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We hope your week is off to a good start! We are planning for the fall with lots of wonderful activities created to assist you in your relationship with Jesus and our community! The fall calendar and more details are coming soon!
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In Need of Pastoral Counseling?
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Fr. Mike Lessard is available for pastoral counseling on Wednesdays at PWC. Please call the church office to make an appointment at 480-649-0300.
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Children’s Ministry begins
Sunday, September 7
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from 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in Building 4:12.
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Beginning this Fall…
All Adult Education classes
on Wednesday evenings will be
from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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Casino
Night & Dinner
@ PWC
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Saturday Evening,
October 18, 2025
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Due to technical difficulties, our Prayer Chain is suspended temporarily.
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We hope to re-activate it in mid-September. In the meantime, please feel free to request prayers from the pastors and the staff.
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Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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Pastoral Care Associates presents
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Second Annual Healthcare Symposium
This year's theme is:
Finding Inner Strength: How Spiritual Care Helps Healthcare Professionals Cope with Stress
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Visit our website to sign up, or call Rev. Michael Lessard to volunteer to help: 480-406-4746
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Blood Pressure Checks take place at PWC on the first and third Sundays of the month from 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Our medical team is providing the blood pressure checks.
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At PWC
your tithing & generosity allow us to minister to so many who come through our doors with their spiritual, emotional, and physical needs.
Thank you for your tithing and
commitment to PWC!
From pastoral counseling to grief support, to bible study and adult education, to providing food through Matthew’s Crossing for families who are economically struggling, to Marriage Enrichment and our funeral ministry -- your consistent giving makes a difference, a big change in people’s lives!
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Here are the different ways you can tithe to PWC:
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• Mail in your gift to: Praise and Worship Center, 2551 N. Arizona Avenue, Chandler, AZ 85225.
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• Sign up for monthly giving with a credit card or voided check. Just call the office at 480-649-0300 or stop by the office.
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Our weekly online reflections are ministering to our community each week through the written word. We are taking a break for the summer and giving our writers a chance to refresh themselves. Meanwhile, please check out past reflections here:
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Do you want to be inspired again by Fr. Dale or Pastor Mark? You can listen to Fr. Dale or Pastor Mark’s sermons on our podcast page. Here is the link:
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Are you homebound? If so, Deacon John Null can bring you communion. The only exception is if you have or are recovering from COVID. The best way to get in touch with Deacon John is by contacting the church office, at 480-649-0300, and leaving a message.
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A Reflection
by Ronald Rolheiser
Conflicting Voices
We are drowning in a sea of voices.
One example is in advertising. Everywhere around us, billboards, radio, television, newspapers, magazines, the internet, and the fashion industry, hold out the promise of something better for us – a new soap, a new lover, a new philosophy of life.
We also experience this sea of voices as a great tension. The different voices we hear pull us in many directions and, after a while, we’re no longer sure who we are, what we believe in, or what will bring us life. Different voices tell us different things, and each voice seems to carry its own truth.
On the one hand, there’s a powerful voice beckoning us towards self-sacrifice, self-renunciation, altruism, heroism, telling us that happiness lies in giving life away, that selfishness will make us unhappy, and that we will only be ourselves when we are big-hearted, generous, and put the needs of others before our own.
We know the truth of that: it is Jesus’ voice telling us that there is no greater love, nor meaning, than to lay down one’s life for others. We admire people who radiate that kind of heroism, selflessness, and bigness-of-heart.
There’s also a powerful, persistent voice seemingly calling us in the opposite direction. Superficially, this is the voice calling us towards pleasure, comfort, and security, the voice that tells us to take care of ourselves, to drink in life’s pleasures to the full, to seize the day while it’s still ours to seize.
More deeply, this is the voice that challenges us not to be too timid or fearful to be a full human being. This voice invites us to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy the wonderful energy, colour, wit, intelligence, and creativity that makes the world go round and makes life worth living.
The temptation, at least in religious circles, is to over-simplistically identify the voice of Jesus with the voice that calls us toward self-sacrifice and asceticism. We sometimes become unhealthily fearful, timid, and guilt-ridden. Whenever this happens, the other voice, the one inviting us to enter more fully into life’s dance of energy, is not blotted out but driven underground and there, because we have neglected part of what God has called us to, instead of becoming martyrs, we become people with “martyr-complexes”, frustrated persons whose energies become negative and manipulative in the name of love and service.
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Let us remember in prayer and in action those within our community who toil with economic issues and struggle to provide for their families.
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Love,
Fr. Dale & Pastor Mark
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Keep up with all your PWC friends on Facebook
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