June 27th, 2024

We will be welcoming 23 new members this Sunday!

This Sunday:

Annual Meeting & Brunch

This Sunday, June 30th, after a short break following the worship service to pick up your children, please join us in the Sanctuary for our 

Annual Meeting.

Then, we'll wrap up our celebration of the year in the Gym with a potluck brunch, Annual Slide show and time of praise to the Lord for what he's done at SGCC.

Please bring an egg casserole/main dish, fruit, or pastries to share. No nuts please!

Our team will receive the food items at the Palin Kitchen window between 8:30-8:55 that morning. We will have access to warmers and refrigeration. Serving utensils will be provided.

If you have any questions, please email Natalie Halverson (nhalverson@sangabrielcommunity.org)

Starting in July:

Backyard BBQ's

Backyard BBQs are a great opportunity for people to connect and spend time with their church family this July. We are hoping that God uses this time to help people make new connections and deepen relationships. We hope you sign up to attend one! 

After you sign up, you'll be connected with your Host where they can provide any additional information or coordinate with you all further. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to email Natalie Halverson, nhalverson@sangabrielcommunity.org

Help us "Stuff the Bus" with new school supplies for Roosevelt Elementary in San Gabriel! 

Composition books, Crayola crayons, colored pencils, glue sticks, Elmer's glue, pencils, sharpeners, erasers, and Scotch tape are appreciated.

Drop items in the school bus in the Sanctuary Lobby anytime in July. 

Questions? Contact: dacosta@sangabrielcommunity.org

Lots of smiles from a successful charcoal briquette batch we made from waste!

Peter Otoshi

Nigeria Prayer Update

Hello all!

I praise God for sustaining me with life and health for another week! I had a busy week supporting several engineering-related ministries, which I will focus on below. Before that, I want to thank God with you for answering our prayer that He would grant me consistent communion with Him. 

Each day this past week I was able to start each morning in prayer, an absolute necessity that I had struggled to preserve. Such consistency brings me no righteousness of my own, but rather trains me to live in a posture of worship and God-dependency (and I am SO dependent upon Him)!

I had the opportunity to spend several days at a nearby college of technology. While my expectation was to assist with their robotics course in a background manner, I found out that morning that I was the teacher for the 3-day course!

While a wave of internal panic initially set in, I am very grateful to God for granting me understanding (and granting me an understanding class)! 

It was a joy to bless the students in this way, and I had my share of laughs along the way. The head of school fondly gave me the Hausa ‘name’ Mr. Bitrus Bature, Bitrus meaning ‘Peter’ and Bature meaning ‘white person’ (a word I’ve heard every day so far).

I also helped one creative waste-management organization in a nearby community. Alongside youth of the local community and some ingenious Nigerians, I had the opportunity to learn and contribute to various waste management projects they had begun. 

One project in particular was fascinating: they took the leftover ‘waste’ from burned charcoal briquettes and combined it with starchy syrup and rice chaff to form new eco-friendly, smokeless charcoal briquettes. Even with limited resources, they have excellent ideas with great potential and I was grateful to contribute to their growth. Click the button below to see a video of me "becoming an expert" at molding charcoal briquettes!

Moving forward, my time will, Lord willing, be centered around water ministry support in nearby communities. However, I am definitely now more interested in the waste management aspect that is similarly vital in community development. 

I also hope to share about further Gospel conversations and discipleship opportunities in the coming prayer updates. Please continue to praise God for the work He is doing in my life and in Nigeria as a whole, and pray that He would continue to purify and strengthen His people around the world.

Prayer requests:

• Pray for diligence and understanding as I seek to learn and understand more Hausa. It can be discouraging at times and easy to neglect, but I’ve already seen how God can use my weak efforts to open relational doors.
• Pray that God would continue to draw me near to Himself and deepen my reliance upon Him, so that my love for missionaries and nationals would come from God and not from my own vain efforts.
• Pray for the Nigerian Church to hold fast to the Word of God and worship in spirit and truth amidst great persecution, particularly in the north and northeast of the country.

Thank you for your continued encouragement to me. You can reach me via email or Signal or WhatsApp (+1 626 437 2111) with questions, advice, encouragement, and ways I can be praying for you.

Na gode wa abokaina (Thank you my friends),

Peter

 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!” (Psalm 122:1)

To encourage us to prepare our hearts for worship,

here are the songs for this Sunday:

Indescribable – Laura Story

How Great Thou Art – Stuart K. Hine

Our God Saves – Paul Baloche, Brenton Brown

The Glory of the Cross – Bob Kauflin

In Christ Alone – Keith Getty, Stuart Townend

Growing in Grace Radio

Growing in Grace is the radio ministry of San Gabriel Community Church to the greater Los Angeles area, featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Steve Balentine.

You can find Growing in Grace on KKLA 99.5 at 5:00 p.m. on Sundays

Online Giving

It's easy to give your tithes and offerings to the church

online, or simply by sending a text message!

Text the word GIVE to 626-499-5600

You can make one-time, recurring and designated gifts! If you have any questions regarding online giving, contact our Financial Specialist, Katelyn Parsons 

(kparsons@sangabrielcommunity.org)

Thank you for your help in contributing to the mission of San Gabriel Community Church as we seek to make known the glory of God to all peoples!

JUNE/JULY BIRTHDAYS

If you have a July birthday, let us know,

we'd love to add you to our list!

Gwennie Martinez – 6/24

J.R. Bronkar – 6/27

Rita Pasquale – 6/27

Deanna Bustamante – 6/28

Linda Ghabril – 6/29

Brian Zopf – 6/30

Nun Chau – 6/30

Scott Trimeloni – 6/30

Linda Larew – 7/1

Kristen Halverson – 7/2

Lia Trainor – 7/2

Nicholas Mathiesen – 7/4

Gabby Hoover – 7/6

Jayce Lipana – 7/8

Nikkia Cox – 7/9

Lalo Garcia – 7/9

Debbie Oberlander – 7/9

Greg Papik – 7/9

Sunny Peirson – 7/10

Hollis Halverson – 7/11

Dolly Leffler – 7/11

Oliver Betts – 7/12

Rebecca Betts – 7/13

Katherine Betts – 7/14

Landon Oberlander – 7/14

Heidi Smith – 7/16

Jaydin Tjandra – 7/16

Rochelle Haas – 7/17

Carolyn Kievit – 7/17

Candice Pulos – 7/17

Nathanael Betts – 7/18

Samantha Haas – 7/18

Danielle Tasmajian – 7/19

David Medina – 7/20

Talitha Tjandra – 7/23

Bill Roberts – 7/24

Julian Pujayana – 7/25

Henry Cox – 7/26

Donna Otoshi – 7/29



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