Peace Presbyterian Church

This page was designed to remind our members what we as a small church have accomplished in this year. Often we rejoice as the event occured, but quickly we forget the work done through the Grace of God. This page should help us to celebrate the year’s events and cause us to refelct on the Love of God in our lives, especially as we head toward Stewardship Sunday.
Send in your notice for the 2007 list.
- Sherry

NEW YEAR - NEW SERVICE - NEW GROWTH Get the Information on the plans for Education and Worship in the New Year.

Youth@Peace LED WORSHIP
Sunday, 18th of February at the 9:30am worship service.
The Junior and Senior High Students showed what they learned at our midweek LOGOS meetings. They led the worship service presented two skits.

MARCH CHURCH CLEAN UP DAY
Saturday, March 17th from 9am 12pm for our joint work day. Allen G. volunteered to use his trailer to pick up any lawn mowers for those who have no way to transport them.
THANK YOU to everyone who has helped making our church garden more beautiful by sponsoring a plant or contributing your labor to the flower beds outside the church office: Heather A., Alana A., Suzanne B., Diane B., Sue B., Rosemary B., Maila E., Keith, Elizabeth, Shelby and Jordan F., Tracy F., Marie & Vigen G., the Gombos Family, Silas and Ione G., Michelle & Ethan H., Jacob H., Randy I., the Kirton Family, Dennis K., Bob L., Bryce & Phyllis L., the Mendenhall Family, Kristen P., Juliann, Ann Marie & Harrison R., Rachel S., Hwa S., Lorna U. and Brandon W. more info.

ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL MEETING CONTINUED
The Session has set aside time to continue the business of our Annual Congregational Meeting on Sunday, March 25 at 5:30 pm. This will be a time of celebration of what God did in our midst in 2006 and a time to look forward to what He will do in our church in 2007. The Session will provide reports on the different areas of the church life such as the pastor’s compensation, the preschool, property, mission and evangelism, Christian education, LOGOS and more. We will also have a time of fellowship and a potluck dinner. We encourage all active members to attend.

LILIES
We will decorate the Sanctuary with Lilies on Resurrection morning to celebrate our Risen Lord! Please consider donating one or more at $8.00 each. Just place your check (or cash) in the offering plate by Sunday April 1, noting that it is for Lilies and include your dedication, if any. Thank you!

HOLY WEEK ACTIVITIES
Join us this Lent for Palm Sunday at 10am, our Second Annual Seder Dinner on Thursday April 5 @ 6:30 pm; Good Friday Worship @ 7pm on Friday April 6, and Resurrection Sunday Morning brunch and Worship beginning @ 9am and 10:15 am respectively on Resurrection Sunday, April 8.
more info.

PALM SUNDAY: CALLING ALL KIDS!
Help us begin our Resurrection week just as the people welcomed Jesus. We will gather outside the Sanctuary at 10am on Palm Sunday and then process in with palm branches. We will have Sunday School and Children’s church as usual on Palm Sunday. Preschool through 6th graders, please come; palm branches are provided.

ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING
to share God’s love with people experiencing needs recognizing that the hope we have in Christ is lived out in or hope for one another, we respond with gifts that help our sisters and brothers around the world find them hope of a brighter future... on Palm Sunday and Resurrection Sunday (April 1 and 8).
more info.

MAUNDY-THURSDAY SEDER

Please join us for our second Seder dinner from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm on Maundy Thursday, April 5. Come and learn more about the connectins between the Last Supper and the Passover. Sign ups are in the Social Hall; click here for the link to your invitation: www.peacechurch.net/pdfs/events/SederInvitePersonalcolor2007.pdf
more info.

GOOD FRIDAY WORSHIP
Join us Friday, April 6 at 7pm to remember the death of Jesus on the cross for our sins.
more info.

BRUNCH AND WORSHIP

Celebrate the resurrection of our Lord on Resurrection morning, Sunday April 8 at 9am with Brunch (sign up in Social Hall) and then our Resurrection Worship service at 10:15 am. No Growth hour classes at 9 am, and no Children’s Church; nursery care is provided for children ages four and younger.
more info.

EASTER EGG HUNT
We will have an Easter Egg Hunt immediately following the Resurrection Celebration Service for children aged sixth grade and younger. Toddlers will hunt in the fenced playground; older children will hunt around the church and the large grass area. If you would like your child to participate, please bring one dozen filled eggs and an Easter basket for each child. We will have a table designated for you to leave the eggs and baskets before the service. Eggs don’t necessarily have to be filled with candy - put something in them that reminds you of Jesus!

