PASADENA COVENANT CHURCH

October 2013

Lake & Santa Barbara

Pasadena Covenant Church was founded in 1922 by 7 married couples and 12 single women as a haven for those who toiled.** We on the Peace and Justice team believe one reason we continue to be planted on the corner of Lake and Santa Barbara is to be good news to our neighborhood. By intentionally seeking to get to know our neighbors connected with Madison Elementary School, we have encountered Mirsa, Jan and moms (Esmeralda, Marianna and Blanca) at the Madison Family Center, Principal Carmen Serrano, the teachers and students at the school. Through Wayne and Susan Aoki, we have celebrated birthdays with families at Door of Hope. Through Jenny and Rex Lee of Northwest Neighbors, we have met some of the teenagers in our neighborhood. We also seek, in different ways, to share with our neighbors connected with Madison Elementary School: with gifts of food, collected Sunday mornings and delivered to the Madison Family Center by the Bascoms; with our time, helping teachers in the classrooms and providing food for bi-weekly teacher meetings; and with our means, by donating and equipping 15 computers to the Madison Family Center, where Mirsa will soon start computer classes for parents. Through these opportunities, we feel that God is laying the foundation for us to intentionally seek to see this neighborhood through the eyes and hearts of our neighbors, so that we can begin to share in each others lives (the joys, hopes and struggles), while leaning on God together. It is God who will do this, but we can prepare ourselves. This Advent, Mindie Moore will be leading a book study of Making Room, Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition, by Christine Pohl (and no, it isnt too early to start preparing to prepare). We hope this time will begin to equip and teach us, as a church, what it looks like to welcome our neighbors into our lives. In the meantime, please notice the opportunities on the Churchs website (under Ministries: Local Outreach) or in the newsletter to dip a toe in the water: helping with the Club 21 Walk-a-thon, supporting the Northwest Neighbors Pop-Up Caf, talking with Dorothy Patzia about ways to help at Madison, or visiting the CAN-DO Kids Club, the after school tutoring program here at the church. Please help us discover more fully the ways God has planted us in this place to seek Him and share Him. Jamie Knauss, Peace and Justice Team ** The Legacy of the Pasadena Covenant Church by Elmer Fredrickson

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Sunday Morning Happenings For Adults at 9:00 am

Couriers
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.

Companions in Christ
Our adult Companions in Christ group meets at 9:00 am Sundays for Bible study, prayer, and fellowship in the room located upstairs off the west side of the balcony. Newcomers are welcome. For more

information, contact Lisa Leeger at bd1431@pmbx.net.

Life Together
We meet on Sunday mornings, at 9:00 am in the Corner House. We are reading An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor. We welcome visitors and look forward to all that God will stir up in us this new year! If you have any questions, please contact Anita Sorenson at anitasor@pacbell.net.

We have lined up two decision days this year and we will be glad to add another to make it work for everyone. If you are interested in baptism, membership, recommitment, and/or child dedication all these things can happen on these special weekends. If this is where you are on your journey, please contact Tim Dally by email: tdally@pasadenacovenant.org, or call him at (626) 795-9381 ext. 103.

Tuesday, October 8th will be our last monthly dinner gathering for Pasadena Covenant for the year 2013! If you havent attended one, please dont miss this chance to join us for a Community Dinner at the Dally/Lamme home located at 452 Alberta St. Altadena, CA 91001. Well share a meal together and enjoy a relaxed evening of fun! This dinner will be a potluck! Bring your favorite dish to share with the group. We will eat at 6:30 pm, but feel free to come as early as 5:00 pm and stay as late as 9:00 pm. For more info, please contact megandally@gmail.com

Upcoming Trustee Meeting

Monday, October 7, 2013 7:00 pm, Santa Barbara Room

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Womens Book Club

The Pasadena Covenant Womens Book Club is moving to Tuesday nights for 2013-2014. We will meet on Tuesday, October 22nd, 7:30 9:00 p.m. in the Corner House. We will discuss Incident at Badamya by Dorothy Gilman. Newcomers are always welcome. For more info,

The Peace & Justice team invites you to join us at our Monday, October 7th meeting at 6:45 pm in the Corner House. We will hear

from Philip Mangano, the former executive director of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness under President Bush and Obama. He is now the executive director of a non-profit whose goal is to abolish homelessness. For more info, contact Jamie Knauss at knauss1@earthlink.net.

contact Jennifer Mawhorter at (909) 621-2389 jmawhorter@pomona.edu.

On Thursday, October 3rd, we will resume our Men's Book Club and discuss "People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks, a work of fiction inspired by the true story of the Hebrew Codex known as the Sarajevo Haggadah. For more info, contact Tom Andrews at (626) 797-6190 or thomasfandrews@gmail.com.

Cross-Cultural Ministry Team Meeting: October 3rd

On Thursday, October 3rd, the Cross-Cultural Ministry Team will meet at 7:00 pm at the home of Mary and Sam Wong. Join us as we seek to ministry to those who work in cross-cultural settings to share the love of Jesus. This meeting Karen Prater will share her involvement and future plans in cross-cultural ministry. For more info and the meeting address, contact Bruce Wear at rbwear@att.net.

