newsletter - september 2015

P A S A D E N A C O V E N A N T C H U R C H September 2015

Community DinnerCommunity DinnerCommunity Dinner

We had a GREAT turn out for our last community dinner! Don’t miss out on our next one!

Our Community Dinner will be Tuesday, September 8th. Everyone is welcome! It’s a potluck

format, so bring something to share. We will gather in our beautiful Courtyard from 6-8pm,

with a come and go style we have always had.

2016 Pictorial Directory2016 Pictorial Directory2016 Pictorial Directory It’s that time again….Pictorial Directory! Each person or family who is a member or a regular

attendee is invited to participate in our 2016 Pictorial Directory! We will be sending home

directory forms in September, for each family to fill out and return to the main office or put it

into the offering plate on a Sunday morning. More information about directory photos will be

available soon.

If you don’t receive a form or are not on our mailing list and wish to be included in the

directory, please contact Doreen in the main office at [email protected] or

626-795-9381, if you have any questions.

WELCOME NEWCOMERS! If you started coming to Pasadena Covenant within the past year and would like the opportunity

to meet staff and others from our congregation, and to ask questions about our faith community

in an informal setting, please join us for our Newcomers Lunch, Sunday, September 13th from

12:15 - 1:30pm at the Corner House (on the Northwest corner of Santa Barbara and Lake Ave.).

All family members are welcome! In order to plan for the food, your RSVP is greatly appreciated

to Marianne Hill, [email protected] or 626-798-2097. Please let us know if you

have any dietary restrictions, and also if you will be bringing pre-schoolers so that we can plan

food and activities for them.

Adult Bible Class: 9am Sundays

Come to the Couriers Bible Class, in the Fireside Room, at 9am to hear from our friend Rabbi

Stuart Dauermann and John Wipf as they team teach. Coffee and pastries will be provided.

All are welcome!

The More Jewish Jesus and the Difference He Makes

In this three session series, Rabbi Stuart Dauermann, PhD, explores with us a perspective on

who Jesus is that has gained much ground in recent years, a perspective that changes how we not

only see Jesus, but also how we see ourselves and others.

Session 1 –“Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no

longer (2 Corinthians 5:16 ESV).” The Jesus the Church has grown used to and the more Jewish

Jesus who was, who is, and who is to come.

Session 2 – Questions and Answers about Jesus and the Jewish tradition.

Session 3 - The More Jewish Jesus and your Christian-Jewish relationships.

Friday Night Shabbat Meal – A possible culminating event if there are a significant number of

Jewish people who might join with us.

Ushers and Greeters Needed for Sunday Mornings

This is an easy way to get started in serving. It’s also an easy way to get to know people who

attend Pasadena Covenant Church.

We need folks to greet other folks on Sunday morning and sometimes give directions or

information, if needed (that info will be provided).

We also need ushers to hand out Sunday morning bulletins, take attendance and pass the

offering plates. If you can help, please contact Joe Thomas at [email protected].

Sarah Circle will meet Tuesday, September 15th, from 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.

The next meeting of the Men’s Book Club

will be on Thursday, September 10th, at

7pm at the Corner House. We will discuss

THE SOCIAL ANIMAL, by NY Times

columnist David Brooks, which explores the

sociology of character. For more information,

please contact Rich Doyle at

[email protected].

Cross-Cultural Ministries

For the date and location of the next Cross-

Cultural Ministries Team meeting or more

information on how we partner with our

cross-cultural workers, please contact Bruce

Wear at [email protected].

Women’s Book Club The Pasadena Women’s Book Club will meet Tuesday, September 22nd, from 7:30 - 9:00pm, at the Corner House to discuss what everyone’s been reading over the summer and choose books for the year. Please come with a list of some books you’d like to read together this year.

Newcomers are welcome. If you can’t come to the first meeting, please email your suggestions to Jennifer Mawhorter at [email protected].

The next Urban Ministries Team meeting will be on Monday, September 14th, at 6:45pm in the Santa Barbara Room. All are welcome to join us!

For more information, contact Wayne Aoki at [email protected].

The next Koinonia Prayer and Praise

potluck will be on Sunday, September

13th, at 6pm in the Corner House.

Connie and Dave McGee will be our hosts.

Please contact Connie to coordinate your

potluck item at (626) 355-0358.

Trustee Meeting

Monday, September 10th

7pm in the Santa Barbara Room

Budget Update for – August 26, 2015 We want to give you a month-end status for our income versus budget ytd. As we are able to “keep up” during the summer, we can minimize the year-end push. Thank you for your support of our ministries.

Offerings Rents Giving/Rents ytd = 341,320.21 145,876.80 Year-End Target = 625,000.00 209,600.00 Anticipated ytd = 408.266.10 129,077.44 Surplus/(Shortfall) ytd = (66,945.89) 16,799.36

If you’d like the convenience of giving through online banking, you’ll find assistance at http://pasadenacovenant.org/resources/donate/.

