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Can you believe it? We are quickly heading into September!!! Unfortunately, it is not cooling down! Please try to stay cool this week and check out all the good stuff that is happening at PWC during the fall!
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The PWC Fall 2025 Calendar is here!
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Click here for all the activities going on at PWC during September, October, November and December
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Casino Night & Dinner
@ PWC
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Saturday Evening, October 18, 2025
Please click below for all the details.
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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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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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Marriage Enrichment: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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Men’s Ministry: 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
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Women of Faith Bible Fellowship
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Bible Study with Fr. Dale: 8:45 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
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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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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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The office will be closed on Monday, September 1 in honor of Labor Day.
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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
The Seamless Garment
John of the Cross teaches that you cannot be a saint or a highly moral person if you allow yourself a moral exemption or two. Thus, I may not allow myself to split off one moral flaw or sinful habit and see it as unimportant in the light of the overall good that I do.
The same is true for our efforts to protect life and foster justice in our world. The protection of life and the promotion of justice are all of one piece. We cannot be an authentic prophet and have a few moral blind spots.
We cannot treat issues like abortion, nuclear war, lack of ecological sensitivity, the plight of refugees, racism, sexism, poverty and inequality, poor access to health care, unequal access to education, sexual irresponsibility, and discrimination against the LGBTQ community in isolation from each other, as if these were wholly discrete issues. Whether we admit it or not, these areas are all inextricably interconnected.
Those of us who are concerned about abortion need to accept that the problem of abortion cannot be effectively addressed without at the same time addressing issues of poverty, access to health care, sexual morality, and even capital punishment. Abortion is driven more by poverty and lack of adequate support than by any ideology. The struggle against abortion must also focus on the issues of poverty and support for pregnant women. As well, to morally accept killing in one area (capital punishment) helps sanction its acceptance in another area (abortion). Sexual morality must also be addressed since abortion is the inevitable biproduct of a society within which two people who are not married to each other have sex with each other.
Of course, nobody is asked to give equal energy to every justice issue in the world. Knowing that these issues are all of one piece does demand that we always recognize that however important our issue, we may not see it as an issue that can be dealt with within one ideological, political, or religious silo. We must always be sensitive to the whole, to the big picture, to the intricate interconnections among all these social issues.
All the issues that deal with justice and peace are of one piece, one seamless garment and like the soldiers casting dice for Jesus’ clothing, we should hesitate to tear this garment into different pieces.
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Please pray for peace and justice in our world.
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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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