PBC Messenger 12/19/13

 

Elder on Call this month

Troy Rascoe

Our elders really would like to know what's going on with you.  Please feel free to give them a call or drop them a note with your prayer needs and/or special needs.

 

 

We will be back at our church building on Sunday!!!!  Praise the Lord! 

Regular time (9:00am) and regular place (Pagosa Bible Church - 209 Harman Park Dr. - behind Wells Fargo)

We have had a crew working very hard all week to get us back in to worship together in our building this week after our flood.  (please excuse any mess as we have not had time to get everything put back together yet)

 

 

 

 

 

The preschool and elementary choirs will be having practice at the church this Saturday at

10AM.  We will be meeting upstairs... away from the clean up endeavor. We will be done by 11AM (maybe even earlier). If you have any questions feel free to call or email.  Thanks.

 

 

 

 This week Pastor Tom will be finish his Christmas series "A Story to Tell the World" 

Come, listen, learn and fellowship.

This week we will also have the privilege of hearing our adult and children's choirs Christmas performances.

 

 

 

With heavy hearts we would like to let you know that Mike Mariska (husband of Linda) passed away this past week.   Please keep the Mariska and Knapp families in your thoughts and prayers as they deal with this loss in their family. 

 

 

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Please note that the church office will not be open next two weeks due to the Christmas and New Years holidays.  I will be in and out at odd hours. 

If you need something urgently, please contact the Elder on Call.  If it's not an emergency, please just leave a note or a message and I will get back with you as soon as possible. 

Thanks,

Lisl

 

 

 

 

Please remember to fill out the tear out portion of the bulletin with your updated contact information and put it in the offering box or on Lisl's desk.  It would be really nice to have everyone's information correct.   The new directories will start to be compiled and produced after the new year. Thanks.

 

 

 

 

No meetings until after the New Year - Sorry

 

 

We will be having a Christmas Eve Candle Light Service on December 24th at 6:00pm.

 This will be a simple, short service to help us all remember what this Christmas season is really all about.  Please invite your neighbors and friends to join us!

 

 

Prayer Update:

 

 

Keagan Smith (son of Michele and Chris Smith) was in a very serious car accident on/around Halloween.... They are asking for prayers for Keagan, his wife Cheyeanne and their baby from all who believe.   

 

Update 12/19/13:

Keagan Smith has been moved to Craig Hospital for rehab.  Here's an update from his mom:

Lots of 'Firsts' today:
...Clancy walking the halls with a sleeping baby
...Keagan changing Kai's Diaper
...going OUT to a restaurant around the corner from the hospital for dinner
...and getting checked off for car transfers-which means go...ing to 'The Hobbit' on Saturday with FaMiLy and FrIeNdS (17 of us in all!!)
We've come a
l-o-n-g way since the ambulance ride to Craig from St. Anthony Hospital 2 1/2 weeks ago!
ThAnK YoU for the continued LoVe and PrAyErS!
We are getting just a bit FraZZled trying to take good care of Kai when he's teething at Craig.we still do not have a room there. We will be keeping him much more at the Applewood house until housing at Craig comes through.
We can't wait to have AlMoSt all of us together for Christmas. Kass has had a few concerns with her pregnancy, so her and Blake need to stay put.
All I can say is next Christmas we will RELISH in ToGeTHeRneSS!!

Missions Update:

 

 

Excerpt from a letter from Pam Mann, our missionary in Haiti. at Institution Univers:

-- Our goal in sending IU grads to study in the US has been that they might return to provide leadership in Ouanaminthe. Thus far, three have returned. One failed sadly after 18 months and returned. A second, Maucler Charles, died tragically in a boating accident. His remains are now interred in the Ouanaminthe cemetery. The third, Hantz-Jerry, our first US college grad, continues to delight us with his energy and passion. He assists in the early morning prayer for the high school in IU's huge lobby. Always neatly dressed and standing erect, he inspires the respect of students and teachers alike. He has managed the transition from student to work colleague with undeniable grace. 

To close, I share a quote I just found online from Nelson Mandela: Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity; it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. 

While I agree that poverty arises from injustice, I would not call it unnatural in our fallen world. It is man-made, being the natural result of our fallen humanity. The good news here is that, as kingdom people, we refuse to be limited by the natural. We follow God who is above everything, that is, supernatural. When we, whether Haitian or American, choose to defend the poor, we behave unnaturally, in obedience to our supernatural God.