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August 28, 2016

In This Issue
Remember in Prayer
Serving in the Military
Prayer Requests, 8/21
Daily Devotionals
Prayer Shawl Ministry
Senior Book Club
Parlor Class/Stews News
World Communion
Chapman Bequest
New Member Class/Thanks
Hospitality Save the Date
Sunnycrest Service
Recipes
DW Spiritual Growth Retreat
Saturday with Grandma
Call for Clothing
Archives/Statistis
Food Drive PoH
Chapel on Wheels Paper Drive
Pathways of Hope event
PSWR Opportunity Tickets
Homeless 101
Serving Sunday

The Caller
is published
weekly
(Deadline Wednesday
at Noon)
by
First Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ)
109 E. Wilshire Ave.
Fullerton, CA 92832
714.525.5525
email:
[email protected]
www.fullertonfirstchristian.org

Senior Pastor:
Rev. Dr. Mandye Yates
Editor:
Donna Woodbridge
Webmaster:
Lisa Parks

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August 28:
8:00 A.M. - REAWAKEN Worship Service
9:00 A.M. - Adult Sunday School, Chapman Lounge
10:15 A.M. - REMEMBER Worship Service
Noon World Communion Planning, Chapman Lounge
1:00 P.M. - Casa de Oracin Service, Sanctuary, FH, classroom
2:00 P.M. - Sunnycrest Worship Service
August 29:
11:00 A.M. - PSWR Golf Committee, Chapman Lounge
5:00 P.M.- Cal Nurses Assn. Room 101A
6:30 P.M. - Psalms Bible Study @ Donnas
August 30:
8:00 A.M. - Cal Nurses Assn. Room 101A
6:30 P.M. - Bible Study@ Barrys
7:00 P.M. - Casa uses Sanctuary, Chapman Lounge & Choir Room
August 31:
6:30 P.M. - New Members Class, Chapman Lounge
September 1: Tri Tip -Barry Woodbridge, Coordinator
September 2:
10:00 A.M. -Speakers League, Chapman Lounge
September 3:
9:00 A.M. - Noon Chapel on Wheels Paper Drive
10:00 A.M. - OCYPAA Event, Fellowship Hall
September 4:
8:00 A.M. - REAWAKEN Worship Service
9:00 A.M. - Adult Sunday School, Chapman Lounge
10:15 A.M. - REMEMBER Worship Service
1:00 P.M. - Casa de Oracin Service, Sanctuary, FH, classroom
September 5: Labor Day Holiday, Office Closed
September 6:
8:00 A.M. - Cal Nurses Assn. Room 101 A.M.
10:30 A.M. - Mary Circle, Chapman Lounge
6:30 P.M. - Bible Study@ Barrys
7:00 P.M. - Casa uses Sanctuary, Chapman Lounge & Choir Room
AA Groups: Sun. 8 P.M., Rm. 107; Thursday, 8 P.M. FH;
Friday, 7:30 P.M., FH; Sat. 8:30 P.M., FH
Al-Anon: Fri. Noon, Rm. 101A NA: Tues. 7:30 P.M.,
OA: Sunday, 10:30 A.M., Room 107, Tues, 7 P.M., Room 101A

Remember in Prayer
Continue to pray for: Amber
Angulo, Helen Bailey, Marguerite Beal,
Dottie Bense, Sandra Brown, Jack Doughty,
Lorna & Skip Farnum, Joyce Finch, Phil
Forbes, Bob Hasty, Sharon Hatton, Carolyn
Kenrick, Terry Knott, Colleen Langston, Dirk
McCuen, Flora Miller, Janet Parker, Kristine
Perry, Norma Rill, Betty Rollo, Claudia
Tammen, Willie West, Bob & Donna Vannoy.
Please pray for:
Primera Iglesia Cristiana de Ventura
38 Teloma Drive
Ventura, CA 93003
Valentin Silva
New Castle Christian Church
2000 Bundy Avenue
New Castle, IN 47362
Pacific Southwest Region
Don & Susan Dewey, Co-Regional ministers
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
General Church; Sharon Watkins,
General Minister & President

