Archive for March, 2009

Join us this year for 3 Days & 3 Nights “Experiencing Jesus Christ”.¬† If you want to grow closer to God, put your faith into action, and have a lot of fun this mission trip is for you.¬† On Saturday and Sunday we will be working on Schroeder Ranch in Barstow, CA.¬† The team will be helping John Schroeder continue to further his camping ministry.¬† We’ll be finishing the bunkhouse building a bathroom with a shower and much more.¬† On Monday we’re back in Orange, Ca and serving in our local community.¬† At night we’ll be studying God’s word, takeing part in firside worship, and growing in our knowledge and love of God.¬† I hope you can join us!

The cost is $85 and we start Friday Night, April 3rd at 6 p.m.  Please eat dinner before you come.  3 Days and 3 Nights will be finished on Monday, April 6th at 4 p.m.

““Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” (Matt 7:7-8 NIV)

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Join us April 18th as we serve breakfast to the down and out.  We will be meeting at Covenant Community at 5:30 a.m. and then heading over to the Santa Ana Civic Center.  For a map follow this link.  We will be finished around 10 a.m.

If you are available we can use help in food prep the night before.  Meet at the church on Friday, April 17th at 4:30 p.m.  We will be finished with the prep around 7:30 p.m.

On trips and retreats we encourage the youth during their quiet times to write a psalm.  A psalm is a song or prayer devoted to the Lord to worship Him.  Some of the teenagers are brave enough to share them with us.  Below are the ones that have been shared.  More will be posted over time:
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On Friday, February 20th the youth ministry left from the church parking lot around 4:30 p.m. for Core Camp 2009.  Core Camp is a weekend retreat that our High School program started a couple years ago.  The goal is to take a small group of teens for a weekend and help them learn how to study the Bible.  It is a very intense program with very little free time (about 3 hours a day).  The trip is open to all however we keep the spots limited and it is not the sort of trip that draws everyone.

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acceptance |akÀàsept…ôns|

noun
1 the action or process of being received as adequate or suitable 
approval or favorable regard : the options proposed by the report gained acceptance.

All of us have a need to belong that is wired in to our being.  We all want to be accepted and know that others approve of us.  No matter what country, culture, people, or tribe all have traditions of acceptance.  These traditions vary from slaughtering a bull and drinking it’s blood, to going on a walkabout, to  graduating high school or college.  Each “rite of passage” trying to achieve the same purpose to be accepted.
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