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1 NOVEMBER 2014 Prayer and Preparation 8:30-9:00 AM Bible Study Hour 9:00-10:00 AM Sunday Worship 10:00-11:15 AM November 2: Communion Sunday Elk Grove Food Bank Collection Deacon Meeting Angeja Home Emeritus November 10: Session Meeting November 14: 4F s Luncheon The Peace Press "Following Jesus together, Building Faith" ENJOYING LIVES FILLED WITH THANKSGIVING As we enter November, we draw near to Thanksgiving, and as believers we are reminded of how important it is that we be people of thanksgiving each and every day. We have been created in the image of God in order to be people of worship, to be people who give thanks for all of life, for all the gifts God brings us. In Psalm 30:11-12 (this and following texts are all from NIV), David praises God, saying, You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent. LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever. In 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, Paul invites us to, "Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God s will for you in Christ Jesus." God's will for us is to give thanks to Him, to be thankful people. God wants our lives to be transformed by thankfulness and gratitude to Him. Will we allow Him to do so? Will we embrace His purpose and plan for our lives, for us to be people who are always thankful to Him? At the end of this month, we will begin the holy season of Advent. One theme of Advent is that of joy and of giving thanks. In Luke 1:47, Mary, the mother of Jesus, praises God, saying, "My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior." In Luke 1:68, Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, praises God, saying, "Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has come and has redeemed His people." Mary and Zechariah both praise God for sending us Jesus to save us and to reconcile us to God. Our relationships with Jesus then are to be founded on praise and thanksgiving. In this season of Thanksgiving and as we begin Advent, let us recommit ourselves to being people who give praise and thanksgiving to God. Jesus loves you and I do too! God bless you! Pastor Brian Page 1 of 17

2 Worship News Sunday, November 2 NOVEMBER 2014 WORSHIP PLANS Communion Sunday; Romans 15:1-6 "Encouragement and Hope" Sunday, November 9 Preschool Sunday Romans 15:7-13 "Rejoicing and Hoping" Sunday, November 16 Romans 15:14-32 "Becoming an Offering" Sunday, November 23 Romans 16:1-27 "Being Wise and Being Innocent" Sunday, November 30 First Sunday of Advent; Candle of Hope Luke 1:1-25 "Turning our Hearts" LORD'S PRAYER BIBLE STUDY CONTINUES DURING BIBLE STUDY HOUR In November, during our Bible Study Hour, our adults will continue in our Bible Study on the Lord's Prayer, Praying as Jesus Prayed. We will be focusing on prayer, how we can be a church of prayers and a church that prays together, how we can pray as the Lord invites us to in the Lord's Prayer. Sunday, November 2 Matthew 6:12, "Forgiving and Being Forgiven" Sunday, November 9 Matthew 6:13 "Lead us Not..." Sunday, November 16 Matthew 6:13 "Deliver us From..." Sunday, November 23 Matthew 6:5-15 "For Thine is the Power..." PRAYERS AND PRAISES FOR ADVENT; PRAYING AND PRAISING EXPECTANTLY During Advent, we will begin a new sermon series and Adult Bible Study on Sundays designed to go deeper into Advent Scripture texts. You are encouraged to be blessed by coming to the Advent Study and then the Advent Service. During the Bible Study during Study Hour, we will study the prayers and praises of Zechariah, Mary and Elizabeth. We will see how our God is a mighty God who moves in powerful ways to bring us back to Him and to save us from our sins. Come and be blessed this Advent season. Sunday, November 30 First Sunday of Advent Zechariah, Luke 1:1-25 "God has Done This" Sunday, December 7 Second Sunday of Advent Mary and Elizabeth Luke 1:26-45 Page 2 of 17 "Nothing is Impossible for God" Sunday, December 14 Third Sunday of Advent Mary Luke 1:46-56 "Glorifying and Rejoicing in the Lord" Sunday, December 21 Sunday, December 28 Fourth Sunday of Advent Zechariah Luke 1:57-80 No Study "Guiding our Feet into the Path of Peace"

