TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - MARCH 20, 2024

The Faith of Paul and Barnabas

Today is March 20, 2024

Welcome to your mid-week!

When talking about the topic of discipline, Mike Tyson once said: “Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it.”

The difference between that discipline and our spiritual discipline is that our spiritual discipline is not about getting what we want or trying to achieve what we desire. It is about getting what God wants. It is about achieving what God desires for us.

For Apostle Paul and Barnabas, they did not go out on the first missionary journey of the early church expecting success. Nor did they expect to be persecuted, threatened, and attacked, which they were.

The only clear conviction was that they needed to go. And that conviction came from

worship and fasting and prayer and confirmation

Once they knew what God wanted them to do, it was all about them saying ‘yes’ and being disciplined in doing God’s conviction for them, no matter the results.

That is the faith we see Paul and Barnabas do. And that is the faith that resonates.

God’s blessing as you seek God’s conviction in your life and meditate on what it means to be disciplined in your faith, and I look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday.

- Rev. Frank Kim

Youtube link from last Sunday's Worship: HERE

Cell Group Discussion: HERE

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Announcements

• Good Friday Service is Mar 29, 7:30pm in the EM Chapel

  Families with youth and elementary kids are welcome to join.

• Easter Joint Worship is Mar 31, 11:30am in the Main Chapel

  This will be a bilingual service with Elementary, Youth, EM, and KM. Pre-K will have a separate service as normal. There will be no EM 9:45am worship service that Sunday.

• 2024 TFPC Summer Overseas Short-Term Mission ‘Product Donation’ & ‘Designated Offering’

  We ask for your prayers and support of our summer short-term missions (Philippines, Honduras, Uganda & Malawi)

  1) Mission field goods donation: Sunglasses and reading glasses

  2) If giving an designated offering please write ‘Short-term mission support’

  3) Love Sharing Bazaar

  • Held on April 13th (Saturday) and April 14th (Sunday).

  • Items: Side dishes, bibim sauce, braised sauce, sesame oil, perilla oil, red pepper paste, soybean paste, etc.

• 2024 TFPC Summer Golf Tournament

  A golf tournament to support short-term summer missions. Date: Saturday, April 6, 10 a.m. First 80 people to apply. Where: Chester Washington (1818 Charlie Sifford Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90047). Application: Parish Lobby. Contact Elder Eunhyeon Jeong for questions (213-820-5100). Deadline Mar 31.

Ministry Calendar

• March 24 (Sun) - Make-up Membership Class

• March 24 (Sun) - Palm Sunday - Communion

• March 29 (Fri) - Good Friday - Joint with Youth in the EM Chapel, 7:30pm

• March 31 (Sun) – Easter – Joint Worship

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.   

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