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Vol. XXV, No. 10
Highland, California
October 2014
Sunday Worship Service
8:00am
Traditional – Worship Center
9:15am
Blended – Worship Center
10:50am
Contemporary – Worship Center
Immanuel en Español – F Bldg.
Evening Worship
and Lord’s Supper
SUN, OCT 5
Candidate Forum
THU, OCT 9
Men’s Breakfast
My Dear People –
We are coming to the end of September. As we begin October we
start another church year. This would be an excellent time for many of you
to get into a Bible Study Community. There are many of you who, for one
reason or another, don’t feel like you need to be in a Bible Study Community. However, I want to encourage you to pray and consider joining a class.
Why, you ask? Because it is in small groups that you build relationships,
enjoy fellowship, and build community. You will be able to ask questions
Dr. Rob Zinn, Pastor
and be with a group of people who will care about you and be there when
you have a need. It is a great way to make a large church seem smaller. We
have great classes and wonderful teachers. There are three different hours to choose from. Try
it... you will like it.
October is also the Harvest Festival. We need lots of help and, of course, candy! There will
be tables to sign up or you can call the office to help. It is a wonderful time and a great ministry
of our church. We will start collecting candy the first Sunday in October.
One last thing...we will host a Candidate Forum on October 9. You won’t want to miss this
informative event. Come meet the people running for office in our area. Remember your vote
counts.
Keep the Faith,
SAT, OCT 11
Deacon Nominations
through
SUN, OCT 12
Religious Freedom
Sunday
OCT 26
Harvest Festival
CANDY
Bring it with you to church
every Sunday in October!
Harvest Festival
FRI, OCT 31
THE FALL SEASON IS UNDER WAY
MARK RUSH, executive pastor
Hopefully, the temperatures will begin to reflect this reality as well. God gave us a great
summer and the fall promises to be a continuation of what He is doing in and through us. As we
head into the fall let me bring a few important events to your attention.
Our Salt and Light Ministry is hosting a Congressional Forum on Thursday, October 9 in
the Worship Center. It will be 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. They have invited local congressional candidates to participate in this forum. The purpose will be to help people who want to know more
about the candidates. Please plan now to attend this important event.
Salt and Light are also helping to put on Freedom of Religion Sunday, October 26. Brad
Dacus from the Pacific Justice Institute will be with us in all three morning services. He will be
speaking on the import role freedom of religion plays in our country. This is a vital topic in the
days in which we are living. I know you will be strengthened, encouraged and equipped by attending service that day.
October also means that Immanuel’s Harvest Festival is also right around the corner!
Harvest Festival is a great opportunity for Immanuel to serve the families in our community.
Please plan on volunteering for this great event. Also, plan now to bring CANDY!
HARVEST FESTIVAL
JERRY HIGHFILL, minister of global outreach and evangelism
Each year thousands of people from our community come to our campus on October 31 and hundreds
and hundreds of pounds of candy goes home with them during the Harvest Festival. This year that date is a
Friday night and we expect it to be a bigger attendance than ever. We need hard workers, smiling faces and
lots and lots of candy. Hundreds of you, our Immanuel family, have stepped up to the plate year after year and
given of yourselves so generously and unselfishly. You are needed again this year. Projections are for a bumper crop of new folks visiting our campus on October 31 and we want to meet and greet them showing the
love of Christ. Each Sunday in October there will be sign-up locations at all three entrances to the Worship
Center. Please stop by one of these locations and commit to helping us on October 31. Candy receptacles will
be in handy locations each week also. Everyone has a place, and everyone is needed. Thank you.
Congressional/Assembly
Candidate Forum
Religious
Freedom
Sunday
Thursday, October 9
6:30pm | Worship Center
October 26
&
SALT
LIGHT
Question and
Answer Format
MINISTRY
Brad Dacus
Pacific Justice Institute
THANK YOU
It has been six months since I had my kidney transplant. Thank you for all
the love and service you have given me. The BSC Berean Sunday School
Class was such a blessing to me as well as a few others. Since I cannot repay
all those who sacrificed for me and served me, I know that God’s blessings
for you are even better. I am praying for all who were my brothers and
sisters in the Lord. And thank you so much to B&B Berean for all of your
prayers. – Joette Whims
FALL IS HERE!
Speaking in all
morning services.
NEW
Single Adults
30s - 40s
RICK YORK, minister of children and young families
That means one thing – the World Series!, No, seriously, it
means college football! Actually, it means Harvest Festival is coming.
This is a great opportunity to impact families in our community by offering a safe and fun alternative to trick or treating. We hope that you
will invest in this great outreach.
