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We are looking forward to seeing you at this Sunday for service, and then at the Ministry Fair right after service. Please take a look at all the good things happening at PWC!
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A Spiritual Reflection for Your Weekend
by Henri Nouwen
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Freedom From Letting Go
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I have noticed in my own life that people I do not like have power over me because I am always thinking about them. They preoccupy me and have control over my thinking. I find myself jealous, resentful, and vengeful. I lose peace. I am holding on to these people as my enemies. Loving our enemies is the way of becoming free of our enemies. We free ourselves by letting go, by loving them, by caring for them. One of the most beautiful things is when we let the enemy go out of our heart by love and forgiveness, we are suddenly free to let that unlimited, all-embracing love of God pour into us. We become a new person every time we forgive an enemy, because we let go of the angry person inside who was holding on to fear. The core of our faith is to be free people – free from the power we give to our enemies, free to love every human being with the divine love that always forgives, seven times seven and seven again.
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Join us for Sunday Worship @ PWC
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this Sunday, September 14
at 10:00 a.m.
The Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross
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Make the in-person commitment to be there on Sunday! Praise and Worship Never Ends…..It Must Be Lived!
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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
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Our September
Sip and Share
today, Friday, September 12,
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Arrive to Sunday service prepared to hear God’s word proclaimed.
The reading for this Sunday, September 14, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross is Philippians 2:6-11.
Here is a synopsis and reflection of the reading.
On this feast, the Church lifts up the Cross not as a sign of defeat, but as the place of Christ’s greatest triumph. St. Paul’s hymn in Philippians 2 gives us a powerful lens to see this mystery.
Paul tells us that Jesus, “though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped.” Instead of clinging to power, He chose to empty Himself, to take on the form of a slave, and to become obedient “to the point of death—even death on a cross.”
The Cross is shocking when we see it through the eyes of the world. It is an instrument of torture and humiliation. But through the eyes of faith, the Cross is the throne of Christ. It is there that we see the depth of His humility and the greatness of His love. It is there that the words “God so loved the world” are made flesh.
Because of His humility, Paul tells us, “God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name above every name.” The way of the Cross—the way of self-emptying love—is not the end. It leads to glory. The Cross is exalted because it is the path through which salvation has entered the world.
For us as Christians, this hymn is both comfort and challenge. It comforts us because Christ has gone before us: He took on our suffering, bore our sins, and transformed the very symbol of death into the tree of life. But it also challenges us to live in His way of humility. To “have the same mind that was in Christ Jesus” means to let go of pride, ambition, or the need to grasp for power, and instead to take the path of service and love.
Today, as we exalt the Cross, we do not glorify suffering itself. We glorify the One who, through the Cross, revealed the greatest love the world has ever known. May our lives, like His, become a living hymn of self-giving love, so that in us too, “every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
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Have a wonderful week! Please remember and pray for those who are sick in our PWC community.
We will see you on Sunday for service at 10:00 a.m.! If you are out of town, please join us on Facebook Live.
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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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