And the pastor is...

Serounian Kier!! Serounian won by a landslide, with only one vote of 'no' he became our pastor. Say hello to Pastor Kier!

Prayer Requests 10-10-2010

Espie (JCP Teacher) and the gall bladder trouble she's having, she's scheduled for surgery in Dec.
Connie and her sinuses.
Holly as I prepare to go back to school.
Roxanne and Holly as they continue to deal with Leah.
Carmen's finances, healing for Alicia (Staci's sister), as she goes through chemo for breast cancer. PRAISE GOD that Staci didn't need surgery!
Continued healing for Rachel's toe.
Joy Christian Preschool that they find a teacher and an increase in enrollment.
Rebecca and her ministry to our youth here at the church; that God send just one more youth.
Gary Zavatsky and his continuing health problems.
Our church to do God's will.
The Pastoral Search Team.
PRAISE GOD that he has helped Hannah calm down; she needs God to bless her guitar lessons.

Continued Prayer for Our Absent Family Members
Charlotte Sands
Ruth Simmons
Kay Guilford

ICS= Ice Cream Social

Come one, come all, come to the Ice Cream Social this Sunday @ 3:00 at Joyce's front yard. Bring your homemade ice cream, any flavor at all! But if you make oyster flavored ice cream, realize that you'll find only a few scoops of it missing. Maybe you want to bring a friend along? Well bring whoever you want--your barber, your grandma, your exotic plant photographer. And remember, before you bring your friend, be sure to ask them if they're lactose intolerant. We'll also be doing skits, have musical proformances, crazy dancing, tight rope walking, fire juggling, sword swallowing. Well, maybe not those last three. But if you have something you want to do, start practicing so you can preform it at our ICE CREAM SOCIAL!!!.

Prayer Requests: 9-05-2010

Pray for. . .
. Carmen and her finances, Staci for healing and health issues.
. The Pastoral Search Team.
. Rachel's broken toe, for a quick healing.
. The Keller Family.
. Joy Christian Preschool that they find a new teacher and the upcoming year.
. Rebecca and her ministry to our youth here at the Foothills; that God send just one new youth.
. Gary Zavatsky and his continuing health issues.

Continued Prayer for
Our Absent Family Members:
Charlotte Sands
Ruth Simmons
Kay Guilford

Nadine

Our sister in Chirst, Nadine Keller, recently passed away. She will be dearly missed and our mourn for her is very great. She had a wonderful heart and spirit full of bright, loving happiness. But we know she's in a much better place and she doesn't have to suffer any longer and for that, we are greatful and now she's sitting with Jesus having the greatest time she could ever have. Rest peacefully, Nadine.

Goodbye Potlucks!

We said farewell to the Wednesday Potlucks, because it was hard to keep up the routine of making food after a hard day's work and going to the church. Arlene Oltman suggested we have a potluck after church, so we aren't as tired. We had gotten "I"'s from everyone in the church, so it was settled.
We are now doing potluck right after church.

Prayer Requests: 08-15-2010

Dennis: Continue to Pray for Imm and Helen.
Pray for Carmen.
Dana and Addie: Pray for Dana's protection and the new
and coming baby.
Pastoral Search Team: Pray for a Pastor.
Pray for the Youth Group
Joy Christian Preschool: That we find a teacher.
Rebecca: My sister owns a Baskin Robins and is
contemplating whether to sell it.

Meditation of the Week

There comes a time in every heart, a time of real decisin when we reach the point of choosing how we will live our lives. All our hope , all our dreams will ris up from that moment, the moment we surrende andchoose to follow Christ. He's been waiting all our lives to hear us say, "I am yours Lord, take my hand and lead the way." All I have, all I am esting in his promise. The promise that he'll make me everything that I should be. I will live, I will die, for the cause he's set before me, to take his love inside my heart for all the world to see. When you believe he's all you need, that will be your defining moment. As you liver you life walking in his light trusting him completely, that will be your defining moment.

