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questions about how to
register or to volunteer to
help.
What will children going
into K – 6th grades be
learning at Cave Quest:
Following Jesus the
Light of the World? That
depends on you!
VBS builds relationships
with God, prepares chil-
dren for a life of service in
the name of Jesus, and ex-
tend our ministry into the
lives of families who are
looking for a Christian
community.
That only happens when
dozens of adult volun-
teers provide the means
for God to work.
You are needed here.
A games leader? A de-
votions leader? A snack
preparer? An adventure
leader? How has God gift-
ed you to help?
VBS will be happening
the mornings of July 18th –
22nd. The cost will
be $30 per student,
with a maximum of
$50 per family.
Scholarships are
available.
Register children
and/or volunteer at
our mini-web site
at: https://
www.groupvbspro.com/
vbs/ez/faithcave.
For more info contact
Lia Gyore at li-
[email protected] or at
909 962-7060 for any
S U M M E R V B S 2 0 1 6
H OW Y O U C A N H E L P turn it and the form to the
Parish Hall.
SPECIAL OFFERING
Use a white pew envelope
at church or mail your gift to
Faith Lutheran Church, 505
East Bonita Avenue, San Di-
mas, California 91773 to help
pay expenses not covered by
registration fees. Mark it
VBS for this purpose.
TO FIND OUT MORE
Contact Director Lia
Gyore with the contact info
above .
SHARE & POST
FLYERS
Pick up VBS fliers at
church or down load them
from our website at
www.faithsd.net. Give
them to families and post
them wherever you can.
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M O U N T A I N M O V E R
S P E C I A L
P O I N T S O F
I N T E R E S T :
Faith Lutheran Church
has a median age in the
high 30’s.
We encourage the pres-
ence of children at
worship. We also
provide free profes-
sional child care.
Our new worship and
ministry building is
designed in a California
Craftsman style.
Discover the many
things God is doing at
FLC on our website
at: www.faithsd.net
Subscribe to our
free weekly E-pistle
Ezine, and be a part
of our PrayerNet by
sending your email
address to
Get details from our
FLC This Week
printed announce-
ments at worship ser-
vices.
For More
MATERIAL NEEDS
Forms are posted on
the announcement wall at
church. Pick one, pur-
chase the item, and re-
BUILDING PRO-
GRESS ON 5TH
CHURCH IN TAN-
ZANIA
The walls are up and
pipe has been purchased.
Our brothers and sis-
ters in Christ have been
meeting on a dirt floor
and will complete this
phase when we have
raised the funds.
Please make this oppor-
tunity a part of your giving
plans.
ADULT CHOIR
Come and sing a new
song to the LORD!
Come on Thursdays at
7:00 p.m. in the worship
space and learn to sing in
a choir.
All experience levels
are welcome.
Contact Dan Ambrosini
at ambrosini.daniel
@gmail.com or at (909)
392-8400 to participate.
SACRED SPACE,
SACRED DANCE
Our Walk, Dance, Pray
ministry moves to a spe-
cial summer format in
July.
Come for prayerful
walking outside, & exer-
cise and prayer in the
worship building on Fri-
days at 4:00 p.m.
Call Rev. Sally Welch
at 909 599-3978 for
more information.
The Women of Faith
will resume their regular
gatherings and Bible
Study on September
10th. They will help in-
formally with various
projects through the
summer.
Contact Nancy Brew-
ster at 626 484-5894 for
more info.
The Men of Faith
gather the second Satur-
day of each month at
8:00 a.m. in the church
parking lot.
They go out for break-
fast together and return
to do work projects.
Come and enjoy the
fellowship and the work.
Contact Jerry Bain at
626 810-2733 for info on
B R I N G Y O U R F A I T H I N T O F O C U S
WOM E N O F F A I T H M E N O F F A I T H
R I D E O N O U R I N D E P E N D E N C E D A Y F L O A T
church by he end of wor-
ship on Sunday.
The parade starts at
10:00 a.m. on Monday.
Come and help decorate
the float starting at 8:30
a.m.
Contact Doug Hal-
vorsen at 626-532-0576
for the float location, or
ask at the parade check-in
desk.
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the Men of Faith.
Help celebrate the 4th
of July and reach our
community for Jesus
Come and ride on our
Faith Lutheran Church
float in the La Verne In-
dependence Day Parade
on Monday, July 4th.
Help distribute goodies.
We need riders and we
need distributors.