3 THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD'S SUPPER For 2014, the Session has approved normally celebrating the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper on the first Sunday of each month. During November we will celebrate this Sacrament on Sunday, November 2 nd. Please pray and prepare yourselves to receive and to celebrate this Sacrament together. FOOD BANK SUNDAYS TO BE ON COMMUNION SUNDAY The Session has approved designating Communion Sundays as Food Bank Sundays. We encourage you to bring food to donate and to make cash donations as well. We do not keep a discretionary fund to help those in need and instead refer all requests for assistance directly to the Food Bank. Please give generously to bless those in need in our community. BECOMING PART OF THE FAMILY We are always blessed when God leads someone "new" to become a part of our church family. We affirm that it is God who leads us and calls us to join the church, to be a part of His body and family here at Peace. Come and learn more about how God wants to bless you to be a blessing at Peace. Contact Pastor Brian for more details. SPECIAL TIMES OF PRAYER Everyone is invited to join Pastor Brian and Pastor Jerry each Sunday as we meet at 8:30 AM in the sanctuary to pray: to pray for the Sunday service and to pray for all of those involved in serving that day; to pray for God's Spirit to be poured out in our midst; to pray that we will become the church family God wants and wills us to be. The Deacons also invite you to join them in weekly prayer for our church and for our church leaders each Saturday at 8:30 AM in your homes (or wherever else you may be). Please join with your church family in setting aside time weekly to pray. COMMUNION UPDATES The Session has been discussing some ways to make our celebration of the Lord's Table more meaningful. The Session is encouraging families to take the Sacrament together and for parents to share about the Sacrament with their children before, during and after we celebrate communion. We will be trying some new things to tweak the flow of the service as we prepare to celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, beginning this Sunday. We are moving the second praise song from the beginning of the service to right after the sermon. We are also moving the Apostle's Creed to the beginning of the Sacrament time. The intent of moving these two elements is to provide our children enough time to complete their classes and then to join their families in the sanctuary before we celebrate the Sacrament together. We have told the teachers to expect an Elder to come and prepare them to rejoin us in the sanctuary between 11:00-11:05 a.m. When the children come back in, we will encourage them to sit with their families and then for families to celebrate and to take the Sacrament together. Youth will be available to help with the younger children as needed. We pray that these changes will be a blessing to you and your family and to our church family as we celebrate together what Jesus has done for us. Page 3 of 17

4 BECOMING A CONTAGIOUS CHRISTIAN STUDY ON FRIDAY NIGHTS We will continue our adult study, Becoming a Contagious Christian, during November, a study from Bill Hybels. This study is intended to equip us for relational evangelism, that is, to be contagious with the faith and the hope we have in Jesus. Come and be blessed as we reflect on the good news of our faith. November 7 Session 4, Telling Your Story November 14 Session 5 Communicating God s Message November 21 Session 6 Helping Your Friends Cross the Line of Faith November 28 NO FFN (Thanksgiving Holiday) WOMEN OF PEACE In November, we continue our study on Friday mornings at 10:00 a.m., One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are. In this five-session, videobased study, we are encouraged to take on the life-changing discipline of journaling God s gifts to really look at life and find the good in it. It s only in this expressing of gratitude for the life we already have, that we discover the life we ve always wanted a life we can take, give thanks for, and break for others. And only then can we come to feel and know the impossible right down in our bones: we are wildly loved by God. Contact Rachel Spangler or Cindy Gansereit for more information. IRON MAN NEWS As Iron Men, we are beginning a new study, where we will explore what it means to be courageous men, who seek to live with honor at home, at church and at work. We began by watching the Courageous movie on Saturday, August 23. In the following weeks, we will have a Bible Study based on the themes of living for God with courage and with honor. This study will challenge us to affirm Joshua 24:15: "Choose today who you will serve, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Saturday, November 1 Session Two Courageous Priorities Joshua 7:1-26, Matthew 6:20-21 Saturday, November 8 Session Three Courageous Legacy Saturday, November 15 Joshua 23:1-16 Session Three Courageous Legacy Joshua 23:1-16 Saturday, November 22 Session Four Courageous Faith Joshua 24:1-18 Saturday, November 29 Session Four Courageous Faith Joshua 24:1-18 Saturday December 6 Breakfast, Prayer and Planning FRIENDS IN FAITH, FELLOWSHIP, FUN & SERVICE This month we will meet on FRIDAY, November 14th, at 11:30 a.m. at The Old Spaghetti Factory, Call Wanda Juneau at or the Church Office at Hope to see you there! Page 4 of 17

