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of dancers whose purpose
is to share the message of
Christ’s gospel through
dance.
The ministry of this en-
semble focuses on sharing
God’s message with audi-
ences throughout the year
at church and community
events.
Come and celebrate as
three of our young people
affirm what God did for
them at their baptisms on
Confirmation Sunday,
May 15th, The Day of
Pentecost.
Stoles, gifts, and a per-
sonalized cake will be in-
cluded in the festivities at
our 10:00 a.m. worship
service.
Our first year students,
John Craig, will bring a
message on What Confir-
mation Means to Me
from the entire class.
Come and support
our youth as they
take this important
step into readiness
for greater service in
the life of our com-
munity.
SPECIAL GUESTS
LIGURGICAL DANCE
ENSEMBLE:
CHRYSALIS
Chrysalis will bring litur-
gical dance to our worship
services that day.
Chrysalis is a performing
ensemble group made up
D A Y O F P E N T E C O S T / C O N F I R M A T I O N
V B S C OM I N G J U L Y 1 8 - 2 2 the mornings of July 18th –
22nd
Watch for the announce-
ment of our web site is up
for registrations and for vol-
unteers. Our theme will be
Cave Quest: Following Jesus,
the Light of the World.
The cost will be $30 per
student, with a maximum of
$50 per family. Scholarships
are available.
We are receiving a special
offering for those expens-
es nor covered by regis-
tration fees.
Speak with VBS direc-
tor Lia Gyore at 909 962-
7060 or at li-
agyore@hotmail. com.
We are also in need of
back-up leadership for Lia.
Make an eternal difference
in the life of a child this
summer.
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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
Our Vacation Bible
School for young people
in pre-school through
6th grades is coming in
GIRL SCOUT SUN-
DAY MAY 22ND
The Girl Scout Troop
hosted by FLC will take
part in worship on Sun-
day, May 3rd at the
10:00 a.m.
worship ser-
vice.
All Girl
Scouts of the past and
present will be recog-
nized a that service.
LEARN IN SUNDAY
SCHOOL
Sunday School for
youth in pre-school
through 6th grade takes
place after the Children’s
Sermon at our 10:00 a.m.
worship services. Con-
tact Elizabeth Crowther
or Katie Gyore at
[email protected] for infor-
mation about Sunday
School.
SYNOD OFFICES
Would like to serve
the Body of Christ
among the 140+ church-
es of our synod?
A number of elected
positions are open!
Contact Pastor
Berkedal at 909 599-
3978 or at dberkedal@
faithsd.net to see how
you might serve.
The Women of Faith
normally meet on the
first Saturday of each
month for planning and
Bible Study at 10:00 a.m.
in the Parish Hall.
However, this month
there will be no regular
meeting.
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
T E A M F L C I N G R E A T S T R I D E S W A L K S U C C E S S
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the Men of Faith.
Team FLC had 28 hu-
man and 1 canine walkers
in the walk to raise mon-
ey for a cure for Cystic
Fibrosis April 30th.
We are waiting to learn
our total giving.
Our thanks to organiz-
er Elizabeth Crowther
and the Crowther family
and to all who walked
and supported this event!
You represented us and
our Lord well!
.
siastes.
Contact Sam Kamler
at shkamler@earthlink.
net for information.
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.
Contact James Berkedal
(jberkedal @ gmail.com)
with questions.
of Christian Church histo-
ry and about our life to-
gether at FLC.
Free professional child
care will be provided if
requested.
Don’t miss this oppor-
tunity to grow in the
practice of your faith.
Contact Pastor Berkedal
at [email protected] asap.
Are you ready to become
a member of Faith Lutheran
Church?
Our next Christian Life
class will be
held on
Wednesdays
May 18th, 25th,
and June 1st at 8:00 p.m. in
the Conference Room.
Come and learn the Bible
as a single story, the basics
Our Bible book club
will resume on May 9th
with a new name: the FLC
Study Group.
They will also change
their meetings time to
12:30 p.m.. on Mondays in
the Conference Room.
Once a month fellowship
will take place with a byo
lunch at 12 noon.
They will be studying
the Bible’s book of Eccle-
L I F T C I A
N EW M E M B E R S H I P C L A S S S T U D Y G R O U P C H A N G E S
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 ADULT CHOIR
Come on Thursdays at
7:00 p.m. in the worship
space and sing a new
song to the Lord!
All experience levels
are welcome.
Contact Dan Ambrosini
at ambrosini.daniel
@gmail.com or at (909)
392-8400 to participate.
SWIM WITH MIKE
THANKS
Our thanks to all who
helped raise money for
athletes all over the coun-
try who become physical-
ly challenged so that they
can continue their educa-
tion.
We helped raise over
$1,000,000.00! Plan to go
with our group next year!