Please bring bottled
water, Capri Sun pouch-
es, and candy to the
.
or a blanket. The
church will provide the
movie, the
popcorn
and the
drinks.
It’s a
great time
for bond-
ing.
Come and watch Star
Wars under the stars!
LIFT is a group for
post-Confirmation
through high school
youth. They host movie
nights, community ser-
vice projects, Bible
study, and more.
Our Christians in Action
(C.I.A.) group is for young
adults (from approximately
20—35 years of age). All
young adults are welcome.
They gather for Bible
Study, brunch, community
service projects, beach
trips and more.
They are planning a
book drive for the Prison
Library Project.
They will also be help-
ing with the outdoor fam-
ily movie nights this sum-
Our thanks to all who
provided the food and to
the Men of Faith and the
Women of Faith for their
organization of this fun
annual event.
We had another wonder-
ful Chili Cook-off in June.
We held it indoors because
of, ironically, the heat. And,
after many, many years of
inexplicable losses, first
place in a blind vote went
to Pastor David Berkedal!
Many delicious chilies
were provided, and a table
of wonderful corn bread
and toppings were served.
Come Friday, July
29th and bring family
and friends to the next
movie in the first Star
Wars. trilogy: The Em-
pire Strikes Back!
Wear a costume if you
like, or not.
The movie will start
around 8:20 p.m., when
it is dark enough, on the
central green area.
Bring a lawn chair and/
L I F T C I A
C H I L I C O O K - O F F T H A N K S J U L Y O U T D OO R M O V I E N I G H T
U R T H E C H U R C H M I N I S T R Y O P P O R T U N I T I E S SUNDAY SCHOOL
ENDS FOR SUMMER
Our Sunday School
classes will resume Sep-
tember 18th.
Please be praying about
whether God might be
calling you to help in
some way in the fall.
NEW FLC PENS
Our FLC pens have a
new look. The barrel
and trim now have the
same colors as our build-
ings.
Take some and leave
them anywhere people
use pens. Help get our
contact
infor-
mation
in circu-
lation.
NEW WENESDAY
FORMAT
Grow in your faith
Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.
at our En*Theos Bible
Study with contemplative
prayer, spiritual songs,
and group discussion.
Share a wonderful
spirit of curiosity and
sharing.
Child care will be pro-
vided if requested
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mer.
Contact James Berkedal
(jberkedal @ gmail.com)
with questions.
Check the group’s Face-
book page, Christians in
Action, for more info.
They will be helping
with our outdoor family
movie nights on July
29th, and August 19th.
Contact Candace Mar-
tinez at martinez. can-
at 909 234-1555 for oth-
er activities. Find them
on Facebook at LIFT
(Living in Faith To-
gether).
tickets.
Enjoy the game in the
company of your Chris-
tian community at FLC!
We received six
new members in
June. Pictured with
Pastor Berkedal are
Dale and Debra
Nunnally, Jenessa
Williams, and Ralph
and Marilyn Ward.
We welcome our new-
est members!
Contact the church
office at [email protected]
or 909 599-3978, or
speak with Pastor
Berkedal for information
on our
next
classes.
We have reserved a
block of tickets at $8 each
for the Rancho Cucamon-
ga Quakes vs. the Route
66ers (both teams are
affiliated with the Dodg-
ers) game on Friday, July
15th.
It’s also Family Feast
Night so hot dogs, ice-
cream sandwiches and
sodas are $1.00 each.
Sign-up at the an-
nouncement wall asap so
we can order enough
N EW M E M B E R S R E C E I V E D F L C T O R C Q U A K E S
T H R E E M O R E T H I N G S 1.) FIRES IN
FOOTHILLS
Recent brush fires came
close enough to leave a
thin coating of ash but no
damage
in our
immedi-
ate area.
We
contin-
ue to pray for fire fighters
and other first responders
and all those effected.
2.) SEEDS OF
FAITH ORGANIC
FOOD GARDEN
Our garden provides
food for our emergency
food pantry and our share
table, and teaches people
how to grow their own
healthy food.
Contact Lisa at 626 422
-9097 or at lisam-
blair127@ yahoo.com for
info on how you can
learn and help.
3.) FLC PRE-
SCHOOL GRADS
Our Faith Pre-school
held its 2016 graduation
ceremony for students
going into
Kindergar-
ten in the
Fall.
Our con-
gratulations
to our students, their
families and to our won-
derful teachers and staff!