5 WORK DAY THANK YOUS! Thank you to all those who helped make our work day a success! We still have a few projects to finish and will let you know about those later on. Annalisa Angeja Mark Angeja Pastor Jerry Bieker George Bonilla Mirna Bonilla Becky Clement Tim Gorsulowsky Joshua Daniels Robin Daniels Alan Eversole Sally Eversole Cindy Gansereit Allen Griffin Kaleb Kirton Kelley Kirton Kimberly Kirton Krystien Kirton Sherry Kirton Fred Mansen Emma Morse Adelaide Spangler Isabelle Spangler Josephine Spangler Rachel Spangler Robert Tarango Vicki Villarreal Johnny Villarreal Nico Villarreal EG WINS VOLUNTEER NEEDS FOR THIS SEASON! Elk Grove WINS is currently working to fill volunteer jobs for this coming season (December 14 through March 7). Many have already responded to individual solicitations for volunteer services, and we hope that you will now "pass the word" to others to help fill the following slots: Intake: Saturdays Evening Drivers: Tuesdays Morning Drivers: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays Welcome/Sleeping Bag Desk: Thursdays and Saturdays Please feel free to share this (lindas@egwins.org) and/or her cell number ( ) if you have friends or family members who are interested in learning more about this opportunity. Thanks for your help! Linda Strom. Sally Richardson will be our Church Contact for EG WINS. ORDINATION AND INSTALLATION OF NEW ELDERS On Sunday, October 12, we celebrated the ordination and installation of Kaleb Kirton, as an Elder in the Class of 2015, as well as Fred Mansen and Sally Richardson, as Elders in the Class of Please pray for them as they serve in our midst. OFFICERS ON CALL Each Sunday, we have at least two church officers who have signed up to be on call, to be present early to assist with set up and with whatever needs or questions may arise. The November schedule is: Sunday, November 2 Phyllis Mendenhall and Colleen Truden Sunday, November 9 Mark Angeja and Josephat Kathuka Sunday, November 16 James & Maila Eslabon and Don & Jea Sako Sunday, November 23 Sally Eversole, and Cindy Cochran-Huff Sunday, November 30 Annaliza Angeja and Kaleb Kirton Page 5 of 17

6 FUN FRIDAY NIGHTS Fun Friday Nights will continue in November. Our themes include: Friday, November 07 Hat Night Friday, November 14 Opposites Night (dress opposite and breakfast for dinner) Friday, November 21 Turkey Night Last FFN for 2014 Friday, November 28 NO FFN Friday, December 05 Advent Kick Off Night SESSION NEWS At our October Session meeting, our Session met with two representatives from the Committee on Ministry to have a biannual visit. After this portion of the meeting, the Elders approved: official minutes; re-wording means of communicating to church body the need for offerings to increase. The Elders also discussed and received: finance report through September; possible future fundraisers to help take care of building issues, such as loans or needed repairs; Preschool Board report and update on parents serving as new Board members; logistics for communion and encouraging families to celebrate it together during the service; plans for intentional worship services that focus on prayer beginning in the New Year; plans for work day and CPR training; Deacon plans for holiday giving; Angel Tree giving for this Christmas. DEACONS BEACON The Deacons met in October to discuss: care of their flocks; pastoral care concerns; upcoming special giving plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas; Details/ feedback ongoing weekly service for Sundays and being on call; an update on the portable chair project; ongoing pastoral care updates via phone; members to contact and to check in with. PRESCHOOL BOARD NEWS Our Preschool Board resumed meeting in October and we welcomed some new members who are preschool parents in the program. A variety of topics were discussed including--enrollment updates; feedback and logistics for year round scheduling; current program and staff report; progress on website and face book updates; property work, such as sand box; updates on program plans for field trips, Christmas program, etc.; fundraising plans; lunch bunch ideas; financial updates and reporting. PRESCHOOL SUNDAY Preschool Sunday will be on Sunday, November 9 during our worship service. Elements of this time will include: hearing more about our preschool program; hearing ways you can support our preschool and praying for our staff. Please join us for this special time and special celebration. Page 6 of 17

