Craft Club
Home League
Sunbeams and Explorers
Girl Guards and Rangers
YPL
Brass Band
Bible Bowl
Exercise Club
Sunday Prayer
Sunday School
Sunday Worship
Southwest Washington United Praise Meeting
Weekly Schedule
Coming Events
Birthdays and Anniversaries
Prayer List
Craft Club
We invite you to join us for the Craft Club on the first Monday of every month at 6:30 pm. Next month we will offer scrapbooking....stay tuned to find out what craft we will do each month, and what the cost will be. We hope to see you there!
For more information, please contact Deanna Markham.
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Home League
This past week the ladies met for some serious planning! We got together to plan our programs, activities, and field trips for the next 6 months. We have such exciting things planned - and we want you to be a part of it! Keep your eyes open each week for our program announcements. It's great fun, and all ladies are welcome!
This Tuesday the Home League ladies are each bringing some "white elephant items" to be auctioned off as a small fundraiser for our Home League fund. Bring an item or two to add to the sale, but also be prepared to bring along your pocketbook so you can bring home a few treasures of your own!
Join us at 10:00 am each week for fun, fellowship, and the support of other women!
For more information, please contact Captain Ronalee or Julie Goude.
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Sunbeams and Explorers
Explorers (boys aged 6-10) are continuing along on their "Olympics" emblem, and having a great time with sports! This week they will focus on the game of basketball. The Sunbeams (girls aged 6-10) are doing well on their "Bird Study" Emblem, and are loving learning about nature.
For more information about joining our Tuesday night programs, please contact Danny Tomko or Quinton Markham!
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Girl Guards and Rangers
The Girl Guards (Girls, ages 12-18) are focusing on "The Sky Above" emblem, learning about planets in our solar system. The Rangers (Boys, ages 12-17) are VERY close to earning their entrepneur badge, even creating "fake" stock portfolios to learn how to manage and invest funds!
For information about any of our older troop programs that meet on Wednesdays, please contact Quinton Markham!
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JR. YPL/YPL
Jr. YPL (grades 5-6)is rolling along with several new members, as they meet each week for devotions and time in our game room. YPL (Grades 7-12) learned a little about being or becoming a person who pretends to be a Christian.
We invite you to bring your pre teens and teens to our Wednesday night fellowship opportunities! Please contact Quinton Markham for scheduling and more information.
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Brass Band
The Jr. Band is preparing for to accompany congregtational songs in our Sunday Worship Service for October 7. They will be playing Amazing Grace, Jordan's Banks, and Austria.
We invite you to find out more about the gift of music through our Jr. Band program. In addition to musical training, there are also opportunities for small group learning and instruction. We meet in the Chapel every Thursday at 4:30 pm. Don't miss out!
For more information, please contact Quinton Markham.
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Bible Bowl
Bible Bowl is a competetive Bible memorization program, where teams comprised of young teens compete in championships for yearly bragging rights! Last year, the Vancouver Corps was named the Northwest Divisional Champions and went on to compete in the Territorial Campionships in Southern California!
This year's Bible Bowl "season" has begun. For the next few months our team of teenagers will be studying and literally memorizing the books of Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon. We're excited to see all these young people will accomplish!
For more information on this program, please contact Quinton Markham.
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Exercise Club
We have started our new month using the "Walk Away the Pounds" DVD program. Five of us we in attendance this week, we'd like to have more join in this fellowship.
We invite you to join us every Friday at 6:30 pm for one hour of exercise (always at a beginner's level), as well as some laughter thrown right in!
For more information, please contact Deanna Markham.
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Sunday Morning Prayer Focus
At 9:15 Sunday morning we open the Sanctuary for a time of focused prayer. We begin with a few minutes of shared prayer, where we bring our own personal requests to pray over as a group. This is followed by a time of quiet and personal prayer, with a written prayer focus provided as a guide.
There were 8 of us in prayer meeting today. That's a great thing! Today's prayer focus was a reminder that the best way to know God in a real way is to spend time in prayer and to begin to focus on learning the Scripture.
We invite you to join us for this time of prayer each Sunday morning, immediately followed by our Sunday School and Bible classes.
For more information, please contact Captain Ronalee.
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Sunday School
Every Sunday the sounds of laughter, singing, and learning rolls through our building during our Sunday School hour! Our Assembly (9:15-9:30am) kicks everything off, followed by classes for every person and every age.
We invite YOU to join us, every Sunday, at 9:15 am for a wonderful time of small group learning! We have classes for everyone!
Pre-K....located in the nursery (Taught by Deanna M.)