For Those Serving in the

Military
Lt. Cmdr. Patrick OConner, Betty Rollos
grandson-in-law
Lt. Patrick Rollo, Betty Rollos grandson
Michael J. Borden, Chief, Nancy Geigers
grandson, in Norfolk, VA
Brandon Johnson, Army Chaplain,
Mariette Linbergs cousin, in Afghanistan.
Lt. Austen Packer, Laura Lee Wiggins
friend, at Oceana, NAS, in Virginia
Lt J.G. Kip Packer, friend of Laura Lee
Wiggins, at Oceana, NAS in Virginia
Pvt. Kash Cross, Ted & Sammies grandson,
is now back on base in Korea.
Mjr. Christopher Evans, cousin of Annie
Fraters who is serving in Seoul, Korea.
Pvt 2. Melody Martinez, at Ft Hood, TX
PFC David Radcliffe, friend of the
Robidouxs in South Korea

Prayer Requests, August 21, 2016

Lori
Albrecht
Alice
Wallace

Praise for new employment

Prayers for Craig as he has

cataract surgery on Tuesday
and praise that he can
FINALLY get it done.
Jackie Brown For Jeremy

Week of August 29 September 4,

2016
Monday, August 29: Reading: Jeremiah
18:1-5; Pray for the PSWR Golf Committee
meeting this morning.
Tuesday, August 30: Reading: Jeremiah 18: 611; Pray for the Anonymous meetings on our
campus tonight.
Wednesday, August 31: Reading: Luke 14: 2527; Pray for the New Members class meeting
in Chapman Lounge tonight.
Thursday, September 1: Reading: Luke 14:2833; Pray for Barry Woodbridge and his Tri-tip
team serving at the Downtown Market tonight.
Friday, September 2: Reading: Psalm 139: 1-6;
Pray for the Speakers League Homeschool
group starting their classes again for the fall.
Saturday, September 3: Reading: Psalm
139:13-18; Pray for the Chapel on Wheels Paper
Drive taking place today.
Sunday, September 4: Reading: Mark 12: 2834; Pray for Global Missions Missionary in
Mozambique, Kim Free

Prayer Shawl Ministry

Thank you to all
the knitters and
crocheters who have
contributed to our Prayer Shawl Ministry in
the past. We are in need of more prayer
shawls, so pick up those needles and hooks
and share your talents. Thank you in advance
for your gifts of time and prayer.
Jeanne Tarbell, Prayer Shawl Coordinator

Senior Book Club News

The Senior Book Club will
be meeting on Thursday,
September 1, 2016, at 1:30 P.M. at
Sibyl Dittberners home at 485 S. Via Vista
Road, Anaheim, California, to discuss All The
Light We Cannot See by the highly acclaimed,
multiple award-winning author, Anthony
Doerr.
Please note weve changed our time on
Thursdays to 1:30 P.M.

Parlor Class Moves to

Second Book
The Parlor Class,
which has been working its
way through the Gospel of John
since late March/early April, concluded its use
of the first of the two-book commentary
on this gospel written by William Barclay. This
book dealt with chapters 1 through 7. They will
be starting with the second of his two books
this coming Sunday beginning with one of the
most dramatic stories from the New
TestamentJesus encounter with the woman
caught in adultery. That story begins with the
first verse of the eighth chapter of Johns
gospel. We have extra copies of the second
book of this set available to newcomers from
the Church Library. So, now would be a good
time for you to become involved with the ongoing study of Johns beloved gospel.
We meet at 9 A.M. in Chapman Lounge
each Sunday. Ed Linberg serves as the
facilitator/teacher. Wed love to have you join
us as we move further into this very important
book from the New Testament. When will we
finish this study? Thats anyones guess, but
prior to Easter 2017, which falls on April 16
might be a good guess given the rate at which
we have studied the first seven chapters of this
book together.

