August 4, 2013 Issue 30

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CALLER
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In This Issue

Pastors Corner 2
Statistics 2
Remember in Prayer 3
Spiritual Disciplines Wk 3
Prayer Requests, July 28 3
Serving in the Military 3
Homecoming Weekend 3
Hollywood Bowl 4
CWS Blanket Month 4
Hot Meal Ministry 4
We Get Letters 4
Global Ministries TF 5
Volunteer Opps 5
Worship Moments 5
Alzheimers Seminar 6
Serving Sunday 7

Event s August 4 August 11, 2013

August 4:
8:00 A.M. - REAWAKEN, Early Worship Service
9:00 A.M. - Old Testament Bible Study, Chapman Lounge
10:15 A.M. - REMEMBER, Traditional Service
11:30 A.M. Neighborhood canvassing Light lunch provided
5:00 P.M. - 8:30 P.M. Casa de Oracin Service, Sanctuary & FH
7:30 P.M. - REFRESH, Emergent Service
August 5:
11:30 A.M. - PSWR Golf Classic Committee, CL
5:30 P.M. - Debras Pastoral Relations Committee, Choir Room
7:00 P.M. - Alzheimers Support Group, Chapman Lounge
August 6:
10:30 A.M. - Mary Circle, Chapman Lounge
6:30 P.M. - BA @ Barrys
7:00 P.M. - Casa de Oracin uses Sanctuary, Chapman Lounge
and childrens classrooms
August 7:
1:30 P.M. - Pathways of Hope (PoH) Chapman Lounge
5:00 P.M. Hot Meal Ministry Team C
6:30 P.M. Trustees/Elders meeting, Chapman Lounge
7:30 P.M. - Global Missions Church Task Force, Choir room
August 8: Tri-Tip, Downtown Market
August 9:
8:30 P.M. PoH Meeting, CL
August 10:
10:00 A.M. Memorial Service for Fred Evans in Albany, OR
7:00 P.M. Casa de Oracin use CL, Sanctuary
August 11: Home Communion
8:00 A.M. - REAWAKEN, Early Worship Service
9:00 A.M. - Old Testament Bible Study, Chapman Lounge
10:15 A.M. - REMEMBER, Traditional Service
5:00 P.M. - 8:30 P.M. Casa de Oracin Service, Sanctuary & FH
7:30 P.M. - REFRESH, Emergent Service
August 12:
7:30 A.M. 9:30 P.M. Chapel on Wheels Fundraiser @ Pollys
10:00 A.M. PSWR OAMC Meeting, CL


AA Groups Sun. 8:00 P.M., Monday, 7:30 P.M.,
Friday, 7:30 P.M., Sat. 8:30 P.M., NA Group, Tues., 7:30 P.M.
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by
Fi rst Chri sti an Church
(Disciples of Christ)
109 E. Wilshire Ave.
Fullerton, CA 92832
714.525.5525
email:
fullerton1stcc@gmail.com
www.fullertonfirstchristian.org

Seni or Pastor:
Rev. Darrell McGowan
Associ ate Pastor:
Rev. Debra Todd
Edi tor:
Donna Woodbridge


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If you always stand in the same place, you will always hold the same perspective.

One of the many benefits of taking some time away from your normal routine comes in seeing
things from a different perspective. Routines help us organize our lives and efficiently accomplish a
great number of tasks. They also tend to shrink our perspective on ourselves, others, and life in
general. Every once in a while we need to break the routine and allow ourselves to see life from a
completely different angle.
Have you faced a challenge recently where your best efforts failed to yield the results you
intended? Did you find after you became discouraged and stepped away from the situation for a
while, you were able to return to that same challenge with a fresh approach that worked much better
than the one you were employing earlier?
My recent vacation pushed the boundaries of my world out a bit and helped me to see things
from a much broader view. Without the routines I engage on normal days, I found a fresh approach
to loving my children, my extended family, and others. I rediscovered my appreciation for natural
beauty and the way it restores my soul. I found that entering my familys and friends world and
allowing them to set the agenda exposed me to enjoyment I otherwise would never have known.
Simply put, my perspective changed, and all of life seemed more worth living.
As I prepare to return to work and the routines that help me organize my life, I feel a renewed
sense of appreciation for my work, my family, and my life. I have gained perspective that I could
never have gained as long as I continued to stand in the same places I have stood over most of the
last year.
As I return to the task of helping our congregation articulate who we are, where we are, where
we see God leading us, and how we envision getting there, I am energized to complete the task
before us. We are going to cast a vision for our church that helps every member of this church,
visitors to this church, and ministerial candidates understand who we are and determine if this is the
home theyve been looking for.
Whether you take a lengthy vacation, a day with family or friends, or a few hours alone, allow
yourself to release the routines that guide your actions most of the time. Let go and let life come to
you in new and refreshing ways. A change of perspective can help any of us, if only to help us
appreciate our daily routines all the more!
This is a great time to nurture a fresh perspective on church. If you take some time away, try to
see anew the church and the people who make it up. Ask yourself where we are strongest, what gifts
we offer our community, and what God is calling us to be and do in relationship to our community. If
you dont get away this summer, try just stepping into church as if youve never been here before.
Ask yourself how we can be more hospitable, more courageous, more loving.
Its great to be back in the office and back in your lives. I look forward to seeing some of you
individually, whether in the hospital, at home, or at church. I hope to see many of you in worship this
Sunday. Thanks for supporting my need to have time awayit helps me to appreciate our church
and to serve as your outgoing pastor with great passion for the ministry God has remaining for us.
Peace

