) Please meet at Simi Adventist hospital. If you're interested, please join us at 3pm. If you have any questions, please call Pastor Steve at 805 657 6979.
-Saturday, April 12, the youth are going to Lazerquest in Camarillo, eating pizza, and then heading over to the Carlson's for a movie. Plan to join your friends!
YOUNG ADULTS:
• Small Group EVERY Tuesday night at Carlson’s 7:30-9:30 pm. Food, fellowship & study of practical Christianity.
- Sabbath, April 5th, hospital ministry, singing and talking with patients.
-Friday night vespers and communion on April 11th starting at 7:30pm @ The Place. Come for the praise and worship and communion service. Refreshments and snacks will also be served. Plan to be a part of this worshipful time...
Collegiates:
This Sabbath, April 5th, we are going to be filling care packages for the students up at Walla Walla and then taking them up to there next week. Hopefully we have everybody listed, but just in case, we're making 1 extra bag to give away once we're up there. This is the list of the students currently up at Walla Walla:
- Courtney Crook
- Zac Crook
- Walter Hamlin
- Andy Roth
- Amber Lowe
- Chelsea Patt
- Chelsea Patten
PLEASE feel free to bring whatever "little" items you have that you think the students would enjoy getting. The purpose is just to let them know we remember them and are thinking of them, so don't feel bad if you can't come up with something creative or elaborate...anything is good! The bags will be at church ready to be filled on Sabbath.
Vespers/Communion Next Friday Night
We invite you to our next vespers and communion time together scheduled for next Friday night, April 11th at 7:30 p.m. at The Place. Pastor Steve and the great worship band will be leading in praise. Pastor Simon will be leading us in the celebration of Communion as we focus on the death and resurrection of Jesus and celebrate footwashing together. Snacks and refreshments will be served after vespers.
Baby Shower This Sunday
There will be a baby shower for Megan Maleshenko who is having a boy in April. Megan's shower will take place this Sunday, April 6th from 11-1 p.m. at Edna Bachmann's home in Westlake Village. Megan is registered at Target and Babies R Us. Edna lives at 837 Blue Springs Drive.
Community Services- Care Package To James Baker THIS Sabbath
This Sabbath we will be sending a care package to one of our members, Marine James Baker, who is deployed in Iraq. Please help by bringing one or several of the following items to church: protein bars, snack size packages of beef jerky, dried fruit, cashews, cookies, brownies, Crystal Light single serve packets, lip moisturizer with SPF, travel size tooth paste, mouth wash, hand sanitizer, and visine. Thank you in advance for your generosity.
Get Involved
The Place is starting its annual nominating committee process. Even though it doesn't sound like the most fun thing around, it is actually a pretty cool thing as we attempt to give everyone an opportunity to be involved in ministry at The Place. This ministry can take many forms...from small groups to leading bible studies; from setting up chairs to preparing food for our cafe; and from helping with audio-visual to teaching Sabbath School. Whatever you are interested in, there is a place for you! This Sabbath we will have ministry interest sheets for you to fill to indicate areas of ministry you are interested in...or you would like training in. We are the body of Christ and we need all the parts to work well together. Get involved!
Upcoming Events
Mark your calendars as we will have the the first annual Place Camping Trip to Carpinteria State Beach the weekend of May 9-11th. We have two group camp sites and we invite everyone to come! You may sig up this Sabbath or with Pastor Simon!! This is a WHOLE church camping trip. We will not be having church at The Place that Sabbath, but will be having church at the camp site on the beach!
We are planning our annual mission trip for this August and there is still ROOM for you! This year we are building a church outside the town of San Felipe, about 50 miles north of Santiago in Chile, from August 6-18. We have made plane reservations…and need to give a $100 deposit for each seat. If you have signed up and are planning on going on the mission trip, please get your deposit to Pastor Simon to reserve your place...or sign up on the sign up sheet in the lobby. Write your check to The Place, but please let Pastor Simon know you are coming!!
Mercy Me and The David Crowder Band will be at the Santa Barbara County Bowl on Friday, July 25th at 6:30pm (plan to arrive by 5:45 due to parking).
Tickets are $40 each (with venue fees included). If you’d like to go, please add your name to the sign-up sheet at church, or email Dawn Lyman at dawnlyman@gmail.com.
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