PASADENA COVENANT CHURCH

July 2013

Neighborhood Back-to-School Daycamp for 1st-5th gr. Mon-Fri. Aug. 5-9 9 am -12:30 pm
Jump Start! is something new & excitinga back-to-school daycamp for Madison kids (1st-5th graders), focusing on literacy skills. Help us reach out and serve our neighbors! You may choose to serve just one day, two or three days, or join us for the full five mornings of fun and excitement! There are lots of ways to serve:

helping kids one-on-one with reading & writing skills cooking or baking with a group of kids leading games or crafts sharing gardening or other hobbies helping to prepare and serve lunch

Special Services Coming

In a world where it is becoming increasingly harder to slow down, and just take some time to _______________ {insert your favorite activity here}, I often wonder how much time this leaves for our gracious, loving and deserving God. It is with this in mind that I am excited to tell you about a service that will be happening once a month for the next four months (July, August, September, October). You will find a space in this service where we can come together to lift our voice to God for longer than 10 minutes. It will be in this space where we can lift our prayers up to God for longer than a few minutes. You can take time to slow down and focus on just being in Gods presence. Each service will be rooted in a letter of the old prayer tool, ACTS (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication), with extended times of worship through song and prayer, coupled with an experiential worship element, all in a living room environment. Be listening on Sunday mornings for date and time for each event, and we hope you will take the time to slow down and join us in a sacred moment.

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Sunday Morning Happenings For Adults at 9:00 am

Couriers
Repeated Exposure to Gods Word will enrich and change your life. In-depth Bible Study Sundays at 9:00 am in the Fireside Room, Gym building. John Wipf, teacher; Marilyn Hanks, facilitator. Coffee and good fellowship. For further information contact Marilyn Hanks (626) 7913782.

Companions in Christ
The Companions in Christ group will not be meeting this summer; we will resume our gathering in September. For more information, contact Lisa Leeger at bd1431@pmbx.net.

Life Together
We meet on Sunday mornings at 9:00 am in the Corner House. We welcome visitors and look forward to all that God will stir up in us this new year! If you have any questions, please contact Anita Sorenson at anitasor@pacbell.net.

Tuesday, July 9th will be our next monthly gathering for Pasadena Covenant! Every second Tuesday of the month, please join us for a Community Dinner at the Dally/Lamme home (452 Alberta St. Altadena, CA 91001). Well share a meal together and enjoy a relaxed evening of fun! This dinner will be a potluck! Bring your favorite dish to share with the group. We will eat at 6:30 pm, but feel free to come as early as 5:00 pm and stay as late as 9:00 pm. Please RSVP to Mindie Moore at mmoore@pasadenacovenant.org so we can have an idea of how many chairs and tables to set up.

The next Koinonia Prayer and Praise potluck will be on Sunday, July 7th, at 6:00 pm at the home of Tom & Evelyn Andrews. Please call Evelyn to coordinate your potluck item at (626) 633-1808.

2013 Directories
The 2013 Directories are available at the back of the Sanctuary! If you have already picked up a directory, you will need to pick up the Directory Corrections insert, so you can you can make the corrections in your directory.

Upcoming Trustee Meeting

Monday, July 1, 2013 7:00 pm , Corner House

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Once again, we are supporting the children of Madison Elementary School by donating school supplies in August. Keep an eye out for sales and please buy these needed items.
This year we will focus on 4 specific items: White paper Wide rule notebook paper Dry erase markers (for white boards Ticonderoga pencils (Tri-Write 2 HB, if possible)

During the summer we will continues to help support our neighbors who benefit from this ministry and your kindness
We need the following supplies:

Fresh Produce Potatoes Mac & Cheese Spaghetti Sauce or Pasta Sauce Spaghetti or Noodles Canned Beans Canned Soup Canned Fruit Canned Meat Baby Pampers Canned Chili

Bulk Rice Bulk Dried Pinto Fruit Juice Oatmeal Onions Peanut Butter & Jelly Ravioli/Spaghettios Snack Items Baby formula Baby wipes Feminine napkins Crackers Canned Vegetables

We will collect these donations in August

Pasadena Covenant Churchs Peace & Justice Ministry Team will meet on Monday, July 15th, at 6:45 pm in the Santa Barbara Room. All are invited to come join us in ministry with

Please, no dented cans or outdated food.