7 PEACE PRESCHOOL WISH LIST One way you can support our preschool in an ongoing way is by contributing supplies for the program. The contribution of supplies allows our preschool to spend money in other areas, including supplies and resources that our church children use during the week and on Sundays, such as toys and books: Bleach; Kitchen Garbage Bags; Lysol spray; Clorox wipes; Scotch Tape; 4oz cups; Paper Towels; Colored Construction Paper ; Tissues (Boxes and small pocket packs). There is a wish list posted outside the preschool doors in the entry way by Pastor Brian's office. As you select an item from the wish list to contribute, please let the preschool know, so they can update the list accordingly. THANKSGIVING TURKEY DRIVE We will be collecting money to purchase turkeys to donate to the Elk Grove Food Bank again this year. Please give to this special drive as we seek to bless those in need in our community. Look for more details coming soon, or talk to Pastor Brian if you have any questions. THANKSGIVING BASKETS Our Deacons are planning to bring Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets to some of our families again this year. You can join in this by brining them food to include. Please talk to any of the Deacons if you have any questions or wish to help. DECORATING FOR ADVENT Please join the Deacons as we gather Saturday, November 29th at 10:00 a.m. to decorate the church for Advent. Please join us for this special time of preparing our church for this special season. ADVENT KICKOFF NIGHT We will kick off our Advent Season Friday, December 5 th at 6:00 Peace Church. Enjoy this time of Fellowship, craft and carols! TEENS FOR JEANS DRIVE I am in the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) and we are currently holding a pants drive called Teens for Jeans. We collect all kinds of pants for local homeless organizations. Types of Pants: ANY TYPE of pants (Khakis, Dress pants, capris, etc. NOT sweats/leggings) ANY COLOR of pants (Think of the rainbow) ANY SIZE of pants (Infant to as large as they get) Where do you turn them in? The Donation Box located in the Fellowship Hall. If no one is at the facility, then feel free to leave them on the doorstep. Please let me know if you have questions--isabelle Spangler Page 7 of 17

8 ANGEL TREE We will be participating in the Angel Tree Christmas Mission again this year. We are taking on more children this year for a total of 25 for Angel Tree. Please be on the look out for how you can be a part of this special Christmas mission as we seek to be a blessing to children, whose parents are in jail and who won't have a Christmas without our help. CHRISTMAS PAGEANT SIGN UPS The Christmas Pageant is coming! Invite family and friends. Sign ups for speaking and non-speaking parts are on the Kid's Board in the hallway outside Pastor Brian's office. The pageant will be on Sunday, December 21st during our worship service. Below is a schedule of rehearsal dates. Please talk to Tracy Freeman if you have any questions. November a.m. Speaking parts assigned scripts passed out November a.m. Rehearsal--speaking parts December 5 Advent Kickoff Night 6:00-8:00 p.m. potluck December 7 10 a.m. Rehearsal--speaking parts December 12 7:00-8:00p.m. Rehearsal--speaking parts December a.m. Rehearsal--speaking parts & get your costume December 19 7:00-8:00p.m. Rehearsal--speaking parts December 20 TBD Dress Rehearsal All parts December 21 10:00 a.m. Performance! CHRISTMAS JOY OFFERING We will be collecting a special offering, the Christmas Joy offering, on Sundays December 13 th and December 21 st during our worship services. This special offering is collected to help out retired clergy, spouses and missionaries who need financial assistance beyond the standard help given by the Board of Pensions and to help deserving students attend our racial ethnic colleges. Checks can be made out to the church and earmarked to the Christmas Joy offering. Thanks for blessing those who have served Christ's church and who are now in need in this special way. CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE We will complete our celebration of the Advent season with our Christmas Eve service. Our service will be on Wednesday, December 24 at 7:00 p.m. at church. Please join us for a time of singing Christmas carols, reading the Scriptures that tell us of the birth of Jesus and of lighting candles. Stay for a brief time of snacks and fellowship after the service. Page 8 of 17

