FREE Easter Egg Hunt
(BYO Basket)
For Kids and Teens Ages 4-15
Sunday, March 27th, 2016
9:30 AM
200 Easter Eggs to HUNT!
FREE Boxes of Hope for every Child and Teen! A Shoebox full of Surprises!
Memorize Scripture:
Psalm 1 or Psalm 23
FREE PRIZES for Kids and Teens
The Chapel On The Pond
17 Pond Road
North Truro, MA 02652
Any questions call Chaplain David J. McCollough 774-208-8642
Monday, March 21, 2016
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Vision to help the poor and homeless...
Vision to help the poor and homeless...
1. Heart healthy food
(Read this article: Top 11 Heart-Healthy Foods http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/11-top-heart-healthy-foods?page=1)
2. A lot of poor/homeless don't have places to cook canned/fresh food...so the answer would be gift cards for Boston Market, Starbucks, Chick-Fil-A, Wawa, and Panera Bread.
Gift cards for Walgreens, Rite Aid and CVS are also helpful for personal items. Gift cards and cash for gas is helpful too, especially if they live in their car.
3. Some poor/homeless can't afford laundry facilities, offering to wash/return the clothes is extremely helpful
4. A lot of poor/homeless people aren't in good health, offering vitamins are helpful.
5. Many poor/homeless people are discouraged/depressed, A Kind Word helps, a cup of coffee, prayer helps, take them for a haircut, give a listening ear, and show them love!
6. If you've once been poor or you just want to give back or pay it forward to God, would you consider taking a soul into your home?
Remember one word, one kind deed, and a smile can change someone's day!
You can Save a Life before you Save a Soul!
If you would like to help the homeless, please consider sending A GIFT TO A FRIEND! www.paypal.com to Go2Hope@yahoo.com
1. Heart healthy food
(Read this article: Top 11 Heart-Healthy Foods http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/11-top-heart-healthy-foods?page=1)
2. A lot of poor/homeless don't have places to cook canned/fresh food...so the answer would be gift cards for Boston Market, Starbucks, Chick-Fil-A, Wawa, and Panera Bread.
Gift cards for Walgreens, Rite Aid and CVS are also helpful for personal items. Gift cards and cash for gas is helpful too, especially if they live in their car.
3. Some poor/homeless can't afford laundry facilities, offering to wash/return the clothes is extremely helpful
4. A lot of poor/homeless people aren't in good health, offering vitamins are helpful.
5. Many poor/homeless people are discouraged/depressed, A Kind Word helps, a cup of coffee, prayer helps, take them for a haircut, give a listening ear, and show them love!
6. If you've once been poor or you just want to give back or pay it forward to God, would you consider taking a soul into your home?
Remember one word, one kind deed, and a smile can change someone's day!
You can Save a Life before you Save a Soul!
If you would like to help the homeless, please consider sending A GIFT TO A FRIEND! www.paypal.com to Go2Hope@yahoo.com
Are you Homeless?
Are you Homeless?
1. Grab yourself a $10/month gym membership at Planet Fitness so you stay clean, you'll need money down, a checking account and ID. If you travel a lot, go for the $20/month membership good at all locations, this will also allow access to
Unlimited access to home club
Unlimited Fitness Training
Reciprocal use of all PF Franchise Locations
Unlimited guest privileges at any PF location
Use of Tanning
Unlimited use of Massage Chairs
1/2 Price Cooler Drinks
Other Exclusive Benefits at Select Clubs:
Unlimited Hydromassage
Haircuts
Unlimited Total Body Enhancement
other great perks! They will also give you a free t-shirt and gym bag (when you use a checking account)!
2. If you're camping out in your car, make sure you park overnight in a well lit area where other cars park (like a hotel). It's VERY Important to park next to other cars so you won't be bothered
3. Try to have three outfits and wash your laundry often. Dress nicely everyday.
4. Eating out can be difficult if you don't have too much money, but there are places like Panera Bread and Starbucks that have a point system where you can earn free food! I eat at Starbucks almost everyday! They have FREE Wifi and you can have unlimited coffee and tea refills all day long with the Starbucks reward card. Also watch your email for special offers for extra stars.
There are also places that have free community lunches (mostly churches). Always Google the area you're in for free places to go. You'll be surprised!
5. There is NO SHAME in asking for help! I've learned plenty of times to ask for help! People have often said to me: it's a shame I didn't know, I would have helped!
6. Do you need an address? Get a PO Box and use the street address, 123 Main St #555, Anytown, MA USA. It's a Safe and Secure way to get established. You will need to go online with a valid credit card, ID and pay for 3 months. It will generally cost between $15 & $25.
