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2B Daily News – Saturday, May 4, 2013 Religion Faith Remembering the Alamo Voices of Faith What is God up to these days? The Kansas City Star (MCT) A LITTLE BIRD TELLS US The Rev. Penny Ellwood, Blue Springs, Mo., campus pastor, United Methodist Church of the Resurrection: Last Sunday afternoon as I was leaving our church, I noticed a new, 4-foot cross sculpture appeared to be tilting a bit. When I walked out to its ring of river rocks, a small bird began sharply trilling at me. This little brown and white bird fluffed out her tail feathers in quite an impressive display and trilled ever louder, clearly distressed at my presence. It almost seemed as if she were protecting the cross. When I backed away, her feathers settled down, but she didn't take her eyes off me. It took me a few moments to spot the nest of mottled eggs that she was protecting in the rocks. It wasn't the most ideal place to lay her eggs, although I'll have to say, as a pastor, I loved the metaphorical implications of building a nest in the shadow the cross. Rain or shine, she's there, sitting amongst the rocks, faithfully protecting her nest. As I thought about the question, "So what do you think God is up to these days?" my first inclination was to say, "Have you taken a look out your window lately?!" I don't think there is a much prettier place in the entire world than Kansas City in the springtime. God's handiwork is all around us. But then this little bird came to my mind. The bird reminds me that God is at work every day when faithful, ordinary people are willing to stand up against forces larger than themselves to care for and protect others. Over the last several weeks, we've seen faithful people rush in after the bombs in Boston or the fertilizer plant explosion in Texas. God is in the midst of these actions that we see, "perfect love casting out fear" in the hearts of men and women. I believe that because I believe that God is love, and God's love is always active, always at work. God is always up to something, whether we notice it or not. You can count on it. WE'RE A HANDFUL The Rev. Pat Rush, pastor of Visitation Catholic Church, Kansas City, Mo.: Well, God usually has his hands full, and I suspect these days are no different. First of all, it took God a long, long time to create humanity, the earth and the world (or the other way around, depending on which creation account you are reading), and you know that had to be hard work. Then it took God decades to save the Israelites from slavery and hammer out a covenant with them. That required a lot of patience. Then it took God 30 years or so to teach humankind God's new commandment of love and to witness to that commandment by dying on the cross. That took a lot of self-sacrifice. I suspect God is up to much the same today. God is still creating new life. God brings children to birth through the blood and anguish of the birthing process, and God brings communities to rebirth through the resolve of Sandy Hook and the courage of Boston. God is still saving us from bondage to sin and death. God extends hope and forgiveness to perpetrators and sinners by repeatedly saying "I love you; return to me and let's make a just world together." And God is still proclaiming his law of self-sacrificing love by motivating first responders and bystanders to possibly put themselves in harm's way to save and comfort others. God still has his hands full! &Worship An obscure occasion has passed into history once again. Most Americans remember the Alamo – especially if they are old enough to remember Fess Parker clubbing the soldiers of Santa Anna in the old Walt Disney portrait of Davy Crockett. Not so many recall the date of the fall of that old Texas fortress – March 6 – and even fewer have any idea of what God was up to in unfolding the story the way He did. I was lucky enough to be let in on His intentions when I visited the Alamo in 2009. As I entered the land the Lord spoke clearly that I was not there as a tourist, but rather to pray that His original intentions for the Alamo would be fulfilled and manifested across our land. (Readers who think the Lord cannot or does not speak to folks like you and me should remember Who invented speech.) When I admitted I did not know those intentions He said He would share over time, but that I knew enough to obey. I found a place in the plaza and prayed the fulfillment for which He called. Over the next three weeks or so He shared the shape of those intentions with me – one at