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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
pascov1@pasadenacovenant.org 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.
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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 jckkdorman@sbcglobal.net.
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 jthomas2@altrionet.com.
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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 jmawhorter@pomona.edu.
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
aoki6@sbcglobal.net.
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 DoyleRJRB@aol.com.
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 rbwear@att.net.
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.
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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
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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, jtyberg@pasadenacovenant.org
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.
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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 vrandall@pasadenacovenant.org.
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
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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 vrandall@pasadenacovenant.org.
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 vrandall@pasadenacovenant.org 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 thackwells@gmail.com or Brittany Burian at bburianmft@gmail.com.
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 drinker@pasadenacovenant.org.
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