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We hope you and your family had a wonderful Labor Day weekend! Now, onward!!! September is here and we have a lot of great spiritual activities planned for you! Check out all the amazing stuff!
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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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Attention all married couples!
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This Friday, September 5:
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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A wonderful time of fellowship with other married couples and growth in your relationship with your spouse. Dinner will be provided!
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The PWC Men’s Ministry kicks off the Fall season.
This Saturday, September 6:
9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
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We will be starting our new and exciting semester theme entitled: “Finishing Well.” All men are welcome to attend!
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Women of the PWC Community and your friends --
this is for you!
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Women of Faith Bible Fellowship
Saturday, September 6
from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
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Become part of this dynamic women’s ministry by growing in your faith and love of Jesus through scripture.
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Sunday Morning Bible Study
with Fr. Dale
This Sunday, September 7: 8:45 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Building 4:12
Subject: What the Bible Teaches About the Early Church
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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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Pizza and Pre-Planning
for Funerals
Wednesday, September 10:
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. @ PWC
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Receive information and learn about planning for your funeral. Take the burden off your loved ones.
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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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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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Casino Night & Dinner
@ PWC
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Saturday Evening, October 18, 2025
Please click below for all the details.
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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
Go On, Ahead…
“I go on ahead to prepare a place for you!” Jesus speaks those words to his disciples on the eve of his death as he sits at table with them and senses their sadness as they grapple with his dying. His words are meant to console them and give them the assurance that they aren’t being abandoned. It’s just that he is going on ahead to prepare a place for them to come and join him later.
One of my sisters was the mother of a large young family, when she died of cancer, seemingly too young to leave her young children behind. The days leading up to her death were a sacred time and before she died, she told me what I should say at her funeral liturgy. She had chosen that exact text where Jesus, on the night before he dies, tells his heavy-hearted disciples that he is going ahead, to prepare a place for them. She shared how, before every one of her children was born, before she went to the hospital to give birth, she had carefully prepared everything at home for the new arrival. Now she was going on ahead of them again, to prepare another place for them.
I preached those words at her funeral and despite our grief, her raw testimony of faith left us with an image that placed us all inside a bigger story, a faith-narrative. Her “going ahead” was also showing us all how to die, something we all someday must do. In her dying, she prepared a place for us.
“I go on ahead to prepare a place for you” is a metaphor which defines the essential task of our adult, mature years. Our task of as “elders” is to live in such a way so as to create a place where the young can follow.
That is both a noble and humble task. Most of us cannot live up to the lofty ideals we see lived out in the lives of the great saints, though their lives have created an ideal place for us. However, while not everyone can live as Mother Teresa did, perhaps they can live like you do and your life can be their exemplar for meaning, wholeness, anonymous sanctity, and dying without unnecessary fear.
What a grace to have someone go on ahead to prepare a place for you!
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Please pray for those in our community who are struggling to economically provide for their family.
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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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