We will be featuring congregations and emerging congregations periodically to share the good news!
We’d love to know what you’ve been up to in your community/congregation/ministry. Send Denise an email at denise@cofchrist-psi.org, and we’ll include it in a future MMM.
We will be featuring congregations and emerging congregations periodically to share the good news!
This week we are featuring the Escondido Congregation!
Advent Play Day at Escondido on Dec. 4th provided fun, food, listening, learning, creativity, and more fun, for 12 children ages 5 to 13 from different congregations in the San Diego area. Suzy Hawthorne presented 5 stories of Advent and Christ's birth with a craft and game for each, culminating with decorating cupcakes and singing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus. Each child also took home an Advent bag filled with a different activity to do each day until Christmas. A joyful time for kids and adult helpers alike!
Unfortunately, we don't have any pictures from our Peanut Butter Sandwich Sunday activities! We already did it last Sunday for this month, so it will be January before we can take pictures. One Sunday a month, after a short worship service, we all gather in the kitchen and fellowship hall to make 150 sack lunches to be delivered to Interfaith Community Services. Interfaith provides breakfast and a sack lunch every day for homeless people, as well as counseling services, housing help, employment help, behavioral health services, and more. We are glad to contribute in a concrete way and have fun and fellowship together in the process.
Merry Christmas!
Bobbi
We will be featuring congregations and emerging congregations periodically to share the good news.
This week we are featuring Beach Church!
Such a beautiful altar for reflection and Advent preparations for the sacrament of communion. It is simple and blessed everyone that came with questions about the giving and receiving of gifts - including each other.
We will be featuring congregations and emerging congregations periodically to share the good news!
This week we are featuring the El Cajon Congregation! Here are a few things happening there that might interest you.
This last Friday we fed our friends from AA. We served them breakfast following their meeting. After everyone was fed we spent some time with them. We wanted them to know how much their presence means to us. Having them here helps keep problems to a minimum and it helps them to be in a beautiful, pastoral setting.
On December 21, 2023, a Wednesday evening, we will have the "Longest Night" service. I think the service will begin at 7 pm. Georg Schild is bringing this special service to us. It is a chance to acknowledge, reflect and remember those who are no longer with us and that includes congregations that are no longer viable. There will be singing and candle lighting and time to share. Everyone is invited to participate and we expect this may be an annual service. I hope you can come to show your love for our special friends and family.
We are planning a very special Christmas Day Service. We will begin at the regular time (10:30). Cheryl Sharon is producing and directing a special service that we did several years ago. If you can be part of this service and not be brought to tears, you are way better than me. I know it is hard to break away on Christmas morning but I suggest you open a few gifts, have a bite to eat and then join us in service. The gifts will be even better later in the day. I hope you all can join us.
If you have any questions please let me know. We think of all of you as our special Church Family.
Cheryl Daily
Pastor, El Cajon Congregation
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The official dates for Reunion 2023 are June 17 - 21, with staff arriving on the 16th. We will be hosting WBT again for the summer at Buckhorn.
Senior High Camp dates are June 10 - 16 at Whispering Pines in Arizona. There may be some school district conflicts, but we are putting on the calendar at this time.
SPEC 2023 will be July 14 - 22 with Crystal Moreno serving as the PSI leader for CALIZONIA.
MC Conference will be one day, on November 19th, in-person at Upland. Apostle Harmon will be our guest minister. There will be a SPEC FUNDRAISER that day.
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