a time. He showed me that the Alamo garrison was as multi-ethnic a group as ever was. All parts of Eastern and Western Europe were represented as well as people of Hispanic, African, and even Native American heritage. They were as suspicious of one another as any such group might be in our time, and each was convinced that he was right and the others wrong. Over thirteen days of bombardment, assault, and death they were welded into one tribe and nation. They So what is God attempting in our became what God intended for humanity from the beginning, but it nation during this time of increasing division between our peotook the pressure of the ples – after all the gains of crucible of the Alamo to the past half century – and make them so. higher taxes and more puniLater He showed me tive rhetoric about who that the defenders were should pay more and why of many denominations they should? What is He of the Body of Christ. planning as our families disHe pointed out, for integrate and our very cenexample, that the cotral government seems commanders were a determined to expand the Catholic and a Baptist. destruction of the unborn Like their ethnic tenand those least able to care sions, they wore their James for themselves? What does religious superiority on He want in this culture in their sleeves. Yet under which we abandon our forthe unrelenting pressure eign service workers to of the thirteen days' of death at the hands of terrorsiege and blood and ists and our military to death thunder from which there would be no relief except in the at the hands of neglect? And how Kingdom of God they became one about the general lack of commitfaith in the sharing of one baptism. ment to law and order in our highest They became the answer to Jesus' governmental officials – whether by prayer in John 17 that we all may be following the rules they set for the rest of us or by refusing to limit their one in Him. Finally He showed me the thirty- activities to constitutional norms – two men from the town of Gonzales and the abrogation of duty on the part who rode into the fort on the ninth of so many leaders in the Church? He wants the same things for us day of the siege. These men were not in the least suicidal, but they as He always has. He wants us to had to know – this late in the game seek each other's joy in Him, to – that other men were not coming to have each others' backs, and to be help. They had to know that in rid- unalterably committed to our own ing to the defense of their friends children as primary. He wants us – and neighbors they were riding into by so doing – to become one tribe, the valley of death. And yet they one faith, and to recognize that ridcame – and they be-came part of ing into danger to seek Him is a that movement of God to forge privilege, not a punishment. them into one tribe and one faith in James A. Wilson is the author of Him. God's purposes can indeed only be fulfilled when we are will- Living As Ambassadors of ing to ride toward the place of dan- Relationships and The Holy Spirit ger, knowing that when we are with and the End Times – available at His Christ the closer we are to dan- local bookstores or by e-mailing him at praynorthstate@charter.net. ger the further we are from harm. Wilson GodTalk The Wisdom Sisters Courtesy photo The award for "Best Professional Administrators" goes to Denise Gamboa and Sharon Riberal-Norton. Gamboa and Riberal-Norton were chosen for this award based on their office knowledge and the speediness with which they can administer band-aids and ice bags, answer phone calls and clear the copy machine of paper jams. They do all this and much more with beautiful smiles and pleasant dispositions. Sacred Heart School Principal Susannah Nelson refers to them as "The Wisdom Sisters," as they have the answer for all things pertaining to the school and are the glue that holds the school together. They are appreciated by faculty, staff, parents and students. Administrative Professionals Appreciation Day was April 24. Tehama County Church Directory HOYT-COLE CHAPEL OF THE FLOWERS 816 Walnut St. - Red Bluff FD 652 Red Bluff.... This directory sponsored by: Red Bluff.... RED BLUFF AUTO ELECTRIC INC. 1055 Main St. - Red Bluff 527-5170 Los Molinos.... Cottonwood... ABUNDANT LIFE FELLOWSHIP — 21080 Luther Rd. — Pastor J.E. Heitman 528-2499 — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM OPEN VISTAS AWARENESS CENTER — 900 Walnut St. — 529-9285 Rv. Tresha Wing — SERVICE — Sunday 10:00AM ANTELOPE HOME FELLOWSHIP(SBC) — Berrendos School — 401 Chestnut