Sunday St at i st i cs
July 28, 13 84 (Remember Service)
4 (Reawaken Service) 8 (Refresh Service)
Weekly Giving: $4,479.08 Mission: $497.68
Budget Goal: $3,881
Christmas in July: $70 Blankets: $40
Downtown Market: $1137 (August 1)


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RememberinPrayer
Continue to pray for: Dottie Bense,
Harold Brickens, Mary Brill, Betty Ruth
Buchanan, Linda Christman, Chris Collett,
Dean Echols, Lorna & Skip Farnum, Anna
Lou Horspool, Kevin Johnen, Carolyn
Kenrick, the family of Lowenn Land, Flora
Miller, Sue Miller, Jim Piper, Norma Rill,
Marj Schwenker and family, Julie Stuart,
Claudia Tammen, and Dorothy Tanner.
Please pray for the following church in
the Pacific Southwest Region:
First Christian Church, Oceanside
204 S. Freeman
P.O. Box 360
Oceanside, CA 92054

ReadingsandPrayerConcernsfor
WeekofAugust5August11,
2013
Monday, August 5: Reading: Isaiah
1:1,10-17; pray for Alzheimers Support Group
meeting tonight in Chapman Lounge.
Tuesday, August 6: Reading: Isaiah 1: 18-20;
pray for Mary Circle meeting today in
Chapman Lounge.
Congregational Prayer Day, August 7
Reading: Psalm 50: 1-8; pray for Hot Meal
Ministry Team serving the hungry tonight.
Thursday, August 8: Reading: Psalm 50: 22-23;
pray for Tri Tip crew working Downtown
market tonight.
Friday, August 9: Reading: Hebrews 11: 1-3;
pray for Pathways of Hope meeting today.
Saturday, August 10: Reading: Hebrews 11: 8-
16; pray for the Mildred Evans and family as
they lay Fred to rest today in Albany, OR.
Sunday, August 11: Reading: Luke 12: 32-40;
pray for Global Ministries Missionary Ashley
Holst in the Dominican Republic.

MaryCircle
Come join the ladies of the Mary Circle
on Tues., August 6, 10:30 a.m. in Chapman
Lounge to put together school kits for children
at Pathways of Hope. Please bring school
supplies, pencils, rulers, crayons, safe scissors,
paper, etc. to put in the bags.
PrayerRequests:July28,2013
Jack Doughty Connie Kama, sister who
was diagnosed with
Ovarian cancer.
Alexis Ritchey Great Grandmother has
fallen twice in the last week.

Servi ng i n t he Mi l i t ary:
Adam Hawley, Deb
Taylors nephew in Afghanistan.
He will be gone a few more months from his
wife and new baby.
Lt. Patrick OConner, Betty Rollos
grandson-in-law is on deployment in the
Persian Gulf until December.
Lt. Patrick Rollo, Betty Rollos
grandson. He is training on a submarine in the
Pacific.
Joshua Reynolds, Jane Reynolds son. He is at
Ft. Riley, KS dealing with PTSD and will be
returning to Afghanistan soon.
PFC Brandon Vannoy is at Ft. Sill, OK
for training. He is a grandson of Bob & Donna
Vannoy.
Petty Officer Michael J. Borden, Nancy
Geigers grandson, in the Navy Reserve
Norfolk, VA, now attached to a SEAL team
and scheduled to go to Guam in the near
future.

