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Fr. Dale’s Lenten Bible Study on the Passion of Christ Continues!
This week’s topic: The Arrest of Jesus
Join us this coming Sunday morning March 10, & March 17 in Building 4:12
from 8:45 am to 9:30 am.
This is a great way to start the Lenten Season!
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Our Theme for Lent Easter 2024 at PWC is
This is Our God: He Loves Us, He Saves Us
It is based on the song This is Our God from Phil Wickham, here is a link to the song:
YouTube Link to song.
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The Children’s Ministry will meet this coming Sunday, March 10 from 9:45 am to 10:30 am in Building 4:12. Please contact Helen Dippre, our children’s minister, for more information at [email protected].
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The Grief Support Group will meet on Thursday, March 14 and 28 from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. For more information, please contact Pastor Mark.
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FYI: PWC recently made a $500.00 donation to Feed My Starving Children as part of our outreach to the greater good and community. Your generosity to PWC allows us to minister to others! Thank you for your stewardship!
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Planning Ahead for Easter: Easter Sunday falls on March 31 this year, our services will be at 7:00 am outside and 10:00 am in the church.
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Our weekly online reflections are ministering to our community each week through the written word. This week is Jody Serey and next week will be Fr. Mike Lessard. Click on our Weekly Reflection Tile and be supported in your faith life! Here is the link: PWC Reflections Page
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Do you want to be inspired again by Fr. Dale or Pastor Mark? You can re-listen to Fr. Dale or Pastor Mark’s sermons on our podcast page, here is the link: PWC Podcasts Page.
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Fr. Mike Lessard is available for pastoral counseling on Monday and Wednesday mornings. Please call the church office to make an appointment at 480-649-0300.
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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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From pastoral counseling to grief support, to Bible Study, to 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! Your generosity allows 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!
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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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A Reflection
from Henri Nouwen
The New Self
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Jesus’ command, “Be compassionate as your Father is compassionate,” is a command to participate in the compassion of God himself. He requires us to unmask the illusion of our competitive selfhood, to give up clinging to our imaginary distinctions as sources of identity, and to be taken up into the same intimacy with God which he himself knows. This is the mystery of the Christian life: to receive a new self, a new identity, which depends not on what we can achieve, but on what we are willing to receive. This new self is our participation in the divine life in and through Christ. Jesus wants us to belong to God as he belongs to God; he wants us to be children of God as he is a child of God; he wants us to let go of the old life, which is so full of fears and doubts, and to receive the new life, the life of God himself. In and through Christ we receive a new identity that enables us to say, “I am not the esteem I can collect through competition, but the love I have freely received from God.” It allows us to say with Paul, “I live now not with my own life but with the life of Christ who lives in me.” (Gal. 2:20)
This new self, the self of Jesus Christ, makes it possible for us to be compassionate as our Father is compassionate. Through union with him, we are lifted out of our competitiveness with each other into the divine wholeness. By sharing in the wholeness of the one in whom no competition exists, we can enter into new, compassionate relationships with each other. By accepting our identities from the one who is the giver of all life, we can be with each other without distance or fear.
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Please continue to pray for peace in our world, especially in the Middle East and Ukraine as well as for peace in violent neighborhoods in our community.
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Love,
Fr. Dale and Pastor Mark
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