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8A Daily News – Saturday, July 13, 2013 Religion Faith Serenity 3 — In the real world Church news LIFT Tehama gearing up Programs, projects and good ideas are often found knocking on the doors of the faith-based community in hopes of receiving favor and resources needed to accomplish their purposes. Unfortunately, the return promised from such shared ventures is often in the form of goodwill, or simply just the knowledge they've helped someone in need. LIFT Tehama w i l l change t h a t o u t come on Nov. 15. This is not just a day for people to gather information or get referrals, but rather a day for people to make life changes and get connected to essential services. LIFT Tehama is an event that combines several great projects together in one place on one day. Recycle the Warmth, Project Homeless Connect and Tehama County Continuum of Care will again join forces to bring help and hope to those in need with a wide variety of tangible resources. This will be the fourth year for the Project Homeless Connect, and more than 25 years for Recycle the Warmth. DMV will provide free California IDs while other agencies will offer medical and dental, education opportunities, hot meals, showers and haircuts, warm blankets, clothes and more, all in one location, to those in Tehama County who are in need. Free transportation will be provided by TRAX. There will even be services for pets. Great stories come out of events such as these. At last year's LIFT Tehama, organizers learned the story of Jacob, who had almost literally walked out of his shoes; they were falling apart. He was paired up with some good, heavy-duty shoes, a coat, and a sleeping bag. We also witnessed the amazing transformation of a simple hair cut. Birth certificates, deposit assistance, and medical checkups armed folks with hope for a better future. It took dozens of volunteers to help hundreds of people and we want to do more. What do you have to offer? Can you share your hope in God who loves them? Do you have a service that could help eases someone's hardship? How about a willingness to fold clothes, or help guide folks through the maze of services? Perhaps something unique that hasn't been offered yet? What can you do? How can you help? Let us know by contacting Community Action Agency, phone: 530-528-4012, e-mail: imiller@tcdss.org, or Wayne Owensby, phone: 530-526-0382 e-mail: wayneowensby@gmail.com. &Worship At the end of the day Serenity is just a movie. While it does offer a prophetic expression of a culture of repentance it does not provide a selfsufficient roadmap to the Kingdom of God – and nothing less will do – although it does provide a lot. It provides a moral compass. The crew reacts to the empire's effort to make people better not because it backfires, but because it is wrong. "They meddle, and they haven't the right," says River, the crew's prophetic voice. They challenge the empire because they have morphed from, "Runnin' and hidin'," to "I aim to misbehave," meaning they do it because it is right. But a moral compass is not enough. The lone Christian voice in the ensemble counsels Captain Mal to simply believe. When Mal objects to faith bearing content the man declares it doesn't matter what you believe so long as you believe it with all your heart. His point is that belief is what makes life worth living – whatever you believe. This is moral compass turned to its highest setting, but it is the very thing animating the film's villain. He so believes in the Empire's civilizing mission that he will gladly die – and kill – for it, and he is exposed in the film itself as nothing but an agent of evil. Belief for its own sake animated the revolutionaries of the French Reign of Terror, and the Nazis of Hitler's Germany. It fired the Communists and it is the lifeblood of the Islamic militants of 911, Iran, the West Bank, and who blew innocent people into shards in Boston. What one believes does count; it needs to be true. Truth counts, even when it is ugly. One local paper printed interviews with local Muslim and Sikh leaders after Boston in which the one expressed fear of anti-Muslim acts and rules when we find ourselves thwarted the other said only that his followers in what we believe to be necessary? are not Muslim and should not be tar- We could turn our attention to the geted for retaliation. Their fears are Author of limitation. God-invented gravity is clearly a legitimate, and let me emphasize there is no excuse for retaliation against the phenomenon that holds us to the innocent who look or speak different- ground. Yet when we move our feet in resistance to the earth we ly. But their position – espego places; without that limcially the Muslim leader's – itation we are doomed to would be much stronger if float. In the same way the instead of asking for compaslimitations placed on govsion they openly shared outernment and individuals in rage over Boston with their a constitution and the laws fellow Americans. Instead proceeding from it – the Muslim cleric claimed thought by so many to be violent jihad is just an outout-dated – has enabled the growth of colonialism. The building of the greatest civtruth is Mohammed himself ilization ever found on this initiated more than a score of planet. Like the prophetic violent jihads centuries James vision in the film, Serenity, before words like "colonialit does not go far enough. ism" entered the lexicon. Only repeated reference to Even liberal icon Bill Maher the Maker of those limitanearly laughed a guest – a sotions will carry us toward called expert – off his set where we need to go to when the guest claimed Islam was no more violent than other faiths. become all we were designed to be. It It is just as bad when the other side was through re-focus on that Maker goes there. New York State Senator that we ended slavery, ushered in equal Greg Ball's advocacy of torture to protection regardless of race, and extract information does the same vio- ended the reign of the robber barons in lence to the Constitution as the sup- the 19th Century. Coming to love pression of free speech to avoid those limitations is a very good start. offending self-titled victims, removing But re-focus with an eye on the Source self-protection from the law abiding, Person is both start and finish. He realor forcing Christians to pay for abor- ly does know more about what is good tions in violation of their faith. Radi- for us than we do. This re-focusing is cal Islam seeks the destruction of our called repentance in the best