BUILDING PRO-
GRESS ON 5TH
CHURCH IN TAN-
ZANIA
Roof work is nearing
completion on the church
we are building with our
brothers and sisters in
Dakawa, Tanzania.
They have been meeting
on a dirt floor and will
complete this phase when
funds are available.
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Check the group’s Face-
book page, Christians in
Action, for more info.
Contact Candace
Martinez at martinez.
or at 909 234-1555 for
other activities. Find
them on Facebook at
LIFT(Living in Faith
Together).
now, I am sure, lives in
you.” 2 Timothy 1:5
Come and honor your
mother for what she did
and/or is doing for you.
We are considering
some changes to our
Wednesday evening ser-
vice, including the the
possibilities of making the
Bible Study element
stronger, shifting to a con-
templative service (no
sermon) for the worship
portion, moving to the
Parish Hall, replacing the
optional potluck supper at
6:15 with light refresh-
ments during the Bible
study, scheduling it so that
the Bible Study and ser-
vice finish within an hour,
resuming child care, and
more.
What would best
strengthen your Christian
life and witness? Fill-out
the questionnaire at
church or at www.faithsd.
net, or contact Pastor
Berkedal .
Flowers will be given to
all in honor of their moth-
ers on Mothers Day, May
8th.
Mothers are often our
first teachers of spiritual
things.
Paul reminded the
young pastor Timothy of
this when he wrote to
him, “I am reminded of
your sincere faith, a faith
that lived first in your
grandmother, Lois and
your mother Eunice and
W ED N E S D A Y N I G H T O P T I O N S MO T H E R S D A Y
T H R E E M O R E T H I N G S 1.) WALK, DANCE,
PRAY
Come for Christian Tai
Chi, prayerful walking
outside, exercise and
prayer in the worship
building resuming Fridays
at 4:00 p.m.
Call Rev. Sally Welch at
909 599-3978 for more
information.
2.) NEW MUSIC
SETTING AT 10:00
We will be introducing
new music for our 10:00
a.m. Sunday worship ser-
vice starting in May.
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!
3.) FLC PENS
Take some pens from
the containers around our
campus and leave them
where they will be seen
and used. Send a picture
to [email protected] when
you see them.
Our pens are currently
in at least in 351 loca-
tions: in 60 cities in Cali-
fornia, in 17 other states,
and in 21 other coun-
tries!
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B Y T H E N U M B E R S Students enrolled in
our pre-school: 74.
Faith Lutheran
Church Fan Page likes
on Facebook: 710 (+26)
Average daily
faithsd.net web site
visits in past 30 days: 25
People received as
members in 2016: 12
Worship attendance
at this point in 2016
compared to 2015: -11%
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:
$39,521.00 (40.06% of
goal at 32.69% of
year)
Emergency Food
Pantry giving in 2016:
2.104 lbs. (26.97% of our
7,800 goal at 32.69% of
the year.)
name of Jesus Christ.
Food that does not
need cooking, small water
bottles, canned food, pro-
tein, staple food, easy-to-
prepare food, diapers and
personal hygiene items
are much needed.
If you prefer, you can
contribute funds and vol-
unteers will shop for you.
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.
concerned about how
we were going to pay for
the fuel, where we were
going fly and land it, and
store it, and pay to in-
sure it.
Big dreams. Big conse-
quences.
I thought of this when
I read an article on a
congregation’s purpose.
What are we pas-
sionate about?
I know I had some
weird dreams the other
night, but I only remem-
ber one.
I dreamed that, on my
own initiative and with-
out consulting anyone, I
bought a huge cargo
plane for the congrega-
tion.
The cost of the plane
didn’t bother me in my
dream. Instead, I was
What is the big dream
God has given us to real-
ize, whatever the cost?
Our mission is “to in-
troduce people to new
life in Jesus Christ that
grows into enthusiastic
Christian living.”
That’s a pretty big
dream. And the best
thing is that Jesus has al-
ready paid for it!
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
F O O D P A N T R Y N E X T F I R S T C OMM U N I O N C L A S S
A class preparing bap-
tized young people in 4th
grade or above or 10
years old or older, includ-
ing adults, for their first
communion will take
place Saturday, May 28th,
at 10:00 a.m.
Participants will gather
in the Conference Room,
down the hall in the wor-
ship building,
Parents of participating
children are asked to come
and will take part in their
child’s first communion cele-
bration the next day, Sunday,
May 29th. Baptismal spon-
sors (Godparents) will take
part as well
on Sunday if
they are in
the area.
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We have set a goal of
giving $7,800 lbs. of
food and hygiene items (to
our local
emergency
food pantry
in 2016!
We have
given 2,104
lbs. so far, or 26.97% of
our goal at 32.69% of
the year.
We seek to serve in the
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 mis.sion 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.
Team FLC at Great Strides Walk to raise funds for a cure for Cystic Fibrosis.
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