TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - MAY 20, 2020

Proper Thanks

Today is May 20, 2020

Welcome to your mid-week!

When Apostle Paul was in jail, the church of Philippi sent gifts to him. This prompted Apostle Paul to write a letter to them - Philippians - and, in his opening, he expresses his thanksgiving to God for them.

Despite Apostle Paul's lack of experience and training as a church planter, despite being in jail and unable to minister to them directly, this church partnered with Apostle Paul in the gospel and had become his Christian family.

By the grace of God the church of Philippi had grown and matured and, so, Apostle Paul couldn't help but be joyful and confident in his thanksgiving telling them that it is proper to thank the Lord for them.

Apostle Paul reminds us that, in times like this, it is good to reflect on the people in our lives who have done us good. The gospel of Christ has connected us with so many people that have been like the church of Philippi to us and it is proper to give thanks to the Lord for them.

God's blessing and protection over you as you reflect on your church of Philippi and I look forward to worshiping with you all online next week.

- Frank Kim

Youtube Link to last Sunday's Worship: HERE
Family Devotional Material given the day of: HERE
Cell Group Discussion for your mid-week: HERE

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Announcements

• VBS has been postponed, as of now, to October and will be a Harvest Festival/VBS. However, please note that, due to the pandemic, everything is subject to change.
• EM Family Retreat has been canceled.
• TFPC has created a '5 Loaves & 2 Fish' Ministry. If you are able, please donate dry goods, cleaning supplies, and paper products to the main lobby. If you are in need, please stop by the church lobby and take whatever is available for you and your family.
• KM is encouraging all families to pray together for those effected by the coronavirus at 9pm daily.
• Women's Cell Group is meeting each Friday via Zoom. 7:30pm. Please contact Anna Benedict for more information.
• College Cell Group will be meeting each Friday via Zoom. Please contact Pastor Diana for more information.
• PV Cell Group will be meeting each Sunday via Zoom. 3pm. Please contact Pastor Frank for more information.
• YMF Cell Group is meeting each Thursday via Zoom. 7:30pm. Please contact Pastor Frank for more information.
• Sunday Worship will only be offered online, following California's stay-at-home order. As of now, in-person services will begin when we begin phase 3 of California's 4 phase opening strategy.
• For those wanting to do family worship instead of watching the live stream/online worship service, you can find the family worship devotional on the teministry.com website. Click on the 'Live Stream' tab on Sunday and check the announcements for a link. Previous ones can be found HERE along with previous sermons and praise sets.
• Offering can be done via online HERE or via mail: P.O. Box 622, Torrance, CA 90508
• If you need your members ID# please contact Pastor Frank at frankkim1@gmail.com
• Please continue to pray for all those affected by the coronavirus, especially those on the frontline of the disease who are putting themselves at risk in the service of us all.

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TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - MAY 13, 2020

Good Work

Today is May 13, 2020

Welcome to your mid-week!

When God made mankind, he told them to work. Specifically he told them to 'cultivate,' 'maintain,' 'subdue,' and 'rule.'

To cultivate is to foster growth or to improve.
To maintain is to preserve from failure or decline.
To subdue is to exercise control over and to show discipline.
To rule is to take responsibility for, to make decisions and administer.

So, if you are doing any of that, you are doing good work. You are doing good work.

However, one of the consequences of sin, is that it affected this good work. Genesis 3:17-19 lays it all out but, in short, we now toil and sweat and produce thorns and thistles. Yes, the work is still good but, because of sin, there is now difficulty, resistance, and, sometimes, disappointment.

This is why Apostle Paul wrote this:

Galatians 6:9 
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

The work you are doing is good work. You may not see it and it might seem endless. But, just like the seasons, it will not last forever. Whatever work you are doing - whether that is your career or for your self or the work needed in your relationships - it is good work.

You are doing good work.

God's blessing and protection over you all and I look forward to worshiping with you online this Sunday.

- Frank Kim

Youtube Link to last Sunday's Worship: HERE
Family Devotional Material given the day of: HERE
Cell Group Discussion for your mid-week: HERE

