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Adult Education
Night with Fr. Dale
Revival
This exciting evening will be a time of praise and worship, music, sacred scripture, and spiritual motivation. Refreshments will be served
Invite family members and friends.
Wednesday,
April 24:
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
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Prayer Retreat
with Deacon Cheryl Armstrong
and Deacon John Null
Saturday, April 27th, 10:00 am Building 412
Continental Breakfast served at 9:30 am
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The Children’s Ministry
this Sunday, April 28
from
9:45 am to 10:30 am
in Building 4:12.
Please contact Helen Dippre, our children’s minister, for more information on the Children’s Ministry here at PWC, [email protected].
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Kentucky Derby Social
Saturday, May 4
from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
...and They’re Off!!!
The 150th Running of the Kentucky Derby, right here at the Praise and Worship Center! Games! Food! Mocktails! Cococtails! Prizes for best lady’s hat and best men’s derby ware!
Last chance to get your $5.00 ticket is Sunday, April 28 after church.
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A Santa Fe Christmas Adventure!!!
There will be an information meeting for our next pilgrimage. On December 10-13, we will be traveling to Santa Fe for a Christmas adventure! Join us at Monday, May 6 at 7:00 pm, sign-ups will begin at this meeting.
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Our PWC
Easter Season Project
Please Support
NPH’s St. Damien
Pediatric Hospital
in Haiti
During the Easter Season, PWC will be supporting NPH’s (Nuestros Hermanos Pequenos) St. Damien Pediatric Hospital in Haiti with our loose change or other monetary donations. As you know, the situation is dire and bleak. NPH needs your support to continue the necessary work caring for children in Haiti. In a country of 11 million people, St. Damien is the only pediatric hospital in Haiti. Any amount you can contribute will help this necessary and urgent cause.
There will be a special basket for donations.
Here is more information on St. Damien Pediatric Hospital:
https://nphusa.org/haiti-programs/
Please see a special message from Fr. Rick Frechette:
YouTube Message
Our Goal is to Raise $5000,we are currently at $7500, our new goal is $10,000!
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Active Listening Lab with Fr. Mike Lessard
The Active Listening Lab I is a 40-hour course that will teach the language of healing using 11 different skills. The next class at PWC will take place May 2 through June 6
Click here to see the flier
for more information
To sign up for the class call, PCA, Pastoral Care Associates at 480-406-4746 or here at PWC at 480-649-0300
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Mosaic Art Class
Saturday, May 25:
12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
A PWC Fundraiser: Donation: $75.00
Make your own small mosaic art panel!!!
Please CLICK HERE
for the flier for more information and to register.
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Searching to quiet yourself in this busy world? Center yourself with Contemplative Prayer tonight, Wednesday, April 24 from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm in the office conference room.
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Our weekly online reflections are ministering to our community each week through the written word. This week is Tami Heinl next week will be Jody Serey. 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
Ronald Rolheiser
Never Grow Weary
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In the Second Letter to the Thessalonians, Paul ends a long, challenging admonition by stating: You must never grow weary of doing what is right. And in his letter to the Galatians, Paul also says: Let us not become weary of doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
This sounds so simple and yet it cuts to the heart of many of our moral struggles. We give up too soon, give in too soon, and don’t carry our solitude to its highest level. We simply don’t carry tension long enough.
All of us experience tension in our lives: in our families, in our friendships, in our places of work, in our churches, in our communities, and within our conversations around other people, politics, and current events. And, being good-hearted people, we carry that tension with patience, respect, graciousness, and forbearance – for a while!
Then, at a certain point we feel ourselves stretched to the limit, grow weary of doing what is right, feel something snap inside of us, and hear some inner voice say: Enough! I’ve put up with this too long! I won’t tolerate this anymore!
We let go of patience, respect, graciousness, and forbearance, either by venting and giving back in kind or simply by fleeing the situation with an attitude of good riddance. Either way, we refuse to carry the tension any longer.
But that exact point, when we have to choose between giving up or holding on, carrying tension or letting it go, is a crucial moral site, one that determines character: Big-heartedness, nobility of character, deep maturity, and spiritual sanctity often manifest themselves around these questions: How much tension can we carry? How great is our patience and forbearance? How much can we put up with?
Of course this comes with a caveat: Carrying tension does not mean carrying abuse. Jesus loved, challenged, and absorbed tension in a way that took away the sins of the world. We know that no matter how noble our intention, when we absorb abuse as opposed to challenging it, we don’t take away the sin, we enable it.
Men and women are noble of character precisely when they can walk with patience, respect, graciousness, and forbearance amid crushing and unfair tensions, when they never grow weary of doing what is right.
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Please pray for and remember those who are financially insecure, especially the elderly and those with children. We continue to pray for peace in our world and in our hearts.
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Love,
Fr. Dale and Pastor Mark
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