Prayer Pequests: 8-08-2010

Carmen: Finances, health; Heather's college finals.
Dennis: Keep Helen and Imm in your prayers as they
continue to go through a difficult time.
Dana: PRAISE GOD! CPT Lopez's prayer was answered,
Thank you, Nadine!
Gary: Feeling better however, continue to pray for his health.
Hannah: The youth group, that we grow more and
more in the Lord.
Holly: Mom's health; she's having problems with her kidneys.
Nadine: My health.
Judy: My non Christian family members to experience
God's love.

Our Absent Family Members
Herbst Family
Charlotte Sands
Ruth Simmons

Meditation of the Week

There are many attributes that make up the nature of God. God is omniscient, omnipresent, sovreign and all powerful, but the primary attribute that defines the nature of God is his sacrificial love. In the most quoted verse in the Bible, (John 3:16) we learn that when God gives he gives a son. This is the essence of who God is. We should know that all the time. Suck love would not be possible if it had not been for the nature of God reflected in who we are. He is the author of love. God is love!

Prayer Requests-8-01-2010

Carmen: Finances, health; Heather's college finals. Also, need prayer for safety for Staci and Heather when they're at camp and my surgery coming up soon.
Dennis: Keep Helen and Imm in your prayers as they
continue to go through a difficult time.
Dana: PRAISE GOD! CPT Lopez's prayer was answered,
Thank you Nadine!
Gary: Continue to pray for his health.
Hannah: The youth group, that we grow more and
more in the Lord.
Holly: Praise God for cooler weather; I
finished moving yesterday; WHOO HOO!
Nadine: My health, it's getting more difficult to walk.
Kay: Feels very weak since her last fall.
Marilou: Terrible back pain and needs blood work
but has no health insurance.
Judy: Prayer for Mama.
Tara: Prayer for Taryn.
Bob: Prayer for friends Randy and Jen, God Knows!

The Church Picnic

Right after the service, everyone went to the Hinkle home for a fun get-together. There was burgers, hotdogs, salad, the whole kit and kaboodle!
Everyone had fun playing games and laughing together as a big church family. You could definately feel the love in Connie and Hink's backyard!

Weekly Meditation

Have you ever had a coincidence which was so special that it seemed like God was in it? A divine appointment is a "meeting" which was inspired and God led. God is sovreign, he is all knowing and all powerful.

Sometimes God wants to bless us and other people. The possibilities of divine appointments are endless! If we are willing to be led by the Holy Spirit, great things are Possible.

Throughout the Bible there are many examples of divine appointment. Time after time God leads the faithful to cross another person's path and great things happen.

Richard Joseph Krejcir

Richard Joseph Krejcir
By ITW Staff

Hi I am Richard Krejcir, and I will be preaching this Sunday, Aug 1st at Church of the Foothills in Pasadena. That would be you! YEA!!!

If you would like to know for your blog or worship folder, I will be preaching on "Developing a Purpose" Means knowing who we are in Christ... a sneak peak here:

http://70030.netministry.com/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=35230&columnid=3803

About the man behind the words
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts; then I will meditate on your wonders. Psalm 119:27
Richard Joseph Krejcir lives in Southern California and is married to the beautiful MaryRuth and a precious son Ryan born May 10, 2006, a miracle from God. He is committed to prayer, spiritual growth, and integrity. He is the Founder and Director of Into Thy Word Ministries, a missions and discipling ministry, with a call upon his heart to bring discipleship materials to pastors and everyone who needs them here and overseas. He is the author of numerous articles, curriculums and the book, Into Thy Word, and is also an ordained pastor, teacher, and speaker. He is a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena California (Master of Divinity) and holds a Ph.D. (Practical Theology) from London. He has amounted over 20 years of pastoral ministry experience, mostly in youth ministry, including serving as a church growth consultant.
Dr. Krejcir has been teaching inductive Bible study principles at camps, conferences and churches all over the world since 1978. He does this to give people opportunities and tools so they can learn how to gain those life-impacting insights from the Bible. Richard has been personally discipled by some of Christendom’s greatest thinkers and leaders, including his uncle Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer, others such as Dr. Walter Martin, Chuck Miller, Ralph Winter, and Robert Boyd Munger have personally mentored him, as well as other great and godly men. His main influencers have been Schaeffer as well as Oswald Chambers and Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Richard has learned and remains committed to teaching people how to find the time for Christ, how to be His disciple, and how to understand His Word better.
The following are essential to the Christian’s walk of faith, which Richard strives to the fullest to obey and practice daily:
• A caring, effective love relationship with Jesus Christ as LORD.
• A lifestyle dedicated to obeying God’s Will.
• Daily devotional times, prayer, and studying of God’s Word.
• A joyful love and willingness to serve our Lord, even through personal sacrifice.
• A witness for Christ without hypocrisy.
• A firm desire to be God’s child through trust and obedience.
• A working faith in God’s promises for all daily needs and in all situations.
But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Philippians 3:7-11
© 2006 Into Thy Word http://www.intothyword.org/