7. Prayer changes things! God Answers Prayer! Jesus, I put all my hope in You, I feel lost and I want to be found. I believe You came to my heart today, I was looking for someone to save me. I believe that You died for me, that when You died You took my place! I believe You rose into Heaven, and when You rose, You took all the pain in my heart, and brought me to New Life! I Love You Jesus, thank You for Loving me. Amen!
Any ?'s feel free to email me at Go2Hope@yahoo.com
1. Grab yourself a $10/month gym membership at Planet Fitness so you stay clean, you'll need money down, a checking account and ID. If you travel a lot, go for the $20/month membership good at all locations, this will also allow access to
Unlimited access to home club
Unlimited Fitness Training
Reciprocal use of all PF Franchise Locations
Unlimited guest privileges at any PF location
Use of Tanning
Unlimited use of Massage Chairs
1/2 Price Cooler Drinks
Other Exclusive Benefits at Select Clubs:
Unlimited Hydromassage
Haircuts
Unlimited Total Body Enhancement
other great perks! They will also give you a free t-shirt and gym bag (when you use a checking account)!
2. If you're camping out in your car, make sure you park overnight in a well lit area where other cars park (like a hotel). It's VERY Important to park next to other cars so you won't be bothered
3. Try to have three outfits and wash your laundry often. Dress nicely everyday.
4. Eating out can be difficult if you don't have too much money, but there are places like Panera Bread and Starbucks that have a point system where you can earn free food! I eat at Starbucks almost everyday! They have FREE Wifi and you can have unlimited coffee and tea refills all day long with the Starbucks reward card. Also watch your email for special offers for extra stars.
There are also places that have free community lunches (mostly churches). Always Google the area you're in for free places to go. You'll be surprised!
5. There is NO SHAME in asking for help! I've learned plenty of times to ask for help! People have often said to me: it's a shame I didn't know, I would have helped!
6. Do you need an address? Get a PO Box and use the street address, 123 Main St #555, Anytown, MA USA. It's a Safe and Secure way to get established. You will need to go online with a valid credit card, ID and pay for 3 months. It will generally cost between $15 & $25.
7. Prayer changes things! God Answers Prayer! Jesus, I put all my hope in You, I feel lost and I want to be found. I believe You came to my heart today, I was looking for someone to save me. I believe that You died for me, that when You died You took my place! I believe You rose into Heaven, and when You rose, You took all the pain in my heart, and brought me to New Life! I Love You Jesus, thank You for Loving me. Amen!
Any ?'s feel free to email me at Go2Hope@yahoo.com
Hope, Healing and Happiness
We all need rest, we've all been in some type of emotional and physical pain. It's so essential that if you miss time, your body and mind will suffer. I've experienced loss of proper sleep by being in emotional and physical pain. I've lost a home, had to put everything I owned in storage, gave my belongings away, been homeless, lived and traveled in my car. I'm Passionate about Helping the Homeless because I lost my home 4.5 years ago due to Hurricane Irene.
We've lived with several people who blessed us with a room to sleep in. How we moved from NJ to Cape Cod was through prayer and a set of unexpected circumstances. We were invited to Cape Cod for a Revival Prayer Meeting in September 2015 and afterwards we were going to move to Virginia to start our new ministry opportunity and living arrangement! We were excited how God was moving, all our friends and family were happy for us too! We got to East Falmouth, MA on September 20, 2015 and three days later the man who invited us apologized and said he found out in his lease that he couldn't take anyone in his home. It was such devastating news! We had no home to go back to because it was already rented out to someone new!
I prayed to Abba and said that I don't know anyone here and there's nowhere to go. Abba assured me with an answer immediately: This is your family. I really got to connect with people after that and I just kept meeting new people with a lot of love to share! We've traveled all of Cape Cod and traveled to Boston, Woburn, Plymouth, Carver and Taunton. Everywhere we go, we go to pray! Abba has blessed us everywhere we go! Now we've been Blessed Beyond Belief by the Best Love in the Universe! We moved into a 2 bedroom apartment on February 7th, 2016!!! We are So Thankful to Jesus!
I heard this from Abba when I was in prayer <3
~*~I will send you to a place you've never been. I will send to My people who you've never met who will become your family. As you keep trusting Me more and more, I will keep Blessing you more than ever before. As you share your treasures with others, I will answer your prayers. In the past, you were fearful about many things, but now you are in the place of Trust. Love, Daddy~*~
I've been blessed to have a van. I've met other homeless people who don't have a car to rest or travel in. Some have lost their home through natural circumstances or have lost jobs and have debilitating health problems. Most of all, the worst loss anyone can face is the loss of hope. There's no pill or substance that can give you hope. There's only a Perfect Love that can give you Hope. Once someone knows The Love of Jesus, He will give you True Peace.