9 PEACE KIDS CHOIR Rehearsals are Sunday mornings and Friday nights. We will sing in the Big Church on the 2 nd Sunday of each month. See Miss Rachel to get the CD to practice at home and in the car. PEACE KIDS SERVE OTHERS Come bless the elderly at Emeritus Senior Living, (on Laguna Park Drive). We visit on the first Sunday of each month. Our next visit is on November 02, See Pastor Jerry for more info. KID'S CHURCH Our vision is to teach and disciple our children in being life long worshippers and servants of Jesus Christ and prepare them to worship with their parents in big church. Our goals are: to actively involve the children in each aspect, such as worship, prayer and study; to be different than the Study Hour; to teach the kids to worship; to be an actual worship service for the kids; to encourage them to memorize scripture; to have visual for prayer request; to provide weekly bulletin for kids. CERTIFICATE RECIPIENTS CHILDREN S CHURCH GIVING THE MESSAGE Kelley Psalms 119:11-4 Annalisa Matthew 1:18-25 Emma M. Romans 15:1-7 CERTIFICATE RECIPIENTS CHILDREN S CHURCH COMPLETINGF THE BOOK OF SAMUEL Krystien Josephine Adelaide Caterina Annalisa Kelley Maryland Landon Samantha Page 9 of 17

10 NOVEMBER PRESCHOOL NOTES We have had a wonderful, busy start to our preschool year. Our enrollment is on the rise, we have started getting calls, and giving tours to prospective new families. All three of our classes are doing great! With Ms. Janet leaving and Ms. Kim taking over as director; Ms. Liza has taken on the Lead Teacher role in both the T-Th class and the M-W-F class. We currently have Ms. Val substituting while we search for a new, fabulous teacher to add to our team. October was a busy month! We had our Fall pictures taken, took a field trip to Keema s Pumpkin Farm, and had a successful Restaurant Fundraiser Night at Lamppost Pizza. We ended the month with a Harvest Party in our classrooms. November is looking to bring even more excitement than we saw in October. We will kick the month off by introducing Lunch Bunch an extended care program which gives children an extra hour at preschool. During this time, we will have lunch (brought from home), engage in more conversations, and have free choice play inside or out, depending on the weather. November 4 th is voting day, the Jr. K classroom is used during this process, so our Jr. K class and our Tuesday & Thursday classes will share the main preschool building. On November 12 th the Cosumnes Fire Department will be coming to our preschool to talk to our children about fire safety! November 20 th will be our Restaurant Fundraiser Night at Chevy s! Come help our Peace Preschool. Flyers will be posted at church and ed the week before. All preschool classes will be having a Thanksgiving party the last week before we go on our Thanksgiving Break. The preschool is closed the week of November th. We would like to send out a very special THANK YOU to Sherry Kirton, our Church youth Leader for creating a brand new Facebook Page for our preschool. If you would like to stay up with our current events, Please like our new Facebook Page. Search for Peace Preschool or visit I would also like to invite anyone who uses Yelp to visit our Yelp page and give us a review. Page 10 of 17

11 ARE YOU UP FOR A CHALLENGE? Pastor Brian is challenging you and the entire church to read through the Bible this upcoming year. A reading schedule will be provided to guide you in this. The goals of this challenge are: - to encourage each of us to read more Scripture, including at home with our families; - to help us develop a greater sense of the scope of Scripture and to help us develop a Biblical world view; - to learn more about God and to enjoy the new life He offers us more fully. Be challenged and be blessed as we read through the Bible together next year! Page 11 of 17

