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A Season for the Spirit
You are invited to join this Lenten season as the adult Sunday class begins a journey
guided by the devotional book entitled A Season for the Spirit. We will meet
every Sunday morning from March 1st to April 5th. The author of our study is Martin
L. Smith, and it is published by Seabury Classics.
These daily readings began on Ash Wednesday. If you have any questions, please
contact Linda Houston (310-329-6444) or Pastor Steve. It is not necessary to attend
all the classes to benefit. You are welcome to any and all.
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CHURCH FAMILY PRAYERS & CONCERNS
With Sympathy:
After a long decline in health, Helen Reed died on March 2. In accordance
with the family’s wishes, no separate service was held, but she was remembered during the
March 8 worship service, and honored through the singing of the Lord’s prayer. We were
pleased to have Helen’s son, Allen, and her granddaughter, Amy, present. Along with her
son Fred, and the rest of the family, they are all in our prayers.
Dene Martinez is home and doing well after a stay in the hospital with a respiratory virus.
His great-grandfather, Jim Crawford (Doug’s father) is also home after a bout with pneu-
monia. On Monday he has been readmitted with an irregular heart rate, and will be under-
going tests to determine proper treatment.
Beverly Roseberry is now Little Company of Mary’s San Pedro facility, where she is get-
ting more extensive therapy as part of her recovery from a recent stroke.
Chery Carew asks prayers for her niece in Missouri, Crystal Workman, who has received a
diagnosis of liver disease, and is beginning a rigorous regimen of treatment.
Prayers are asked on behalf of Jean Stamp and her family as she nears death—Jean is a
former member of our church.
Michele Wood’s recent visit to the neurologist has proved helpful in the treatment of nerve
pain from an errant blood draw.
Jim Whobrey is healing from a stress fracture of his foot.
Officer Steve Kroesen, a co-worker with Carol Wilk, is home and doing much better in his
battle with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
Susan Babcock’s beloved canine companions Shiloh and Pumpkin continue in our prayers.
Prayers are asked for the many families, some within our church, who are being impacted
by job or pay cuts.
Please pray for the work of our church’s Mission Discernment Group, the Finance Commit-
tee, and the Nominating Committee.
Ruthie Totes would like to tell all her friends thank you for all the kind words and prayers.
Her New Address Is:
Ruthie Totes
Hanover Guest Home
813 Hanover Street
Santa Cruz CA 95062.
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March 2009 (Revised)
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thurs
WORSHIP SERVICES
8:30 and 10:30 am
Sunday School 9:30 am
1 2 3 4
Disciple Women
Regional Bake Sale
CYF/Youth Adventure Bible Study 10:00 a.m.
Worship Meeting New H
12:00 Trustees 7:00 Education
Lenten Dinner Series
7:00 7:00
7:00 p
5:00
8 9 10 11
15 16 17 18
22 23 24 25
No CYF
Chi Rho 12:00 Cho
Newsletter Bible Study 10:00 a.m.
Lenten Dinner Series 7:00 p
5:00
29 30 31
March Birthday’s
Mary Ibe (1)
Hilda Coleman (4)
Gail Grove (5)
Gene Jackson (5)
Virginia Gober (6)
5 6 7 Wally Sandberg (6)
Kurt Nelson (9)
Ruth Morrison (10)
Terry Thomas (15)
Hope Marion Casey (16)
p.m. Lois Sherwood (17)
Haley Crawford (20)
Emma Hernandez (22)
Katie Redderson (22)
Orlando Martinez (24)
12 13 14 Charlene Bowring (26)
Kristin Karlin (28)
Lois Sherwood (29)
Ruth Perry (29)
oir CYF Trip to LA Food Helen Reed (29)
p.m. Bank 8-12 Glenn Singleton (30)
Kel Henderson (30)
Mandy Fontaine (30)
19 20 21
26 27 28
oir
p.m.
ANNIVERSARIES
Raymond & Donna Stent (18)
John & Anne Beecher (30)
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Education Notes & News
March Youth Calendar
Saturday, March 14
CYF will be taking a trip to the LA Food Bank to help package food for distribution to other
food banks in the city. They will be leaving the church at 8:00 a.m. and return sometime after
noon. Must wear closed toes shoes. See Jimmy Koontz for more information.
March 15
12:00 Youth Adventure-Light lunch served. Lenten discussion & group game.
Don’t forget your journal.