I want to share my Dream and Vision of Hope with you. Because I didn't choose to be homeless, I truly believe it's the path God chose for my life, so I could see some things. My Prayer is to have Homes of Hope so people can rest and feel safe. Give people hope, real hope. Not occasionally when the weather is too cold or too hot, but a real place to live. Give people dignity, a place to belong. We're all part of a family, a great big family that cares for each other. When one person is broken, we lift each other up.
Homes of Hope would enable people to work and be cared for so no longer would they be seen as a burden on society. It would allow married couples to enjoy each other's company. It would allow families to stay together.
Isaiah 58:7
I want you to share your food with the hungry people. I want you to find poor people that don't have homes, and I want you to bring them into your own homes. When you see a man that has no clothes--give him your clothes! Don't hide {from helping those people}; they are just like you.
Keeping families together is important!
"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."
– David Ogden Stiers
"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life."
– Barbara Bush
"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."
– Mother Teresa
Homes of Hope
In order to insure the privacy of our guests and to serve the greatest number of people in need, Homes of Hope is entirely funded by private donors and businesses. We do not solicit or accept government grants and are not a United Way affiliate.
Thank you for your prayers and love!
Love, Pretty Amazing Grace
Any ?'s feel free to call/text
609-481-5859 Grace
609-321-1885 Joseph
"Wherever we go... we go to Pray"
If you need prayer, don't hesitate to call, text or email... Anytime!
www.Go2Pray.com
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
RE: Saddleback.com Web Form Submission
RE: Saddleback.com Web Form Submission
Dear Grace,
Thanks for your inquiry. Pastor Rick has responded publicly to this question many times.
The rumor is called "Chrislam." Saddleback Church and Pastor Rick are not involved in "Chrislam" in any way. Pastor Rick is not the promoter of "Chrislam," the Koran is not placed in our worship center, we are not reading from the Koran, we are not interweaving the faiths, and have not taken down crosses. (We have crosses all over the church property—three on a small hill in front of the children's building; one atop the church building; and at our San Juan Saddleback campus, three fifty foot crosses are illuminated on a hill that commuters can see for miles.) Also, we are not a part of a "one world religion," are not "New Age," and Pastor Rick would NEVER deny the deity of Christ! We believe the Holy Bible is the only inspired, inerrant Word of God. Pastor Rick was quoted as saying in his interview with John Piper when asked if the Muslim God and the Christian God are the same, "My God looks like Jesus Christ…if your God doesn't look like Jesus then the God we worship cannot be the same….sorry."
You can also read what Pastor Warren says for himself below. This is an answer he posted in the comment section of a blog where others had attacked him:
"Several of the above comments are completely incorrect, based on believing 2nd hand false rumors instead of finding out the facts before speaking up. 'Only a fool believes all he hears.' Proverbs 14:15
"The so-called 'Chrislam' rumor is 100% false. If the guy who started this libelous myth, or anyone else who passed it on, had obeyed our Lord's command (Matt. 18:18-20) to come directly to me, and then asked what I actually believed - they would have been embarrassed to learn that I believe the exact opposite. As a 4th generation Christian pastor, my life & ministry is built on the truth that Jesus is the only way, and our inerrant Bible is our only true authority.
"As an evangelist, I spend much of my time speaking to non-Christian groups. You cannot win your enemies to Christ; only your friends, so we must build bridges of friendship and love to those who believe differently so Jesus can walk across that bridge into their hearts. Besides, it is not a sin, but rather COMMANDED by Jesus that we love our enemies. In the past 10 years, Saddleback Church has baptized over 22,000 new adult believers- simply because we express love to those who don't know Christ yet.
"It is nonsense to believe that you must compromise your belief or water down your convictions in order to love someone, or even just treat them with dignity. Jesus was called 'the friend of sinners' by the legalistic Pharisees because he hung out with (and clearly loved) unbelievers. I HOPE YOU will: 1) Always believe that EVERYONE needs Jesus as their Lord & Savior; 2) Have the courage to associate with nonbelievers in order to love them and bring them to the Savior; 3) Consider being called 'a friend of sinners' a Christ-like compliment; and 4) Refuse to pass on rumors until you've checked for the truth with the person accused. The false statements above should be removed."
We are an Evangelical church that believes in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus on the cross as the ONLY way to reconciliation with God. We stand for the truth.
If you'd like to know more about Rick's sound doctrinal beliefs, you can check out his interview with John Piper at http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/john-piper-interviews-rick-warren-on-doctrine.
Thanks for following God's Word (Matthew 18) and coming directly to us for the truth!
Blessings,
Dennis
Volunteer Assistant
Office of the Pastor
PastorRick@saddleback.com
Dear Grace,
Thanks for your inquiry. Pastor Rick has responded publicly to this question many times.