Timeisgettingclosefor
HomecomingWeekend
August 24 25 is our
second Annual Homecoming Weekend. The
only way this can be really successful is that
you invite your friends from the past with
whom you are still in contact.
There will be a Gabfest on Sat. night,
Aug. 24, 7 9 P.M., Sunday Worship, August
25, 10:15 A.M. where we will honor a humble
servant(s) from the past and have a Luncheon
Reception . Please let me know either by
phone (714-525-5525,) text message (714-595-
9510,) email: fullerton 1stcc@gmail.com, or
snail mail 109 E Wilshire Avenue, Fullerton,
CA 92832, if you will be able to join for
Saturday night and the luncheon (cost $7.50
adults, children 10 and under free) so we will
be able to have enough food. Thanks, Donna W


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Hol l ywood Bowl
This year we are
going to see Earth, Wind and Fire & Fireworks
on Sunday night, September 15. Tickets are
$33, which includes the bus from Lakewood
Mall at 5:30 P.M. We have purchased 16 tickets
in Section L1 rows 21 & 22. First come first
served. Four tickets are already gone.

TheSeniorBookClub
We will meet next on Thursday,
September 26, at Jan Farleys home to discuss
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin. This
book is set in the untamed American West, a
highly original and haunting debut novel
about a makeshift family whose dramatic lives
are shaped by violence, love, and an indelible
connection to the land.

CWSBlanketMonth-August
August begins the month when we
collect funds for Blankets for Church
World Service. If you are among those
who are hurt by hurricanes or tornadoes or a child
pulled from his/her home in the middle of the
night because of a domestic abuse situation, a
blanket is a very real comfort. Your donation of
just $5 will provide a blanket for someone in need.
Our Outreach Ministry has designated
August as Blanket Month and set a goal of
providing 50 blankets. Wont you help? Just mark
blankets on your checks memo line and place in
the offering tray. Thank you and may God bless
your generosity.
Julie Stuart, Outreach Ministry

HotMealMinistry
Next Wednesday, August 7,
Team C will serve up a tasty dinner
for our Hot Meal Ministry. Team
Members should be there at 5:00 P.M.
Please find a substitute if you are unable to
make it.
Team C consists of: Pam Findley Flor, Phil
Forbes, Masumi Hogan, Bonnie Lopez, Rose
Melissa-Ackerman, Ada Rodman (set up),
Eloise & Paul Smith and Emily Steward-Styffe.
Alternates include: Rod Farley, Annie Frater,
Judi Smedley, Craig Wallace
WeGetLetters.. .
In a letter dated July 18th,
Jon L. Berquist, President, Disciples Seminary
Foundation, Claremont, wrote the following.
"Thank you for your gift of $187.50 to
the Disciples Seminary Foundation An nual
Fund. Your support means so much to us.
During May and June the DSF community
celebrated the graduation of twenty-three
students from our partner seminaries and for
the Certificate of Ministerial Studies program.
The graduates now look forward to their
future and to their opportunities for leadership
and service. Over half of DSF's work and
budget every year go toward student
education. Your gift is a tangible vote of
support for the current and next generations of
DSF students."

In a letter dated July 19, Maria
Mazzenga Avellaneda, Executive Director,
Pathways of Hope, Fullerton, wrote the
following.
"On behalf of Pathways of Hope's Board
of Directors, our dedicated staff, tireless
volunteers, and the homeless and hungry we
serve, I want to thank you for your generous
donation of $187.50 in support of our
programs."
You can read the full text of both of
these letters on the bulletin board above the
water fountain. The members of the Outreach
Ministry thank you for your support of our
many outreach ministries through your
generous giving .
The Outreach Ministry

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TaskForceOnBecomingAGlobal
MissionChurchMeetsOnAugust7
The Task Force composed of
representatives of both Casa de Oracin
(Hispanic) and the Dream Church (Korean)
and our congregation will meet on Wed.,
August 7 at 7 P.M. in Chapman Lounge. We
will be continuing our discussion of partnering
with each other to become a Global Mission
Church. We will begin developing a proposal
regarding this matter to be sent to our
respective governing bodies by the end of
September

LookingForaWaytoLiveOut
YourFaith?
This weeks volunteer
opportunities are highlighted below.
The entire three pages are posted on
the bulletin board in the Narthex if you would
like to see what else is available

BOOK DOCTOR
The Early Literacy & Math Program is in
need of volunteers to help in cleaning,
repairing, sorting, and labeling gently used
childrens books donated by the OC Fair.
These books will then be distributed to 20,000+
children and families. To volunteer, register
online at jbarba@thinktogether.org or
http://www.oneoc/get-involved/find-
volunteer-opportunities.