St 200-4112 — Pastor John Bohrer — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM OUT OF THE BOX MINISTRIES-COWBOY CHURCH — 585-3070 22812 Antelope Blvd. –– Wednesday 7:00PM –– Sunday 10:00AM COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Sherwood & Josephine — 384-2656 Coordinating Pastor Nancy Pharis-Curie—CLayM Pastor Ray Watkins — WORSHIP 11AM FOURSQUARE CHURCH — 2400 Rhonda Rd. Rev. Paul Shrum — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM MILL CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH — HWY 99E and Taft St., 384-1564 Pastor Carl DeBiase — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM APOSTOLIC ASSEMBLY — 1321 Nelson Dr., Red Bluff. — 527-8541 Pastor Rudy Cepeda — WORSHIP — Sunday 1:00PM & Friday 7PM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — Jefferson & Hickory St. — 527-0372 The Rev. Beth Hoyt — Worship Service 11:00 AM, Sunday School 9:30 AM, Child Care Available SPIRIT OF LIFE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD — 25235 Orange St. — 384-0100 Pastor Richard Tucker — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM BETHEL ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 625 Luther Rd. — 527-0445 Pastor - David Blythe — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM & 6PM PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD — 370 Kimball Rd. — 527-6346 Pastor Mike Cox — WORSHIP — Sunday 11:00AM Corning... CALVARY CHAPEL — 12375 Paskenta Rd. — 527-8219 Pastor Gilbert DeLao Jr. — WORSHIP — Sunday 9:00 & 11:00 am RED BLUFF COMMUNITY CHURCH — 1920 Park St. Pastor Stan Kolbert — SERVICES — Sunday 9:30AM — 282-2248 CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1605 Park Ave — 529-3063 Evangelist Gary Dent — WORSHIP — Sunday 11:00 AM & 6:30 PM Bible Study — Sunday 10AM & Wed 7:00 PM RED BLUFF GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 836 Washington St. — 529-9909 Pastor John A. Partsch — WORSHIP — Sunday 1:30PM - Wednesday 7PM CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — Antelope-545 Berrendos SABBATH COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN — 705 So. Jackson St. — 529-1890 Pastor Ron Largent — WORSHIP — Saturday 10:45AM 529-2506 — Bishop James Beeman — SERVICES Begin Sunday 11:00AM CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — Red Bluff-545 Berrendos SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH — 515 Main St. — Father Joyle T. Martinez MASS — Saturday 5:15, Spanish 7PM — Sunday 8:30AM, 10:30AM, Spanish 12PM 527-7012 — Bishop Earl Wintle — SERVICES Begin Sunday 9:00AM 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 COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 598 Round -Up Ave. 527-4203 Pastor Dr. Paul Wright — WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM — PRAYER — 6PM THE SALVATION ARMY — 944 Walnut St. — 527-8530 Major Kit Wetter, Pastor — SERVICES — Sunday 10AM & 11AM CORNING FOURSQUARE — 404 5th Street — 824-5776 — Sr. Pastor John Gehrung WORSHIP — Sunday: adults 9:15, 10:30 AM — Tues.10AM prayer meeting CORNERSTONE CHURCH OF GOD — Hwy. 36, Jorgenson 527-9210 — Pastor Roy Duggins — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM & 5PM SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHRUCH — 720 S. Jackson — 527-3733 Pastor Jon Spoolman — WORSHIP — Saturday 10:45AM FAMILY BIBLE CHURCH — Marin & Pear Sts. — 824-0989 Pastor Joycel — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM & 6PM FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 501 Pine St. — 527-4361 Pastor Bruce Cloutier — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:15AM SHEPHERD HOUSE OF PRAYER — 601 Monroe St. 529-5350 — Pastor Brent Kohler — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 506 Colusa St. — 824-3490 Pastor Chris Fissori — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:15AM — Sunday School 9AM ST. PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — Jefferson & Elm — 527-5205 Rev. Maryly Adair — Sunday 9:30AM, Holy Eucharist Rite II FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 1421 Marin St. — 824-5739 WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM 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 — 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 Clyde Brandt — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 525 David Ave. — 527-5754 Pastor Nancy Pharis-Cure — WORSHIP — Sunday 11:00AM GATEWAY BAPTIST CHURCH, IND. FUND. — 12830 Glasgow Dr. — 527-2964 Pastor Jeff Eldred — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF RED BLUFF — 22630 Antelope Blvd. —530-727-7344 Pastor Carl Miller — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30am AM at Antelope School 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 Christopher and Sheena Officer — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM — Youth, Thurs. 