Newsletter - March 2015

P A S A D E N A C O V E N A N T C H U R C H March 2015

Resurrection Garden Help us transform our sanctuary

into a living garden celebrating

the resurrection of Christ and

rejoicing in our hope of resurrection because

of Him. Lets fill our church with beauty,

variety, color and fragrance of life!

You have a choice between a Lily,

Azalea, Hydrangea or Tulip. If you

wish to contribute a plant (they

are $15 each), please e-mail the

church office for an order form at

[email protected] or pick up a

form on Sunday.

Form and money due by

Sunday, March 22nd!

Youre Invited!

Easter Sunday

April 5th

Worship Services:

9:00am & 10:30am

Childcare and Sunday School

for both services

Stations of the Cross

From March 23rd - April 5th, Monday -

Friday, 9am - 5pm, the Gathering Place

will be open to view the Stations of the

Cross. The Stations of the Cross are the

artistic expressions of the traditional

stations and these will be up and on

display through Easter. Several artists

within our community, of all ages, were a

part of what happened last year and we

look forward to this again this year.

Community DinnerCommunity DinnerCommunity Dinner

Come to the Community Potluck Dinner on Tuesday, March 10th at the Wipfs' home, 363

Vinehill Drive, Altadena, from 5-8pm. Park on Vinehill Drive or along Canon Blvd. (Driveway

parking is for the elderly, only!). It's a time to come, relax, eat and fellowship together. Arrive any

time after 5:00 pm to spend time with others who come. This dinner is a potluck, so bring

something delicious to share with others. Bring a flashlight its dark up at the ranch.

Handcrafted bags, created from local Thai fabrics and sewn by Thai women of the Abundant Life

Center (ALC) in Bangkok, Thailand, will be on sale after the worship service, in the gym on

Sunday, March 8th. Profits from this sale will benefit ALC Crafts, which is part of the ministry of

our Evangelical Covenant Missionary, Karen Groot. In an effort to keep young families together,

ALC Crafts offers women, most of them with small children in tow, the opportunity to stay in

the Bangkok with their husbands and their child/children, when typically mother or child/

children would have to return to the village. ALC Crafts is exciting dimension of ALC ministry

and an example of Business as mission.

Potluck Luncheon for the Groots on March 8th Come to the Salad Potluck Luncheon for Karen and Carl Groot on Sunday, March 8th, after

the worship service at 12 noon in Fireside Room (in the gym building). The Groots are two of

our Evangelical Covenant missionaries serving in Thailand. Please bring a potluck item if you

can. For more information, contact Kim Dorman at [email protected].

Ushers and Greeters Needed for Sunday Mornings This is an easy way to get started in serving. Its also an easy way to get to know people who attend

Pasadena Covenant Church. We need folks to greet other folks on Sunday morning and

sometimes give directions or information, if needed (that info will be provided). We also need

ushers to hand out Sunday morning bulletins, take attendance and pass the offering plates. If you

can help, please contact Joe Thomas at [email protected].

Sarah Circle will meet on Tuesday, March 17th, 9:30am - noon in Fireside. We welcome all women to join us for service projects, fellowship and refreshments. All women are welcome. We have a rolling start so come when you can.

For more information, contact Julie Maljian at (818) 790-5911.

Womens Book Club The Womens Book Club meets Tuesday, March 24th, from 7:30-9:00 pm in the Corner House. We will be discussing Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedman. Newcomers and one-timers are always welcome. If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer Mawhorter at [email protected].

The Urban Ministries Team meets

Monday, March 9th at 6:45pm, in the

Santa Barbara Room. All are welcome to

join us as we work to partner with those in

our neighborhood. For more information,

please contact Wayne Aoki at

[email protected].

The Men's Book Club will meet on

Thursday, March 12th, 7pm at the Corner

House to discuss "POWER SYSTEMS," a set

of interviews with MIT linguistics professor

and activist Noam Chomsky, featuring his

incisive views on geopolitical topics. For

more information, please contact Rich Doyle

at [email protected].