Get Pumped for the Potluck Picnic!

August 1st will be the Potluck Picnic at the Hinkle home; meat is provided and drinks might be provided by the Hinkles everything else potluck.

Prayer Requests: 07-25-2010

Holly: Pray for Mom.
Daniel: My co-worker, Clyde, needs prayer; he was in an accident.
Helen and Imm: Strength for the passing of Dennis.
Carmen: The possiblity of Hernia surgery and prayer for Heather; her college finals are this week.
Pastoral Search Team: That we find the perfect pastor for our church.

Prayer Requests: 07-18-2010

Dennis: Has gone home to be with our Lord and Savior, continue to pray for Helen and Imm.
Dana: CPT. Lopez; she feels led to start a women's Bible study for the troops and needs financial help with material.
Gary: In some pain but doing better.
Hannah: That I'll stop cracking my neck. Praise the Lord, I found my i-pod!
Holly: Pray for cooler weather so I can finish cleaning out my garage; I have till the end of the month.
Nadine: Had a small stroke last week, need prayer for her health.
Kay: Feels very weak since her last fall.
Marilou: Terrible back pain and needs blood work but has no health insurance.

Our Absent Family Members
Herbst Family
Charlotte Sands
Ruth Simmons

Meditation of the Week

Mission is not an optional part of the Christian life. It is essential to it. Mission is inherent in a Christian view of God, the divine-human relationship, Christian experience and the Church. The Church is under commission from it's Lord to proclaim the whole Gospel to the world. Mission is woven into the basic task of the Church. It is the outreach of the Church in all areas of life. The Gospel is, "good news" for the persons who hear the biblical message, because the message is that God loves all people and that, through Christ, God offers redemption for the whole person. The Gospel is "good news" for the Church because it explains that the Church is to proclaim God's message and to mediate His love to all people in the whole world. Further, it promises that God's Spirit will work in the world to empower the Church for it"s task --- David Telfer

Lisa Lamb's Last Sermon at The Hill

We said goodbye to Lisa Lamb on Sunday as she finished up her "Saga of Sermons" on Genesis, she will be missed, and I think all will agree when I say she was very nice and polite and counted everyone in in her sermons.

"You Know Me" by Mark DeFazio

On Sunday morning right before Lisa Lamb's Sermon, Mark DeFazio stepped on stage and sang his original song titled "You Know Me", he told us the story of how the idea for the song was born; it was combination of inspirations beginning with Lisa Lamb's sermon then Joanie Frymire was talking to Conni Hinkle and at one point in the conversation Joanie said "You know me", and immediatly the song title was born in Mark's mind.
Then 6 months later, Mark figured out what the song should be about; how God knows us inside and out.

Prayer Requests: 07/11/2010

Dana: CPT. Lopez; she feels led to start a women's
Bible study for the troops and needs financial help
with material.
Gary: God Knows!
Dennis: Is back in the hospital.
Hannah: That I'll stop cracking my neck. Praise the Lord, I found my i-pod!
Holly: God Knows!
Nadine: Our Troops
Roxanne: For Ilene to find balence between work and school.

Our Absent Family Members
Herbst Family
Charlotte Sands
Ruth Simmons

Meditation of the Week

Spirit of God, my heart refine, Spirit of love, joy, peace
divine, oh, let the triune grace be mine.

When heavy burdens drag or press, sorrows engulf, or
cares distress, deep beneath all, may I possess.

When age or illness lays me low, when pain or
loneliness I know, give me yet more the inward glow.

