Pagosa Bible Church: MESSENGER 7/14/11

SUNDAY.... a new sermon series
"Unboxing the Christian Relationship"

(What's a Christian to do with ....?).

This week Pastor Tom continues his series with
"Knowing Right and Wrong Saves from Eternal Loss"

The Missions MAT is looking for one or two couples to prepare an evening meal at the Pregnancy Center. There will be a series called "God Talk" happening in August and Pagosa Bible will host the first night on August 2. If you are interested in doing this, please call or e-mail Diane Goheen. Thanks.

THIS SUNDAY!!!July 17th we will be having our annual church picnic. There will be a green insert in Sunday's bulletin with directions.

PBC is in need of some helpers to assist in watering our fantastic new landscaping. If you would like to serve in this area, please contact Wayne Huff. Thanks for helping keep our church building beautiful!

THANK YOU! A special thanks to all my friends at Pagosa Bible Church. I received so many cards, flowers and calls during my recovery from hip surgery. Thank you for all your prayers and well wishes and for the many visitors I've had. I'm looking forward to being back in church very soon—Maybe even this week! Love, Stella Lang

DAVID & ALLISON BURCH: There will be a dessert reception for the newlyweds on 7/24 at Dan & Venita Burch’s residence so that their Pagosa friends may celebrate with them. All are welcome. Please RSVP to Venita.

Community Ladies Bible study will only be meeting once a month during the summer months. Please contact Dot Kirkham for more information.

Newcomer? Part-timer? YOUR ARE INVITED to attend PBC’s Ladies Bible Study. We will be meeting the second Tuesday during August & September.

We will meet at 11:30 - This Tuesday, July 19^th in the fellowship room at PBC, for a pot luck salad luncheon, followed by a Beth Moore DVD.

This a wonderful time of fellowship, prayer and getting to know one another.

Next Week 7/21

Genesis Lesson 68

THE FAMINE
Retiree’s Bible Study & Social

GENESIS

Each Thursday @ 10:00 am; meeting at Jean Townsend's home. Call the church office (731-3120) for more information

CALEB PRINGLE: New address for Caleb (just letters, no packages - you can call Connie for a different address for packages) Make sure the address is exactly like this:

211 Caleb Pringle

PO Box 16400

El Paso, TX 79906

UPDATE FROM LORNA MEDICI

Just wanted to say hello from Nasu, Japan. I am now a cook at a Christian retreat...who would have thought. There is a team from Campus Crusade who is helping the Tohoku area and they are working on an organic farm, picking 3000 pounds of potatoes, pulling weeds from rice pattie fields, pulling weeds from sweet potato field, and mixing food for the pigs on this farm. They have also dug up 300 pounds of garlic and 400 pounds onions. This farm will be used to help the Fukushima evacuees...offering jobs to them while they are living in the evacuee centers. Some of the evacuees have been living in the centers for 4 months already. They make cardboard box houses inside the centers to give them a little privacy, not much really. Anyway, God is opening doors for me to share the gospel with many Japanese people. The picture attached to this email is a seminary graduate from Tokyo Bible Seminary, where I stayed in their dorm room for a week. I visited an elementary school in the Nasu area of Japan and shared with them that God loves them and that the people back in the States are praying for them. The 3rd grade and 4th grade teacher gave me 45 minutes to talk to the students. After the talk, the 3rd grade teacher told me that his sister-in-law is a Christian. Wow! God is so amazing, the Japanese people's hearts are becoming softer and softer. When I spent the night with a counseling team in the Fukushima prefecture, we were all awakened by a long earthquake. The doors and windows shook and the building groaned, I pulled the bedsheet over my face, just incase the window were to break and prayed, "God, help us!" It was scarry! One girl on our team said that she slept through the earthquake. The next day at the evacuee center I talked to 18 people about God's love, fantastic! One of the Japanese girl on our team said to me, "I wish I could be bold like you!" I told her that a lot of people back home are praying for me to be a witness for Jesus. Also, that God gave me the verse, Ephesians 6:19 right before leaving for Japan. Praise God for answered prayers! Please keep praying for God to open more doors for me to share His love with them. It is an exciting time to be in Japan and please pray for a revival. God bless you all!

I love you all in Christ's name,

Lorna

UPDATE FROM THE CANNON FAMILY

Dear Friends and Family,

The last few weeks have sure had their fill of emotional ups and downs in our household. Some of the ups have included receiving our shipment from the USA, and receiving my Indonesian float plane license! One of the downs included hearing the news of Rebecca’s dad having a heart attack and his very tough recovery. Rebecca and I have continually been challenged to find our resolve in the Lord and remember that His calling to minister on the other side of the world is an incredible privilege with a sometimes VERY high cost. Thankfully, it appears Becca’s dad is on the mend.

For the remainder of July, I will be busy flying into the interior of Borneo serving the people that live there. Sometime the first week of August we are going to return to Java and complete our last few units of language school. We should be there about 2.5 months before we come back to PalangkaRaya sometime around mid-October.

When you hear from us next, we will probably be back in Java to complete language school. Thank you as always for your part in our ministry.

Shalom, The Cannon Family

MEN'S FELLOWSHIP: Will be taking a break for the summer... we'll be sure to let you know when it's beginning again.

Several folks have asked about Vacation Bible School this summer. Pagosa Bible Church is not hosting a VBS this year, but several other community churches are. Here's the info that I have:

July 18-22 Our Savior Lutheran Church

Deborah Hainer 731-3157