TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - APRIL 12, 2023
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 9:28AM Easter Sunday
Today is April 12, 2023
Welcome to your mid-week!
This past Sunday was our Easter Joint Worship where our entire church - from EM to the Love Ministry to the Education Ministries - all worshipped together in the Main Sanctuary in our biannual, bilingual, multi-generational, multi-ethnic service.
And, on top of the message of Easter - that we have a life after this life; that there is a living hope that we have in Jesus Christ because he is risen - for me the next highlight would have to be how mixed and varied and yet together our church is because of Jesus Christ.
I mean, to have our new KM Worship Pastor lead bilingually a joint worship team made up of 4 different departments. To have EM members spread out amongst all those serving that day - from welcoming to the congregational prayer to the time of offering. To have our PTA Director translate the message next to Pastor Ko.
I couldn't help but think that only in Jesus Christ could this happen.
As Galatians 3:28 says, "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus"
That unity in that service in the midst of so much difference is the power of Christ who makes us one in him.
And the baptisms that were done at the end of that service serve as reminder of that unity and the hope that we have in Christ. How, through baptism, we are reminded that we are reborn into a new family as children of God, heirs to the Kingdom of Heaven.
And so, as we look back on Easter, let us remember our living hope, the unity we have in Christ, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. God's blessing upon you and I look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday.
- Rev. Frank Kim
Youtube link from last Sunday's Worship: HERE
Good Friday Service: HERE
Announcements
- Ministry Calendar
- April 14 (Fri) – Beach Cities Cell Group
- April 16 (Sun) – New Members Lunch [Postponed]
- April 20 (Thu) – YMF Cell Group
- April 22 (Sat) – Running Ministry – Wilson Park
- April 25 (Tues) – YP Cell Group
- April 30 (Sun) – PV Cell Group
- Education Announcements
- VBS Volunteers Needed!
- VBS runs from June 20-23, 2023
- Volunteers’ Meeting Schedule:
- 4/23 (Sun) – 1:30pm – 1st Meeting: VBS Intro
- 4/30 (Sun) – 1:30pm
- 5/20 (Sat) – 10am
- 6/4 (Sun) – 1:30pm
- 6/11 (Sun) – 1:30pm
- 6/17 (Sat) – 10am
- 6/18 (Sun) – 1:30pm
- Please check out the booth outside of the Children’s Chapel!
- Finance Office Announcement
- For Online Offering (found HERE) please make sure to select 'English Ministry' and to scroll down and type in where you would want your offering to go in the 'Note / memo' area.