The rumor is called "Chrislam." Saddleback Church and Pastor Rick are not involved in "Chrislam" in any way. Pastor Rick is not the promoter of "Chrislam," the Koran is not placed in our worship center, we are not reading from the Koran, we are not interweaving the faiths, and have not taken down crosses. (We have crosses all over the church property—three on a small hill in front of the children's building; one atop the church building; and at our San Juan Saddleback campus, three fifty foot crosses are illuminated on a hill that commuters can see for miles.) Also, we are not a part of a "one world religion," are not "New Age," and Pastor Rick would NEVER deny the deity of Christ! We believe the Holy Bible is the only inspired, inerrant Word of God. Pastor Rick was quoted as saying in his interview with John Piper when asked if the Muslim God and the Christian God are the same, "My God looks like Jesus Christ…if your God doesn't look like Jesus then the God we worship cannot be the same….sorry."
You can also read what Pastor Warren says for himself below. This is an answer he posted in the comment section of a blog where others had attacked him:
"Several of the above comments are completely incorrect, based on believing 2nd hand false rumors instead of finding out the facts before speaking up. 'Only a fool believes all he hears.' Proverbs 14:15
"The so-called 'Chrislam' rumor is 100% false. If the guy who started this libelous myth, or anyone else who passed it on, had obeyed our Lord's command (Matt. 18:18-20) to come directly to me, and then asked what I actually believed - they would have been embarrassed to learn that I believe the exact opposite. As a 4th generation Christian pastor, my life & ministry is built on the truth that Jesus is the only way, and our inerrant Bible is our only true authority.
"As an evangelist, I spend much of my time speaking to non-Christian groups. You cannot win your enemies to Christ; only your friends, so we must build bridges of friendship and love to those who believe differently so Jesus can walk across that bridge into their hearts. Besides, it is not a sin, but rather COMMANDED by Jesus that we love our enemies. In the past 10 years, Saddleback Church has baptized over 22,000 new adult believers- simply because we express love to those who don't know Christ yet.
"It is nonsense to believe that you must compromise your belief or water down your convictions in order to love someone, or even just treat them with dignity. Jesus was called 'the friend of sinners' by the legalistic Pharisees because he hung out with (and clearly loved) unbelievers. I HOPE YOU will: 1) Always believe that EVERYONE needs Jesus as their Lord & Savior; 2) Have the courage to associate with nonbelievers in order to love them and bring them to the Savior; 3) Consider being called 'a friend of sinners' a Christ-like compliment; and 4) Refuse to pass on rumors until you've checked for the truth with the person accused. The false statements above should be removed."
We are an Evangelical church that believes in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus on the cross as the ONLY way to reconciliation with God. We stand for the truth.
If you'd like to know more about Rick's sound doctrinal beliefs, you can check out his interview with John Piper at http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/john-piper-interviews-rick-warren-on-doctrine.
Thanks for following God's Word (Matthew 18) and coming directly to us for the truth!
Blessings,
Dennis
Volunteer Assistant
Office of the Pastor
PastorRick@saddleback.com
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Prayer of Hope
Prayer of Hope
Abba Father,
You promised that You would be with us wherever we go. You promised that Your angels would guard our steps. You told us to be strong and very courageous. Help us know the best plan you have laid out for our lives, You know the plans, the one that gives us hope and a future! Help us keep our eyes on Jesus whatever storm we are in. Help up not look at the hurricane winds or the stormy seas, but keep our focus on the Master who said "Peace be still"! Help us to be still, You told us to come to You all who are weary and heavy ladened and You would give us rest. Jesus gives us the rest that will heal our body, soul, mind and spirit. Refresh our spirits and give us the mind of Christ. Thank You for the Heavenly Armor that protects us. We aren't alone in this world, in this journey we call life, You gave us so much more that we haven't even imagined yet. You know us, Abba Father, we trust You with all our hearts, we are Your children! Thank You for sending Your Son who gave His Love for us! We are Eternally Grateful <3 Pretty Amazing Grace
Go2Hope@yahoo.com
Abba Father,
You promised that You would be with us wherever we go. You promised that Your angels would guard our steps. You told us to be strong and very courageous. Help us know the best plan you have laid out for our lives, You know the plans, the one that gives us hope and a future! Help us keep our eyes on Jesus whatever storm we are in. Help up not look at the hurricane winds or the stormy seas, but keep our focus on the Master who said "Peace be still"! Help us to be still, You told us to come to You all who are weary and heavy ladened and You would give us rest. Jesus gives us the rest that will heal our body, soul, mind and spirit. Refresh our spirits and give us the mind of Christ. Thank You for the Heavenly Armor that protects us. We aren't alone in this world, in this journey we call life, You gave us so much more that we haven't even imagined yet. You know us, Abba Father, we trust You with all our hearts, we are Your children! Thank You for sending Your Son who gave His Love for us! We are Eternally Grateful <3 Pretty Amazing Grace
Go2Hope@yahoo.com
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