The Cross-Cultural Ministries Team will

meet on Thursday, March 26th at 7:00pm.

The location TBD. All are welcome to come

hear how we support those who work cross-

culturally. For location of the meeting or

more information, please contact Bruce

Wear at [email protected].

Koinonia Prayer and Praise will not meet in

March. Look for information for our April

Meeting.

Set your clocks ahead on

Saturday night, March 7th,

before you go to bed.

Cross-Cultural Communication Specialists Praise & Prayer Requests

Kitty and Lee Purgason, members of Pasadena Covenant Church, live nearby and work with

cross-cultural ministries based in this area: Kitty teaches at

Biola University in La Mirada and Lee works with what is

now Frontier Ventures, www.frontierventures.org (also see

our bi-monthly missionfrontiers.org website for some

exciting news about our name, and some new initiatives, to

be online by March 3rd!). Our aim is to foster Kingdom

breakthrough among unreached peoples.

During the spring semester Kitty will act as department chair for a colleague on sabbatical. She

will be balancing admin duties, a writing project, three online classes, and one on-campus class.

She is happy for opportunities to train students working with Chinese, Arab, Indonesian, and

European students and to pray for Gods Kingdom purposes among them. She will also attend

the N. American TESOL gathering in Toronto this March, and the National Assoc. of Christian

Foreign Language Teachers in April.

Lees duties as COO and CFO bring a wide range of responsibilities, from budget prep and

review to building renovation (including a new 30kW solar power array). He also works

developing collaboration agreements with strategic partners, consults the Personnel department

in legal/HR functions (and policy memory archivistto ensure that we remember to

implement that which was agreed upon), and supervises two part-time college accounting and

finance interns. Along with others he helps develop and implement strategic planning.

Praises: through those we train and partner with, our work can bear fruit in dozens of cross-cultural

situations the Perspectives course sponsored and managed by Frontier Ventures is in over 200 locations

in N. America and over seven different countries with culturally adjusted curricula Prayer: patience, wisdom and tact as we both work with others in strategic planning. Listening to each

person and to God is important in discerning what it best. balance in work, rest, study, recreation and prayer

Another way to support Pasadena Covenant Church If you shop at Vons or Pavilions, Fresh and Easy or Safeway, you could be easily supporting Pasadena Covenant with each purchase. It is as simple as going to escrip.com and registering to support Pasadena Covenant Church. Pasadena Covenants account is Group ID 140713372. If you could use some help, contact Pastor Jim Tyberg, [email protected]

Mark your calendars: Everyone Camp: All-Church Camp-Out at Monrovia Canyon Park June 12-14, 2015 Watch for more details!

Goofy Golf Game Night:

Friday, March 6th 6:30-8pm Gym Everyone invitedbring a friend!

Join us Friday, Mar. 6th for Goofy Golflike miniature golf only crazier & sillier! Invite your friends of all ages to join us as we all make fools of ourselves and have a great time doing it! Bring a snack food item to share.

Adult Spiritual Formation Elective Begins: March 1st Randy Hill and Anita Sorenson will be co-leading our new Sunday morning adult spiritual

formation elective, "For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles", beginning Sunday,

March 1st, at 9am, in the Corner House. In seven weekly 20-minute-ish film episodes, youll

learn how our lives lived on earth matter in Gods plan for the world. We will watch the film

clips & have conversations about faith and culture. We will explore how Gods purposes are

woven into every area of our lives!

Adult Bible Class: March 1st, 8th, 15th Jeff Bjorck will be teaching a 3-week series (March 1st, 8th, 15th) on some of the difficult Psalms. Join this Adult Bible class (hosted by the Couriers) at 9am in the Fireside Room.

Volunteers needed Easter Sunday: April 5th Special Kids' Program at 9:00 or 10:30: Christ the Passover Lamb

We'll have two services on Easter Sunday, which means two hours of Sunday School at 9:00

and 10:30. We need to double our team to provide coverage for both hours and welcome

visitors! We have a great program planned that will allow you to see Easter through the eyes of

a child.