Peace is pleased to present the film “Ever Again” on Sunday April 29th at 7pm in the Sanctuary.
This new feature documentary by Moriah Films, a division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, examines the current dangerous resurgence of violent anti-Semitism throughout Europe - spurred by the exhortations of angry Muslim Imams and neo-Nazis who openly urge murder and destruction to their rapidly growing army of followers. EVER AGAIN is narrated by Kevin Costner (winner of two Academy Awards for Dances With Wolves), directed and co-written by Richard Trank (Academy Award winner for The Long Way Home) and produced and co-scripted by Simon Wiesenthal Center Founder and Dean Rabbi Marvin Hier (winner of two Academy awards for Genocide and The Long Way Home). Michelle Reardon of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater Sacramento Region will facilitate a discussion after the screening. Admission is free and open to the public.
Moriah Films.
more info.

DEACON’S ITALIAN NIGHT
Let us prepare dinner for you Saturday night, May 5th at 6pm! It will be a delicious Italian meal (on Cinco de Mayo!) and a time to enjoy fellowship with our Church family. Sign up in the Social Hall, suggested donations are $7.00 each; $25 per family (of 4 or more). Donations will go toward new carpet for the renovated portable classrooms (modulars). See you there!

CHILDREN’S CHURCH MEETING
Sunday May 27 at 12:15pm (we plan on starting to eat at 12:30pm). Potluck Lunch @ the Spanglers’. If you have any ideas, please let us know! If you’d like to participate even in a small capacity and aren’t sure what, please come and/or let Keith F. know. We’ll provide hot dogs and hamburgers and paper goods. Please RSVP: call the home or email Rachel so we know who’s coming and let me know what you’d like to bring. Kids, of course, are welcome.
more Children’S Church info.

Session has called for a special Congregational Meeting. The Congregational Meeting on June 10 regarding our proposed By-laws was so productive that Session postponed our June 24 meeting to give them sufficient time to meet and address some the issues raised. The new date is TBA. Please talk to any of the Elders if you have questions.
A Call To Fast by Pastor Brian.
more info.

YOUTH @ PEACE
We meet Tuesday evenings from 5:30 - 8pm during LOGOS, and 6:30-8:30pm off-season. We have covered several chapters of The New Christian’s Handbook, we have read 30 Days to Understanding the Bible, and the Screwtape Letters... Contact Sherry K., aka Bear!
In March we attended BattleCry in San Francisco braving the city and those who misunderstand what God says about sexual purity. We made committments to live like Jesus in a lost and dying culture and we have chosen to lead the way to a Godly lifestyle.
In the summer we made committments to stay pure with our whole selves and we studied with several guest speakers with Proud to Wait. Some of us graduated from the 10 week course and received certificates.
In September we served with a Youth Sunday Worship Service on September 23rd with leading the hymn and praise music, leading the corporate prayer time, reading the Scriptures aloud, collecting the offering, reading an original, evangelistic short story written by one of our own youth, and we acted in a human video to the music of Lighthouse. Then we explained what See Ya At The Pole is and how our congregation can support us in praying for our fellow students.
In November we created a new tradition with our Thanksgiving paper chain: we gave strips of colored paper to congregants asking them to write at least one thing for which they are thankful and we made paper chains that hung in our sanctuary.
In December we served by assisting the Christmas Pageant as crew and stand-ins and we served the Advent Kick-off night by leading a craft table making Adjustable beaded bookmarks.
Next, we begin our off-season fellowship: 6:30-8:30pm starting December 28th.
more info.

TOWN HALL MEETING
Sunday October 21: Several Guests from Presbytery answered questions about what is going on in our denomination and the American church in general: dinner at 6pm, and then discussion from 7-8pm, although we stayed until 8:45pm. This meeting was recorded in case you could not attend, but will not be available online. Hope you joined us for discussion and fellowship. If you have questions, please contact Pastor Brian.

CONGREGATIONAL MEETING
The Session has called for a Congregational Meeting, for immediately after our worship service on Sunday, November 18 in order to receive a report from the Nominating Committee and in order to elect new Elders and new Deacons. The congregation unanimously elected the following as new officers: Elizabeth F. and Marie G. as Deacons in the Class of 2009; Keith K. and Joseph G. as Deacons in the Class of 2010; Allen G. and Sarah A. as Elders in the Class of 2010.
The Session wishes to thank each of these special people for their willingness to serve in our midst. The Session also wishes to thank the following for their service on the Nominating Committee: Liz I., Tracy F., Liza A., Debbie C., Sally E., Andrew M. and Joseph G.

