Dear Friend,

We hope your week is going well! Check out all the “good stuff” happening at PWC this week!

Casino Night & Dinner
@ PWC

Saturday Evening, October 18, 2025

Tickets and table sponsors are available through the office for Casino Night.

A night of music, games and friendship!!

We are looking for table sponsors (gaming tables) which includes:
Name of your business or family name at the table.

Two event tickets include your dinner and $250.00 in playing money. On sale in the office.

We only have 120 spots available, so get your tickets soon!
If you have any questions, please call Tami at the office, 480-649-0300.

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God and Coffee: Christian Communities

Tonight, Wednesday, October 1

Please note new starting time, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Attention all married couples!

This Friday, October 3,
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

A wonderful time of fellowship with other married couples, and growth in your relationship with your spouse. Dinner will be provided!

This Saturday, October 4,
9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

We will continue our semester theme: “Finishing Well” All men are welcome to attend!!!

Women of the PWC Community and your friends --
this is for you!

Women of Faith Bible Fellowship

This Saturday, October 4
from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Become part of this dynamic women’s ministry by growing in your faith and love of Jesus through scripture.

Blessing of Animals

This Saturday, October 4 at 12:00 p.m. in the PWC parking lot. Bring your pets!!!!

this Sunday, October 5

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].

FYI -- there is NO Bible Study this Sunday morning, October 5.

In Need of Pastoral Counseling?

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. 

Children’s Worship Service

Sunday, November 2
@ 10:00 a.m. in Building 4:12.

All are welcome!

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.

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!

Here are the different ways you can tithe to PWC:

• Mail in your gift to: Praise and Worship Center, 2551 N. Arizona Avenue, Chandler, AZ 85225.

• Donate on our web page: Donation Form.

• 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.

Our weekly online reflections are ministering 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. Meanwhile, please check out past reflections here:

PWC Reflections Page

FYI -- NEW reflections start Monday, October 13.

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:

PWC Podcasts Page

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.

A Reflection
by Ronald Rolheiser

The Little Way

Most of us have heard of St. Therese of Lisieux, a French mystic who died at age 24 in 1897 and who is perhaps one of the most popular saints of the last two centuries. She’s famous for many things, not least for a spirituality she called her “little way”. What’s her “little way”?

Popular thought has often encrusted both Therese and her “little way” within a simple piety which doesn’t do justice to the depth of her person or her spirituality. Too often her “little way” is understood simply to mean that we do little, hidden, humble, acts of charity for others in the name of Jesus, without expecting anything in return. In this popular interpretation we do the laundry, peel potatoes, and smile at unpleasant people to please Jesus. In some ways, of course, this is true; however, her “little way” merits a deeper understanding.

Therese’s “little way” is a path to sanctity based on three things: Littleness, Anonymity, and a Particular Motivation.

For Therese “littleness” does not refer first of all to the littleness of the act that we are doing, like the humble tasks of doing the laundry, peeling potatoes, or giving a simple smile to someone who’s unpleasant. It refers to our own littleness, to our own radical poverty before God. Before God, we are little. To accept and act out of that constitutes humility. We move towards God and others in her “little way” when we do small acts of charity for others, not out of our strength and the virtue we feel at that moment, but rather out of a poverty, powerlessness, and emptiness that allows God’s grace to work through us so that in doing what we’re doing we’re drawing others to God and not to ourselves.

As well, our littleness makes us aware that, for the most part, we cannot do the big things that shape world history. But we can change the world more humbly, by sowing a hidden seed, by being a hidden antibiotic of health inside the soul of humanity, and by splitting the atom of love inside our own selves. And yes, too, the “little way” is about doing little, humble, hidden things.