$TEW$ NEW$
In keeping with our belief
of transparency and ensuring
our congregation stays
informed, we want to share items discussed at
our July and August Stewardship/Property
Ministry Team meetings. First, we made a
recommendation to the Council of Elders to
have all our financial records reviewed by an
outside source. It has been many years since
we have undergone this process and we felt it
was long overdue. Our goal is to have this
accomplished by year-end, making sure
everything is balanced and our financial health
is sound.
We have good news and not so great
news as far as our giving this year. The good
news is our giving is up $200.00 from last year
at this time. The not so great news is that it is
9.04% below our budget goal, or in dollar
amount $11,295.69. With the addition of
$6,250.00 allocated from the Chapman bequest,
our income minus expenses year-to-date as of
July 31st is $2,391.04. In the next few months,
we will be analyzing giving trends over the
year. We know usually we have a spike in
December and occasionally around tax time,
though not this year. We want to give these
patterns further analysis so as not to panic
when our goals are not met and our expenses
exceed our income and adjust our next budget
accordingly. We are distributing giving
statements in the next few weeks so everyone
can see if they are on track for giving this year.
However, there seems to be a glitch in the
software for printing the statements. The
weekly or monthly totals are correct. The
overall total is not adding up to your actual
giving. Please consult your weekly or monthly
contribution for the correct number. This will
be corrected on our next run.
Our Ministry Team meets every 3rd
Wednesday at 7 P.M. and everyone is welcome.
If you like puzzles, this may be your call to
service.

Chapman Bequest
In July, the Trustees,
Council of Elders, and
Stewardship Ministry team met in their
separate meetings to discuss the disposition of
funds from the Chapman Trust. Our Bequest
Fund Policy states that an undesignated
bequest be divided as such: 25% will be
transferred to outreach causes as
recommended by the Outreach Ministry Team
and approved by the Council of Elders. The
second 25% will go into the General Fund, and
the remaining 50% will go into the Capital
Bequest Fund for capital improvements. We
will be making the first distribution of $25,000
this month. Based on the formula above,
Outreach will receive $6250.00, the General
Fund will receive $6250.00, and the Capital
Bequest Trust Fund will receive $12,500.00. The
remaining $165,000.00 will be transferred into a
Living Trust Fund at the Christian Church
Foundation where it will accrue interest. As
additional money is distributed, our Bequest
Policy will be followed. Ernie Chapman
believed in our church and was a huge
proponent of outreach; we hope he would be
very happy with our handling of his legacy.

World Communion
Sunday Planning
Meeting
Would you like to help
plan a special worship service
for World Communion Sunday in October - then
plan to attend the planning meeting to share your
ideas? TODAY at Noon in Chapman Lounge

New Member Class

If you are new to FCCF
and would like more information
about the Disciples of Christ
denomination, beliefs and history - then join
Pastor Mandye for some conversations to learn
more about it. Even if you missed the one last
Wednesday, you can catch up this Wednesday,
August 31st at 6:30 P.M. in Chapman Lounge

HOSPITALITY & WELCOME

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Save the date: Monday,
September 12th. PIZZA
DAY/NIGHT Fundraiser at
Pieology Pizzaria at 516 North State College
Blvd, Fullerton. More information to follow.

Thank You
A huge thank you
to Our Superstar
Workday Crew...Randy
Langston, Barry
Woodbridge, Mandye Yates,
Tom and Leslie Beck, Amy and David Styffe,
Pat Vannoy, Jeff Beard, Luanne Bailey, Mark
Matthew, Rico Sanchez, Craig Wallace,
Dwain Van Diest, Jim Emerson and Minde
Findley. We moved the risers, cleared the
stage and the basement and completed another
very successful workday. Thank you again!

Sunnycrest Worship
Service
Do you have a desire to
help Seniors in our area? Every
fourth Sunday of the month, FCCF holds a 2;00
p.m. worship service at Sunnycrest for the
residents. This got started by our own, Norma
Rill, who lives there asking if we would
provide a hopeful worship service with
familiar hymns, communion for all, etc.
We can always use more people to sit
with the residents, help them with
communion, singing, and just visiting and
showing them that there are people outside
their walls who care about them. It is only
about 30 40 minutes long and very
rewarding. Come join us!

Hospitalily & Welcome

"Attention all Young
Artists!
How would you like to have
your art included in our Recipe Collection? To add
a personal touch and a sense of fun, we will include
drawings and paintings of any food. Could be a
hot dog, an ice cream cone, a fish or chicken, a bowl
of spaghetti, an apple...draw us your favorite food
and we will include it in the collection. Parents,
Grandparents, I hope you will work with your
kids/grandkids and encourage them to
participate. Should make this book quite special!
Any size will be accepted. Please place the piece of
art in the large manilla envelope at the Hospitality
Table by September 11th. Questions? Thank you! "
[email protected].

