Two New Life Groups: Women's Story Share Is An Intergenerational Life Group For Women of Diverse

February 2014
PASADENA COVENANT CHURCH
Two New Life Groups

Womens Story Share is an intergenerational life group for women of diverse lifestyles and backgrounds. Group members will collaborate on a creative recycledtextile project inspired by the art of Japanese boro cloth. The project will involve creating a collaborative art piece out of fabric remnants that symbolize Gods grace in the life stories of each woman. Be prepared to share the beauty of your story and discover the ways our stories link us together as a community. The group will meet on Sunday nights from 6-8 pm in the Santa Barbara room from Feb. 23 May 11 (no meeting on March 9). Questions? E-mail Sallie Carey at salliekc@gmail.com.
A simple Japanese boro cloth
Alpha: Is there more to life? Why am I here? Who is Jesus? How can I be sure of my faith? How can I make the most of my life? Searching for more? What would YOU ask God? Come explore all these questions and more at the Alpha Christianity Course. Sundays, March 16 - June 1, from 5:30-8:00 pm in the Corner House. This course is perfect for the seekers, new members , questioning Christians or anyone who wants to delve into these questions. It is a safe place for you to invite a friend, neighbor or coworker. Dinner and childcare provided. Please RSVP by March 2nd. For more information and to RSVP: Lina (626) 627-777 or ihearyou@pacbell.net.
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Sunday Morning Happenings For Adults at 9:00 am and 10:30 am

9:00 am Classes: Couriers
Sunday, 9:00-10:15 a.m. in Fireside Room
Repeated Exposure to Gods Word will enrich and change your life. In-depth Bible Study Sundays at 9:00 am in the Fireside Room, Gym building. John Wipf, teacher; Marilyn Hanks, facilitator. Coffee and good fellowship. For further information contact Marilyn Hanks (626) 7913782.
6 Week Bible Study for Young(ish) Couples

Sundays Jan. 26th - March 2nd, 9:00 a.m - 10:10 a.m. in the Nursery
A 6-week Bible Study for Young(ish) Couples starts Sunday, Jan. 26th, from 9:00 am 10:10 am in the Santa Barbara Room (next to the Nursery). Nursery care and Sunday school for children through 5th grade is available. Contact: Lisa Thackwell at (970)412-3809 or thackwells@gmail.com.
10:30 am Classes:
Companions in Christ
Sunday, 10:30-11:45 a.m. in the Corner House
Are you looking for a small group that meets on Sunday morning? An opportunity to grow deeper in your faith? A chance to discuss the 9 am service in the company of friends? People to pray with? Join the 10:30 Companions group. We meet in the Corner House and have rotating leadership. We usually spend from 10:30 to 11:00 re-reading the Scripture and talking about how to apply the sermon to our lives. We spend from 11:00 to 11:30 praying for each other. All welcome. Contact person: kitty.purgason@sbcglobal.net.
Invitation to Study the Bible

Sunday, 10:30-11:45 a.m. in Fireside Room
Everyone is invited to a new Bible Study Class on Sundays from 10:30 1:45 am in Fireside Room (on the first floor in the gym building). Dr. Art Patzia, Senior Professor of New Testament at Fuller Seminary will lead the Bible study, beginning with a study of the Epistle to the Ephesians. Come to gain a better understanding of Gods Word. We envision a cross-generational group with young people and adults of all ages. Bring your Bible and invite a friend. Contact: Art Patzia at apatzia@fuller.edu.
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The next Koinonia Prayer and Praise Potluck will be on Sunday, February 9th, at 6 pm at the home of Wayne and Valla Walker. We will be having casseroles, salads and desserts. Please call Valla to coordinate your potluck item at (626-396-1750) or email her at vintagevalla@yahoo.com.
The Peace & Justice Ministry Team invites you to join us as we seek to carry out our 3 year vision plan. We will meet on Monday, February 10th at 6:45 pm in the Santa Barbara Room. For more info, contact Wayne Aoki at (626) 794-8406.
Womens Book Club

The next meeting of the Men's Book Club will be at the Corner House on Thursday, February 13th, at 7pm. Come join us as we discuss "The Gift Of Pain," a biological and spiritual account of this ever-present companion, by Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey. For more information, contact Rich Doyle at DoyleRJRB@aol.com. The Womens Book Club will meet Tuesday, February 25th , in the Corner House from 7:30 - 9:00 pm. We will discuss Kon Tiki , by Thor Heyerdahl . For more info contact Jennifer Mawhorter at jmawhorter@pomona.edu
Come join us for another fun Koinonia Movie and Pizza Night, which will be on Saturday, February 22nd at 5:30 pm. For more information and location of this event, please contact Judy Pruitt at dapruitt@earthlink.net.
Sarah Circle will meet on Tuesday, February 18th, 9:30 am - noon in Fireside. We welcome all women to join us for service projects, fellowship and refreshments. For more info, contact Julie Maljian at (818) 790-5911.
Upcoming Trustee Meeting

