Easy Ways to Help Out

You can be part of the ministry of hospitality at FCC Pomona in many ways. A few simple ways are to help with coffee hour, greeting visitors at the door, or communion preparation on Sundays. Signup sheets are in the entryway. You can also call or email the church office:  909-622-1144 or [email protected] 

Lent 2015: Blooming in the Desert

Contemplative Practice: Sunday Mornings in Lent, 9 am

Join Pastor Julie Roberts-Fronk in the practice of praying scripture, sometimes called "lectio divnia". Beginning at 9 am in the Small Dining Room, we will learn and experience ways of praying scripture, using the scripture to be used in worship that Sunday. This is a way to prepare yourself to experience God in worship more fully. It is also a way to help prepare our community as some of us will inhabit the space of sanctuary differently after having prayed the scripture together.

We will begin at 9:00 am, so please arrive a few minutes before. The experience is meant to help us rest in the Spirit, mostly quietly. The session ends no later than 9:25.

Contemplative Practices: Mondays, 7:30 pm, Feb 23. - April 6

Werner Tillinger, our Ministerial Intern, is leading another series on contemplative practices. Each session will focus on a particular practice so participants may deeply experience one practice at a time. This series is designed to give the participant both a range of experience as well as time to be engaged deeply by each experience.

The class begins at 7:30 pm and will meet in the Conference Room. Enter the Office entrance. The length of each class is designed to last 60 minutes. 

Chapman University will hold our 32nd Annual Founders Day, March 13-14, 2015. The two day event held on the Orange, CA campus has many strong options for participants to enjoy:

•  Richard H. Lowery, Hebrew Bible scholar and teacher, will relate foundational stories in Genesis to contemporary issues in human rights. His PhD is from Yale and he has taught at Phillips Theological Seminary until joining his wife, the Rev. Sharon Watkins, in Indianapolis while she serves Disciples as the General Minister and President. Rick is a witty and insightful teacher. He will do three lectures on Friday, March 13 and one the following day in the afternoon.

• Worship on Saturday morning in the Wallace All Faith's Chapel. Our preacher is returning to her alma mater: Rita Nakashima Brock '72. Rita heads the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School, doing research and public education about moral injury. We will honor David Downing as Disciples Church Leaders of the Year and Petra Malleis-Sternberg as the United Church of Christ Church Leaders of the Year.

• An hour concert by Chapman University's Concert Choir on Saturday afternoon after Rick Lowery's final lecture. 

• Workshops on Saturday morning for prospective students and their parents as well as a talk on Mindfulness by Dr. Gail Stearns, Dean of the Wallace All Faith's Chapel.

• A big reunion event-a Friday evening dinner for all alumni, Disciples on Campus parents and prospective parents and Chapman friends.

• A new, exciting event: Godspell which will be performed in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel on Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and Sunday afternoon at 2 pm. DOC senior David Ruby is the director. 

Your church has detailed information and online registration can be found at chapman.edu/founders-day. You are invited to come for both days, but you may also elect only a one day option. Convenient online registration is available at www.chapman.edu/founders-day. Questions? Please call the Office of Church Relations at 714.997.6760. And we are serious-do not let the cost of registration keep you away. If you need a scholarship, please ask for it!
 

Being without a place to live continues to be a reality for too many people in our country. Emergency shelter is limited and costly. Changes are happening in how nonprofits, like Inland Valley Hope Partners, help people to find stability. The emergency shelter on our church property has changed from being a short term stop, to an avenue to supportive and permanent housing.

Wytske Visser is the Executive Director of Hope Partners whose offices are on our facility. She is going to talk to us about the changing nature of homelessness and how homelessness is being addressed currently. Join us on March 25 at 6 pm to find out how we as a congregation are involved in not only providing shelter but how together with others we are facilitating stability for people.

Dinner will be served at 6 pm and the program will begin about 6:40.

CHURCH CALENDAR  

March 2015

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March Birthdays

• 8^th ~ Jan Akin
• 11^th ~ Jenna Eckeard
• 13^th ~ Margie Isaacson
• 16^th ~ Angela Ross
• 19^th ~ Ernest Newborn
• 25^th ~ Cristina Kurtek
• 26^th ~ Rod Parrott
• 27^th ~ Ginger Eckeard
• 28^th ~ Beverly Burton
• 30^th ~ Tom Reed

CELEBRATIONS AND PRAYER CONCERNS

We join together in prayer for our community and our world.

Please let us know on your yellow card if you would like to add someone to the list or if someone should be removed.  We review the list quarterly and will give you a call if it is unclear if someone you listed should stay on the list.  Please let us know if someone has inadvertently been removed.