12 INCOME UPDATE These figures include the finance report information through September, Income: Expense: General Offering $ 65, Property $ 35, Fundraising $ 10, Office $ 5, Space Use $ 35, Personnel Expense $ 15, Other $ 1.31 Programs; Total $111, Celebration $ Christian Ed $ Worship $ Payroll Expenses $ 53, Total $110, Net Ordinary Income $ 1, LOAN UPDATES Our current loan amounts are: Synod Muzzy Loan: $16, as of with a monthly payment of $1, plus an additional $1, applied to the principle. At the beginning of 2012, our loan amount was $91, Our current heater loan amount is $2, with a monthly payment of $200. You may give extra amounts to help us pay off our loans more quickly by designating loan reduction on your check. We are committed to paying off these loans as soon as we can. UPDATE ON FINANCIAL GIVING Our church depends on the faithful Christian stewardship of each of our members in order to be who God is calling us to be. The Session seeks to prayerfully discern each year what we need our members to give in order to meet this call from God, which we call general offering. Through October 26th, our general offering is $72, as compared to our budgeted amount of $84,366.00, which is a $11, shortfall. Thus far, we have been able to keep our expenses down, but, we will need to increase our giving the rest of the year to meet the ongoing needs of the church. Increased giving will allow us to take care of the ongoing expenses of running a church, handle any needed repairs and maintain a working cash flow. God has a plan to use each of us to help take care of this shortfall. For some, it will involve giving more each month. For others, it will involve beginning to give regularly. For others, it will involve giving special gifts beyond their normal giving. For each of us, it will involve praying for our faithful giving as a church family and that God will lead us in boldly meeting this financial gap together. Please pray over God is calling you to increase your giving in gratitude to what God has done for you. Please continue to give self-sacrificially to God, as He has done for us in Jesus. Page 12 of 17

13 FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITIES Did you know that there are several ways you can help Peace raise funds without spending any additional money yourself? Recycle: The Joy Singers collect recyclable beverage containers to help offset the costs of piano tuning and annual fees for music license for the use of songs that we sing and play. We collect beverage containers only; the container must have the CA redemption symbol on it to be eligible. The symbol is generally on the side of the container: CA CRV is what to look for. Please remove the caps from all bottles, because the caps break the machine. Eligible examples are aluminum soda cans; beer cans; plastic water bottles; some hard liquor bottles; & bottles that are not 100% juice or milk, like ice tea and Snapple. Not eligible are milk cartons; many 100% juices that do not have the CA symbol on them; & wine bottles. You can either bring your bottles and cans to church, or bring them to the recycling center yourself and turn in the money to the church marked music recycling. The closest center to the church is behind Bel-Air. This location is closed Sun and Mon. After you turn in your items, the attendant give you a slip and then proceed to a Bel-Air cashier where they will give you cash. If you prefer for us to pick up your items, please contact Liz Irons at: The Joy singers thank you. escrip: We are enrolled in the escrip program, where participating business partners contribute a percentage of your grocery loyalty card and credit card purchases to the organization of your choice. For example, you can register your Safeway Club card with escrip, and they will automatically donate a percentage of your grocery purchases to our church. You can also register a credit card so that any purchases you make with that card at Macy s or any other participating business will trigger contributions to Peace. All you need to do is go to sign up to support our church, and then enter any club card and/or credit card numbers that you want to use. It costs you nothing; the merchants make the contributions. The web site lists all the businesses that participate in the program. If you have any questions or would like help signing up, contact Cindy Martin. ewaste: Not sure what to do with all those old cell phones, computers, televisions, or other electronics? All you have to do is go to and fill in your information. Be sure to designate our church as the organization you want to support. Your old items will be picked up for free and the proceeds will be sent to us. See the flyer posted in the fellowship hall for more info or contact Cindy Martin. ELK GROVE FOOD BANK We encourage each family to pray over their special giving to the Food Bank, as the Food Bank continues to process and help more and more families and people each year. The church does not provide or maintain a discretionary fund to help those in need who come by the church in person, so we refer people directly to the Food Bank. Also our monthly food collection for the Elk Grove Food Closet will be on Sunday, November 2 nd and on the first Sunday of each month. Please contact the Elders if you have any questions about this special commitment we are making as a church family. Page 13 of 17