Monday, March 3, 2014 7:00 pm, Corner House
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Cross-Cultural Communication Specialists Praise & Prayer Requests

Jared & Hannah are missionaries with the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) and are our newly supported ECC cross-cultural workers. From 2009 2012 they served as short-term missionaries in Antwerp, Belgium. Jared served as pastor to youth & families and later as the interim senior pastor at the Antwerp International Protestant Church. Hannah was a part of the Covenant Mosaics Project, which is an initiative in Europe to reach out to marginalized people groups with the gospel. Specifically, Hannah did outreach among Muslim immigrants and victims of sex trafficking. Jared & Hannah were recently commissioned as long-term missionaries. In March, they will begin a new phase of ministry in the city of Marseille, France. Here is what they will be doing: Jared: France has been called the least evangelized country in Western Europe, and it is estimated that around 80% of French people have never owned a Bible. The ECC has been in partnership with the French Evangelical Free Church since 1996, and the Free Church has expressed a desire for trained leaders to come alongside their national pastors and support them. To that end, I will be working at a local French Evangelical Church in Marseille, assisting the lead pastor with pastoral duties at the church. In addition, I will also take on the bookkeeping and administrative tasks for Covenant World Missions Regional Coordinators for Europe and Africa. Hannah: In Marseille, I will be joining three other Covenant missionaries who are currently working with the Covenant Mosaics Project. Specifically, I will be doing outreach among a Muslim people group in Marseille. Our Covenant colleagues have made very good connections with this Muslim community and have had many opportunities to live a life of witness to Christ among them. I will also be exploring opportunities for service among victims of sex trafficking in Marseille. As a prominent port city in France, Marseille is a destination and transit city for human trafficking. Praises Praise God that we have reached our goal of being 100% funded! Thank you Pasadena Covenant for helping us to reach that goal! (continued on page 4)
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Praises (continued) We are grateful for the opportunity Hannah has had to work on her Masters of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Seminary. She now only has 4 courses left to complete online Prayers We are currently in the process of collecting documents for our visa applications. Please pray that all of our documents will be accepted and our visas will be granted. We will be taking immersion French courses from March 30 August 15th. Please pray for us as we learn this new language and prepare for ministry in Marseille.
Greeters and Ushers Needed

Two service mean we need a bit more help. An easy way to help is to be an usher or greeter. Basically, ushers smile, hand out bulletins and count attendees during the 9:00 or 10:30 service. Greeters smile, say Welcome or Good morning, are ready to answer questions like where is the worship service?, hand out the campus map if it is helpful, and give out the gift mug or note cards to newcomers. You can work before the 9:00 service, between the 9 and 10:30 service, or after the 10:30 service. Contact Cindy Moseley at cam90546@yahoo.com. Need more specifics? Heres what a typical Sunday morning would look like:
Ushers for the 9:00 am service: Arrive at 8:45 am Hand out Bulletins and welcome all who come through the doors Help count the adult attendees Take the offering. Ushers for the 10:30 am service: Arrive at 10:15 Hand out Bulletins and welcome all who come through the doors Help count the adult attendees after the sermon on the first worship song. Take the offering. Greeters for the 9:00 service Arrive at 8:45 am and welcome all who pass by and answer questions Greeters between the two services: Arrive at 9:55 am to give out gift mugs or notes cards to the newcomers and greet those coming to the 10:30 service and answers questions. Greeters after the 10:30 service: Be at the kiosk after the service to give out gift mugs or note cards to newcomers.
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Introducing Pasadena Covenant Play Club. Play Club is a place for preschool kids and their moms or dads to gather and have a great time. Kids will sing songs, hear Bible stories and play while their parents connect with and support each other. Play Club is led by Brittany Burian and Lisa Thackwell and will meet the first and third Tuesday mornings, from 9:00 11:00 am at Pasadena Covenant Church's nursery, beginning February 4th. We hope that children will find Play Club to be a joyful place filled with fun friends and loving grown-ups and that their parents will receive support and friendship. Contact Brittany Burian at bburianmft@gmail.com for more information.
Sunday Morning Classes