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B Y T H E N U M B E R S Faith Lutheran
Church Fan Page likes
on Facebook: 748 (+22)
Average daily
faithsd.net web site
visits in past 30 days: 21
FLC Pens left or seen
in 361 locations
in 60 cities in California
in 17 other states
in 21 other countries.
People received as
members in 2016: 18
Worship attendance
at this point in 2016
compared to 2015: -7%
Giving to our General
Ministry Fund at this
point in 2016 compared
to 2015: -13% (+2.5%
needed for Budget)
Giving to our Mort-
gage Fund this year:
$51,869.00 (52.58% of
goal at 50% of year)
Emergency Food
Pantry giving in 2016:
3,283 lbs. (42.9% of our
7,800 goal at 50% of the
year.)
Students enrolled in
our pre-school: 66.
You can connect to
all our social media
on the “Media” tab at
www.faithsd.net.
Check out our page at
“Faith Lutheran Church
San Dimas” on Face-
book. Click on “like” to
become a fan. And, you
can friend Pastor
Berkedal on Facebook
by doing a search for
David Berkedal.
“Follow” us on Twit-
ter by going to twit-
ter.com, from our Media
tab and signing-in,
Pastor Berkedal’s Blog
posts short articles peri-
odically. Check it out
through our web site
Media tab.
Check out our
YouTube channel at
www.YouTube/FLC505
and get your free sub-
scription to FLC videos.
Find pictures of our
events on our Faith Lu-
theran Church Fan Page
on Facebook and in
Shutterfly albums
(password faithsd).
Skype Pastor Berkedal
at david.berkedal.
Username on Insta-
gram: flcsd. #FLCpens
Review us on
Yelp.com on your phone
Find special opportuni-
ties for giving at
www.faithsd.net.
Come in and get con-
nected.
between them. Each
person was occupied
with their own thoughts
or projects.
About 2.5 hours after
we arrived, the juror
“wrangler” came in, took
attendance again and
announced that what
looked like a very long
case had ended with a
plea deal.
We were thanked for
I was called in for Jury
Duty in June. I arrived
with, I would guess, fifty
people, checked in and
waited.
The roll was taken and
we waited some more.
Then we were told
that the courtroom was-
n’t ready for us yet.
I noticed that almost
everyone had sat with at
least two or three seats
our service and excused.
We left with hardly a
word between us, and yet
I felt that we had bonded
around a shared experi-
ence.
We, the Church, are a
community of shared
words and experiences.
How do we share that
community with the
world?
S O C I A L M E D I A C O N N E C T I O N S
A N O T E F R O M T H E P A S T O R
C H A N G E S A T 1 0 : 00 A . M . Q U I L T S P R E S E N T A T I O N
Hand-made quilts
were presented to
graduating seniors
Elizabeth Crowther,
Dominic Martinez,
William Ruiz, Andrew
Schreck, Ian Schubert,
and Steven Wood in
June.
Members of the con-
gregation had traced
their hands and signed
their names on the backs
of the quilts to remind the
graduates that wherever
they go they are surround-
ed by a great cloud of wit-
nesses. (Hebrews 12:1)
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We will be introducing
new music for our 10:00
a.m. Sunday worship ser-
vice this month.
Our current service is a
mix of several settings and
our new music will all be
from Setting 8 in our
hymnbook and is written
for a band.
Learn and sing a new
song to the Lord!
Find an expanded version of
this story and comment on it
at http://pastorberk-
edalsblog.blogspot.com/
505 East Bonita Avenue
San Dimas, California 91773
P 909 599-3978
F 909 599-3324
W www.faithsd.net
David Berkedal, Pastor
F A I T H L U T H E R A N C H U R C H
P H O T O O F T H E M O N T H
I N T R O D U C I N G P E O P L E T O N E W L I F E I N
J E S U S C H R I S T T H A T G R O W S I N T O
E N T H U S I A S T I C C H R I S T I A N L I V I N G .
www.faithsd.net
THE VISION CORNER
What if we provided the funds to pay our
mortgage, support all our existing ministries, and
call an associate pastor and a minister of music?
What gifts and strengths would we want those
persons to have? What new ministries is God
calling us to do? Who could we reach toward
realizing our mission to introduce people to new
life in Jesus Christ that grows into enthusiastic
living?
Send your thoughts to [email protected] or call
them in to the church at 909 599-3978, or speak
with Pastor Berkedal or a
member of our Church
Council about them. Pray
about how you can help
realize our mission.
Movie goers settle in for our first outdoor movie night of the summer on the
central green at FLC, the original Star Wars movie. (story page 2)
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