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In This Issue: • Live Streaming Worship

• Register Your Attendance

• Guest Preacher

• Prayer Requests

• Peace & Global Witness Offering

• Stewardship Campaign

• Outdoor Worship Service

• Coffee Fellowship

• Art Show

• How to Give

• Special Friends

• Meetings This Week

CELEBRATING WORLD COMMUNION SUNDAY

Our guest preacher today is the Reverend Jason Ku. Jason was born in Busan,

South Korea and immigrated to Carmichael in March, 1979. He graduated from

UC Davis with a degree Economics in 1985 and worked in various busi-

ness fields until he began attending San Francisco Theological Seminary. He

received his Master of Divinity in 2007 and was ordained as a Minister of Word

and Sacrament at Sacramento Presbytery in 2010. Through the special pro-

gram “For Such A Time As This,” he first served both the First Presbyterian

Church, Holden, MO and also served at the same time the First Presbyterian

Church in Pleasant Hill, MO. Most recently, he served New Wave Korean Fel-

lowship, which meets in the Chapel at CPC. He honorably retired from Sacra-

mento Presbytery in 2019. Jason is married to Dongsook Ku, and has one

daughter, one son, and three grandchildren.

GUEST PREACHER

Welcome to worship! October brings with it many opportunities to cast off anxiety

and fear, discord and division, and embrace God's mission of reconciliation. To-

day is World Communion Sunday and we join churches around the world as we

support the Peace & Global Witness Offering of the Presbyterian Church USA. In

the coming weeks, we will also contemplate stewardship. Through worship and

prayer, we will consider how CPC enables us to be in relationship beyond our-

selves with siblings around the corner and the world.

As we continue to navigate worship in new ways during this season of COVID-

19, we pray that you will find community in both familiar and unexpected places.

Our 8:45 a.m. outdoor worship service is a simplified service with appropriate

precautions for attendees (think sociable, yet sensible). Our 10:00 a.m. live

stream worship service blends traditional and contemporary styles and also in-

cludes pre-recorded videos which provide an opportunity for members of our

faith community to participate in new ways.

May the peace and wholeness of Christ be with you always,

~Pastor Keith and Pastor Ivan

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Remember in Prayer: • CPC’s 2021 Stewardship

Campaign • Our Nation—for peace and

healing • Victims of Violence & Natural

Disasters • Frontline Workers & COVID-19

Victims • Don Cox • Lillie Tonkin • Howard Willey • Char Bergsten • Thamsyne Brown • Tom & Alice Hill • Don White • Darci Drawbert • Don & Sylvia Andrews • Polly Hunt • Nina Henley • Ed Pearson • Joan Bristow • Barbara Hussey • Donna Barkley • Mary Kroger • Raymelle King • Jim Flint • Kathy Park • Gene Chaney • Ron & Carol Dobler • Una Edwards • Mary Simpson • Janann Poteet • Dick & Carole Jacobi • Kate Erlich • Dennis & Nancy Marks • Patti Grimm • Hazel Smith • Marie Frye • Paul & Mary Buehler • Jymmye Black • Vern Bisho • Kristel DeVries (Pastor Keith &

Jenny DeVries’s daughter) • Dianne Rowley (Laura Leek’s

mother) • Jay Geha (Bonnie Pearsons’ son) • Giza & John Meyer (friends of

Jeff & Dani Romais) • Alex Rybarczyk (friend of Lisa

Torgerson) • Sylvia Ekberg (Kate Eisel’s

mother) • Tracey Finck (Kate Erlich’s niece) • Jean Lund (friend of Kate Erlich) • Deanna Fernandes (friend of

Laura Garwood) • Michael Lauffelman (husband of

Cathy Levering’s granddaughter) • Jon & Chris Holmes (Ernie &

Olene Chard’s sons) • Michelle Hock (friend of Lisa

Benadom) • Elivra Ramirez (friend of Dick &

Charlotte Frink) • Alex Henry (friend of Lisa

Torgerson) • Julie Moore (Elaine Tedrow’s

daughter) • Wade Chandler (Terry Barto’s son

-in-law) • Betty Bogner (Paul Shultz’s

sister) • Erin Mezzietti (Ginny Rodgers’

daughter) • Greg Lyons (Laura Janik’s

brother) • Midge Ames (Food Closet

volunteer)

You are invited to join an outdoor worship service on Sundays at 8:45 a.m. on

Bucknam Field (north end of the CPC parking lot, by the community garden).

Please bring your own chair or blanket to gather on the field; seating areas will be

clearly marked. To help us plan, we ask that you make a reservation each week.

Click on the link HERE or leave a message at 916-486-9081 ext. 200.

We also ask that you wear a face covering, keep social distance in your marked

area, and take with you whatever you bring.

