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It is great to see so many of our community members back from summer vacation! We have a lot going on at PWC. Please check out the Ministry Fair this coming Sunday after Service.
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Pizza and Pre-Planning
for Funerals
Today, 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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Ministry Fair This Sunday
@ PWC
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We have an incredible Ministry Fair planned for this Sunday, September 14 after Service. You will have the opportunity to see what is going on at PWC and get involved in a ministry.
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Together in Hope: Widow and Widowers
Our September Sip and Share
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This Friday, September 12, 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Have questions? Please call Tami Heinl at 480-228-9917. We hope to see you there!
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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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Sunday Morning Bible Study
with Fr. Dale continues
this Sunday, September 14, 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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The Prayer Chain is
back up and running!
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Stop by their booth on Sunday during the Ministry Fair to sign up or leave a prayer.
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This Sunday, September 14
from 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in Building 4:12
Please contact Helen Dipree for more information about the Children’s Ministry @ [email protected].
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Life Line Screening
@ PWC
Monday, September 29:
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
To sign up call: 800-324-9458; Use code: HABC001
Click below for more information:
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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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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 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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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
When Doing Nothing is Enough
All of us know the feeling of standing within a situation and being powerless, at least in that we are helpless to change anything practically.
To stand powerless before a situation is to ponder. We see the prototype of this in Jesus' mother Mary under the cross. Faced with the reality of the crucifixion, she “ponders”. On the surface, it doesn’t seem like she’s doing anything, but we know that something very important is occurring underneath the surface.
Scripture tells us is that Mary stood there. Standing, however, connoted strength. Even in the face of the crucifixion, she was strong, not prostrate in helplessness. Mary said not a single word. At that moment, nothing that she could have said would have made any difference. Under the cross, she was powerless both in that there was nothing she could do, not a single thing, to stop the crucifixion and in that she was just as helpless to protest her son’s innocence. She’s powerless. Silent. There’s no protest. All she can do is ponder, hold the tension, stand silently amidst the misunderstanding, bigotry, and jealousy and, in that, try to gestate its opposite – understanding, compassion, and love.
This concept of pondering, of silently carrying the tension so as to transform it – is both important and consoling. It’s important because, as we know, we often we find ourselves in situations not dissimilar to what Mary experienced under the cross. We are sometimes in situations within which all that is dearest to us is misunderstood and crucified and we are helpless to do anything about it. We are, in those moments, inadequate, powerless, mute.
Like Mary under the cross, we can live without answers, without being able to justify ourselves, without being able to resolve things, bearing what seems unbearable. When the unbearable is born, space is created for things to be resolved later, by a new circumstance and a new power.
Pondering, bearing the unbearable, is waiting inside of tension in order that our own souls can grow so that we don’t give back hurt for hurt, bitterness for bitterness, hatred for hatred. Sometimes all we can do is to stand silently, bearing the tension, waiting for our hearts do something our actions can’t -- namely, transmute misunderstanding into understanding, confusion into insight, anger into blessing, and hatred into love.
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Please pray for peace in our world, especially in Ukraine and for those who struggle to find peace in hearts. May the peace of Christ reign in our hearts and in our world.
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Love,
Fr. Dale & Pastor Mark
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