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, June 05, 2008
The Scoop at The Place - June 5, 2008
This Week At The PlaceWe look forward to seeing you this coming Sabbath at The Place. This Sabbath Pastor Simon will continue his summer series on "A summer fling with Jesus" with the second sermon titled "Seeing The Boy Next Door With New Eyes" which focuses on John 8:1-11. Chad Reisser will be leading worship and there will be special music by Giovanna Alves. We will also be welcoming Julie McHugh and her daughter Alexis into membership following their baptism on Wednesday.
We invite you to come before church services and attend one of our many Sabbath School classes. We have cradle roll, kindergarten, primary, junior/earliteen, youth and adult Sabbath school classes that meet every Sabbath morning beginning at 10:30 a.m. The adult Sabbath school class is lead by Elder Rob Randall and meets in the main sanctuary.
We also invite your continued financial support of the ministry of The Place. You may continue to return your tithes and offerings on-line at www.theplacechurch.com or by clicking on the link. We realize that life is difficult for many of our members, and want to let you know we are praying for you. We believe God will continue to bless you in your faithfulness!
Also, if you have specific prayer requests, our prayer team would love the opportunity to lift you and your prayer requests up to God. Our prayer team meets each Sabbath at 9:45 a.m. to pray for our church and for special requests. We would love for you to join us in prayer in the junior/earliteen room. God bless.
The Nominating Committee is finishing their work for all the various ministries at The Place. We will have a tentative report this Sabbath at The Place. We invite you to go over it and make sure you are signed up in the right places. Or if you would like to be involved in any area, we would love to hear from you!
Visitor Luncheon This Sabbath
We will have our monthly visitor's luncheon this coming Sabbath. This luncheon is specifically for all visitors and new members, and of course regular members are welcome too (we just ask that you bring food to share)! This month's hosts are Robin Atmore & Donna Pullen. The fellowship will be held at Donna Pullen's home located at 2709 Las Posas Circle in Camarillo.
Beach Vespers This Sabbath
Our monthly beach vespers are underway once again. If you have not been to one of our vespers...what are you waiting for? Please come join us this coming Sabbath afternoon at Sycamore Cove starting at 5:30 p.m. We will eating supper and watching a beautiful sunset together. Pastor Steve will lead some praise and Pastor Simon will be leading in worship. We will focus on prayer and being strong in the Lord. If you want to bring some food to share, you are welcome to do so as well.
Community Services
A BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE who participated in our TAKIN’ IT TO THE STREETS weekend service projects. The women’s shelter was thrilled to have our youth paint their fence. The residents and staff at the nursing home thoroughly enjoyed our visit and fun activities – especially having the children involved. And CAES is a lot more beautiful with all the landscaping we put in. It was a lot of hard work—and everyone worked really hard!
Congratulations To The Graduates & A New Baby!
We would like to congratulate our graduates this year who attend The Place! Well done!
From Newbury Park Adventist Academy - Ryan Dolinsky; Caitlin Johnson; Bobby Whedbee; and Marcus Paquini
Conejo Adventist Elementary School- Alyssa Doyle, Stephanie Johnson, Brice Peterson, Chris Taylor and Jordan Schaeffer.
To Chelsea Moon who also graduates from eighth grade.
Simi Valley Adventist Elementary School - Andrea Stout; Ben Reinach
La Sierra University - Jarred Perrin and Justin Baker.
If you know others who are graduating, we would love to congratulate them as well...just let us know.
Congratulations to Ken & Amy Miller who had their second daughter last Monday. Darci Kirra Miller was born on June 2nd @ 2:10pm. She weighed in at a whopping 9lbs 6oz. We are looking forward to meeting her very soon!
Youth & Young Adult Stuff
YOUTH:
Small group EVERY Thursday night at Carlson’s 7-9 pm. Food & bible study. (this weekly youth group is moving to Wednesdays as of June 11 @ 7:30 instead of 7 p.m.)
June 13 - Next Friday Night...Big House Vespers @ The Place @ 7:30pm.
June 14, (Sabbath) outreach and singing to Thousand Oaks Convalescent hospital @ 3pm.
June 29 - Sunday, Excursion to Hurricane Harbor.
YOUNG ADULTS:
-Young adult small group, Tuesdays, 7:30pm @ the Carlson's home.
-June 15, day trip to "Bodyworld" in LA.
-June 27, young adult vespers (details to come).
-July 5, young adult house party.
Upcoming Social Events
June 22 - LA Dodgers v. Cleveland Indians at Dodger Stadium at 1:10 p.m. Tickets are $10. You may sign up at church or with Pastor Simon.
July 3d, Thursday night, we are planning our annual outing to the Hollywood Bowl for their Fouth of July Spectacular @ 7:30 p.m. Besides the beautiful music and fireworks there will be a celebration of the LA Dodgers 60th anniversary in Los Angeles. Tickets are $18 for adults and $9 for kids.
July 25 - 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). To sign up or for more info email Dawn Lyman at dawnlyman@gmail.com.
Chile Mission Trip Fundraising
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. Due to higher airline costs the total cost for the trip is around $1600. But, we are going to be fundraising as a church to help cover those costs. We need a few more people to come and help us accomplish our project. If you are interested or have questions, please contact Pastor Simon. Here are some of the fundraising ideas we need your support with:
Building our "Lego Church". This church represents the one we are building in Chile...and we need your support. We invite you to buy a brick or several bricks...each brick is $1 and we have 3,000 bricks to sell. These bricks will be available in the lobby.
Garage Sale:
Don't forget to bring any items you may have for the garage sale each Sabbath for Donna Goldman. She is also willing to pick-up if needed. Her contact number is 805/407-9535
Donna will be out of town May 31st. She is collecting through June 15th.
Outback Luncheon June 29th:
Tickets are going very fast. Donna Goldman and Solomon Faka will have tickets available each Sabbath or you may contact Donna at 805/407-9535 to have tickets mailed. The cost is $10.00 per person. You have a choice of a chicken breast sandwich or an Outback burger with Aussie fries and a soft drink or coffee. ALL OF THE MONIES FROM THIS LUNCHEON GOES TO US.
Gift Raffle:
Very soon we will be selling tickets for a chance to win any one of a number of wonderful gifts we have had donated. We can always use more gifts. If you have a favorite restaurant or any type of business you frequent please ask if they would be willing to donate items or gift certificates.
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