The service will last about 40 minutes and include a sermon and instrumental mu-

sic. Childcare and restrooms will NOT be available.

The usual worship live stream will continue at 10:00 a.m.

The worship bulletin and guidelines for attending will be emailed to everyone on

the reservation list prior to the service. There will not be any printed handouts.

Ushers will be on hand to help attendees.

While we miss all of our CPC family and long to gather in person, we ask that if

you are at higher risk for contracting COVID-19 that you continue to worship from

home via the live stream and Zoom coffee fellowship.

OUTDOOR WORSHIP

PEACE AND GLOBAL WITNESS OFFERING

Chat with your church family over a cup of coffee and a cookie after worship TO-

DAY during Zoom Coffee Fellowship at 11:00 a.m. (following the worship live

stream). Connect to Zoom using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/

j/85853810435?pwd=UWZuc21WcmpGRlJPWXlWczBuN2FnUT09 OR Meeting

ID 858 5381 0435 and Passcode 670965. You can also join by telephone (like a

conference call) by dialing +1 669 900 6833 and entering Meeting ID 858 5381

0435. This event is BYOCC (Bring Your Own Coffee and Cookies). You can drop

in or drop out any time during the 30 minutes as your schedule allows.

If you are familiar with Zoom and would be interested in “hosting” future Zoom cof-

fee fellowship times, please contact Karen Gray at karen@carmichaelpres.org

ZOOM COFFEE FELLOWSHIP

The Peace & Global Witness Offering encourages the church to cast off anxiety

and fear, discord and division, and embrace our God's mission of reconciliation to

those around the corner and around the world.

A gift to the Peace & Global Witness Offering enables the church to promote the

Peace of Christ by addressing systems of conflict and injustice across the world.

Individual congregations are encouraged to utilize up to 25% of this Offering to

connect with the global witness of Christ's peace. Mid councils retain an additional

25% for ministries of peace and reconciliation. The remaining 50% is used by the

Presbyterian Mission Agency to advocate for peace and justice in cultures of vio-

lence, including our own, through collaborative projects of education and Christian

witness.

CPC will be receiving this offering this Sunday, October. 4. Please make checks

payable to CPC with Peacemaking in the memo line.

If you play an instrument, we’d love to hear have you play one to three songs on

a Sunday morning during the outdoor worship service. Please contact Karen

Orlando at k.orlando@comcast.net or 916–847-4100 for more details.

SHARE YOUR MUSICAL TALENT

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The Biblical story of Samuel can inspire us to serve

God and others with all our strength – meaning our

time, talent, testimony, and treasure. To be great

stewards we need to serve and share what we have to

offer.

Today we begin our campaign to support the budget for

next year. Our Stewardship Committee will be bringing

you a plethora of information items about CPC’s needs

and your opportunities to help us meet those needs.

This morning Laura Janik will introduce our theme, and next week we’ll begin

our 4-part video series on stewardship and our church Mission Statement.

Want some more details? See the Stewardship Page on CPC’s web site.

Special Friends:

Please pray for these

folks who typically are

unable to attend worship,

but now are likely even

more restricted. Because

the list is long, we include

a few each week.

Bob Taylor

Art Tookey

Mildred Troop

Elaine Vargo

In Sympathy:

Please remember in your

thoughts and prayers:

• Linda Hatch and family on

the loss of her husband,

Charlie Hatch, on

September 28.

• Bob &Char Bergsten and

family on the loss of their

daughter, Laura Bergsten,

on September 29.

Sachiko Mishler (daughter-in-law to Phil and Jimmi Mishler) was born and raised in Japan. She trav-eled to the U.S.A, and was an Art Major at Arizona State. She noticed her passion for figure drawing, and enjoys painting activities she sees around her. We are honored to show Sachiko’s incredible col-lection of oil paintings. Her work will warm your heart!

ART SHOW: “OUT AND ABOUT”

CPC members wishing to have their child(ren) baptized are invited to our first

ever Zoom Stepping Stones baptism class next Sunday, October 11 at 11:15

a.m. Please contact Lisa Torgerson at lisa@carmichaelpres.org by October 4

so she can get materials and the Zoom link to you before the class.

STEPPING STONES BAPTISM CLASS

HOW TO GIVE There are several ways to contribute to the ministry and mission of CPC even without an offering plate to pass:

• Go to https://carmichaelpres.org/giving/donate/ to contribute online via PayPal or using your credit/debit

card

• Contact Paul Shultz, Financial Administrator. He can set up egiving or take a credit/debit card over the

phone. (916-851-5959 or paul@carmichaelpres.org)

• Use good old snail mail! Put a check in an envelope, put a stamp on it, and send it to Carmichael

Presbyterian Church, 5645 Marconi Ave., Carmichael, CA 95608 (CPC staff are picking up mail regularly at

the post office while the CPC campus is closed)

FAITH COMES ALIVE IN 2021

CPC has custom printed reusable face masks for sale for

$5 each. They are available at the outdoor worship ser-

vices or you can make arrangements for pick up or deliv-

ery by contacting Karen Gray at 916-486-9081 ext. 201 or

karen@carmichaelpres.org.

