PBC Messenger 6/26/14

 

What’s happening with PBC this week:

(Meetings are here at church unless otherwise noted)

Sundays:           9:00 am    Sunday service

                               5-7 pm     iYouth  - food will be here, you be here too.

 

 

Thursdays:       7:00am Men’s Bible Study  (at Café Colorado)
                            10:00am Senior’s Bible Study (at Jean Townsend’s)

It's time to update our church directory.  We will be taking pictures of families and individuals before and after church every Sunday in July.  Please take a few minutes to stop by and get your picture taken. 

 

 PPSC Annual 4th of July Pancake Breakfast

 

 

Pancake Breakfast will be held from 7:30-9:30 am on Friday,   July 4 at the IHM Parish Hall on Lewis St.  Downtown.

 

 

Cost is $5 per person.  Proceeds benefit the Pagosa Pregnancy Support Center.

 

 

 

 

 

Revival on the River is being held on July 3rd at 5pm and July 4th at 12pm (after the parade).   Location is East Hwy 160 near the San Juan Motel downtown Pagosa Springs.  They will be serving free hotdogs and refreshments.  There will be gospel music, a special guest from California, preaching in the open air and free refreshments.   This is a walk-to event.  Parking is limited.

 

 

 

Pagosa Springs

PraiseFest 2014

Community-wide Praise & Worship with area Pagosa Churches

Centerpoint Church
2750 Cornerstone Drive
Pagosa Springs, CO

Sunday, July 20, 2014
7-8:30 PM
Free !





 

 

 

 

Serving our Family this week (6/29) 

Nursery:  Ruth & Marlys

Preschool:  Marie Rascoe

1st-5th Grade:  Stephen Porter

 

Greeters:  Harvey & Ann Burch

Refreshments:  Allison Wylie

 

 

 

 

Serving our Family next week (7/6) 

Nursery:  Tami & Meghan

Preschool: ???????

1st-5th Grade:  Bruce Keuning

 

Greeters:  Dick  & Judy Clare

Refreshments:  Jane Easterwood 

 

 

 

 

We are looking for some volunteers to do some regular yard / landscaping maintenance at the church throughout the summer. Please contact the church office or John Pringle if this is an area in which you would like to serve.



We would like to thank all the people who helped clean up our church grounds.    May hands make light work.  It really made our church shine.

 

MISSIONS UPDATES

 

SOUTHEAST ASIA - Emily Buikema

 

After speaking with Emily's dad, Ken Koy, we have learned that Emily will be finishing up her teaching soon (with a borrowed motorbike for the time being) and headed to Thailand next week for her counseling and support from those who minister to those who serve in SE Asia.  Pray for complete healing and restoration for Emily.  After further research, it was discovered that her financial support level is better than she thought when she sent her email to us , but she still has a deficit in her support level (around $4,000) that will need to be addressed.  Pray for God to supply ALL of her needs so that she may continue her ministry in SE Asia.

Thanks for your prayers and support!

 

AFRICA - The Hauger Family

Yep. Summertime.  It would surely be a welcomed season if we were living in Pagosa.  Snow melt filling the river for hot afternoon tubing, Big Trains and iced chais with moms on the deck of the local coffee shop, friendly barbeques and toasted marshmallows during soft sunset evenings... hmmm... Ok, I'm digressing.

Summertime in Kenya is not marked by such drastic changes of temperature and activities.  Everything stays about the same.  Kids are not even freed from the confines of classrooms till August. We continue serving, working, studying and playing in the same chaotic routine as usual. The warm African sun merely moves in a more easterly direction. setting a few minutes later, dropping in  glowing splendor beyond the great Lake Victoria's horizon.
The BIGGEST change for us is summertime visitors!!! And we welcome them with anticipation of a child expecting Christmas, especially this year since we won't be traveling back to the States for a few weeks of furlough.  We get busy (or should I say busier) around here rearranging space to accommodate extra beds, hanging mosquito nets, scheduling meetings, organizing transportation and purchasing surplus supplies.  Short term missions brings benefits for us, the community we serve and those who travel to spend a few weeks of their summer exploring another culture so different from their own.

For us...We get to share our lives with visitors, showing them our favorite places, our favorite people and favorite (and least favorite) foods.  We show them how to lock the security gates and run water through filters. We explain the night time noises, assuring them the backfiring tuktuks are not gunshots (smile).  These visitors become our stateside information guides and our safe place to vent frustrations. The best part of hosting visitors is watching them observe obvious extremes and then, find the place they fit; their blessings become something given, not owned.

For the community... Here in Kisumu, scriptures interweaves into the landscape where desperate widows still gather vessels for the miraculous oil.  Orphaned children search for belonging and the lonely look for families. The gospel is preached with busy hands and steady feet and sore muscles and sweaty brows. Living it involves everything. Our community welcomes visitors with hugs, smiles and brimming curiosity. Regardless how little they might have, they long for you to partake, enjoy and release yourself like an open tap of clean water.

For our visitors... As we physically prepare for guests, we also begin praying the influences of Holy Spirit creates radical realities for their pending experiences on this foreign field. Will you join us in prayer?

• May they find that biblical development work is the manifestation of prophetic  transformations (Psalm 10:12-18, Psalm 68:4-10). 
• May they participate in stories of deliverance, healing, restoration and celebrate the newness Christ brings out of degradation and corruption (Isaiah 58:6-12, Luke 4:18-19, Matthew 25:37-40).
• May they know the rich relationships created from adversity because Jesus' blood carries us together - black and white, Kenyan and American - on this journey of forgiveness and faith; futures merge into divine destinies (Jeremiah 29:11).

We know our visitors will carry home more than souvenirs and a good tan.  Their experiences will help mold their worldview, discover God's plans for those who are among the least, and (more often than not), bring them back to  love those who need to know their Creator cares.

 

Yep!  Summertime!  We're excited!  Wanta come?

Elder on call for July

Lloyd Goheen
Our elders would really like to know about your prayers needs and
questions. Please let them know what’s happening with you.