Preparations for a galactic adventure are underway with this year’s Operation Space VBS. Countdown has begun and involves assembling volunteers to serve in a variety of space stations including drama, skit backgrounds, snacks, crafts, teaching and leading teams of children through close encounters of the Biblical kind. Blast off for Operation Space is August 3-7th. Please contact Gayle Moussa, Janece Shellooe, Dawn Payne, Therese Menez or the church office (925-676-1584) to volunteer your gifts as we reach out to our community with the Gospel this VBS.
The second of three summer picnics will take place on July 26. We have once again secured a place at the Pleasant Hill City Park, just one block down from the church. Immediately following the second worship service we will make our way down to the park for an afternoon of food, fellowship and recreation.
The picnics serve as a wonderful venue to live out the gospel of Christ in our community.
1. We will need people to help buy food, prepare food, set up the picnic, clean-up the after the picnic and barbeque the food. Please contact the church office if you can serve in any number of these ways.
2. There is also an opportunity for you to contribute to the meal. Please bring a dessert if your last name begins with the letters A-G, or bring a salad if your last name begins with the letters H-Z.
3. This is a great opportunity to minister to your family and friends by inviting them to the picnic. It is here that they can see the gospel in action as we interact with one another.
“Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven,” (Matthew 5:16 NASB). How might this church body as one people serve the community in which we worship and live? How might you serve as a light in the City of Pleasant Hill? Later this month we hope to help you answer these questions. We are presently working with representatives from the Pleasant Hill Fourth of July Committee and the City of Pleasant Hill in search of ways in which we can provide our people with opportunities to serve this community over the summer. We hope to make some announcements over the next couple of Sundays about these opportunities; so keep your eyes and ears open.
Attention men! You are invited to our Men’s Breakfast on Saturday, June 13, at 8:00 a.m. This is open to all the men of GBC, and you are encouraged to bring other friends or family members with you as we seek to not only be encouraged as men but to also reach out to the lost. The morning promises to be filled with good food for both the body and the spirit. Chris Kiiskinen will be our speaker for the morning. You can register online or stop by the registration table in the courtyard. A $5 donation is suggested.
We’re hoping to organize a men’s softball team to join Pleasant Hill’s ‘E’ League. The ‘E’ League is not a church league and is about as non-competitive as you can get. So dust off your high school cleats, oil up your glove and spend Monday nights during the summer encouraging one another and engaging our culture for Christ. We hope to accomplish a few things by forming a team. First, we hope to foster fellowship between the men of Grace. Second, we hope you’ll invite your friends or relatives who don’t know Christ to be a part of the team so the team can serve as a witness for the gospel of Christ to them. Third, and perhaps most importantly, we hope to engage our community as we live out the gospel before, during and after each game. We have until June 19 to register our team with the City, so please don’t delay. You can register by calling Scott Denny at the church office or email him at scottdenny.gbcph.org with your intention to play.
We will hold a baptism service on Sunday, July 5, following the 2nd service. Please plan to attend this wonderful celebration. If you are a Christian and are interested in observing this ordinance, please call the church office.
All-Church Camping Trip
July 16 to July 19th at Union Valley Reservoir in the El Dorado National Forest. Cost is $20 per family and $10 per person for all 4 days! For information and registration call the Church office at 925-676-1584.
Church Office
Many of you are aware by now that we will be letting our lease in our current office expire on July 31 in an effort to free up roughly $90,000/year that we’ve been paying in rent. Beginning June 15 construction begins on the new church office in the space presently occupied by rooms 203-205. Please pray for all the logistics that need to happen to allow the office to move into the new space before the end of July.
WOW
Wonderful Outings on Wednesdays (WOW) Come join us for a series of park outings on Wednesdays; June 10-July 29. It will be a time for moms with children of all ages to connect regularly during the summer for fellowship and encouragement. For more information contact Rainie Cuomo.
Be sure to set the evening of April 26 aside for our first quarter members meeting of 2009. We will meet at 5:00 p.m. for a time
of worship, prayer, and updating the church family on various aspects of the ministry here at Grace Bible Church.
It has come to our attention that the City of Pleasant Hill is averaging 7 “smash and grabs” (a car window is smashed and whatever is immediately visible is grabbed) per day. In the past 6 weeks, we’ve experienced one such event in our own lot and once in the lot where we lease our office space. Our Parking Lot ministry will do its best to walk around the lots more often on Sundays in an effort to deter crime. You can also do your part by not leaving any items immediately visible in your vehicles.
In an effort to be more hospitable to our visitors each week, we’ve started to use the new room in the Fellowship Hall as a place where visitors can meet our pastors after each service. Should you meet new folks on Sunday, please feel free to invite them and even escort them over to the Hospitality Room. Also, we want to do our best to make the pastors available each Sunday for our visitors so please allow them to make their way into the Fellowship Hall to greet our guests.
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