Please bring your donations on Sunday morning and place them in the baskets under the tables outside the Gathering Place in the Sanctuary Building. We deliver the food for distribution every Monday morning. Fresh fruit and vegetables would be greatly appreciated!

our neighborhood (or find out what that means) or provide your insights. Come help us as we try to walk the talk. For more info, contact Jamie Knauss at Knauss1@earthlink.net.

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Gradeschool Sunday School for July

The schedule for Club 145, our 10:30 am Sunday School class for 1st-5th graders will be a bit different in July: July 7: communion Sunday: No Club 145 join us in worship with your parents July 14: Club 145 July 21: Club 145 July 28: No Club 145 join us in worship with your parents Aug. 4: Club 145

Babies, Babies, Babies!!!

Our kids ministry is growing! We are excited each Sunday to welcome new families into our community. We are also excited this summer to welcome at least 3 new babies that will be born in July & August to PCC Families. In order to truly welcome all this new life, we will need to expand our nursery team by at least 3 new volunteers. Nursery volunteers serve one Sunday a month, during the 10:30 service. Its an awesome way to serve our families and have the joy of holding and loving a beautiful young baby. For more information about this ministry, contact Vikki Randall at vrandall@pasadenacovenant.org.

Jump Start!
Neighborhood Back-to-School Daycamp for 1st-5th gr. Mon-Fri. Aug. 5-9 9 am -12:30 pm
Jump Start! is something new & excitinga back-to-school daycamp for Madison kids (1st-5th graders), focusing on literacy skills. Help us reach out and serve our neighbors! You may choose to serve just one day, two or three days, or join us for the full five mornings of fun and excitement! There are lots of ways to serve:

helping kids one-on-one with reading & writing skills cooking or baking with a group of kids leading games or crafts sharing gardening or other hobbies helping to prepare and serve lunch

For more info., contact Mindie Moore at mmoore@pasadenacovenant.org

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Helping hands are needed in two areas:

The Worship Design team needs help with staging the sanctuary: changing the sanctuary banners, changing table fabrics and candles, carrying potted plants into the sanctuary or narthex, removing spent flowers or dead leaves from the potted plants, etc. You dont need to be a floral arranger or decorator to help (but if youd like to help in those areas, that would be great, too).

The Hospitality Team, in charge of Hospitality time after the worship service, needs help with arranging some of the food on trays, putting food into bowls, cutting muffins and bagels, carrying trays to the tables, mixing lemonade or ice tea, etc. You dont need to be a world class baker to make Hospitality an inviting time for others (although youd be welcome if you like to bake).

If you can help with staging the sanctuary , please contact Joanne Doyle at (818) 353-1853. If you can help with Hospitality, call Nancy Stuckey at (626) 791-7210. Not sure if this is something youd like to do? Summer is a great time to try out new things without any long term commitments. You might even discover that you enjoying helping in this way.

Please help us gather supplies for our two big summer outreach ministries-- Family Camp and Jump Start. Donations can be left in the basket in the narthex (lobby) of the church Here's a partial list of what is needed: For Jump Start (back-to-school day-camp August 5-9) gently used or new children's books in good condition school & art supplies of all sorts gently used or new backpacks bags of chips fresh fruit or veggies (please bring weekend of Aug. 4th only)

For more information contact Vikki Randall at vrandall@pasadenacovenant.org

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Weekly Programs
Oikas: Sunday Mornings, 9 am 10:15 am
Oikas is the Greek work for House. On Sunday Mornings, we come together in the House of God to worship and learn more about the Word and one another! Hot drinks and breakfast pastries are available every week for 50 cents each.

Upcoming Events
For more detailed information on these events, look to the Summer 2013 Calendar (you can down load a copy from the website) or visit the Pasadena Covenant Website (pasadenacovenant.org)!

Pool Party: July 17

Pool Party: 6-8pm at the Haver-Hill house (1198 E. Mariposa St., Altadena). FREE

Dodgers Game: July 26

Dodgers Game Friday, July 26th: 5:30pm-11pm, $20 (includes ticket, Dodger dog, drink, and Metro day pass). PCSM will be heading out to the Ball Game with a special twist: Friday Night Fireworks after the game! Please pre-register for this event at pasadenacovenant.smartevents.com.