CASA VOLUNTEER
Serve as a trained mentor and advocate
for abused and neglected children. A CASA
volunteer visits with a child on a regular basis,
interacts with all professionals involved in the
case and makes recommendations directly to
the court, ensuring the childrens best interests
are not overlooked. For training and
volunteering, contact www.casaoc.org or call
714-619-5155

WorshipMoments
(From time to time the Worship
Ministry team publishes elder's prayers or other
memorable moments from our worship
services.)
Sunday July 28 Elder Tim Acquistapace
prayed at our communion table:
"[Communion is] simple to our taste
but rich for our soul..."
This moment from his prayer is
important to us, as every word and symbol in
worship reveals something more truthful
about what we really and truly do or don't
believe, for several reasons.
First, his is perhaps the first time anyone
has called attention to the experience of the
sense of taste in that moment of worship. We
know that meaningful worship includes as
many of the 5 senses as possible: touch, sight,
taste, smell, and hearing. We do well at
hearing and sight, but the other senses lie
dormant or unused during most of our
worship.
It's not that communion elements
should physically taste like something; in fact,
they are typically very bland so that we do not
focus on them but on the Christ who meets us
in that communing moment! To receive the
bread, and have to think to ourselves,
"Someone had to run out and get Hawaiian
bread or monkey bread or pumpernickel"
would be downright distracting to the real
purpose of communion, wouldn't it? Even our
gluten-free communion bread is to be
unobtrusive to the experience of the Lord's
presence.
Secondly, consider Elder Tim's well-
phrased prayer in terms of what the Psalmist
meant in Ps. 43:8 "Taste and see that the Lord
is good."
What kind of "taste" is that? Meditate
on that verse, and we will be led to what his
communion prayer means for us. (In fact, if
some of us have thoughts about this, please
share and submit them, and we'll print them as
a follow-up to this column and to what Elder
Tim inspired in us through his prayer.)




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AlzheimersSeminar
We will be holding a free educational presentation in Brea next Thursday August 8
from 5:30-7:30 P.M. at Villagio at Capriana. The presentation will discuss common myths about
memory loss, the warning signs of Alzheimer's, and the importance of early detection. This
knowledge will empower individuals and let the community know about available support. Light
refreshments will be provided and a summer concert will follow. Please do not hesitate to contact me
if you have any questions or would like more information. I can be reached at 949-757-3763 or
ltirado@alz.org. Thank you for your time.
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Villagio at Capriana
460 S. La Floresta Dr.
Brea, CA 92821

Thursday, August 8, 2013
5:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
Light refreshments provided.
Summer concert to follow. No charge to attend.

Workshop reservation: 800.272.3900
Concert information: 714.312.3783
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Early Detection Matters

A community education workshop

! Discuss common myths about typical aging,
memory loss and Alzheimer's disease.

! Find out how to recognize a warning sign in
yourself or someone you care about.

! Learn about the diagnosis process and how
to access services and support.

! Understand why early detection empowers
an individual to begin drug therapy, enroll in
clinical studies and plan for the future.


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First Christian Church
109 E Wilshire Avenue
Fullerton, CA 92832
Reawaken (Early Worship Service) Sunday, 8:00 A.M.
Church School for all ages: Sunday, 9:00 A.M.
Remember (Traditional Worship Service) Sunday, 10:15 A.M.
Refresh (Emergent Worship Service) Sunday, 7:30 P.M.
Youth Groups: Sunday, 1:00 P.M. & Wednesday, 3:30 5:15 P.M.





















Servi ng August 4, 2013
Greeter: Lin Garcia
Guest Book: Becky Graves
Coffee Host: Hospitality Ministry
Acolyte Parent: McCuen
Sound: Kyle Fought
Video: Clare Keech
Lay Leader: Cam Malotte
Childrens Moment:
Elders: PJ Vannoy, Janelle Vannoy,
Amy Styffe
Diaconate: McCuens Team
Prepare: Barbara Fenters, Janelle Vannoy
Ushers: Barbara Fenters, Janelle Vannoy
Serve: Barbara Fenters, Bill & Jodie Martin,
Dirk & Jan McCuen, Janelle Vannoy
Clean Up: Annie Frater, Bill & Jodie Martin
Alternate:

Servi ng August 11, 2013

Greeter: Pat Van Vliet
Guest Book: Lynda Bailey
Coffee Host: Hospitality Ministry
Acolyte Parent: Angulo
Sound: Clare Keech
Video: PJ Vannoy
Lay Leader: Randy Langston
Childrens Moment:
Elders: Craig Wallace, Emily Malotte,
Pam Fndley-Flor (HC)
Home Communion: Kathy Robidoux,
Penny Fonches, Joshua Dorrough
Diaconate: McCuens Team
Prepare: Dirk & Jan McCuen
Ushers: Bill & Jodie Martin
Serve: Annie Frater, Bill & Jodie Martin,
Dirk & Jan McCuen, Ben Stuart
Clean Up: Bill & Jodie Martin, Ben Stuart
Alternate: Barbara Fenters