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Announcements

• TFPC has created a '5 Loaves & 2 Fish' Ministry. If you are able, please donate dry goods, cleaning supplies, and paper products to the main lobby. If you are in need, please stop by the church lobby and take whatever is available for you and your family.
• KM is encouraging all families to pray together for those effected by the coronavirus at 9pm daily.
• Women's Cell Group is meeting each Friday via Zoom. 7:30pm. Please contact Anna Benedict for more information.
• College Cell Group will be meeting each Friday via Zoom. Please contact Pastor Diana for more information.
• PV Cell Group will be meeting each Sunday via Zoom. 3pm. Please contact Pastor Frank for more information.
• YMF Cell Group is meeting each Thursday via Zoom. 7:30pm. Please contact Pastor Frank for more information.
• Sunday Worship will only be offered online, following California's stay-at-home order. As of now, in-person services will begin when we begin phase 3 of California's 4 phase opening strategy.
• For those wanting to do family worship instead of watching the live stream/online worship service, you can find the family worship devotional on the teministry.com website. Click on the 'Live Stream' tab on Sunday and check the announcements for a link. Previous ones can be found HERE along with previous sermons and praise sets.
• Offering can be done via online HERE or via mail: P.O. Box 622, Torrance, CA 90508
• If you need your members ID# please contact Pastor Frank at frankkim1@gmail.com
• Please continue to pray for all those affected by the coronavirus, especially those on the frontline of the disease who are putting themselves at risk in the service of us all.

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TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - MAY 6, 2020

The Struggle to Change

Today is May 5, 2020

Welcome to your mid-week!

For Jonah to change it took 3 days in the belly of a fish. 3 days without friends or family.  3 days without traffic or movies or restaurants. 3 days without a barber or a job or sunlight.

3 days of struggle.

But, ultimately, his heart changed to align itself more with God's heart. Now, it was not a complete change of heart. He did not suddenly have a 180 degree change in his life. No. He struggled and struggled and struggled and, eventually, he changed

a little bit. 

But the lesson of Jonah is that we need to have that struggle. We need to be in the process of change.

We were made in the image of God. We are suppose to be his people. That means we should be pursuing righteousness and mercy and humility. We should be pursuing compassion and forgiveness and sacrifice. We should be pursuing faithfulness and stewardship and community and goodness and love.

However, for most of our lives, there are just too many distractions; too many things that pull us from aligning ourselves to the will of the Lord. And, many times, we do not look like his people.

What Jonah teaches us is that the solution must come from the inside out - that change must start with our heart. And, as painful as it might be, we need to have that

struggle to change.

God's protection over you and your family and I look forward to worshiping with you this Sunday.

- Frank Kim

Youtube Link to last Sunday's Worship: HERE
Family Devotional Material given the day of: HERE
Cell Group Discussion for your mid-week: HERE

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Announcements

• Over $100,000 was raised via offerings last month to support small 1st, 1.5, & 2nd Gen Churches. 
• TFPC has created a '5 Loaves & 2 Fish' Ministry. If you are able, please donate dry goods, cleaning supplies, and paper products to the main lobby. If you are in need, please stop by the church lobby and take whatever is available for you and your family.
• KM is encouraging all families to pray together for those effected by the coronavirus at 9pm daily.
• Women's Cell Group is meeting each Friday via Zoom. 7:30pm. Please contact Anna Benedict for more information.
• College Cell Group will be meeting each Friday via Zoom. Please contact Pastor Diana for more information.
• PV Cell Group will be meeting each Sunday via Zoom. 3pm. Please contact Pastor Frank for more information.
• YMF Cell Group is meeting each Thursday via Zoom. 7:30pm. Please contact Pastor Frank for more information.
• Sunday Worship will only be offered online, following California's stay-at-home order. As of now, in-person services will begin when we begin phase 3 of California's 4 phase opening strategy.
• For those wanting to do family worship instead of watching the live stream/online worship service, you can find the family worship devotional on the teministry.com website. Click on the 'Live Stream' tab on Sunday and check the announcements for a link. Previous ones can be found HERE along with previous sermons and praise sets.
• Offering can be done via online HERE or via mail: P.O. Box 622, Torrance, CA 90508
• If you need your members ID# please contact Pastor Frank at frankkim1@gmail.com
• Please continue to pray for all those affected by the coronavirus, especially those on the frontline of the disease who are putting themselves at risk in the service of us all.

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TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - APRIL 29, 2020

Active Patience

Today is April 29, 2020

Welcome to your mid-week!

On day 271 - week 38 of being in the ark with his family and animals - Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. (Genesis 8:11) He knew it. And what does he do? 

He continued to wait on the Lord.

Noah, a man who faithfully walked with the Lord (Genesis 6:9) before the flood, continued to walk faithfully with the Lord during the flood even when he knew the flood was over. Noah's focus was not on when he could leave the ark. No. Noah's focus was always in the present with an eye upward toward the Lord.

And, in his example, we get what it means to be actively patient; we get what it means to persevere.

In the times that we live in, it is easy to have our cabin fever get the better of us. However, Jesus reminds us that peace is not found in the world. It is not found at the end of the flood nor is it found when the stay at home order is lifted. It is only found in Jesus (John 16:33).

