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All Fellowship Sunday Service Is Next Weekend!Guest Speakers: Danny & Girlie Cabadsan from the Philippines - Sunday, March 24, 2024 Come join us for our monthly All Fellowship Church Service in the East Bay! This month we will have our All Fellowship Service on the 24th and not on the last Sunday of the month due to Easter being on the last Sunday in March. We will meet at 10:30 AM at Cal State East Bay in the Valley Business and Technology Center. Click on the button below for a map of the campus with circles around the parking lots to park in and where the building is located on campus. Parking is free on Sundays. Our guest speaker will be Danny & Girlie Cabadsan from our sister church in the Philippines. Here is a bio that Danny sent us: Danny and Girlie are a couple who have devoted their lives to serving others. They both graduated from college with a degree in Political Science and Business Administration, respectively. Danny continued his education and completed his master's degree in Biblical Studies at the Rocky Mountain School of Ministries (RMSMT) in Denver, Colorado. They have been disciples for over 30 years and together, they entered full-time ministry in 1995 and have been leading the church in ICOC – Cebu, Philippines since 2007. After 29 years of marriage, they are blessed with a son and twin daughters, all of whom have become disciples. Their son, Dan Anthony, and his wife Chelo lead the Youth Ministry in their church, while their daughters, Jann and Jazz, are committed disciples in the Campus Ministry. Danny and Girlie's passion for serving others extends beyond their church. They were instrumental in planting churches in the Visayas Region (central part of the Philippines) and now oversee nine more churches. Currently, they are serving as the Regional Family Chair for the Asia Pacific Region (APR). We hope you can join us on Sunday, March 24! For more infomation visit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OcTDBr947vMd5rvOR2NNRk0jwDTfOFl_/view
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Happy St. Patrick's DayA Day to Devote to God Who was St. Patrick? While history has been mixed with folklore and legend, Patrick did write a short autobiography called the Confessio, which left some information. Here is some text from his autobiography: "My name is Patrick. I am a sinner, a simple country person, and the least of all believers. I am looked down upon by many. My father was Calpornius. He was a deacon; his father was Potitus, a priest, who lived at Bannavem Taburniae. His home was near there, and that is where I was taken prisoner. I was about sixteen at the time. At that time, I did not know the true God. I was taken into captivity in Ireland, along with thousands of others. We deserved this, because we had gone away from God, and did not keep his commandments. We would not listen to our priests, who advised us about how we could be saved. The Lord brought his strong anger upon us, and scattered us among many nations even to the ends of the earth. It was among foreigners that it was seen how little I was. It was there that the Lord opened up my awareness of my lack of faith. Even though it came about late, I recognised my failings. So I turned with all my heart to the Lord my God, and he looked down on my lowliness and had mercy on my youthful ignorance. He guarded me before I knew him, and before I came to wisdom and could distinguish between good and evil. He protected me and consoled me as a father does for his son." Patrick wrote that six years into his captivity, an angel appeared to him in a dream and told him how to escape Ireland and he did and made it back home. He later returned to Ireland and was credited with bringing Christianity to the people of Ireland. His knowledge of Irish traditions helped him convert many people in Ireland. It is said that he used the clover to teach people about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He died on March 17, and that is why St. Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 every year. In the Irish culture .... In Ireland, people wear small bunches of shamrocks pinned to their clothing above the right breast on St. Patrick’s Day. This signifies their Irish heritage and celebrates the way St. Patrick taught about the Holy Trinity using the shamrock. St. Patrick’s Day is a religious holiday in Ireland and Catholics in Ireland attend church on St. Patrick’s Day. It is considered a Holy Day of Obligation by the church. Families dress up, just like they would for Easter, they pin their shamrocks to their clothing, and go to church. After church, families return home and have a special St. Patrick’s Day dinner. It usually consists of some kind of roasted meat and boiled vegetables, along with mashed potatoes. It could be fun to study out the Holy Trinity this week in the Bibles, or maybe to read Patrick's autobiography and do a Bible study on that. In fact, there are so many great topics in his autobiography that there are more than enough to take one sentence daily and study it out more fully Biblically. So many fun ways to explore our Bibles. To those of us celebrating St. Patrick's Day, we hope you have a wonderful time celebrating this annual holiday celebration! (Historical infomation all found on history.com and ancestralfindings.com) For more infomation visit:
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Campaign for Clean Drinking Water - World Water Day 2024
Did you know that every year on March 22 is World Water Day? World Water Day is a United Nations observance day that raises awareness around the global water crisis. According to the World Health Organization, 1 in 4 people around the world do not have safe access to drinking water. In response to such an urgent global need, from now until March 22nd, we invite you to join us as we highlight and fundraise for HOPE worldwide's (HWW) programs that provide fresh drinking water around the world. HWW supplies clean drinking water by water filters in communities around the world including the Philippines, Ukraine, Nepal, Indonesia, Papa New Guinea, Honduras, El Salvador, and Zambia. These filters allow people (primarily women and children) to spend more time in school and pursuing their careers, rather than walking miles to draw water from wells that are often contaminated. Additionally, the HWW's Disaster Response team provides water filters when communities have had clean water sources damaged by a natural disaster. These filters contribute to the resilience of communities by reducing waterborne diseases as they rebuild and recover after a disaster. Last year, our amazing global community helped to fundraise for and distribute 2,400 water filters, resulting in tens of thousands of people having access to clean drinkable water. Partner with us again in our efforts to make clean water accessible by donating toward our goal of $25,000 this month. Your gift to supply clean drinking water does more than quench thirst, it changes the economic trajectory of families and communities. (Article from Hope Worldwide's Website, which you can access by clicking the button below.) If you would like to donate to this year's campaign, please click on the link below. Any amount helps out so much.
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Thank You For Your Donation or Or Tithe/Contribution To Our Fellowship
We wanted to take a moment to thank all of you who have generously donated or tithed to our fellowship. If you are interested in donating or tithing to our fellowship, please click on the "Tithe" button below. In January, our average weekly tithe was $6102. We continue to pray that God will move remarkably and multiply what we have to help many souls have a relationship with God. We appreciate any donations and hope that God multiplies them in blessings for you and your loved ones. Proverbs 3:9–10: Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. For more infomation visit:
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