and most civilization – to make us better under generic sense of the word. Sharia Law – and homegrown liberals James A. Wilson is the author of and conservatives who find constitutional limitations to be obstacles in the Living As Ambassadors of path of improvement or protection Relationships and The Holy Spirit under the new normal are no different. and the End Times – available at What to do when we realize that local bookstores or by e-mailing human beings will always break the him at praynorthstate@charter.net. Wilson GodTalk CHURCH CLIPS Free choral concert offered Pastor John Bohrer of the Antelope Home Fellowship invites the community to attend an evening of choral music on July 19. A group called Hope, consisting of 10 members from California Baptist University in Riverside will be doing a concert. It will begin at 6:30 p.m. at 330 Kaer Ave. in Red Bluff. Bring a lawn chair and join the congregation in the back yard of the home. A time of fellowship with finger foods will be held after the concert. The concert is free but an offering will be taken to help the group with their travels. Christian country music Out Of The Box Ministries-Cowboy Church of Red Bluff will present three evenings of Christian Country music and preaching with Dwayne Williams July 24-26, at 7 p.m. at 22812 Antelope Blvd across from the Yamaha shop. Williams, known as the "Texas Teddy Bear", is a native of Nacogdoches, Texas. He grew up in a family that loved music. At 15 years old, he and his family began performing as "the Rolling River Band". They sang and traveled together for 18 years. Dwayne Williams recorded his first Christian Country album "Simply Amazing," in 2003. Since then, he has traveled nationwide and released other projects that have placed high on the PowerSource Christian Country Music charts. The public is invited to hear singer and songwriter, Dwayne Williams. Cowboy hats and spurs are welcome. Come as you are. Admission is free. Donations will be received each evening for Dwayne Williams Ministries. For information visit www.texasteddybear.org or call 585-3070 or 529-3700 Tehama County Church Directory HOYT-COLE CHAPEL OF THE FLOWERS 816 Walnut St. - Red Bluff FD 652 Red Bluff.... ABUNDANT LIFE FELLOWSHIP — 21080 Luther Rd. — Pastor J.E. Heitman 528-2499 — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM 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 - David Blythe — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM CALVARY CHAPEL — 12375 Paskenta Rd. — 527-8219 Pastor Gilbert DeLao Jr. — WORSHIP — Sunday 9:00 & 11:00 am 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 This directory sponsored by: Red Bluff.... OPEN VISTAS AWARENESS CENTER — 900 Walnut St. — 529-9285 Rv. Tresha Wing — SERVICE — Sunday 10:00AM OUT OF THE BOX MINISTRIES-COWBOY CHURCH — 585-3070 22812 Antelope Blvd. –– Wednesday 7:00PM –– Sunday 10:00AM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — Jefferson & Hickory St. — 527-0372 The Rev. Beth Hoyt — Worship Service — 9:30 AM — Childcare Provided 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 — Sunday 10:15AM Los Molinos.... SPIRIT OF LIFE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD — 25235 Orange St. — 340-2873 Pastor Anthony Roman— WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM Corning... BELIEVERS CHURCH OF GOD — 783 Solano St. — 824-6502 Pastor Dan Steigmn — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM RED BLUFF COMMUNITY CHURCH — 1920 Park St. Pastor Stan Kolbert — SERVICES — Sunday 9:30AM — 282-2248 BETHEL CHURCH — 1520 East St. — 824-0175 Ron Cottingham, Pastor — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM 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 CORNERSTONE CHURCH OF GOD — Hwy. 36, Jorgenson 527-9210 — Pastor Roy Duggins — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM & 5PM 1055 Main St. - Red Bluff 527-5170 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 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 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 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 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 FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — Johnson & Hickory — 527-3361 Pastor Jesse Morris — WORSHIP — 10:30 AM 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 GOOD NEWS LIGHTHOUSE — 1520 East St. Pastor Ben Rorie — WORSHIP — Sunday 11 AM — 824-0175 FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH — 585 Kimball Rd. — 527-5083 Clyde Brandt — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL — 8529 Placer Rd., Redding 243-5726 — For service dates & times — 529-9246 HARVEST CHRISTIAN CENTER CHURCH OF GOD — 1006 6th St. Corning 824-2091 — Pastor Michael Sharp — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM 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 TRINITY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 20920 Hampton Rhodes Drive — 528-8668 Pastor Loren Browning — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM - Wednesday 7:00PM Cottonwood... 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 PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD — 370 Kimball Rd. — 527-6346 Pastor Mike Cox — WORSHIP — Sunday 11:00AM SABBATH COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN — 705 So. Jackson St. — 529-1890 CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — Antelope-545 Berrendos Pastor Ron Largent — WORSHIP — Saturday 10:45AM 529-2506 — Bishop James Beeman — SERVICES Begin Sunday 11:00AM COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 598 Round -Up Ave. 527-4203 Pastor Dr. Paul Wright — WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM — PRAYER — 6PM RED BLUFF AUTO ELECTRIC INC. 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. 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 UNITED CHURCH OF GOD — 645 Antelope Blvd. Suite 13 — 824-3657 Pastor Herb Vierra — WORSHIP — Saturday 11:30 AM NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY CHURCH — 824-3426 Pastor J.R. Gonzales — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM - Sunday School 9AM Tehama... VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP — 738 Walnut St. — 527-2449 Pastor Steve Igarta — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM 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 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... 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 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 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