Mission: Pasadena, Jumpstart!: August 5-9

Mission: Pasadena, Jumpstart! This year your summer mission trip is right in our own backyard! We will be putting on a back to school program for our neighborhood students and we need your help! Whether you're into math, science or reading, there's a place for you at JumpStart! Please pre-register for this event at pasadenacovenant.smartevents.com.

End of Summer Amazing Race: August 24

End of Summer Amazing Race Saturday, August 24th: 3-5 pm. We're going to wrap up the Summer by transforming the Pasadena Covenant campus into a crazy relay course! In addtion to some awesome team fun, we'll chow down on pizza as we say goodbye to Summer. Please pre-register for this event at pasadenacovenant.smartevents.com.

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Cross-Cultural Communication Specialists Praise & Prayer Requests

Tim Hsieh, member of Pasadena Covenant Church and one of our cross-cultural workers, shares how the Lord is leading his family into a new location: Turning in my Flip-Flops for Fleece I never thought this day would come - that I would leave L.A. I have spent the last 35 years in L.A. (moving from Iowa and Taiwan). But we believe that the Lord is calling the Hsiehs to the Seattle area. I have been invited by InterVarsity in the Northwest to lead their Community College Planting Initiative. There are 34 community colleges and technical schools in the state of Washington and over 180,000 students - that is more than all the students at all public and private 4-year schools combined. I am super excited to see the movement of God spread across these schools, and to see students call Jesus their Lord and Savior. My 14 years of experience - primarily on commuter and community colleges - will certainly help me in this new role. But I also have much to learn, like, how to do daytime ministry in the rain?! I feel like a missionary being sent to foreign place. I will need to learn a whole new culture (famed Northwest independence) and a new physical climate (always cloudy with a chance of rain) and spiritual climate (highly unchurched). I will also need an entire new wardrobe. No more shorts and flip-flops every day! I am so excited because the Lord has great things in store for Jess also. She has already taken a job at her corporate headquarters in Redmond and is excited to continue to develop in her career, as well as be a person of salt and light in the corporate world. Zac is also excited to for the new adventure. He is most excited about buying rain boots, jumping into puddles and seeing active volcanoes. Please pray for us as we transition in the following ways: -Pray for all the logistics of the move. We are in escrow on our current place in Pasadena and we found an apartment to rent in Old Town Bellevue. Pray that the Lord will orchestrate all the logistics and that we would find a new community, church and elementary school for Zac. -Pray for divine connections with students, faculty, administrators, local pastors and volunteers. -Pray for new roles and teammates. -Pray I would build trust quickly and be able to use my gifts and experiences to move the kingdom forward. -Pray for Jess also as she continues to be a Kingdom presence and influence in the marketplace. -Pray that ministry partners will continue their generous support and pray also for new partners in the Northwest. Our new address will be: Tim, Jessica and Zac Hsieh 10011 NE 1st St. #E204 Bellevue, WA 98004

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July 2013
1 Monday PCSM Forrest Home 7:00 pm Trustee Mtg 2 Tuesday PCSM Forrest Home 3 Wednesday PCSM Forrest Home Gym Floors Re-surfaced 4 Thursday - Fourth of July PCSM Forrest Home Offices & Facilities Closed 5 Friday PCSM Forrest Home 6 Saturday 7 Sunday 9:00 am Couriers and Life Together 10:30 am Worship Service 11:45 am Hospitality 12:15 pm Jump Start Mtg 6:00 pm Koinonia Prayer and Praise 8 Monday 9 Tuesday 5:00 pm Community Dinner 10 Wednesday 11 Thursday 12 Friday 6:00 pm P & J Covenant Neighborhood Cookout 13 Saturday 14 Sunday 9:00 am Couriers and Life Together 10:30 am Worship Service 11:45 am Hospitality 15 Monday 6:45 pm Peace & Justice Mtg 16 Tuesday 17 Wednesday 6:00 pm PCSM Pool Party 18 Thursday 19 Friday 20 Saturday 21 Sunday 9:00 am Couriers and Life Together 10:30 am Worship Service 11:45 am Hospitality 22 Monday 23 Tuesday 24 Wednesday 25 Thursday 26 Friday 5:30 pm PCSM Dodger game 27 Saturday 28 Sunday 9:00 am Couriers and Life Together 10:30 am Worship Service 11:45 am Hospitality 29 Monday 30 Tuesday 31 Wednesday