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4A – Daily News – Saturday, May 8, 2010 Religion Faith&Worship Rummage sale Church news God is present in our tsunami First United Methodist Church, 525 David Ave. in Red Bluff, will be holding a rummage sale 2-4 p.m. Friday, May 14 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 15. The $1 per bag sale will start at 1 p.m. Saturday. Money raised will go toward the cost of tuition and hous- ing for Pastors Licensing School for Suzanne Calhoun, a candidate for Ordained Ministry. Whatever is not needed for her expenses will be donated to the church’s general fund. For pick-up of goods call 527-5379, or items can be dropped off at the church from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Wednesday or 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesdays. Those with larger items are asked to wait until Sunday May 9. Donations will be taken on Thursday, May 13, from 9 a.m. to noon and 2-7 p.m. Outreach extends to links FRESNO (MCT) — Churches and faith groups are con- necting with the public through sport. In some areas, golf ministries are giving people a way for to have fun and build fellowship while learning more about churches and faith- based organizations. "Just about anyone can play golf," says Dennis Hammond, president of the Christ- ian Golf Club of Cen- tral California. The club holds monthly tournaments to help raise money for faith- based organizations. This year, proceeds are going to the Evangel Home, a Christian organization helping women and children. "You don't have to be a gifted athlete to play golf," he says. "All ages play, youngsters to grandparents in their 90s. You don't have to be a good player to have fun." Faith leaders say Signs adorn a tee box at the Fresno/Madera Youth for Christ Annual Golf Classic on April 22. golf ministries create opportunities for people to better understand what they do. It sometimes translates into new members, volunteers and donations. But they say they are mainly interested in helping people. When the weather is best for golf, ministry events are presented in California's Central Valley nearly every day. On a recent Thursday, for example, Fresno/Madera Youth for Christ held its annual golf tournament _ 110 golfers played through an afternoon drizzle at Fort Wash- ington Country Club. After play ended, everyone gathered in the club's ban- quet room, where Youth for Christ's executive director, Ed Kaczmarek, gave a presentation on how the faith-based organization helps needy kids and how donors can help. "Golf reaches those who are business owners and com- munity leaders _ and it's a great group to reach," Kaczmarek says. "There's good camaraderie, good fellowship on the golf course.” MCT photo We tend to believe there are certain things we would never do. We tell our selves "we are not that kind of person." We pray when we think about it. We attend our favorite church. We read the Bible when our pastor emphasizes it in his sermon or when the guilt of not reading it becomes unbearable. Generally we are living our lives as we please, living as members of our par- ticular culture, sailing pleasantly in the cultural breeze that surrounds us. Over time, without our being consciously aware of it, we are drifting away from God. Without warning the tsunami of consequences of our life of ignoring godly things slams into our lives full force. We are left grasping for straws, drowning in a sea of disbelief and shock. How did we get here? When did this event begin to take shape? Why didn’t we see it coming? The Hebrew people experienced that same astonished reaction when the Babylonians swept across their nation taking thousands captive. Everything they loved, everything that was familiar to them disappeared in a matter of hours. No longer would they get up early to go to the local market. No longer would they barter and trade their wares. No longer would they linger over bread and soup discussing the politics of the day. Life as they knew it – as they compromised it one concession at a time – was over. On the long march in chains to Babylon, Jeremiah’s words must have rung in their ears. I imagine they asked themselves why they hadn’t lis- tened. Why had they been sucked into a vacuum of disobedience? Perhaps, like many of us, they could not believe they had committed such atrocities against Jehovah God. Maybe they too struggled with accepting the fact that their actions had resulted in pain for so many people. We like to think well of ourselves, but the truth is all of us are capable of destruc- tive choices. In fact scripture gives a graphic picture of human nature. There is none righteous, not even one. There is none who understands. There is none who seeks God. All have turned aside, together they have become useless. There is none who does good. There is not even one. Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they keep deceiving. The poison of asps is under their lips, whose mouth if full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery are in their paths, and the path of peace have they do not know. There is no fear of God before their eyes." (Romans 3:10-18). Without Christ we are trapped in an no longer have power over our bodies (1 John 3:9; Romans 6:12). He broke our slavery to sin (Romans 6:18) and gave us a life of righteousness (Romans 6:19) which in turn leads us to a life of peace and joy (Hebrews 12:11). Life took me where I Shirley Fay GodTalk didn’t want to go when I was in my thirties. I had planned to be a missionary. My children were going to serve God. My life was going to be the perfect offering of praise to God. But that did not happen. Instead my husband left me for another woman. My three children rejected God and I was left stand- ing with nothing to lift up to God as a gift of worship. I can still remember tears streaming down my checks as I cried, "God, I have nothing to offer you." eternal cycle of poor choices and regret. Oh, but the wonderful news is Christ has come to set us free from our curse of death (Romans 7:24-25, 8:2). We who were once held captive by what our bodies craved, what our emo- tions demanded and what our desires screamed are given freedom through the magnificent grace of Jesus Christ. He has redeemed; he has even given us part of his divine nature. "For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promis- es, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust" (2 Peter 1:4). Our messiah came so that sin will A.M. Bhattacharyya, an active member of Hindu community: In Hindu theol- ogy there is a clear distinc- tion between the physical body and the inner con- sciousness, which is the ultimate source of the body's driving force. The body is a material product, subject to birth, growth and decay. The inner conscious- ness is one with God, and therefore, it is pure, divine and immortal. According to the Law of Karma and Reincarnation, when a person dies, the soul leaves the body with the subtle impressions of the person's accumulated karma at the moment of death. Thereafter, the soul with the karmic impressions of the previous life enters into a growing fetus in a mother's womb. At what stage? The Hindu scripture Garbha Upanisad (The Book of Knowledge of the Womb) gives detailed infor- mation about the stages of development of a fetus in the mother's womb. Clear as a bell he spoke to me, "That is the point." It was at that moment that the gift of grace became glorious to me! I needed him! I had to have him! My works were empty striving for glory and I hadn’t recognized it. If God has been gracious enough to open your eyes to see the devastation of your sin, repent by turning away from your sin, and rejoice! Rejoice that you see your need for his grace. Rejoice because you now more fully understand the wonder of his glorious love. Dr. Shirley Fay is a Christian psychotherapist with a private practice in Red Bluff. She works out of Bethel Church in Red Bluff. Voices of Faith: In your faith, when does human life begin? HINDUISM According to this scrip- ture, the "life force" enters the body in the seventh month. Nevertheless, Hindu ethics go against willful ter- mination of a fetus at any stage of fetal growth, unless the mother's life is in dan- ger. ISLAM Syed E. Hasan, Ph.D., Islamic Research Founda- tion International: There are different interpretations of the question among Muslim scholars, but most agree that human life begins in the mother's womb 120 days Tehama County Church Directory HOYT-COLE CHAPEL OF THE FLOWERS 816 Walnut St. - Red Bluff ABUNDANT LIFE FELLOWSHIP — 21080 Luther Rd. — Pastor J.E. Heitman 528-2499 — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM Red Bluff.... ANTELOPE HOME FELLOWSHIP(SBC) — Berrendos School — 401 Chestnut St 200-4112 — Pastor John Bohrer — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM APOSTOLIC ASSEMBLY — 1321 Nelson Dr., Red Bluff. — 527-8541 Pastor Rudy Cepeda — WORSHIP — Sunday 1:00PM & Friday 7PM BETHEL ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 625 Luther Rd. — 527-0445 Pastor Ron Fortenberry — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM CALVARY CHAPEL — 12375 Paskenta Rd. — 527-8219 Pastor Gilbert DeLao Jr. — WORSHIP — Sunday 9:00 & 11:00 am CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1605 Park Ave. — 527-3036 Evangelist Gary Dent — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6:30PM CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — Antelope-545 Berrendos 529-2506 — Bishop James Beeman — SERVICES Begin Sunday 11:00AM CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — Red Bluff-545 Berrendos 527-7012 — Bishop Earl Wintle — SERVICES Begin Sunday 9:00AM COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 598 Round -Up Ave. 527-4203 Pastor Dr. Paul Wright — WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM & 6PM CORNERSTONE CHURCH OF GOD — Hwy. 36, Jorgenson 527-9210 — Pastor Roy Duggins — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM & 5PM FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 501 Pine St. — 527-4361 Pastor Bruce Cloutier — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:15AM FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Hickory & Madison — 527-4688 Pastor Dan Woolery — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM FIRST CHURCH OF GOD — Jackson & Luther — 527-5717 Pastor Rod Thompson — WORSHIP — Saturday 6PM & Sunday 10:15AM FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — Johnson & Hickory — 527-3361 Pastor Jesse Morris — WORSHIP — 10:30 AM FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH — 585 Kimball Rd. — 527-5083 Pastor Tom Turner — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 525 David Ave. — 527-5754 Rev. Kate O’Leary— WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM GATEWAY BAPTIST CHURCH, IND. FUND. — 12830 Glasgow Dr. — 527-2964 Pastor Jeff Eldred — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM LAKE CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHURCH — Lake Club — 347 6970 Jim Bredow, Pastor — WORSHIP — Sunday 8:30AM-10:15AM LUTHERAN CHURCH, ST. PAUL — Jefferson & Elm — 527-3414 Pastor Dallas D. Dubke — WORSHIP — Sunday 8:30AM & 11AM NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH — 1625 Johnson St. — 527-8134 Pastor Vern Milliken — SERVICE — 10:00AM NEW HOPE FOURSQUARE CHURCH — 925 Walnut St. — 528-0642 PastorS Steve and Linda Priest — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM — Youth, Thurs. 6:00 PM NORTH VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH (Ind.) — 345 David Ave — 527-0543 Pastor Mark Roberts — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:50AM NUEVA VIDA — 11841 Hyw 99W — Red Bluff — Spanish-speaking Pastor Freddie Villasenor — WORSHIP — Sunday 11:00AM Red Bluff.... OPEN VISTAS AWARENESS CENTER — 900 Walnut St. — 529-9285 Rv. Tresha Wing — SERVICE — Sunday 10:00AM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — Jefferson & Hickory St. — 527-0372 Interim Pastor Rev. Leon Thompson — Sunday school 9:30 A.M. – SERVICES at 11 A.M. PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD — 370 Kimball Rd. — 527-6346 Pastor Mike Cox — WORSHIP — Sunday 11:00AM RED BLUFF COWBOY CHURCH — Hampton Inn, Round-Up Room Pastor Coy Huffman — For infomation call 209-559-9965 RED BLUFF GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 836 Washington St. — 529-9909 Pastor John A. Partsch — WORSHIP — Sunday 1:30PM - Wednesday 7PM SABBATH COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN — 705 So. Jackson St. — 529-1890 Pastor Ron Largent — WORSHIP — Saturday 10:45AM SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH — 515 Main St. — Father Joyle T. Martinez MASS — Saturday 5:15, Spanish 7PM — Sunday 8:30AM, 10:30AM, Spanish 12PM THE SALVATION ARMY — 944 Walnut St. — 527-8530 Majors Frank & Susan Severs, Pastors — SERVICES — Sunday 10AM & 11AM SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHRUCH — 720 S. Jackson — 527-3733 Pastor Jon Spoolman — WORSHIP — Saturday 10:45AM SHEPHERD HOUSE OF PRAYER — 601 Monroe St. 529-5350 — Pastor Brent Kohler — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM ST. PETER’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — Jefferson & Elm — 527-5205 Rev. Maryly Adair — Sunday 9:30AM, Holy Eucharist Rite II SUNRISE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP — C.B.A. — The corner of Cedar & Jackson — 527-6818 Pastor Byron Shaw, Pat Hurton — WORSHIP — 10:50AM — Bible Study 9:30AM TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL — 8529 Placer Rd., Redding 243-5726 — For service dates & times — 529-9246 TRINITY LANDMARK BAPTIST CHURCH — 20920 Hampton Rhodes Drive — 528-8668 Pastor Tim Chambers — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM - Wednesday 7:00PM TRUTH TABERNACLE — 285 Gilmore Road, Red Bluff — 527-5533 Pastor Sam Howard — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM - Sunday School 9:30AM UNION SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1256 Walnut St. Bidwell School Cafeteria — 840-6177 Pastor Robert M. Wheatley — WORSHIP — Sunday 3PM only UNITED CHURCH OF GOD — 645 Antelope Blvd. Suite 13 — 824-3657 Elder Dick King — WORSHIP — Saturday 12:30PM VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP — 738 Walnut St. — 527-2449 Pastor Steve Igarta — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM WALNUT GROVE CHRISTIAN CENTER — RHEMA Bible Church 435 Round Up Ave. — 527-9065 — Pastor Michael Ragsdale — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM ZION CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — 836 Washington St. 529-1836 — Pastor Joshua John McKim — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:15AM Bowman... COMMUNITY CHURCH — Bowman Rd. & Landes — 347-6130 Pastor Mark Lugg — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM This directory sponsored by: Los Molinos.... COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Sherwood & Josephine 527-3490 — Pastor Kathleen Smith — WORSHIP 11AM MILL CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH — HWY 99E and Taft St., 384-1564 — Pastor Carl DeBiase — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM SPIRIT OF LIFE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD — 25235 Orange St. — 824-0659 Pastor Randy Cosby — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM Corning... BELIEVERS CHURCH OF GOD — 783 Solano St. — 824-6502 Pastor Dan Steigmn — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM BETHEL CHURCH — 1520 East St. — 