Sierra Service Project
Bake Sale after each service this Sunday, October 5, 2008.  Help the youth raise money for their missionary trip next year. 
Thanks for your assistance.
Youth and Counselors

Sierra Service Project
Bake Sale after each service this Sunday, October 5, 2008.  Help the youth raise money for their missionary trip next year. 
Thanks for your assistance.
Youth and Counselors
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Vista, California 92081
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
8:45 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
World Communion Sunday
“Flesh & Spirit: whatever it Takes”
Philippians 4:1-9

Sunday Morning Worship
8:45 a.m. Praise Service

           Featuring "The Praise band"

 

10:30 a.m.  Traditional Service

           Featuring "The Chancel Choir"

 

8:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.

  Nursery Care

 

8:45 a.m. until 10:00 am.    

Sunday School

Meet in the sanctuary, after the children's moment go to your room

 

9:45 a.m. until 10:30 a.m.    

Coffee Fellowship

 

New check it out, everyone is welcome to an upbeat worship service all are welcome.

6:00 p.m. Alternative Worship Service - First Sunday of each summer month

         Featuring "Beneath The Surface" From UMC TRINITY (Northpark)

 

Bible Study

Pastor
Rev. George Hooper
 
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Members of The 2008 Confirmation Class

Grace Notes -Rev. George Hooper

On the Road

With Christ

 

On the Road with Christ 

   In August of 1985 I packed my little car full of all my worldly possessions and headed East for Seminary. I had lived with my parents (and shared a room with my brother) growing up and through four years of college. Though we traveled occasionally on vacation, I had never been any further East than Arizona. So I was setting out, by myself, on roads unknown to me. 

   A room was ready for me on the campus of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary; a job lined up at the Sears in Chicago. I had my route mapped out, including some stops in Kansas to see the places where my Dad’s folks were raised. Yet I was, for the first time in my life, on my own, making my own decisions. Anticipation, excitement, pride, and not a little bit of fear washed over me as the car pulled away from the curb of the only home I’d ever known. 

   I hadn’t left the state when it occurred to me that I was not alone. I know that you expect me to say that I realized that God was with me. This was true, but not in the concept of God sitting next to me – in fact I agree with those who say “If God is your co-pilot it is time to switch seats!”.  No, it was more that a sense of purpose and adventure was with me on the road. History and a vision of the future were companions on the way. I knew where I was going, yet was open to some detours along the road, to see what the way might teach me. Indeed, that journey, and the three years of school which followed, were full of adventure, and confirmation that I was not alone on the road. I am blessed for taking that journey. 

   We as a church are on a journey. It is time for us to get out the map and see where we shall go. It is time to fill up the gas tank and perform all of the maintenance so that we can be out there in the world. In a few months we will embark on a new year of ministry. God is surely on the way – as we have already noted, Christ IS the way, and our constant companion on the journey. And we must all work together on this path. 

   In this edition of the Flame you will find a pledge card and a planned budget for our journey together in 2009. I ask you to look through the budget, pray, and then declare how you will be involved in our journey in ministry. Bring the card with you to church THIS SUNDAY, when we will place these cards on the altar and make our covenant for our walk with Christ. If you prefer, you may mail the card to the church, or drop it off in the church office. 

   These are difficult financial times. There is a great uncertainty about the stock market and the price of everyday commodities. I know that it is very difficult to plan. Yet we have a clear calling and a sense of purpose. I ask you to make your pledge based on faith, in your “best-case scenario.”  Adjustments can be made later in the year if required, but for now, I ask you to look forward in hope. 

 

Your friend along the way,

George


Join Us For Worship

   Awarded the following two certificates

1.  100% of their 2007 Apportionments

2.  Paid in Full World Service Conference

    Apportionments Missionary Support

Thank you for your support and commitment to Continue

                         God’s work in the world.

                       Bishop Mary Ann Swenson

        Dan Gara,Executive Dir. of Finance Administration         

          Rev. Myron Wingfield, District Superintendent

Life’s Path

It matters not what path you take when you walk the path called Life.  Every path has its ups and downs with problems cutting like a knife. 
The path you take will not be
     smooth,
but will be strewed with rock
     and stone,
rivers to cross and hills to climb, and surprises strange, unknown. 
Those who walk with their
     head held high
with a smile and a merry heart, will not feel the journey’s stress, but will storm surprises rampart. 
-Max Foss (06/11/08)
Sierra Service Project
2008 Youth Missionary Journey

Find the right path and invite others to follow

What is important to you in this life and the next? If you listed what is really important, would God and His

church be numbered 1, 10 or 20?

If you asked, you would discover that those who list God and His church as most important are:

1. committed to regular presence in worship, study and fellowship;

2. pray daily;

3. share their gifts of time and talents;

4. provide service in the name of the Lord; and

5. pledge to financially support their church weekly, monthly or annually.

They have joined a church and they are active. They have joined the education program and teach children or

adults...or they have joined the music program...or they have joined a committee or help in some other capacity.

In this process they have made new friends and begin to understand all the wonderful things their church does

as well as its needs and problems. They help solve the needs and problems of their church home just like they would

their own.

Finally they begin to realize how important their church family and church is to them. They want other families

to have these great benefits and they invite them to visit their church.

-Don Raun