14 VISION, MISSION AND CORE VALUES OUR CALL At Peace Presbyterian Church, we are called to be Following Jesus Together, Building Faith. VISION Peace Presbyterian Church will be a unified body of believers where all are transformed by the Holy Spirit into people of joyful worship, students of the Holy Bible and bold disciples of Jesus Christ, proclaiming the Gospel while serving our community. MISSION Our mission as disciples of Jesus the Christ at Peace Presbyterian Church is to reach out to our community by sharing the message of God's love and grace, by inviting each person we meet to follow Jesus. CORE VALUES We will prioritize our relationships with God and with one another by being faithful stewards, by loving God and loving one another through prayer and fellowship, by lovingly serving our church family creatively and compassionately. We will seek to inspire each person to actively encounter God's presence through the power of the Holy Spirit. We will encourage one another to worship and learn about the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit through the study of the Holy Bible and education opportunities that teach us how to be disciples of Jesus the Christ. We will provide an encouraging and challenging environment that empowers and equips each of us to go out into the world rejoicing and serving Jesus as our Lord and Savior. We will seek to create mutually uplifting relationships with fellow believers, near and far, to further the work of God's kingdom. BIRTHDAY AND ANNIVERSARY UPDATE We are constantly updating our current listing of Birthdays and Anniversaries for each of our families. Please feel free to send an to the church office listing your family s birthdays and anniversaries, or update the wall calendar in the Fellowship Hall. We want to make sure we acknowledge everyone s special day. Page 14 of 17

15 November Birthdays & Anniversaries 03 - Nicholas, Allison & Madison McCarley 05 - Edward Annan 12 - So Joung 25 - Phyllis & Mark Mendenhall s Anniversary COMMUNICATION REMINDERS An updated Church members and friends phone directory is now available in the fellowship hall. Also, if your name tag has gone missing, please let the church office know. Are you receiving our s? If not, it is because we don't have your . Please the church office to have us add your address to our list. Page 15 of 17

16 WEB-SITE, NEWSLETTER OR BULLETIN ADDITIONS Wanted to give a flyer to a friend but didn't have one handy? You can download, print and invitations for upcoming events, or church forms from our own church website. You can even get a copy of the just the monthly calendar or the church brochure to print or send by someone who has asked about your favorite studies. These are made for you to use as God leads you in sharing with others the reason for the hope you have. Do you have information to include in the Church Newsletter, Sunday bulletin, or an update for a ministry here at Peace? Please the church office at info@peacechurch.net and CC a copy to sherryk@peacechurch.net. The last day for submissions for the December Peace Press is: November 21 st. Items received after that date may not be included. All items need to be print ready which means written in a format that can simply be cut and pasted into the newsletter as is. Please use Arial 14. Please do not submit just facts or dates; write a little something. Items may be edited for space. Article submission forms are located in the Fellowship Hall. Thank you! WHO TO CONTACT IN THE CHURCH If Pastor Brian Spangler is not in the church office, he can be reached at: Home: 5626 Anchor Bay Way, EG pastorbrian@peacechurch.net (Church) brispangler@sbcglobal.net (Home) Elders on Session Share your ideas, suggestions, joys, concerns, questions Mark Angeja Iron Men and Property Sally Eversole Mission Colleen Truden Worship James Eslabon Education and Study Sally Richardson TBD Fred Mansen TBD Kaleb Kirton Youth Clerk of Session Cindy Gansereit Financial and Administration Deacons Phyllis Mendenhall Josephat Kathuka Don & Jea Sako Annaliza Angeja Maila Eslabon Cindy Huff-Cochran Scott Gansereit Page 16 of 17

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