Tuesday, October 15th, Sarah Circle & Salad Luncheon, 9:30 am - noon in Fireside. We welcome all women to join us for service projects, fellowship and refreshments. We welcome all women to join us for service projects, fellowship and refreshments. We have a rolling start so come when you can. For more info, contact Julie Maljian at (818) 790-5911.

Our next Prayer & Praise potluck will be on Sunday, October 6th, at 6:00 pm at the home of Wayne and Valla Walker. The menu has changed! We will have choices of bringing an appetizer, salad, or main dish. Please call Valla to coordinate your potluck item at (626) 396-1750 or vintagevall@yahoo.com.

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2013-2014 Bad Weather Shelter (BWS) Ministry begins November 29th

When the Bad Weather Shelter is weather-activated, Pasadena Covenants gym transforms from a basketball court to a shelter for those who need a safe place to stay at night (weather-activated means night time temperatures drop to 40 degrees or colder, or there is a 40% change of rain). We need the help of many to care for those who come and stay the night in our gym building. The BWS season begins November 29, 2013 and ends March 15, 2014. Pasadena Covenant helps man the BWS Wednesday evenings (a total of 15 Wednesdays for the 2013-14 season). We need a group for each for the 15 Wednesday nights that Pasadena Covenant is responsible to cover. A group of 12 to 15 people will work from 6:15 to 8:30 9:00 p.m. (come earlier if you are cooking in the kitchen). The group will plan and provide a meal, side, drinks, and dessert, help set up the gym and wash the dishes after the meal (handouts will include suggestions for meals and instructions and information explaining what is included in manning the BWS). To sign up to help, or for more information, someone from the Peace and Justice committee will be in the Courtyard/gym at hospitality time beginning October 6th. Or, call Wayne Walker (626) 396-1750 or e-mail at waynefredwalker@gmail.com (on the subject line put: BWS).

Volunteer Opportunity!!
Club 21 has invited the Pasadena Covenant community to prepare and staff an orange slice station during the Together is Better Walkathon on Saturday, October 19th from 9:00 am noon. The Walkathon will be held at Central Park at 275 S. Raymond Ave, Pasadena. If you are interested in volunteering or would like more information, please contact Brenda Thomas at bthomas@ccharities.org or during hospitality.

October 5th: Northwest Neighbors Pop-Up Restaurant Fundraiser

On Saturday, October 5th, local ministry, Northwest Neighbors (NWN), will host |Lumbre | [light], a pop-up restaurant, here at Pasadena Covenant. Jessica Wong, the chef, is top notch and has owned her own catering company. All proceeds from the three course modernist Latin Asian fusion menu ($50 prix fixe) go to support NWNs winter camp trip and mentoring for urban youth in our local area. There are 3 limited seatings at 5:30, 7:00, or 8:30 pm. For more information or to buy your tickets online, see their website: www.northwestneighbors.org, or you can contact Jenny Lee at 626-482-1840.

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Cross-Cultural Communication Specialists Update

Paul and Gretchen DeNeui live in Chicago where Gretchen works as the finance manager for Covenant World Mission and Paul is the Director of the Center for World Christian Studies and is Professor of Missiology and Intercultural Studies at North Park Theological Seminary. North Park Theological Seminary (NPTS) is the graduate theological school of the Evangelical Covenant Church and the Center for World Christian Studies (CWCS) connects NPTS with the world and the world with NPTS, equipping churches in mission in the process. Paul also spends 1/3 of his time as a resource person for the Evangelical Covenant's Department of World Mission (Covenant World Mission). All of the training for Covenant missionaries and travel outside of the US falls into this category with some overlap in his travel courses from the seminary. This past school year, Paul has ministered in all three capacities in a variety of different ways. To list a few, Paul: 1) traveled to Thailand with seminary students for their bi-lingual learning experience, 2) helped developed a missiology course with Dr. Daniel Hodge for North Park University summer term entitled The Global Impact of Western Youth Culture, 3) taught an online course and also, using a new format, was able to teach a course to both online and classroom students together, 4) spoke at a retreat in Doula, Cameroon on the three models of mission found in the book of Ruth, 5) traveled to Thailand to help prepare for the 2015 SEANET conference, 6) taught a class in Japan on mission history, 7) participated in training of 9 project and short-term missionaries at the annual Missionary Equipping and Training Event sponsored by Covenant World Mission, 8) with student help, he edited a book published by William Carey Library entitled Developing Indigenous Leaders: Lessons in Mission from Buddhist Asia, 9) participated in numerous other events in various capacities. This coming academic year Paul is working on creating chat rooms for the Evangelical Covenant missionaries on a variety of applicable topic which can build as online resources for short term, project and long term missionaries as well as church mission leaders. He is also exploring possibilities, through the Center for World Christian Studies, for formal cooperation between the North Park Theological Seminary and other sister seminaries and leadership training programs, starting with those in Alaska and Burma. And finally, in conjunction with CWM and NPTS Field Education Department, he seeks to improve communication of global opportunities for faculty and students. Gretchen and Paul are grateful for the opportunity to serve in so many different ways. They are also very grateful to Pasadena Covenant for our prayer and financial support of their ministries (the 1/3 of Pauls time working for CWM is made possible by support raised through CWM). Please continue to left them up in prayer as they seek to serve in the US and abroad.

