Flash Class on the Nicene Council:

A Message from Pastor Matt

I hope you have been enjoying the 2026 Lent Devotional Book: This We Believe. I have big news to share with you regarding the material. Due to several inquiries, questions, and popular demand… I am offering a special FLASH CLASS on the history behind the Nicene Council and how and why they wrote the Christian Creed! You don’t want to miss this! There are three reasons I want to attend this class:

1)     It’s fascinating!

2)     It’s deeply important to Christian history.

3)     YOU will be there!

You have two opportunities to take advantage of this FLASH CLASS!

Sunday, March 1 at 11:30-1:00pm

Fellowship Hall (this one comes with a sandwich lunch!!)

–or—

Thursday, March 5 at 11:00-12:30pm

Room A

lacasadecristo.com/nicene

Annual Meeting on March 8th

The Annual Meeting of the congregation will be Sunday, March 8, at 11:45am in the Gathering Place after 10:30am worship. The purpose of the meeting is to approve the proposed 2026 Ministry and Building Fund budget and review 2025 ministries. All baptized and confirmed members are eligible to vote.

Easter Garden / Flower Dedications

Order flowers or a tree in honor or memory of loved ones to beautify our campus this Easter and beyond. Flowers are $30 per plant. You may also purchase a tree for $300. Orders must be placed by Wednesday, March 24th.

Order and write a short dedication for the Easter Garden booklet here.

Required Usher Safety Training

Are you interested in ushering or already serving as an usher? If so, join us for a required training class covering important safety procedures, provided by Jean Knowling, as well as basic skills of being an usher at La Casa de Cristo with Myla Clark. Per Pastor Jeff Ruby, this class is required for ALL ushers regardless of experience or prior safety training. Breakfast snacks provided.

Traditional Service Ushers

• Saturday, March 21 at 8:00-8:45am: Safety training in Room B
•  8:45-9:00am: Usher Essentials in the Sanctuary

Contemporary Service Ushers

• Saturday, May 16 at 8:00-9:0am: Safety training and Usher Essentials in Gathering Place

Click here to register for either class. Questions? Call the office at 480-948-1234.

La Casa Kids Egg Hunt

The Annual Egg Hunt will be here soon! We will have food, a bounce house, petting zoo, and more for kids of all ages!

This FREE, family-friendly event will take place:

Saturday, March 28 at 10:00am

Meet in the Sanctuary to kick off the egg hunt.

Following the opening of the Egg Hunt, Preschool will host an open house, so classrooms will be open for families to explore.

Filled Eggs Needed for Easter Egg Hunt

The tradition continues! To make the Easter Egg hunt a success, we need donations of plastic eggs filled with candy (no chocolate, please) and/or small toys. Please tape them shut and drop the eggs off at services or at the office Monday - Friday 9am - 4pm. Thank you for your generosity!

Don't forget to invite family and friends to this free event on Saturday, March 28 at 10am.

Egg Hunt Volunteers Needed

We are in great need of volunteers to help at the Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 28 in all areas of the event, from greeters to egg hiders to bounce house monitors to clean-up crew. There are several time slots available and we are happy to sign service hours for youth, if needed. This is a fun, easy way to serve our community as we host hundreds of people on our campus. Click here to sign up.

Join the La Casa Dragon Boat Team!

Now is your chance to join the fun, and help power La Casa’s Dragon Boat at an upcoming festival! Dragon Boat racing has been a traditional Chinese watercraft activity for over 2000 years and is now a modern international sport! And La Casa is starting up their own team! We need at least 20 people to commit to this for the month of March. 

The festival competition will take place on Saturday, March 28 at 7am at Tempe Town Lake and we will have two practices before that on weekends in March. If you are interested, contact church member Luann Helepololei as soon as possible and she can share more information with you. Don’t miss this super fun opportunity!

Luann: 480-200-2260, lch03@aol.com

Easter Basket Ministry 2026 Reminder

Please help us fill Easter bags with chocolate bunnies and other items to deliver to:

• senior citizens in group homes
• homebound La Casa de Cristo members
• our veterans

You can help by making a credit card donation here (select Easter Basket Donations from the drop down menu), bringing in items (see below), and/or assembling (on 3/20) or delivering the bags (on 3/28) by clicking here. Please bring items to the front office, M-F, 9-4, by March 4th.

• snack size chips and cookies
• washcloths
• hand sanitizer, hand lotion, lip balm
• toothbrush (individually packaged)
• travel size toothpaste
• mechanical pencil set
• crossword puzzle book
• word find or Sudoku (5x8" or smaller)
• chocolate Easter bunny (4 oz. or smaller)

Lost & Found

Come and claim any water bottles, jackets, lost items, etc. Many items have recently been left behind. Claim your items by Friday, March 6th, after which we will donate them.

Call or stop by the church office to check the bins. 480-948-1234

Anticipating Surgery

Karna Walther (2/26)

Hospitalized

John Barber

Rehabilitation Hospital

Dave Wilson

Recuperating

Lorrie Culloton

Linda Montgomery

David Nelson

Marilyn Walsh

On the Death of a Loved One

Kent Smith & family & friends of... Carol Ann Smith