Our challenge, as we run this race, is to be actively patient - to persevere with our eyes fixed on the author and perfector of our faith (Hebrews 12:1-2). Only then can we find true peace to make it through whatever flood we are going through.

God's blessings and protection upon you all and I look forward to worshiping with you this Sunday.

- Frank Kim

Youtube Link to last Sunday's Worship: HERE
Youtube Link to Praise Team's Presentation: HERE
Family Devotional Material given the day of: HERE
Cell Group Discussion for your mid-week: HERE

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Announcements

• TFPC has created a '5 Loaves & 2 Fish' Ministry. If you are able, please donate dry goods, cleaning supplies, and paper products to the main lobby. If you are in need, please stop by the church lobby and take whatever is available for you and your family.
• KM is encouraging all families to pray together for those effected by the coronavirus at 9pm daily.
• Women's Cell Group is meeting each Friday via Zoom. 7:30pm. Please contact Anna Benedict for more information.
• College Cell Group will be meeting each Friday via Google Hangout. Please contact Pastor Diana for more information.
• PV Cell Group will be meeting each Sunday via Zoom. 3pm. Please contact Pastor Frank for more information.
• YMF Cell Group is meeting each Thursday via Zoom. 7:30pm. Please contact Pastor Frank for more information.
• Sunday Worship will only be offered online, following California's stay-at-home order. Currently that order has been extended to May 15
• For those wanting to do family worship instead of watching the live stream/online worship service, you can find the family worship devotional on the teministry.com website. Click on the 'Live Stream' tab on Sunday and check the announcements for a link. Previous ones can be found HERE along with previous sermons and praise sets.
• Offering can be done via online HERE or via mail: P.O. Box 622, Torrance, CA 90508
• If you need your members ID# please contact Pastor Frank at frankkim1@gmail.com
• Please continue to pray for all those affected by the coronavirus, especially those on the frontline of the disease who are putting themselves at risk in the service of us all.

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TFPC EM NEWSLETTER - APRIL 22, 2020

El Roi

Today is April 22, 2020

Welcome to your mid-week!

Hagar's first experience with the God of Abraham was via an angel of the Lord at a well in the desert. She had fled from Abram and Sarai and faced an unknown future when the angel of the Lord encouraged her to go back with a promise of blessing. From that encounter, Hagar named the Lord as the 'God who sees me' (Genesis 16:13) and she also named the well where she met the angel of the Lord as 'Beer Lahai Roi' meaning, the one who is alive and sees me.

~400 years later, leading his people through the wilderness, Moses would use that same well as a reminder to his people that God is alive and that he see them. 

For us, as we go through our pandemic wilderness, we may sometimes questions whether God is alive through all this, whether he sees us in our challenges. Well, all through scripture we see God showing himself alive. Just a couple of weeks ago we remembered how God saw us in our sin and rescued us through Jesus Christ.

God is alive and he sees us. Our Elohim is El Roi. Just as he was there for Hagar, just as he was there for his people during the time of Moses, just as he was there for us when he sent his son to die on the cross, so he will be there for us now. 

God's blessing and protection over you and your family and I look forward to worshiping with you all online this Sunday.

- Frank Kim

Youtube Link to last Sunday's Worship: HERE
Family Devotional Material given the day of: HERE
Cell Group Discussion for your mid-week: HERE

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Announcements

• TFPC has created a '5 Loaves & 2 Fish' Ministry. If you are able, please donate dry goods, cleaning supplies, and paper products to the main lobby. If you are in need, please stop by the church lobby and take whatever is available for you and your family.
• KM is encouraging all families to pray together for those effected by the coronavirus at 9pm daily.
• Women's Cell Group is meeting each Friday via Zoom. 7:30pm. Please contact Anna Benedict for more information.
• College Cell Group will be meeting each Friday via Google Hangout. Please contact Pastor Diana for more information.
• PV Cell Group will be meeting each Sunday via Zoom. 3pm. Please contact Pastor Frank for more information.
• YMF Cell Group is meeting this Thursday, April 16 via Zoom. 7pm. Please contact Ben and Eunice for more information.
• Sunday Worship will only be offered online, following California's stay-at-home order. Currently that order has been extended to May 15
• For those wanting to do family worship instead of watching the live stream/online worship service, you can find the family worship devotional on the teministry.com website. Click on the 'Live Stream' tab on Sunday and check the announcements for a link. Previous ones can be found HERE along with previous sermons and praise sets.
• Offering can be done via online HERE or via mail: P.O. Box 622, Torrance, CA 90508
• If you need your members ID# please contact Pastor Frank at frankkim1@gmail.com
• Please continue to pray for all those affected by the coronavirus, especially those on the frontline of the disease who are putting themselves at risk in the service of us all.

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