Saturday with Grandma

Saturdays with Grandma
will be a time for women of our
church to meet with the children
and youth of our church and the
community to share some of our
hobbies, etc, and in turn the kids can help us
with the new technologies that challenge some
of us older women.
It will start in the fall probably on a
Saturday the first part of November from 9
11 a.m. We are looking for anything you
would like to share, for example, quilting,
sewing, cooking. Contact Donna Woodbridge
if you would like to be involved and what
Saturdays are best for you.

Disciples Womens Spiritual Growth

Retreat
Disciples of Christ & United Church of Christ

Womens Spiritual Growth Retreat 2016

Altaring Our Lives

When: Friday evening, September 30

to Sunday, October 2, 2016
Where: Loch Leven Christian Retreat Center
Mentone, CA
Women of all ages -- high-school-age and older -- are
welcomed!
Join women from across the region on a 4-session faith
journey. Our map will be the book An Altar In the World by
Barbara Brown Taylor and Pastor Mandye Yates, Senior
Pastor of First Christian Church Fullerton, will be our guide.
Well also have our Co-Regional Minister, Rev. Susan
Gonzalez- Dewey, Rev. Daphne Gascot Arias, and Ruth
Alvarez with us sharing stories, wisdom and laughs as we
journey together.
Our time together will include reflecting on how we can live
faithfully in a frantic world and learning to take time to build
our own altarsany place where we can stop and worship
God.
The retreat will be your time to spend time enjoying His
world, by taking care of yourself with friends, old and new!
An Altar In the World is available online and will be
available at the Retreat for purchase.
Registration Fee is $150.00
Registration Deadline: September 20, 2016
Registration forms and registration materials are available
online
in English and Spanish at www.pswdw.com.
Or contact Donna Woodbridge 714-525-5525

Casa and FCCF women are planning the

retreat. Hope you will plan to attend.
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FCCF Archives
We are in the process of
creating our First Christian Church
Fullerton Archives. Would you like to
be a part of this process?
We are looking for pictures, articles
and stories of our Church. We will begin
gathering Oral Histories and other articles in
the hopes of creating a wonderful "memory
book" for those new to the church.
If you would like to loan a photograph
or article please mark it loan and our
Archivist/Historian, Janelle Vannoy will scan
and return the items to the church office. To be
a part of this wonderful project, please contact
Janelle Vannoy at [email protected]
Thank you, FCC Fullerton Archivist/Historian

Call for Clothing

We can use men and boys clothing
especially socks again. We are good
on womens clothing at the present
time.
Also if you have extra cloth or sturdy
plastic shopping bags that you would like to
donate we would love to have them. They
really appreciate the strong bags. Your
donations are greatly appreciated by the guests
at the meal. Thanks, Phil

Sunday Statistics
August 21, 2016
96 (Remember Service)
9 (Reawaken Service) 110 (Casa 1 P.M. service)
Weekly Giving: $2,339.10
Mission :$259.90
Budget Goal: $4,831 Downtown Market: $903
Week of Compassion: $100

Food Drive for Pathways of

Hope
September is the month that
First Christian Church of Fullerton
collects food for the Pathways of Hope
distribution center. In 2014 Pathways
distributed about 30,000 meals to over 6,500
households. Pathways of Hope depends upon
donations to fill their distribution centers
pantry. We have been asked to provide staples
from the following list:
Dried beans
Oatmeal
Canned fruit
Pasta
Peanut butter
Canned meat
Jelly
Crackers
Cereal
Trail
mix
Beginning Sunday, September 4, you
will find a large box in the Church Narthex for
your food donations. Lets fill it up!
P.S. Did you know that in the past 9 years,
Orange Countys poverty rate has risen from
8.8 percent to 13.5 percent of residents. For a
family of four that means an annual income
BELOW $24,000. [from 2015 Orange County
Community Indicators]
Thanks for helping others,
Outreach Ministry Team

Chapel on Wheels Paper

Drive
Chapel on Wheels
Paper Drive will be held
Saturday, September 3, from
9:00 A.M. until noon at the
following locations:
Behind G & D Liquor store, corner of
Chapman and Euclid.
Parking lot east Raymond on Chapman
Ave. next to Walgreens
Parking Lot at St. Jude Medical
building corner of Sunnycrest and Valencia
Mesa