CPC REUSABLE MASKS

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YOU DON’T

HAVE TO FACE IT

ALONE If you are going through a

difficult time, whether it be

because of isolation, job

transition, personal loss, or

anxiety in the time of shel-

tering-in-place, consider

asking for a Stephen Minis-

ter. CPC’s trained, caring

Stephen Ministers will listen

and walk alongside you as

you deal with life’s challeng-

es. Contact one of our Ste-

phen Leaders to see wheth-

er Stephen Ministry is the

answer for you or call the

confidential line 916-486-

0604. During this time of

social distancing, our Ste-

phen Ministers are trained

to provide confidential care

over the phone.

Carmichael Presbyterian

Church

5645 Marconi Avenue

Carmichael, CA 95608

916-486-9081

www.carmichaelpres.org

HOW TO CONTACT CPC STAFF Your CPC staff wants to stay in touch with you. We are checking email frequently,

checking voicemail several times a day, and picking up mail from the post office a

few times a week.

To reach us via voicemail, call the church office at 916-486-9081 and dial the

extension of the person you wish to reach.

Pastor Keith DeVries: keith@carmichaelpres.org ext. 203

Pastor Ivan Herman: ivan@carmichaelpres.org ext. 202

Paul Shultz, Financial Administrator: paul@carmichaelpres.org ext. 205

Karen Gray, Pastors’ Secretary: karen@carmichaelpres.org ext. 201

Julie Ueltzen, Church Secretary: carmichaelpres@gmail.com ext. 200

Lisa Torgerson, Children’s & Youth Ministry: lisa@carmichaelpres.org ext. 204

Randy Benfield, Music Director: randybenfield@sbcglobal.net ext. 208

Ron Morris, Maintenance Manager: ron@carmichaelpres.org ext. 206

HOW TO CONNECT There are several ways to stay connected with CPC outside of Sunday services:

• Pastor Ivan hosts a brief time of daily prayer at noon Monday through Thursday on Facebook. Go to www.facebook.com/carmichaelpres or follow Carmichael Presbyterian Church on Facebook to join in. You can also watch the videos after the noon session is over by going to “Posts” on the CPC Facebook page. (Note: this is different than the Friends of CPC Facebook group)

• Even though the church office is closed, Pastor Keith, Pastor Ivan, and the office staff are working remotely. You can send an email or leave a voicemail. Or, if it’s a pastoral emergency, call Pastor Keith or Pastor Ivan at their home phone numbers which are listed in the church directory.

• Marinerships, committees, and other groups are meeting via Zoom. Check out “Meetings This Week” or contact your group/committee leader for details!

CPC’S MISSION Responding to God’s love through Jesus Christ, we:

• Welcome all • Grow in faith together

• Nurture relationships • Connect with and serve our community and the world

MEETINGS THIS WEEK Sunday, October 4 @ 8:45 a.m. Outdoor Worship on Bucknam Field

Sunday, October 4 @ 10:00 a.m. Worship & Communion Live Stream

Sunday, October 4 @ 11:00 a.m. Coffee Fellowship via Zoom

Monday, October 5 @ 10:00 a.m. Mission Bells via Zoom

Monday, October 5 @ 12:00 p.m. Prayer with Pastor Ivan on Facebook

Monday, October 5 @ 7:30 p.m. Carillon via Zoom

Tuesday, October 6 @ 12:00 p.m. Prayer with Pastor Ivan on Facebook

Tuesday, October 6 @ 2:00 p.m. Nominating Committee via Zoom

Wednesday, October 7 @ 12:00 p.m. Prayer with Pastor Ivan on Facebook

Wednesday, October 7 @ 1:00 p.m. Staff Meeting via Zoom

Wednesday, October 7 @ 7:00 p.m. “Companions” Bible Study via Zoom

Thursday, October 8 @ 9:30 a.m. PW Pastor’s Bible Study via Zoom

Thursday, October 8 @ 12:00 p.m. Prayer with Pastor Ivan on Facebook

Thursday, October 8 @ 7:00 p.m. Stephen Ministry via Zoom

Saturday, October 10 @ 7:00 p.m. Nautilus via Zoom

Sunday, October 11 @ 8:45 a.m. Outdoor Worship on Bucknam Field

Sunday, October 11 @ 10:00 a.m. Worship Live Stream

Sunday, October 11 @ 11:00 a.m. Coffee Fellowship via Zoom