9:00 am Classes
Infants from 0 - 35 months meet in the nursery Children 3-5 years old meet in the downstairs preschool room Children in 1st-3rd grades meet on the 2nd floor of the gym building, in the Club room Children in 4th-5th grades join in the Edge program that meets in the Edge room on the 2nd floor of the gym building
10:30 am Classes
Infants from 0 - 23 months meet in the nursery Children 2 -3 years old meet at 10:30, just off the courtyard behind the sanctuary. Children 4-5 years old begin in worship at 10:30 am, with their parents, and are dismissed around 10:50 to go to their PreK/K class, upstairs in the building just off the courtyard behind the sanctuary. Children in 1st - 5th grades being in worship at 10:30 am, with their parents, and are dismissed around 10:50 to go to Club 125 (2nd floor of the gym building), except for the first Sunday of each month when they are invited to remain in the service with their parents.
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Weekly Programs
The PCSM Hub: Sunday mornings in the courtyard/gym, 9:45 - 10:30 am
Every Sunday, from 9:45am-10:45am, between services, the Hub will be open in the courtyard (or gym) for students to touch base with adult leaders and other students! This way, no matter what service students attend/serve during, there will always be a home base for PCSM on Sunday mornings.
Selah: Wednesday Night Worship & Small Groups, 6:30pm - 8:30am

Selah is a great starting point for plugging into PCSM! Selah is a word that is used throughout the book of Psalms to remind us to Pause or Stop and listen and thats exactly what we want to do on Wednesday nights! At Selah we take a break from our busy week to play crazy games, worship though song, and get to know each other on a deeper level in gender and age specific small groups.
Morph 300: Giving Through Servant Ministry 9:00 am, Jan. 26th - March 2nd, excluding Feb. 23rd. Youth Building
Morph is back on Sunday mornings January 26th March 2nd, at 9:00 am in the Youth Room. We will focus on equipping students to live out your lives through servant ministry. This elective course is taught by Vikki Randall and our middle school intern, Tasha Puerta. Note: we will not meet Feb. 23rd due to the High School Winter Camp.
Special Events
High School Winter Camp, February 21st - 23rd
How LOUD are you? How loud are you when it comes to sharing the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ? We will explore what it is like to live out loud for Christ.
30 Hour Famine/LA Marathon: March 8 - 9

This year Pasadena Covenant has teamed up with World Vision in two exciting ways: 30 Hour Famine and the LA Marathon! We will all be working together to raise money for World Visions Clean Water and Hunger-fighting initiatives! and a crazy night in for our Middle Schoolers! Note: times and locations TBA.
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February 2014
1 Saturday 2 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Classes 9:00 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Classes 11:45 a.m. Hospitality 3 Monday 4 Tuesday 9:00 a.m. Play Club 5 Wednesday 5:45 p.m. Childrens Choir 6:30 p.m. Selah (PCSM) 6 Thursday 7 Friday 8 Saturday 9 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Classes 9:00 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Classes 11:45 a.m. Hospitality 6:00 p.m. Koinonia Potluck 10 Monday 6:45 p.m. Peace & Justice Mtg 11 Tuesday 12 Wednesday 5:45 p.m. Childrens Choir 6:30 p.m. Selah (PCSM) 13 Thursday 7:00 p.m. Mens Book Club 14 Friday 15 Saturday 16 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Classes 9:00 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Classes 11:45 a.m. Hospitality 17 Monday 18 Tuesday 9:00 a.m. Play Club 9:30 a.m. Sarah Circle 19 Wednesday 5:45 p.m. Childrens Choir 6:30 p.m. Selah (PCSM) 20 Thursday 21 Friday H.S. Winter Camp 22 Saturday 5:30 p.m. Koinonia Movie anf Pizza Night 23 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Classes 9:00 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Classes 11:45 a.m. Hospitality 6:00 p.m. Womens Story Share 24 Monday 25 Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Womens Book Club 26 Wednesday 5:45 p.m. Childrens Choir 6:30 p.m. Selah (PCSM) 27 Thursday 28 Friday

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February 2014

PASADENA COVENANT CHURCH

Two New Life Groups

Sunday Morning Happenings For Adults at 9:00 am and 10:30 am

6 Week Bible Study for Young(ish) Couples

Invitation to Study the Bible

Womens Book Club

Upcoming Trustee Meeting

Cross-Cultural Communication Specialists Praise & Prayer Requests

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Greeters and Ushers Needed

Sunday Morning Classes

Selah: Wednesday Night Worship & Small Groups, 6:30pm - 8:30am

30 Hour Famine/LA Marathon: March 8 - 9

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