Kids’ Camp 2008 – Day 2

Kids’ Camp 2008 – Day 2

Kids’ Camp 2008 – Day 1

Here is a video of Day 1 of our Kids’ Camp. Thanks to Terry Reed for the pics. As you can see, Kids’ Camp is rockin’ this year!
- Pastor Pete

Shane and Jessica Ross

Shane and Jessica, members of our church, moved last year to Virginia so that Shane could join the faculty. Thankfully, they were out of town at the time. Here is an email that we received from Jessica.
ent: Monday, April 16, 2007 10:09:09 PM
Subject: Prayer request.

Hi ya’ll. Just writing to let you know that we were
out of town this morning when this happened. So,
thankfully we are okay.

Unfortunately the worst part of the shootings happened
in Shane’s building and consequently two of his
colleauges were killed and one
injured. Three students from his department were also
injured.

This is awful. Although we are thankful to have been
spared, this deeply saddens us for the families of all
affected. Please be prayerful. Many families, the
whole town really, is affected.

This is so sad. Please pray as we try to make sense
of this, and try to help out where we can. We plan to
visit students in the hospital and stuff… pray that
we know how to help.

Sincerely,

Jessica

We Are Family Video

I’ve uploaded the video for our Christmas Pageant. Click on the play button to watch it. I want to thank everyone who had a hand in this It was an great time for the life of our church and our children. What our children practice is what they will believe. These are memories that will walk with them for years to come.
- Pastor Pete

NPR Does Story At PFC

In case you missed it, back in June National Public Radio did a series of interviews here at PFC. This was done in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the Azusa Street Revival. You can click here to see the site and once you get there you can click on Foursquare Stories to see what they produced.

Halloween Party at PFC

We had a great time last night at the Halloween party at PFC! A big thanks to all who served and gave of themselves for our community. I’ll post some pictures this week. We had over 300 people come out during the 2-1/2 hours of the event. While I am not a person who judges everything by the numbers, I find this significant given that we did absolutely no advertising! That’s right, we did not send out any flyers or canvass the neighborhood with invitations. How did this happen? Simply this: we have been consistent to serve our community each year on Halloween with a safe and fun place for families to spend the evening. Word of mouth brought people in from as far as Glendale! A family said that they had heard about it and decided to drive out.
A note about using the term Halloween: up until a few years ago we used to call our party a “Harvest Festival.” This was a carryover from the days when we where trying to run something more “Christian” in place of the so-called evil day of Halloween. What we’ve come to realize is that it is part of our mission to embrace the culture around us and not to stand against it. We are called, just as Jesus did, to live in our culture, to embrace it, and to see people transformed by God. So, to call the party a “Harvest Festival” is already to set ourselves against the culture within which we live. Besides, nobody in LA “harvests” anything:-) The term makes little sense in our cultural context.

So, happy All Saints’ Day,
Pastor Pete