This year we will celebrate "Christ the Passover lamb" through an interactive experience that

will tie together the Old Testament lessons we're been studying about the Exodus with the

Christian declaration of Jesus as the Passover Lamb. We will eat special foods that will help us

remember both how God delivered Israel in Egypt, and how God through Jesus Christ has

delivered the whole world from slavery to sin and death. We will celebrate with food, song,

crafts and more!

Helpers are needed for this special program: you can serve either hour (9:00 or 10:30) with

nursery, preschool or gradeschool. Or help behind the scenes setting up the meal and craft or

making haroset (a sort of apple salad) for the Passover celebration. If you can help one of the

two services, please email Vikki at [email protected].

Soupcan Offering for Covenant World Relief

Return your bank on Palm Sunday, March 29th

During March PCC kids' ministry will be collecting money for Covenant World

Relief, which teams with our ministry partners in the developing world to help

fund community development projects in places of need around the world.

Pick up a calendar in the children's classrooms with activities your family can

do each day to learn about those global needs and set aside money to help. The

lid & label attached to the calendar can be used to turn an ordinary soupcan

into a bank. Return your bank on Palm Sunday, March 29th

Door of Hope birthday Club2.0!

Open to all-ages

2nd Monday 5:30-6:30pm Our ministry to Door of Hope has been reconfigured to better meet their needs. We'll now be

partnering with the afterschool program to provide a simple kids-only dinner (think: pizza!)

and cupcakes each month to celebrate the kids' birthdays. Our team members will volunteer

to serve approx. 4 months out of the year, providing either the cupcakes or the pizza/meal.

This fun ministry is open to all ages, including kids, so is one your whole family can

participate in together. Door of Hope is a program for families transitioning out of

homelessness. If you'd like to join this amazing team for a really FUN ministry, contact Vikki

Randall at [email protected].

Journey to the Cross

For 1st-5th graders Sundays at 9:00 am beginning Feb. 15

Fellowship Hall

Led by Ashley Thaxton

Journey to the Cross is a great way for gradeschoolers to prepare for Lent and Easter in a fun,

interactive way. This year Ashley Thaxton will be leading the kids in a program using

movement, drama and drums to prepare a cool visual representation of the themes we'll be

studying during Lent. The kids will be presenting their piece as part of the worship service on

Easter Sunday (April 5th). Join us Sundays at 9:00am in the Fellowship Hall (basement under

the sanctuary). There will be no Edge during Lent so the older kids can be a part of this

program. Adult helpers are neededemail Vikki at [email protected] to help

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Journey to the Promised Land

Sunday mornings at 10:30 for Kids:

This year's theme for our Kids' programs is Journey to the Promised Land: Jesus is our Hope. We are focusing on Old Testament stories of the people of God journeying to the promised land. In those stories we find our own journey of hope following Jesus to the promised Kingdom. All grade levels (2 years thru 5th grade) will focus on the same biblical narrative each week, so families can follow up at home with your own conversations about our journey.

During March we will begin the story of Moses and God's deliverance of His people from slavery in Egypt. The story will culminate on Easter Sunday when we talk about the Lamb of God and connect God's deliverance of Israel with God's great rescue plan to deliver the entire earth from our slavery to sin and death.

Ideas for following up at home:

1. Find Israel and Egypt on a map. Help kids trace the journey Joseph took to help kids connect this story to real, historical places.

2. Pray for peace in the Middle East as the countries there continue to struggle with age-old conflicts.

3. As we prepare for the story of the Passover on Easter Sunday, talk about foods our family uses to celebrate and remember special events: birthday cakes, valentine's candy, etc. Come up with a new food to symbolize something special that only your family will know.

4. Go for a walk around your neighborhood and look for signs of the coming Spring: blades of green grass, flower buds, birds' nests. Talk about finding hope for new life in the middle of winter. Make a nature collage of some of the things you found.