Fall is a good time to work on our marriages – as is winter,
spring and summer! My desire is to have a church full of people with
great marriages. One of my many sayings is that the goal of marriage is
to not get divorced, but to have a great marriage. And great marriages
take work. One of the ways to work toward a great marriage is to strive
to have a marriage built upon Biblical principles. That is why we offer
classes on Wednesday evenings to learn about marriage from a Biblical
perspective. We are currently learning from the book, Love and Respect. We are about halfway through, but don’t let that keep you from
joining us. Coming just once could play a big role in improving even a
good marriage. I hope to see more and more of you investing in having
a marriage built upon God’s Word.
KICK OFF
SUN, OCT 5 | 10:50AM | D216
DISCIPLESHIP IS. . .
BAPTISMS
Eugene Achim
Daniela Barbu
Dragos Barbu
Avram Cabral
Felipe Cruz Lopez
BUDGET
Jonathan Garcia
Derrick Haynes
Dylan Lindsey
Cazi Martinez
Izac Martinez
Melissa Martinez
Romeo Martinez
Nicole Potter
Joshua Waters
(as of August 31, 2014)
YTD
Tithes & Offerings . . . . . . . . actual $2,792,174
budget $2,969,623
difference $(177,588)
SUMMARY
October 1, 2013 – September 30, 2014
Baptized (as of September 14) - 111
Bible Study Community Attendance:
AUG 17 . . . 1331
SEP 7 . . . . . 1351
AUG 24 . . . 1323
SEP 14 . . . . 1304
AUG 31 . . . 1336
IN SYMPATHY
Pastor Rob and Jacque along with the members
of Immanuel express their sympathy to the families and friends of:
BRENDA BENFIELD, sister of Dan Davis and
daughter of Jim and Darlene Davis, passed away
August 6.
RITA HERNANDEZ, grandmother of Margie
Peltier, passed away recently.
LARRY REHKOPF, father of John Rehkopf, passed
away recently.
GREG REINER, brother of Annette Winn, passed
away July 31.
DARVIN ANDERSON, brother of Dorothy
Schaeffer, passed away July 30 in Missouri.
JOYCE MILLER, wife of Ken Miller, passed away
on July 24.
Staff Anniversaries for September
TRACY JOHNSON, minister of discipleship
Last week I had one of those moments a Christian Parent or Grandparent is waiting
for— I was talking with my youngest Granddaughter, and the conversation moved to talking
about Jesus. She stated that she had accepted Jesus! We have had this type of conversation
in the past, but she seemed to lack some basic understandings, other than she remembered
saying a prayer to invite Jesus into her heart. So I probed a little more and asked her some
basic questions including asking her if she was a sinner; to which this 9 year old promptly
replied, “Oh, yes, I have done a lot of sins!” You see this marked a BIG change in our conversation from earlier times when she would have said—no, I don’t do sins. Grandpa knew
things to be a little different, but now she has a greater understanding about herself and what
it means to have Jesus in her life. She, like me, is not a perfect person, and she knows this.
This reality is the same for all of us and points out both the NEED for JESUS and the GLORY
of KNOWING JESUS.
Recently I read an article from Ministry Today talking about The American Church
in Crisis. I want to share a portion from the article David T. Olson writes:
“I believe the church’s most critical challenge in the next 10 years is to restore Jesus’ words and actions to their proper place of centrality. As I studied more than 200,000
churches over the last few years, I listened carefully to the messages they delivered through
sermons, vision statements and music to ascertain what they were saying about Jesus. I have
discovered that many churches have somehow failed to clearly communicate this important
message…. How will our world meet Jesus? How will they experience His living power?
Who will communicate this story? How will they hear it in a way they understand?”
After I read this I thought about one of the MOST POWERFUL tools we have to
share with others it is simply HOW we met Jesus! It is called our personal testimony, or how
Jesus changed and is changing our life, even now. Some think “their” testimony is not glorious enough or spectacular enough; others seem to have forgotten about that special time in
their life when Jesus became real for them, and they, like my Granddaughter, came to realize
they NEED Jesus and WANT Him to be a part of their life. When we share our testimony or
share the works of the Lord in our life even today, we are sharing the reality of a Christ who
makes a difference, a Christ who saves, a Christ who still is at work!!!
You see, the GREATEST CRISIS for American Christianity is simply our lack of sharing the GOOD NEWS with someone else. Look around, write down the names of those
you know, are around, live with, work with. Before the end of 2014
could you MAKE YOUR MARK TO END THE CRISIS? Could
you share your testimony or share Jesus with just one other person?
Will you?
MY HOPE AMERICA If you want a simple way to reach out and
share Christ with someone else or even a group of people, WHY
not let Billy Graham help you? His latest video for Fall 2014 is
called HEAVEN. Interest meetings coming soon, or contact Tracy
Johnson at tjohnson@ibchighland.org.
Jaime McWhorter – 1 year
Shirley Martin – 10 years
Vickie Lemm – 15 years
Good Food & Fellowship!
SAT, OCT 11
8:00AM
Fellowship Hall
$8/in advance | $10/at the door
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