Then, when thy scepter beckons me and Thee, dear King
at last I see, in full perfection Heaven will be, Love, Joy
and Peace!

Prayer Requests and Praises 07/04/2010

Prayer Requests
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Anna: Pray for Ocean and Desert.
Mark: Pray for Rita
Pray for Dana
Rebecca: That things stay safe at my new job.
Roxanne: That Ilene finds balence in working and school.

Praises
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Holly: Travis found an apartment! Praise the Lord! But they need help moving furniture in.
Conni: Wendy doesn't need surgery.
Shan: That it went well in Oklahoma with his family.

Prayer Requests: 06-20-2010

Addie: Emily lost her battle with cancer and went to be with the Lord and Savior; she leaves behind a husband and two children.
Shan: Is confronting the sale of his mother's house after her passing recently.
Lela: For my daughter to find peace in her life and return to church.
Carmen: Continued prayer for her family, her finances and health.
Nadine: Travis to find an affordable apt.; Ben to find housing that his wheelchair will fit in.
Holly: Energy and focus as I begin going through my garage and cleaning my old apt.
Judy: Continued prayer for Gary as he faces selling his mom's home.

Our Absent Family Members
Herbst Family
Charlotte Sands
Ruth Simmons

Farewell Fabulous Faithful Frymire Friends

Good times were had June 13th at Mama's Kitchen; there was laughing, crying and even more laughing, and of course, fantastic food. If I could rate the food from 1 to 10, I'd give it a 20, and I'm sure all who were there would agree with me.
However, in spite of the joviality, there was an air of sadness about the evening, for our Pastor Jeff and his wife, Joanie, were leaving us. At the end there was much hugging and pictures (Courtesy of Judy Woodrum.
I think I speak for all of us when I say, Frymires, you are a very dear friend to us all!

Prayer Requests 06.06.2010

Kay Guilford: Fell outside yesterday and while she didn't break anything, still very sore.
Lela: For my daughter to find peace in her life and return to church.
Carmen: Continued prayer for her family, after the loss of her mother.
Nadine: Travis' living situation, he wasn't able to stay at Holly's house.
Holly: Energy as I move to mom's, praise God that Roxanne returned home safely and had a good time with Ilene and John.
Judy: Continued prayer for Gary as he faces selling his mom's house.

Our Absent Family Members
Herbst Family
Charolotte Sands
Ruth Simmons

The Women crash the Men's Retreat!

The unsuspecting men sat and ate their pancakes and enjoyed their coffee at the Men's Retreat in the Reyn Cafe, little did they know, the women were on their way.






As soon as the women crash-landed, there was panic and fear for dear life!



All the men were thinking was "No where is safe!"



But all in all, they had fun.



What we learned from the men:

Rule 1#: No Hugging.

Rule 2#: Order the same thing every single time No exceptions!

Rule 3#: You must know a women, so you can talk about them.

Farewell Frymires!

You're invited...

Come share your thoughts and appreciation
for the "fabulous Frymires" at their
Farewell dinner;

When: Sunday June 13, 6:00 pm
Where: "Mama's Kitchen"
45 N. San Gabriel Blvd.
Pasadena, CA. 91107

Hosted by Scott and Cindy Varnado
Please RSVP by June 9th
(797-3348)

BARF Nite Tonight!

@ 7:00 tonight in the Fellowship Hall, BARF Nite will be going on, bring your youth! (and their youth friends)

Prayer Requests: 05/23/2010

Carmen: Is in Puerto Rico visiting mom,
she has stopped eating.
Rachel: (our cleaning lady) need God's
guidance, finances, recognize his
blessings.
Nadine: Travis and Leah; God knows!
Simpson Family: God Knows!
Holly: Energy as I begin to move to mom's.
Mark: For my Health.
Rick Reynolds: Healing from his Quadruple by-pass Surgery and Salvation.
Espie: For more children to come to the Preschool.
Kathy: For my cough to be over.

Our Absent Family Members
Herbst Family
Kay Guilford
Charlotte Sands
Ruth Simmons

BARF Nite Tonight!

@ 7:00 tonight in the Fellowship Hall, BARF Nite will be going on, bring your youth! (and their youth friends)