Good morning everyone! Mark Pierce here with your weekly Church Requel "What's Happening" blog post. I hope this message finds you doing well and looking forward to a wonderful weekend. Whatever your plans for Saturday and Sunday, I hope you'll end your Sunday with us.
We will continue our current sermon series, The God Life, with part 4: "Keeping My Eye On The Ball." Our primary Bible text will be the parable of the Sower and the Seeds, found in Luke 8:11-15. I've had so much enjoyment preparing your talk for Sunday night. We'll look at this most famous of Jesus' parables through a baseball lens. It is baseball season after all. (And it's still early enough in the season that there's still hope for the Indians!) I have a humorous video lined up to introduce our talk. We'll also pull a song out of the 1995 archives as we listen to Geoff Moore and the Distance sing "Home Run."
Our Sympathies To Diana. Dwight Miller, Diana Devolder's father, passed away Thursday morning. We extend our condolences to Diana and her family. Calling hours will be Sunday at Wappner in Ontario from 1pm - 3pm. The funeral service, also at Wappner, will be held Monday morning at 10:30. More info, including Dwight's obituary, may be found here.
New Members Class June 9th. Several of you have mentioned that you would like to join the church. We are letting you know about this June 9th class so that you can make sure you keep this Saturday free. We'll start at 8:30am and will finish by 2:30pm. A continental breakfast and lunch will be included. If you come to the class you are not obligated to become a member. This is the best way to learn everything you ever wanted to know about Church Requel! There is no cost to attend. Email me if you would like to reserve your seat.
Church Requel Podcast Every Monday! Do you know about this? Every Monday morning I put together the Church Requel podcast. What's a podcast? It's an audio program that you can download from the Internet. It's like a radio show. Every week I talk about the things going on at Church Requel. Then we include the audio sermon from the Sunday night before. Here's a link to the podcast feed. Listen to the podcast here.
This is a great way to become a Church Requel insider. It's like sitting down and having a conversation with me every week. I love podcasts! I listen in the car when I'm driving and when I exercise. There's never any hurry or time constraints because I'm usually doing something else at the same time.
I'm putting together an email list of people who want to know when the podcast is actually up and ready to go every week. If you would like to receive this Monday message, send me an email. You also will have the chance to comment and share your comments with others who are on the podcast mailing list!
That will do it for this week. Keep your prayers going for Dick Jourdan and Lincoln Bohnke. Also pray for Diana. This will be a tough weekend for her.
Love you all much! Pastor Mark