Grades 1-3...located in classroom C (Taught by Richard F.)
Grades 4-6...located in classroom B (Taught by Dora S.)
Grades 7-12...located in the Game Room (Taught by Stephanie O.)
Corps Cadets...located in the Multi Purpose Room (Taught by Quinton M.)
Young Adults...located in the Sanctuary (Taught by Captain Ron)
Adults...located in the Conference Room (Taught by Carol P.)
For more information on our Sunday School program please contact Quinton Markham or Mark Stearns.
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Sunday Worship
Message
Today's sermon helps us to identify a counterfeit Christian. WARNING: This is not to be used on others, this is for the purpose of self-examination.
The United State Treasury Department trains it agaents to indentify conterfeit bills not by showing the variety of conterfeit that has been done, but by train them for hours and hours about the autheticity of a real bill. They examine the real bill for so long, they are so familiar with the real bill, that counterfeits are easily identified.
In the same way 1 John 3:1-10 is going to train us about conterfeit Christians.
1 John 3:1-3 -It is in God's love that we find out:
- what we are, "children of God."
- what we will be, "we will be like Him."
- what we should be, "purified."
1 John 3:4-8 - We find that Christ appeared for two reasons:
- "to take away our sins"
- "to destroy the works of the devil"
1 John 3:9-10 - We learn the Spirit lives in us, "No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him."
Remember, all of these ideas are for us to understand what it is to be the real thing. Not to judge others. Not to condemn others, but to examine ourselves to be sure we are living for Him.
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Southwest Washington United Praise Meeting
A great time was had by all who were in attendance. Over 80 people enjoyed a drama presentation by the Wahougal New Life Fellowship, music from the Vancouver Corsp Worship Team, and a Bible lesson about "Our Strong Anchor: Jesus" by Pastor Sam.
This is a quarterly united praise meeting. Watch for more details about the next meeting to be held in January or February.
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This Week's Schedule
Tuesday - 10:00 AM - Home League White Elephant Auction
Tuesday - 4:30 PM - Sunbeams and Explorers
Wednesday - 4:30 PM - Girls Guards and Rangers
Wednesday - 6:15 - Jr. YPL and YPL - Corn Maze - Bring $2.00
Wednesday - 7:00 PM - TOPS
Thursday - 4:30 PM - Band
Thursday - 5:30 PM - Worship Team
Thursday - 6:15 PM - Songsters
Thursday - 7:00 PM - Bible Bowl
Friday - 6:30 PM - Exercise Club
Friday - 7:30 PM - Young Adult Bible Study and Fellowship
Sunday - 9:15 AM - Prayer Focus (Located in the Sanctuary)
Sunday - 9:15 AM - Sunday School
Sunday - 10:30 AM - Worship Service
Sunday - 11:00 AM - Junior Church
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Upcoming Events
- Women's Ministry Sunday - October 14
- Soldiers Meeting - October 14
- Women of the Word - October 15
- Girl Guard Lock-in - October 19-20
- United Divine Service - October 28
- Corps Cadet Sunday - November 4
- 3rd Annual Harvest Festival Dinner and Auction - November 4
- Young Adult Retreat - January 18-21, 2008
- MISSING Conference - February 1-2, 2008
This Week's Birthdays and Anniversaries
- Kira Madison-Hall - October 9
- Tamme Jaynes - October 11
- Sophia Barnard - October 13
Prayer List
- Please pray for Peggy and Monte’s cousin, Cyndi. After being cancer free for 6 years, her cancer has returned.
- Please pray for Major Marian Hanson. Her heart disease is progressing, and there is no treatment.
- Please pray for Dilbert Perdue as he recovers from knee surgery
- Please pray for Johnathan F. as he continues to recover from a serious knee injury
- Please pray for Bill, a volunteer at our food warehouse. He recently broke his leg and is in need of God’s healing touch
- Please pray that God will bring more volunteers to our Stop Hunger food Warehouse, and Family Services office. The need right now is great!
- pray for the wife of Ralph Medina, one of our volunteers. His wife continues to suffer from a heart/lung condition that is only worsening.
- Continue to pray for Judith, the wife of our custodian, Jerry. She continues to receive cancer treatments and is responding well. Also pray that they will both come to know the Lord.
- Please continue to pray for Bill Hibbard, a friend of Peggy and Monte, who is undergoing cancer treatment. The cancer in his stomach and glands appears to be gone, but there is still cancer in his bones.
- Please pray for Major Don Pack's health
- Please pray for Nina’s grandson, Samuel.