Various items have made their way to the main office as “lost”. It would be nice to have

them “found” by their owners. Items turned in include: Glasses, various types of clothing,

drink containers, phone, keys, accessories, etc. Call the main office at (626) 795-9381 or

email the office at [email protected].

PasCov Kids' Ministry 2015-2016:

Journey IN the Promised Land: God’s Big Welcome

Kick-Off Sunday: Sept. 13th

On September 13th all kids will “move up” to their fall age/grade levels! We have great things planned for all age levels:

Infants and Toddlers

Loving care for infants & toddlers is available in the nursery during the 10:30 service. A room for nursing moms (with video feed from worship) is available in the lobby of the sanctuary as well.

2’s & 3’s (Coordinator, Rita Brown)

GOALS: We desire to create an interactive and meaningful environment where these young ones can be exposed to God’s love and care.

We will use: Colorful flannel board Bible stories Interactive songs, percussion instruments and movement Simple arts and crafts to reinforce the lesson at home

PreK/K (Coordinator, Maureen Huang)

Our PreK/K kids begin in the main worship service with their parents, to help them begin to learn to worship and know they are a valued part of our whole church. They will be dismissed, along with the gradeschoolers, midway thru the service to their classroom in the preschool bldg. Their program follows the Godly Play curriculum, which uses beautiful wooden figures and thought-provoking "wondering" questions to draw the children into the stories of Scripture. In the fall they will focus on reviewing their Old Testament "Journey TO the Promised Land" stories— learning about Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, David, Moses, and Daniel. In December they will join the gradeschoolers on their Journey IN the Promised Land as we learn about Jesus' life, teaching and ministry as it points us to life in the Kingdom.

1st - 5th grade: Logosland (Legos + Bible): Journey IN the Promised Land

Last year the kids began their three year journey, traveling TO the promised land with Abraham and his descendants. At the end of the year they finally reached Israel: the Promised Land! This year grade school kids will learn what it means to live IN God's Kingdom as they study Jesus: his life, his teaching, his death & resurrection. They will hear about "God's BIG Welcome" as they discover the Kingdom which Jesus is inviting all of us to be a part of, and what it means to live in his Kingdom.

Back-to-School Daycamp for Neighborhood Kids

Continued

It is back to school for our middle and high school crew. With

that they bring with them all sorts of new tools from the summer.

Our middle school students went deep at Campus by the Sea and

began to bond through affirming one another's gifts, talents and

abilities. It was great space for our students to play and pray. Coming off of the CHIC experience

our high school students are settling back into the busy routines

that make up high school. Others are pealing off to college.

Earlier in the summer we celebrated Josh, Brennan, Christian

and McKayla. These four have been such a gift to our group.

As they pack for the next adventure may our church find ways

to connect and call alongside them in this new season.

Sunday Mornings

TheStudy: Numbers, Sunday mornings, 9-10:11am (Student Room)

All Wednesdays: LifeGroups, 6:30-8pm (Student Room)

For more information about upcoming events, please contact our Pastor for Youth Ministries, Dave Rinker, at [email protected].

Do you like to sing?

Would you like to play instruments

and learn note reading?

Would you like to play musical

games?

Would you like to make new

friends and be part of a musical?

Join Children’s Choir of Pasadena Covenant Church Rehearsals are Wednesdays from 5:45 – 7pm

beginning Wednesday, September 16th. All children in Grades 1 – 6 are welcome

Directed by Mindy Gustafson, Master of Music Education and

Master of Music in Vocal Performance

For more information, contact Mindy at [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

Mighty Memorizer Volunteers Needed Love Scripture? So do our PCC Kids! This last year more than 30 kids committed 10 life-changing

Bible verses to memory, laying a firm foundation in knowing and loving God's Word. For our 2015-

16 school year, we need 4-6 memory leaders who will help with this awesome program. There's no

planning or prep: Mighty Memorizer volunteers will come into Logosland (the kids' classroom) on

the first Sunday of each month at the end of the worship service (after communion) to listen to kids

recite the prior month's verse and introduce/ explain the coming month's verse. We're looking for 4

-6 volunteers (possibly 2 or 3 couples) so that you can serve just a few Sundays per year. In

interested, please contact Vikki Randall at [email protected].

Miriam Singers will start Sunday, September 13th and rehearsals will be on Sundays from

12-1 pm in the Choir Room, located in the Sanctuary Building. Miriam Singers is for girls

in grades 6-12, and is directed by Mindy Gustafson, Master of Music Education and Master

of Music in Vocal Performance.

For more information, please contact Mindy Gustafson at [email protected]

Congregational Care We could use a few more people to visit or call on folks from within our congregation who are

in times of need, aging or in poor health. Our congregation responds wonderfully in providing

meals, in benevolent support, and in prayers; but often times having someone to come and visit

or check-in on them is the best thing we can offer. We do have great “visitors” now, but the

numbers are inadequate. Love to have you join us in this.

Jim Tyberg, Executive Pastor, [email protected] and Caryl Tyberg, Congregational Care Ministry, [email protected].




Pasadena Covenant Church

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Pasadena, California, 91101-1217

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