11.15.2018 “We Are Responding” From the EFCA In what has amounted to the deadliest wildfire in California history, 90 percent of Paradise, California, has been destroyed. More than 7,600 single-family homes and 260 commercial structures burnt to the ground. Forty-eight lives lost and hundreds more missing. The following is an excerpt from a blog post… Continue Reading
Join us for a special Thanksgiving Service happening THIS Sunday evening, November 18, at 6:00 p.m., in the Worship Center. There will be singing, prayer, testimonies of thankfulness, and a brief homily of exhortation. We’ll share refreshments and fellowship after. No childcare. Continue Reading
11.11.2018 Click HERE to download. Sermon Notes Have This Mind Among Yourselves Philippians 2 Tony Chute, Interim Pastor Introduction: Paul urges the Philippians to live out their partnership in the gospel by “being in full accord and of one mind.” His request for unity in the church never comes at the expense of theological truth, but rather… Continue Reading
Building a Legacy That Lasts By Pastor Taylor Mendoza Hello Church Family, A leadership guru, John Maxwell, once said that good leadership is influence, but great leadership is determined by the leader’s legacy. Legacy is what a leader leaves behind after he is gone. Legacy is the real proof test of whether or not that leader… Continue Reading
Save the dates! Winter Camps for our junior and senior highers and 4th-6th graders happen over the weekend of January 4-6, 2019, at Thousand Pines. Register online for each camp at the Student and K!Ds’ pages, or in the Foyer. Continue Reading
11.4.2018 Click HERE to download. Sermon Notes He Who Began a Good Work Will Complete It Philippians 1 Tony Chute, Interim Pastor Introduction: Paul’s letter to the Philippians begins with his thankfulness for their partnership in the gospel “from the first day until now.” He recognizes their status as saints before the Lord, expresses his confidence that… Continue Reading
By Rich Simpson Hello Church Family, This last summer I earned my Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University by completing research on the theory of transformational learning. My study involved interviews with small group participants at Northpoint Church. Knowing the robustness of Northpoint Church’s small group adult ministries that includes Sunday… Continue Reading
10.28.2018 Click HERE to download. Sermon Notes Glorifying God in Our Vocation Luke 3:10-14 Tony Chute, Interim Pastor Introduction: Reformation Sunday is an opportunity for us to give thanks to God for the recovery of the gospel and its application in the Christian life. Though observed on the last Sunday in October in commemoration of Martin Luther’s… Continue Reading
10.25.2018 Worship: Our Response to What God Has Done Hello Church Family, Easter is one of the biggest holidays in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church—it is a busy day full of rituals and ceremonies. On Easter, believers go to church and perform different kinds of spiritual activities—all under the guidance of the chief priest. At the… Continue Reading
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what… Continue Reading