12:00 CYF-Lunch outing and discussion of next service project
March 22
12:00 Chi Rho
No CYF meeting today
April 5
Palm Sunday-All groups to participate in Easter Eggcitement immediately after church
April 12
Easter Sunday-No youth groups meeting today
Bible Explorers
Our children have already participated in two great workshops that have focused on
Jesus and his time in the Garden of Gethsemane. The kids have watched and dis-
cussed clips from Jesus Christ Superstar as well as made their own Garden of Geth-
semane terrariums. There are two more weeks of this study and children from pre-
school through junior high are invited to join us from 9:30-10:15 on Sunday mornings.
Supplies Needed: We are still looking for small size containers with lids (to be turned
into banks). Drop them off in the Donation Box located in room 2. Thanks for your
support!
If you are in Junior High School and want to learn about becoming a Shepherd for this pro-
gram contact Jill Foster, Chery Carew or Shirley Woodman.
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Date Class Workshop Room #
The Garden of Gethsemane
3/15 PRE K-1 Drama 3
2-5 Games 4
3/22 PRE K-1 Games 4
2-5 Drama 3
3/29 PRE K-1 Last Supper Everyone meet
2-5 Reenactment in 3
4/5 PRE K-1 Palm Sunday Everyone meet
2-5 Activities in 4
4/12 No Bible Pancake
Explorers today Breakfast
Don’t forget that our High School Class also meets at this time in Room 8 under the leader-
ship of Kristen Hammel.
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Upcoming Sermons
Our sermon focus for Lent is on Spiritual Practices—things we can do regularly
(religiously!) that help strengthen our faith and our connection to God.
March 15 – “Filling the God-Shaped Hole” (Psalm 42; Romans 8:26-27; Luke 11:1-4)
Many people feel awkward or insufficiently able when it comes to Prayer, and yet we also
have an inner yearning for the Source of life and breath. What can we learn from Jesus’ and
Paul’s teachings about talking to God?
March 22 – “Practicing, But Not Quite Perfect”
Pastor Ted Oden will reflect on the process involved in spiritual practices while Pastor
Steve is at Loch Leven facilitating worship at our church retreat.
March 29 – “God’s Hand Is Not Too Short” (Isaiah 59:1-2)
“Confession is good for the soul,” so the saying goes. Do we believe it? Are we willing to
bring our deepest selves before God? If not, what stands in the way? This Sunday, we
think about the spiritual practice of Confession—it’s not just for Catholics!
Baptism Class
Our Baptism Class continues its gatherings on March 15 and 29 at noon, after
worship, with lunch and lessons, and their last session on Saturday, April 4.
We look forward to receiving confessions of faith on Palm Sunday, April 5,
and a celebration of baptism on Easter Sunday, April 12. (Due to schedules,
some confessions and baptisms will be celebrated on other dates.) For a full list of candi-
dates, please see the pastor’s note on the back page.
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Footnotes
“All of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death. We
have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised
from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if
we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him
in a resurrection like his.” (Romans 6:3-5)
From the beginning, Lent appears to have been a season of preparation for baptism. It
was a time when baptismal “candidates” learned the lessons of the faith, considered
what it would mean for them to “walk in newness of life,” and, at least during times of
persecution, quite literally prepared for the possibility of dying for their faith—all in
the hope that their symbolic dying and rising in baptism would prefigure their ultimate
hope of resurrection.
In our time and place, Christians experience diminished influence, but nothing ap-
proaching persecution—for which we give thanks. But Lent is still Lent—still a time
when candidates prepare for baptism, learn of the faith, consider their new walk, and
receive the hope of resurrection. I want you all to know that it is a joy and a privilege
for me to participate with our current baptism class.
But because the responsibility—and the joy!—are not mine alone, I commend to your
prayers our candidates for baptism: Anne Beecher, Trevor Bise, Dallas Cooper, Dixie
Cooper, Rebecca Foster, Caitlin Hedde, Ileana Iannucci, Sarah Iannucci, Brittany
McPherson, Ryan Rogers, Paul Ryan, and Sydney Thornton. Marie Wood, who was
baptized last year, has also joined the class, so as to share and learn with her friends.
Please lift these names up to God as often as you pray—for their immersion into the
power of the Holy Spirit, the blessings of their new fellowship in Christ, and their ex-
perience of the redeeming love of God.
Shalom, Steve
Home phone: 310-212-5950 email: steefeets@hotmail.com
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