PSWR Opportunity
Tickets on Sale
The annual Don
Shelton Memorial Golf
Classic of the PSW Region will be held on
Monday, September 19th, at San Dimas Canyon
Golf Course in San Dimas.
Since a golf tournament only appeals
to people who play golf, here are a couple of
opportunities for non-golfers to support the
event, in addition to being one of the event
sponsors.
Purchase Opportunity tickets for a chance
to win: Two Tickets to the 2016-2017 series of
Broadway Plays at the Pantages Theatre in
Hollywood; an iPad Mini; and, two tickets to a
series of four events at the new Musco Center
on the campus of Chapman University.
Tickets for the Opportunity Drawing
are available in these increments: 1 for $1; 6 for
$5; 13 for $10 and 25 for $20.
Purchase tickets for the Shelton
Family Scholarship Fund Drawing. This
drawing has one prizea four night/five day
cruise package. The proceeds from this
drawing will go to the Shelton Family
Scholarship Fund to support students studying
for the ministry through the Disciples
Seminary Foundation. Tickets for the Shelton
Family Scholarship Fund Drawing are
available in these increments: 1 for $10 and 3
for $20.
You do not have to be present to win
this drawing. Donna will be selling tickets in
the Narthex after the 10:15 worship service
from now until Sunday, September 18.
Your support of the Golf Tournament
by purchasing tickets for either one, or both, of
these drawings will be greatly appreciated!
The Outreach Ministry

Homeless 101
If you were not able to
be a part of Homeless 101
when it was offered a year or
so ago, you will want to be a
part of this one.
It will be held September 17, 9 a.m.
Noon at First Lutheran Church, 215. N Lemon
St, Fullerton (Corner of Wilshire and Harbor.)
Topics to be discussed are
Understanding Homelessness, Mental Health
in relation to Homelessness, Best Practices, and
How can we better Love our Neighbors.
There will be speakers from Pathways
of Hope, Future in Humanity, St. Jude,
Fullerton PD and Fullerton ACT.
Also partnering and sharing what their
organization do are Coast to Coast and Career
Wise.
RSVP at Fullertonact.org

First Christian Church

109 E. Wilshire Avenue
Fullerton, CA 92832
Reawaken (Early Worship Service) Sunday, 8:00 A.M.
Adult Sunday School: 9:00 A.M.
Remember (Traditional Worship Service) Sunday, 10:15 A.M.
Childrens Sunday School Infants through 12 years old, 10:00 a.m.
Sunnycrest Worship Service: Fourth Sunday of every month 2:00 P.M.
Youth Group: Sunday, 1:00 P.M.

First Christian Church . . .

Where encounters with God are not only ordinary,

theyre extraordinary!
Where invitations not only happen on occasion,
they happen on every occasion.
Where not only minds grow in knowledge,
hearts grow in faith.

Serving August 28, 2016

Greeters: Donna & Barry Woodbridge
Guest Book: Lynda Bailey
Coffee Host: Hospitality Ministry
Acolyte Parent: Beal
Sound & Video: PJ Vannoy
Lay Leader: Pam Findley-Flor
Childrens Moment: Mandye Yates
Elder Count with Luanne: Lisa Parks
Elders: Barry Woodbridge, Donna
Woodbridge, Jeanne Tarbell
Diaconate: Randys Team
Prepare: Randy Baxter, Sibyl Dittberner
Ushers: Annie Frater, Bill Henke
Serve:, Randy Baxter, Dena Heathman, Bill
Henke, Mike Hogan
Clean Up: Sibyl Dittberner, Mike Hogan,
Alternate: Cyndi Cairns
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Serving Sept 4, 2016

Greeters: Phil Forbes
Guest Book: Mariette Linberg
Coffee Host: Hospitality Ministry
Acolyte Parent: Baxter
Sound & Video: Clare Keech
Lay Leader: Chris Fee
Childrens Moment: Mandye Yates
Elder Count with Luanne: Pat Vannoy
Elders: Bill Martin, Lin Garcia, Nancy
Geiger
Diaconate: McCuens Team
Prepare: Alice & Craig Wallace
Ushers: Kelly & Shawn McCuen
Serve: Jan, Kelly & Shawn McCuen, Paul
Robidoux, Alice & Craig Wallace
Clean Up: Jan, Kelly & Shawn McCuen
Alternate