Our New Sunday Evening Fall Lineup

1st Sunday - Prayer and Praise Services
(at the home of different members each month (begins at 6pm instead of 7pm).
more info.

2nd Sunday - Supper and Cinema
5pm Bring your favourite prepared dish to share with your Peace family. We may set a theme for some of these, so watch for more details to come. We will follow with a moviie, theatre snacks, and discussion about the movie. NEXT: The Nativity.
more info.

3rd Sunday - Soaking Prayer
7pm Suzanne will continue to lead us in this wonderful, soothing, peaceful form of prayer and soaking in God’s presence.
more info.

4th Sunday - Bible Challenge Discussion
6pm. Each month we will study one book of the Bible, and challenge everyone to read one chapter every day from that book. We encourage you to jot down your thoughts and feelings as you read during the month, and we will wrap up the month with a group discussion of our reactions to the book. This will also be a mini-potluck with finger foods or desserts. December: memorize Psalm 23, January: memorize Psalm 25:1-9, and we meet Jan. 28th to discuss our reading of Psalms 13-36. Journal your thoughts, and join the discussion.
This month.

5th Sunday - Special Events
6pm when there is a 5th Sunday. Events may include training on prayer or other focused topics. Stay tuned for more info.

ADVENT KICK-OFF IS HERE!
Sunday 02 Dec. 2007 @ 5:30pm. Advent Crafts to make and take home, potluck dinner, and Christmas carols.
more info.

ADVENT BOOKLETS FOR 2007
Advent Booklets for 2007 are available for you to pick up in the Fellowship Hall. These booklets are designed to guide you in your celebration and observance of the season of Advent, which begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and continues until Christmas Eve. If you made an advent candle wreath at our Advent Kick-off Night you will find the booklet a helpful and fun way to bring your family into the spirit of the season.

LIZA’S FABULOUS FUNDRAISING TACOS
This fabulous full Mexican Dinner fundraiser was replaced with a Tamale Making Fundraiser. Come join in the fun and fellowship. If you would like to learn how to make tamales you may join in. Get your order in now by contacting the Angejas. $15/dozen for beef or pork tamales. Please submit the preorder form to the church office by December 1st. Tamales were available for pick up the following week. Tamales are great gifts and freeze well for upcoming holiday events or a great meal at the end of a busy day! Tamales were also sold after church on December 09th @ $1.50 each or $15.00 a dozen. Checks payable to Peace Presbyterian Church, memo: Deacon Fund. The Deacons of Peace Church use the proceeds to fund projects which help people in need and various service projects in our community.

MENS’ GROUP CONCLUDES STUDY
Our Men’s book study, Knowing God, by J. I. Packer, which discusses the attributes of God has concluded. A new study will be chosen soon and the men of Peace will regather in fellowship and service.
more info.

CAROLING
Join us on Sunday, December 16th for an evening of Christmas caroling in the community. We met at the church at 6 pm, then carpooled to our location at a senior living complex and the neighborhood around it. Some brought thermoses of hot chocolate and/or cookies and goodies to share. Singing is fun for all ages, so we bundled up the family and invited your friends to join in too!

COME TO OUR FREE CHRISTMAS MUSICAL
Come to “A Mouse Christmas” the story of Papa Mouse whose great grandfather made the trip to Bethelehem with Joseph and Mary. This musical is presented for free during our coporate worship service Sunday Dec. 23rd at 10:15am by the children and adults of Peace.
invitation and schedule.

CHRISTMAS JOY OFFERING
We will be collecting a special offering, the Christmas Joy offering, on Sundays December 16 and December 23 during our worship service. This special offering is collected to help out retired clergy, spouses and missionaries who need financial assistance beyond the standard help given by the Board of Pensions and to help deserving students attend our racial ethnic colleges. Checks can be made out to the church and earmarked to the Christmas Joy offering.
Also, you can continue to give to the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance fund to help those whose lives have been impacted by the fires in San Diego. Checks can be made out to the church, earmarked for disaster relief. Thanks for blessing those in need in this special way.

CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE
6:30 pm Monday Dec. 24th. more info to come.
more info.

SPECIAL OFFERING FOR MODULAR REPAIRS
The Session is working hard at implementing a plan to finish repairs to our modular as soon as possible. The expenses for the repairs thus far have been in addition to our normal budget and have totalled $10,000.00 so far this year. A member of our church family has volunteered to pay for the cost of new carpet. We may need to spend another $1,500.00 for further repairs. Because these rooms are used by the entire church, the Session invites each family of our church to contribute to the costs of the repairs in order to offset the expenses and rebuild our church reserves. Please pray about giving in this special way. Checks can be made to the church earmarked for modular repairs.