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8A – Daily News – Saturday, May 15, 2010 Religion Faith&Worship Church news Mystery play with dinner Vineyard Christian Fellowship is going to be hold- ing its fourth annual mystery dinner play at 6 p.m. Sat- urday, May 22 at 738 Walnut St. in Red Bluff. The proceeds from the play will be used for the For His Children Orphanage in Ecuador. Each year a team from the Vineyard Church spend 10 days in Ecuador serving the needs of the orphanage and the surrounding village communities showing love in practical ways. This year’s performance is called “’Til Death Do Us Part.” The setting is a wedding reception that has many colorful characters attending. The cost for dinner and play tickets is $25 per per- son. Call the Vineyard office for reservations at 527- 2449. Concert Choir Chorale First Church of God, 1005 S. Jackson St., in Red Bluff will be presenting Warner Pacific College Con- cert Choir Chorale in concert for one performance only Saturday, May 15. The concert begins at 6 p.m. A love offering will be taken. Community garden First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, 1421 Marin St., Corning, continues with planning and work projects related to its Community Garden. Planters are being constructed now and everyone is invited. Produce from the garden will help feed the hungry and homeless in Corning. For more information, call Pastor Bill at 518-4912. Cornells to perform Sunday Mike and Darla Cornell will be at Neighborhood Full Gospel Church, 901 South St., in Corning at 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, May 16. The Cornells have served in many churches as worship lead- ers and musi- cians; they have collectively been in music ministry for nearly 50 years. Most recently God has called them to step into a full-time ministry of their own and step down from their positions as associate and music pastors at Liber- ty Christian Center in Bakersfield, where they had served for the past seven years. In 1999 they were fortunate to win first place at the Great Western Quartet Convention in Fresno and then again at the National Quartet Convention in Louisville, Ky talent showcase. When not ministering in churches throughout the United States and Africa, you will find them actively involved in their home church. Information about the Cornells is available at www.mikeanddarlacornell.com. Pentecost — Seminal moment, summary moment Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on Pentecost. On my first ministry trip to the New England region the host church offered a community healing service on the Sunday Evening of my visit and invit- ed me to preach. People from all over the community came in – believers and pre-believers alike – because it was advertised that God would show up. At my request the church fielded a team of praying people who would pray for the sick with me – and keep praying after my return to California. The signs and wonders that broke out that night were abundant – several can- cers were healed alongside a case of multiple sclerosis and several skeletal injuries – and medical verification was obtained before the healings were claimed. Team members have begun praying for people in their places of work and we know of at least one case of prostate cancer that has been eradi- cated along with some spectacular incidents of inner healing. Most important – from the Lord’s standpoint – would be the number of people who attended that service and received Jesus as their Lord and Savior. It was a Pentecost moment – albeit couched in the run-up to Christmas. Pentecost is the ancient Jewish feast of Harvest. God chose to birth His Church on that occasion because His Kingdom is and always has been about harvest. (Jesus uses more har- vest and gathering metaphors in His parables of the Kingdom than you can shake a stick at.) The falling of the tongues of fire in the upper room is exciting (Acts 2) but the real action begins only when Peter and the others begin to share the mighty acts of God in the streets outside – as we did in the Prejudice of some bog- gles the mind The Rev. Duke Tufty, Unity Temple on the Plaza: Imagine for a moment that you have a garden with a wide variety of wonderful, beautiful and colorful roses. Each one offers a unique and individual beauty that greatly benefits the one who gazes upon them. Then one day, a dictate comes down from some religious order stating that red is the only natural color for a rose and therefore every rose of a dif- ferent color should be plucked up and cast into the fire. Would you say the dec- healing service – and to tell his listen- ers what they were about – "Everyone calling on the name of the Lord will be saved," as Joel the prophet would have it. Three thousand people came to know Jesus that day; the Church dou- bled in size a couple of days later, and today more than two billion people know Him as Lord and King. Pentecost is the climax of Jesus’ ministry on earth; by tradition we celebrate it to close out the Easter season and begin the rest of our lives. It is a summary moment as much as it is a climactic moment. But Pentecost is also a seminal moment; it is the moment in which the disci- ples become the apostles and head out for Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and all the world. Jesus has won the world by His death and resur- rection; He leaves the rest of us to occupy the planet in His Name – mak- ing disciples, baptizing, and teaching one another to observe all that He commands – and this is not an option- al orientation for us. It is what we were born for at such a time as this. Our God is a God of progressive and escalating revelation and harvest. Peter quoted the words of Joel 2 to the effect that in the latter days His Spirit would be poured out wholesale on all flesh. The wholesale outpouring was certainly achieved on that first Pente- cost – and we feel its onrushing and even escalating impact today – but three thousand souls into the Kingdom is hardly all flesh. It wasn’t even all of Jerusalem, and we have still reached laration that red be the only color for a rose should be a religious issue? In God's great garden of humanity there are a wide variety of wonderful, beau- tiful and colorful people. Who has the right to self- appoint themselves as judge of the flowers in the garden? I just don't understand how anybody with a clear mind and compassionate heart can state that one's sexuality is basis for con- demnation, discrimination or prejudice. Even more mind-boggling is how any religious institution can be so insolent and ignorant to Jim Wilson GodTalk only about a third of the people of the planet in 2010 as we commemorate that first harvest rush. There has got to be more – much more. Just as the key to the healing ser- vice in New England was that the prayer team saw more mir- acles through their prayers than I did – my principle job was to impart confi- dence in God to them – and the fruit came in when they began to pray for others with power after my depar- ture – so Joel 2 was ful- filled in embryonic form two millennia ago and God awaits the manifestation of its fullness today. In a 1 Corinthians 12 world –the moment we commemorate is crucial, but no moreso than the moment in which we live and move and have our being. Those Jerusalem streets sur- rounding that upper room two thou- sand years ago are irreplaceable – what moon shot begins without a launch – but our time is every bit as important – what moon shot ends without a landing – and in effect gives both final value and ultimate meaning to what happened so long ago in the power of God. Pentecost is both a seminal and a summary moment. For our purposes today, however, the seminal aspect is the driver and we need to get on board with joy and urgency. PrayNorthState can be reached at praynorthstate@charter.net or at 941- 3470.The Rev. Jim and Diana Wilson lead PrayNorthState. Voices of Faith: Is homosexuality a religious issue? condemn a child of God in the name of God. Divine plan makes it a religious issue The Rev. Pat Rush, pas- tor, Visitation Catholic Church: The Book of Gen- esis presents God as loving- ly creating humans and lov- ingly creating their mas- culinity and femininity as well. What is more, through this creative act God gives to sexuality both its good- ness and purpose. Sex, sex- uality and sexual practices are mentioned in many other places in the Scrip- tures, and always with the sense that these are issues 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... 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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 about which God has a rightful concern. Conse- quently, throughout Catholic tradition, homo- sexuality is considered reli- gious issue. Catholic teaching holds that the God-given purpose of human sexual activity is both the expression of love and the creation of new life, all within the bond of mar- riage. Because homosexual acts occur outside marriage and are not open to the transmission of life, they are, therefore, objectively immoral. An individual's subjective sinfulness, how- ever, should not be judged.