WELCOME!  Pastor Stephen King & the Memorial Tabernacle family welcome you to our weekly newsletter. This week, ask yourself if you are doing all you can to share God's love, grace and salvation. Need to do more? Then do it. It is long overdue for us to "Go!" and as we learned in Tuesday night Bible Class, there are consequences to disobedience!
God is STILL here so celebrate Him with us Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Find your place to GROW at MTC and continue to pray with us. Have a week filled with giving thanks, praise, expectation and celebration!
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NOTES FROM SUNDAY'S SERMON
"BELIEVING AGAINST HOPE" (Romans 4:13-25; 8:24, 25):
I think we would all agree that Abraham was hoping against hope. Our text even has Paul saying Abraham was "believing against hope," and other translations word it this way:
- "Abraham, when hope was dead within him, went on hoping in faith" (J. B. Phillips New Testament).
- "Though it seemed Abraham's hope could not be fulfilled, he hoped and he believed" (The Jerusalem Bible).
- "Abraham believed and hoped, even when there was no reason for hoping" (The Good News Translation).
- And finally, "Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed" (New International Version).
You see, the translators all agreed that Paul definitely thought Abraham was fighting an uphill battle.
Notice how Abraham, even though he had all of the world's facts against him, still kept on hoping. He believed, not because of the world's factsbut in spite of the world's facts. Hope can somehow overcome the facts of life. In the world's judgment, Abraham was just a babbling idiot, too old to have children or to make much sense. But God said, "I'm going to use him to glorify me!"
God's pronouncements always come to pass. When He promises something, the deed is as good as done. Consequently, God can - and sometimes does - speak of His future plans as if they were already accomplished. The future is as real to God as the past is to us. "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope" (Jeremiah 29:11).
Having hope is the beginning of our salvation. We are in difficult straits; having hope indicates that we are experiencing the presence of the Holy Spirit. There is no situation so dark that the Light of the world cannot remove all of the shadows. No situation is a hopeless one, because no human situation is a God-forsaken situation.
Sincerely in Chri st,
Pastor Stephen King
Memorial Tabernacle Church (CHSC)
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Honoring our Pastor, Pastor Stephen King
Pastor's Appreciation | Sunday, June 2
To honor Pastor Stephen King, let's respond to his plea for each of us to bring someone else to church and prayer for souls to be saved. Extend an invitation to a friend, family member, co-worker, or neighbor today! Haven't been to worship in awhile? Renew your commitment to Christ and His Church today!
Pastor's Birthday Celebration | Sunday, July 21
As you all know, this is a battle each year, but we would be remissed not to honor and celebrate the angel of this house, our faithful shepherd, Pastor Stephen King. Pastor's birthday is Tuesday, July 23rd so we will celebrate him the week before. So many always look and expect for Pastor to appreciate and celebrate them; now is the time we appreciate and celebrate him. If you would like to participate in this celebration, please contact Sister Tiffany at [email protected].
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Word Today Daily Devotionals Available
 for June, July, & August. A $3.00 donation is requested. Let these daily devotionals bless your life or someone else. Please see Brother Martin in the vestibule after service. We also have Daily Bread Devotionals for you to use as witnessing tools. Please take a handful to distribute in your daily witness as we pray for souls to be saved. We do not get them to keep them but to equip and empower you!
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The Harvest is Plentiful!
Get your organic veggies at the Memorial Tabernacle Community Garden for you! Bring your reusable bags with you! Bring small bills or give a large donation to the cause! Three times a week the garden is open for you to buy fresh veggies: Sundays after service, Tuesdays 6 - 6:45 PM, and Saturdays 9:30 - 11 AM.
Get $5 when you spend $1! Sign up for the new Jamba Juice Sip to Support Cards to support the MTC Community Garden! You simply have to:
- Sign up for a Card at http://jambajuice.marqeta.com/customers/new
- Select Memorial Tabernacle Church to support
- Receive the Card in the mail and activate it
- Purchase Jamba Juice offers, which give them more to spend
- Visit any participating Jamba Juice store and pay with their Card, generating a donation to Memorial Tabernacle Church!
Already have a Marqeta card? Click here: http://jambajuice.marqeta.com/customers/enroll
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MTC Walk Together Program
2nd and 4th Saturdays 8 am - 9:30 am
Walk for Fellowship Health and $$! Walk with us for an hour Saturday mornings and enter to win $100!! Complete the Challenge and enter to win an additional $50!! Email: Sister Tonya at [email protected] to register.
Dates and Locations are:
- June 8- Berkeley Marina
- June 22- Lake Merritt
- July 13- Alameda Loop
- July 27 -San Leandro Park
- August 10- Emeryville Marina
- August 24- West Oakland/Jack London
- Sept 7 - Walk-a-thon and Prize Drawing!
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Tabernacle Ministry & Event Calendar
All calendar events are included on our online calendar here.
 "And let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more, as you see the day drawing near." (Hebrews 10:24-25)
 "Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God."
(Philippians 4:6)
 "Let us therefore, receiving a kingdom that is firm and stable and cannot be shaken, offer to God pleasing service and acceptable worship, with modesty and pious care and godly fear and awe."
(Hebrews 12: 28)
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