6 PM NORTH VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH (Ind.) — 345 David Ave — 527-0543 Pastor Scott Camp — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:50AM NUEVA VIDA — 11841 Hyw 99W — Red Bluff — Spanish-speaking Pastor Freddie Villasenor — WORSHIP — Sunday 11:00AM 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 MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 20920 Hampton Rhodes Drive — 528-8668 Pastor Loren Browning — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM - Wednesday 7:00PM THE ROCK CHURCH OF RED BLUFF— 285 Gilmore Road — 527-7234 Pastor Vik Hylen —WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM & 6:30PM - Wed. 7:30PM - Mens Prayer Saturday 9AM FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 824-5535 — Marguerite & McLane Pastor Howard Sanborn— WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM GOOD NEWS LIGHTHOUSE — 1520 East St. Pastor Ben Rorie — WORSHIP — Sunday 11 AM — 824-0175 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 Dairyville... CONE COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH — 11220 Hwy. 99E — 527-2329 Coordinating Pastor Nancy Pharis-Cure — CLayM Pastor Chris Bauer —WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM El Camino... COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Hwy. 99W — 385-2314 Pastor Nancy Pharis-Cure — 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 — 385-1091 Prayer meetings Fridays 7:30PM Brickyard Creek Apartments 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 Manton... MANTON COMMUNITY CHURCH — Forward Rd. — 474-5156 Pastor Michael Stiener —WORSHIP — Sunday School 9:30 Sun. 10:45 Paskenta... PASKENTA FLOURNOY BIBLE CHURCH — 13140 Round Valley Rd. Pastor Doug Maitia — Sunday 10:30AM — 833-0557 Platina... ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA MONASTERY — Begum Gorge Rd. Abbot Herman — LITURGY — Sunday 8:30AM Rancho Tehama... MT. OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH — 341 Solano St. — 824-5530 Pastor Dallas D. Dubke — WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM COMMUNITY CHURCH (Non-Den.) — 585-2526 WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM NEIGHBORHOOD FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — 901 South St. — 824-2323 Pastor Ken Killinger — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:50AM & 6PM CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES — 585-2975 Pastor Don Luke — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM/6:00PM NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY CHURCH — 824-3426 Pastor J.R. Gonzales — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM - Sunday School 9AM WALNUT GROVE CHRISTIAN CENTER — RHEMA Bible Church 435 Round Up Ave. — 527-9065 — Pastor Michael Ragsdale — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM Tehama... OLIVE BRANCH BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP — 565 1st St. — 824-3661 — SERVICE — Sunday 10:30 AM ASSEMBLY OF GOD — Third St. — 384-2603 Pastor Walter Bright — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM ZION CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — 836 Washington St. 529-1836 — Pastor Joshua John McKim — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:15AM SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH — West & Butte — 824-2153 Pastor Jose Torres — WORSHIP — Saturday 11AM ST. STANISLAUS CATHOLIC CHURCH — 824-5879 Corner of 4th & D — MASS — Sunday 8:00AM - English ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 820 Marin St. — 680-0353 Rev. Diana Lueckert — CHURCH — Sunday 11AM Vina... UNITED CHURCH OF GOD — 645 Antelope Blvd. Suite 13 — 824-3657 Pastor Herb Vierra — WORSHIP — Saturday 11:30 AM VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP — 738 Walnut St. — 527-2449 Pastor Steve Igarta — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM Bowman... COMMUNITY CHURCH — Bowman Rd. & Landes — 347-6130 Pastor Mark Lugg — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM Capay... COMMUNITY FRIENDS CHURCH — 4TH & MOLLER AVE. — 865-2806 Pastor TONI BROWN — WORSHIP — Sunday 9:30AM VINA COMMUNITY CHURCH — 5th & D Street — 839-2340 Pastor Larry Peterson — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM