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Wonderful ministering is happening at PWC! If you have been sitting on the sidelines, now is the time to check out and see what is going on at PWC..
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God and Coffee: Church Families
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Tonight, Wednesday, September 24
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Please note new starting time, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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Sunday Morning Bible Study
with Fr. Dale continues
this Sunday, September 28,
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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Casino Night & Dinner
@ PWC
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Saturday Evening, October 18, 2025
Tickets and table sponsors are available
through the office for Casino Night.
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Please click below for all the details.
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The Gift Shop's Annual Anniversary Sale
This Sunday, September 28, 2025
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Now is the time to buy your Christmas gifts at least 50% off the original price. Stock up and save!
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this Sunday, September 28
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
Friday, September 26
from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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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Children’s Worship Service
Sunday, November 2
@ 10:00 a.m. in Building 4:12.
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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 minister to our community each week through the written word. We took a break for the summer to give our writers a chance to refresh themselves. 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
Handling Resentment
in Our Lives
Anthropologist Rene Girard says that resentment and jealousy are present inside of virtually every human community and family because we’re “mimetic”, which means, among other things, that we always want what others have.
Anthropologists also tell us that we try to rid ourselves of tension by scapegoating. Essentially, what that means is we create community with each other by projecting our tension onto someone else. By exiling that person from our community we create community with each other; but our unity is then based upon what we are against rather than upon what we are for.
We all do the same thing to cope with tension in our private lives. For whatever reason, we sometimes feel out of sorts, weighed down by a mixture of free-floating frustration, anxiety, and anger. So what do we do? We find someone to blame. Invariably we will soon pick someone (in our family, at our place of work, or a politician, or a religious figure) on whom to place that tension. Someone whom we consider difficult, or ignorant, or politically wrong, or morally corrupt, or religiously bad will soon bear the weight of our tension and resentment.
We will project our tension and anger onto that other not just because he or she is different from ourselves but because we feel ourselves as morally superior to him or her: we’re right and he’s wrong; we’re good and she’s bad. Thus, our resentment towards that person is a holy resentment, necessary for the cause of God, and truth, and goodness. Such are all crucifixions, hangings, and excommunications.
The ultimate victim of scapegoating was Jesus, who invites us to something higher, and models that for us in the way he died. Jesus took away tension by transforming it rather than by transmitting it. Jesus, as the Lamb of God, took away our sins and purified us in his blood not by some divine magic but, precisely, by absorbing and transforming our sin. He took in hatred, held it, transformed it, and gave back love; he took in jealousy, held it, transformed it, and gave back affirmation; he took in resentment, held it, transformed it, and gave back compassion; and ultimately, he took in murder, held it, transformed it, and gave back forgiveness.
That’s the Christian design for taking tension and resentment out of our lives.
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Please pray for those who have no one to pray for them -- especially the poor and the homeless -- and for those who have no power or have no one to stand up for them.
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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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Please do not reply to this email;
the sending address is not monitored.
Please reply to: [email protected]
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