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Sunday Mornings
9:00 am - Edge
Edge, a Small Group for 4th & 5th graders, meets Sundays at 9:00am in the Edge room (2nd floor of gym building). Edge is led by Suzi Edwards and Doug Berry. Join us for great discussion, Bible study, games & fun!

Sunday Morning Classes

Children ages 2 & 3 meet at 10:30, just off the courtyard behind the sanctuary. Children 1st - 5th grades being in worship at 10:30 am, with their parents, and are dismissed around 10:50 to go to Club 145 (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.

Upcoming Events
First Grade Gift Bibles: October 13th
During the worship service on October 13th we will celebrate our first graders and their growing ability to read and understand Gods word with gift Bibles. Kids can bring their Bibles with them to class (Club 145) on Sundays to begin learning how to find a verse, read and understand it!

Baptism Preparation Class: October 13th, 20th, and 27th

PCC Youth are invited to join us for a baptism preparation class on three Sundays (Oct. 13, 20, and 27) at 9:00 am in the youth room. We will explore what baptism is, what it means and what it tells us about our relationship with God. The class is open to anyone who just wants to explore the issue. At the end of the class, youth may choose to be baptized on Nov. 10th or Nov. 17th.
For more information about our Childrens ministry contact our Pastor of Children, Student & Family Ministries, Vikki Randall at vrandall@pasadenacovenant.org.

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Weekly Programs
Sunday Mornings, 9am 10:15am
This Fall, PCSM is redefining what Sunday Morning looks like. Through interactive activities, such as morning hikes, collaborative art, and even Instagram, we will discover what it means to truly experience God on a Sunday Morning!

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.

Upcoming Events
Morph University, Morph 101: Grounded in the Biblical Story
Morph University kicks off on Oct. 13th with Morph 101: Grounded in the Biblical Story. This is a class that will be offered to students on Sunday morning and is a baptism-prep class. Students who have already been through a baptism class or have been baptized will be given credit for already completing Morph 101. This class is open to any student wanting to explore the basics of the Gospel and what baptism means. They will have the opportunity to be baptized on November 10th.

Center for Student Missions Los Angeles (CSM LA) November 15-17, $175 (Scholarships Available); Registration Deadline: October 27th
Don't miss this year's all new CSM Trip, as we serve with our friends from Pasadena Mennonite! Formerly located in South LA, CSM is now in Koreatown! Whether you're a CSM Veteran, or this is your first trip, we will all get to experience a new and exciting side to LA as we serve alongside existing ministries and get a taste of how God is working in the city. Students must pre-register for this event at pasadenacovenant.smartevents.com by Oct. 27th in order to be guaranteed a spot! There are limited spots for this trip, and only students who pre-register online can be guaranteed a space!!

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October 2013
1 Tuesday 2 Wednesday 5:45 p.m. Childrens Choir 6:30 p.m. Selah (PCSM) 3 Thursday 7:00 p.m. Mens Book Club 7:00 p.m. Cross-Cultural Ministry Team Meeting 4 Friday 5 Saturday 5:00/7:00/8:30 pm NWN Pop-up Restaurant Fundraiser 6 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Classes for all ages 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 11:45 a.m. Hospitality time 12:00 p.m. Miriam Singers 6:00 p.m. Koinonia Prayer and Praise 7 Monday 6:45 p.m. Peace & Justice meetin 7:00 p.m. Trustee Meeting 8 Tuesday 5:00 p.m. Community Dinner 9 Wednesday 5:45 p.m. Childrens Choir 6:30 p.m. Selah (PCSM) 10 Thursday 11 Friday 12 Saturday 13 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Classes for all ages 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 11:45 a.m. Hospitality 12:00 p.m. Miriam Singers 14 Monday 15 Tuesday 9:30 a.m. Sarah Circle 16 Wednesday 5:45 p.m. Childrens Choir 6:30 p.m. Selah (PCSM) 17 Thursday 18 Friday 19 Saturday 9:00 am Club 21 Walkathon 20 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Classes for all ages 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 11:45 a.m. Hospitality 12:00 p.m. Miriam Singers 21 Monday 22 Tuesday 7:00 p.m. Womens Book Club 23 Wednesday 5:45 p.m. Childrens Choir 6:00 p.m. Selah (PCSM) 24 Thursday 25 Friday 26 Saturday 27 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Classes for all ages 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 11:45 a.m. Hospitality 12:00 p.m. Miriam Singers 28 Monday 29 Tuesday 30 Wednesday 5:45 p.m. Childrens Choir 6:30 p.m. Selah (PCSM) 31 Thursday