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What a wonderful Women of Faith Luncheon we had last Saturday, December 6. The church was packed, the food was great and the decorations were beautiful! Our guest speaker, Rita Davenport, was absolutely incredible and the concert by McKaylee Todd was truly inspirational! Special thanks go to Sylvia Monroe and all the women who set everything up. They did an awesome job! Also, we cannot forget all the men who served during this special event!
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Advent Worship Night
with Carl Hergesell
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Please Note the New Time:
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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Starting this Sunday, December 7
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50/50 Annual
Advent/Christmas Raffle
Drawing on Christmas Eve
Tickets: $20.00 or six for $100.00
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Our theme for Advent Christmas 2025 is Manger Throne. Click here for more information on Manger Throne:
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Recovery Café is need of your financial support to continue their mission!
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Recovery Café is a community of friendship and healing serving over 350 people a week who are desiring recovery. To financially support Recovery Café, please drop off at check at the church office or at Recovery Café: 2992 N. Alma School Road, Suite 3, Chandler
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Please make out your check to “Recovery Café”
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Cross Shop Sale
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Angels, Birds and Gold Florals
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On sale: 20% Off
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Now through Sunday, December 14
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This Sunday, December 14
9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
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Please contact Helen Dipree for more information about the Children’s Ministry @ [email protected].
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Christmas Eve, Wednesday,
December 24 -- 4:30 p.m.
Christmas Day, Thursday,
December 25 -- 10:00 a.m.
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Pastoral Counseling is available at PWC
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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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Our Weekly Online Reflections
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Check out a new reflection for Monday, December 8 from Deb Smith. Here is the link:
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Our proposed trip to Portugal in October 2026 has been cancelled. Although the response was very positive, the trip would have been a difficult one. Thank you for your support!
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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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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 Struggle to Will One Thing
One of my favorite definitions of what makes a saint comes from Soren Kierkegaard who once wrote: “To be a saint is to will the one thing.”
Choosing something in fidelity is one of the hardest things to do in the whole world. As Thomas Aquinas says, every choice is a renunciation. Simply put: If you choose to marry one person, you can’t marry someone else; if you choose to live on one city, you can’t live in another; and if you choose to spend your time and energies in one place, you can’t spend them somewhere else. We can’t have it all!
And yet we want it all and we are built to have it all.
Henri Nouwen once described his own struggles in choosing: I want to be a great saint, he wrote, but I also want to experience all the sensations that sinners have; I want to spend long hours in prayer, but I don’t want to miss anything on television; and I want to live in radical simplicity, but I also want to have a comfortable apartment, the freedom to travel, and all the things I need to be a professional scholar and writer. Small wonder my life is trying and tiring! It’s not easy to be single-minded, to be a saint – or to be a human being, for that matter.
Our hearts and souls contain more things than we honestly admit. For this reason, I have always leaned towards authors who have tried to honestly face and name this, teachers who haven’t denied or made light of our sexual complexity, and spiritualities that have taken seriously the fact that, given human nature with all its grandiosity, we shouldn’t be so surprised to see in our world a lot of jealousy, breakdown depression, anger, and violence. Even our most intimate relationships aren’t simple.
Becoming a saint has a real cost: Hard choice, commitment, single-mindedness, willing the one thing, renouncing whatever stands in the way, sweating blood to remain faithful, and sustaining the emotional, sexual, and spiritual asceticism needed to protect that choice.
We have to make choices, accept the painful renunciations inside those choices and will the one thing: God and faithful service of others, because ultimately our sadness comes from the fact that we are not yet saints.
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We pray your Advent is going well!
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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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Chris Pfund PhD, MBA, BSN, RN
President Homestead Health
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phone: (602) 755-4508
fax: (602) 691-0283
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