Mighty Memorizers New to our kids' program this year is Bible memory. Memorizing portions of Scripture is one of the ways we "hide God's word in our hearts", allowing it to sink in and nourish our souls. We encourage families to learn these verses together, with our preschoolers learning a shorter version and our gradeschoolers (Logosland) learning the full text and reference. At the end of the year we will have a special celebration to honor all our memorizers.

The March verse is: Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! - John 1:29

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Recycle outgrown toys!

Are you cleaning out your closets to make room for all those new Christmas toys? PCC Kids Ministries can use the ones your kids have outgrown! We are in need of used toys in good condition for 4-6 year olds, particularly: dress up clothes, legos, hot wheels cars & tracks, and baby dolls. Drop them off in the basket in the Narthex or bring them to the main office during normal business hours (M-F 9am - 3:00pm).

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Pasadena Covenant Play Club Play Club is a group for preschool kids and their moms or dads that meet the first and third Tuesday mornings at Pasadena Covenant Church's nursery from 9:30-11:00am. Play Club is a place for kids to gather and have a great time singing songs, hearing Bible stories and playing while their parents connect with each other as well.

Feel free to invite your friends. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact Lisa Thackwell at [email protected] or Brittany Burian at [email protected].

Sunday Mornings TheStudy: Numbers, Sunday mornings, 9-10:11am (Student Room)

All Wednesdays: LifeGroups, 6:30-8pm (Student Room)

Upcoming Camps Forest Home Winter Camp: high school March 6-8

CHIC: July 12-16

For more information about upcoming events, please contact our Pastor for Youth Ministries,

Dave Rinker, at [email protected].

Pasadena Covenant Church

539 North Lake Avenue

Pasadena, California, 91101-1217

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1 Sunday 9:00am Classes 10:30am Worship Service 11:45am Hospitality 12:00pm Miriam Singers 1:00pm Pas Cov Choir 2 Monday 7:00pm Trustee Meeting 3 Tuesday 9:30am Pas Cov Play Club 4 Wednesday 5:45pm Childrens Choir Rehearsal 7:00pm Womens Bible Study 5 Thursday 6 Friday Forest Home for High School 6:30pm Goofy Gold Night 7 Saturday Forest Home for High School 8 Sunday Forest Home for High School 9:00am Classes 10:30am Worship Service - Mark Labberton 11:45am Hospitality Time 11:45am Handcrafted Thai handbags 12:00pm Miriam Singers 12:00pm Potluck luncheon with the Groots 1:00pm Pas Cov Choir 9 Monday 6:45pm Urban Ministries Meeting

11:45am Hospitality 12:00 pm Miriam Singers 1:00pm Pas Cov Choir 23 Monday 9:00am Stations of the Cross 24 Tuesday 9:00am Stations of the Cross 7:30pm Womens Book Club 25 Wednesday 9:00am Stations of the Cross 5:45pm Childrens Choir Rehearsal 7:00pm Womens Bible Study 26 Thursday 9:00am Stations of the Cross 7:00pm Cross-Cultural Ministry Meeting 27 Friday 9:00am Stations of the Cross 28 Saturday 29 Sunday Palm Sunday 9:00am Classes 10:30am Worship Service 11:45am Hospitality 12:00pm Miriam Singers 1:00pm Pas Cov Choir 30 Monday 9:00am Stations of the Cross 31 Tuesday 9:00am Stations of the Cross

March2015 10 Tuesday 5:00pm Community Potluck Dinner 11 Wednesday 5:45pm Childrens Choir Rehearsal 7:00pm Womens Bible Study 12 Thursday 7:00pm Mens Book Club 13 Friday 14 Saturday 15 Sunday 9:00am Classes 9:00am Journey to the Cross 10:30am Worship Service 11:45am Hospitality 12:00 pm Miriam Singers 1:00pm Pas Cov Choir 16 Monday 17 Tuesday 9:30am Pas Cov Play Club 9:30am Sarah Circle 18 Wednesday 5:45pm Childrens Choir Rehearsal 7:00pm Womens Bible Study 19 Thursday 20 Friday 21 Saturday 22 Sunday 9:00am Classes 9:00am Journey to the Cross 10:30am Worship Service

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