824-0175 Ron Cottingham, Pastor — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1418 South St. — 824-3603 WORSHIP — Sunday — 10:30AM CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1440 Yolo St. — 824-4333 David King, Minister — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM CHURCH OFJESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — Marguerite & Blackburn — Bishop A. Daniel Drum — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM CORNING FOURSQUARE — 404 5th Street — 824-5776 Rev. Sue Duffy WORSHIP — Sunday: adults 9:15, 10:30 AM — Tues.10AM prayer meeting FAMILY BIBLE CHURCH — Marin & Pear Sts. — 824-0989 Pastor Joycel — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM & 6PM FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 506 Colusa St. — 824-3490 Pastor Chris Fissori — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:15AM — Sunday School 9AM FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 1421 Marin St. — 824-5739 WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 824-5535 — Marguerite & McLane Pastor Howard Sanborn— WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM HARVEST CHRISTIAN CENTER CHURCH OF GOD — 1006 6th St. Corning 824-2091 — Pastor Michael Sharp — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH — 824-5879 — 814 Solano St. Father Juan Manuel Ponce — MASS — Sunday 10AM, 12:00PM - Spanish MT. OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH — 341 Solano St. — 824-5530 Pastor Dallas D. Dubke — WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM NEIGHBORHOOD FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — 901 South St. — 824-2323 Pastor Ken Killinger — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:50AM & 6PM NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY CHURCH — 824-3426 Pastor J.R. Gonzales — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM - Sunday School 9AM OLIVE BRANCH BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP — 565 1st St. — 824-3661 — SERVICE — Sunday 10:30 AM SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH — West & Butte — 824-2153 Pastor Jose Torres — WORSHIP — Saturday 11AM ST. ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — First & Marin Sts. — 824-4979 Pastor Maryly Adair — CHURCH — Sunday 11AM TRUTH TABERNACLE — 1308 Solano. — 824-4586 Pastor Ed Schaefer — WORSHIP — Sunday 2PM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 824-5841 — East & Solano Pastor Ray Watkins — WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM AUTO ELECTRIC INC. 1055 Main St. - Red Bluff 527-5170 Vina... VINA COMMUNITY CHURCH — 5th & D Street — 839-2340 Pastor Larry Peterson — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM Cottonwood... ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTER — 19019 Gaspoint Road — 347-9208 Pastor Doug Hamblin — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM ASSEMBLY OF GOD — Gaspoint Road — 347-3313 Pastor Bob Whitman — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM & 6PM FOURSQUARE CHURCH — 2400 Rhonda Rd. Rev. Paul Shrum — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM Dairyville... CONE COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH — 11220 Hwy. 99E — 527-2329 Pastor Kathleen Smith —WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM El Camino... COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Hwy. 99W — 385-2314 Pastor Nancy Pharis-Curie — WORSHIP — Sunday 9:30AM SHADY REST FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — 7211 Hwy. 99W 385-2155 — Pastor Andrew Dalson — WORSHIP — Saturday 7PM Gerber... BAHA’I FAITH OF TEHAMA COUNTY — 22870 Reno Ave., Gerber 385-1091 FAITH HOPE LOVE MINISTRIES — 21941 Chard Ave. 385-1431 — Pastor Ina Driggers — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM GERBER BIBLE FELLOWSHIP — 301 Samson @ Ventura 385-1718 — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM Las Flores... LAS FLORES FULL GOSPEL — 9662 San Benito Pastor Rev. Elroy & Martha Lake — WORSHIP — 10:00AM Wed. 6PM Manton... MANTON COMMUNITY CHURCH — Forward Rd. — 474-5156 Pastor Michael Stiener —WORSHIP — Sunday School 9:30 Sun. 10:45 Platina... ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA MONASTERY — Begum Gorge Rd. Abbot Herman — LITURGY — Sunday 8:30AM Rancho Tehama... COMMUNITY CHURCH (Non-Den.) — 585-2526 WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES — 585-2975 Pastor Don Luke — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM/6:00PM Tehama... ASSEMBLY OF GOD — Third St. — 384-2603 Pastor Walter Bright — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM 11:15 AM & 6PM ST. STANISLAUS CATHOLIC CHURCH — 824-5879 Corner of 4th & D — MASS — Sunday 8:00AM - English RED BLUFF from conception. Prophet Muhammad tells us that 120 days fol- lowing conception, Allah orders an angel to infus part of his spirit into the growing fetus after certain aspects of the individual's life — such as his or her life span and time of death, sustenance and traits of character — have been determined. According to general consensus, 120 days marks the beginning of human life and entitles the growing fetus to rights as an individ- ual and lineage.