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5 Real Road, Bakersfield, CA 93309 - 661-327-1609
Services and Sunday School: 10 am, Sunday
Nursery care available
(Service lasts about one hour and dress is casual) |
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News from Real Road
| It's Bead Mania |
Bring your favorites girls & ladies (mothers, daughter, aunts, cousins, friends, etc) and join us for an afternoon of bead-azzling creativity & conversation! Saturday, May 3rd, 2:00 - 4:30
Not only will you enjoy good food & conversation with your family & friends, but you will also be able to purchase the beads of your choice to design a bracelet for your loved one. Notes: - If you are planning to attend, please RSVP if possible. This helps us with food preparation.
- If you are doing the Relay for Life -- there is still time! This event is only about 2 1/2 hrs long!
- If you can help set-up and/or provide cupcakes, please let me know!
- If you have a husband or son, etc, who can help with clean-up, we'd sure appreciate it!
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| Greg Mortenson , Author,to Speak |
 | Greg Mortenson, author of the book Three Cups of Tea (which is on our "Will Read for Food" reading list)will speak Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 7 pm at U.C. Santa Barbara's Arlington Theatre along with Jeffrey Sachs. author of Common Wealth - Economics for a Crowded Planet.
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Greg Mortenson has promoted quality education especially for girls, and built schools serving more than 25,000 children in the remotest regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is in large part Mortenson's clear respect for local Islamic leaders and government officials that has won their trust and helped them accomplish these things together. Tickets $11. The Campbell's are planning to go. Contact them (872-3646 or dynah at yahoo.com) if you are interested in going. There is more information on-line at https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/.
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| “Then Came the Frogs” News |
| The play is coming together with the
superb theatrical guidance of Dan and Kamala Kruszka, and Kimberly
Wollesen’s choreography. This is wonderful!!!!!! We are in NEED of as
many FROG actors/actresses as possible. If you have any friends, any
size, who would be willing to have a small part, with no lines to
learn, please invite them to become a frog. We also need a couple of
middle-age or teen girls to become Egyptian maids, ASAP. |
ONLY 4 Rehearsals to go!!!! These will be for the entire cast:
Wednesday, 4/30 at 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, 5/4 at 11 a.m.
Wednesday 5/7 at 6:30 p.m.—1st Dress/Tech
Saturday, 5/10 at 10:00 a.m.—Final Dress Rehearsal
Sunday, 5/11—Performance
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| We Need Walkers! |
 Come be apart of our Relay for Life Team. We need people to walk from 9:00 am May 3rd to 9:00 am May 4th. Youth, families, individuals sign up and raise money for a good cause. See Peghi Webb for details.
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| MOTHER-DAUGHTER BANQUET: "Bead Mania" |
Saturday, May 3rd at 2:00pm
"I thank my God every time I remember you." Philippians 1:3
Invite your favorite ladies (mothers, daughters,
aunts, cousins, friends, etc) and join us at this jewelery-hemed
party. Each person will create a striking bracelet with ease -- and
have fun in the process!
The Bead Connection (on White Lane) will be providing
us with assistants and will have beads for participants to purchase to
make their bracelet.
We will be in need of a few volunteers to provide
cupcakes for the event. Please contact Lara Norman-Kehe if you can do
so. Thank you!
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| RARE OPPORTUNITY for EVANGELISM & MISSION |
Our church believes it should do more of the “E” word. We talk about this,
but seldom come up with solutions. An opportunity to reach out to young adults is looming. Our fair trade store will have an interactive booth at CSUB’s
Earth Day Festival, Saturday, April 26th. We will hand out brochures
about some of our church’s missions and sell gift items that support
the following: -
Peace initiatives in the Middle East
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Programs in India that diminish child labor and fund education
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Poor artisans around the world
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Products that help conserve earth’s resources.
If peace, justice, earth-care, and reaching out to people about our
church interests you, please contact Nancy at 327-1609. Join the fun!! |
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 Carry Meby Tim Lowly Brian Volck in the on-line blog " Image: Art, Faith, Mystery" writes: "Lately, I’ve been reading some works at the intersection of theology and the impaired body. As a physician trying to live as a Christian, that’s where I spend much of my professional time. While I treasure idealized portrayals of the human figure in classical and Italian Renaissance art, I – like you, perhaps – am an imperfect body in a suffering world. In my life and work, I experience pain and suffering less as a brutal shattering of perfection than a familiar, often ironic companion ... Here’s where I find the work of (21st century) visual artist Tim Lowly so compelling. His daughter, Temma, who appears frequently in his paintings, has a constellation of impairments Lowly never disguises. ...Lowly lovingly places his daughter in contexts which neither idealize nor demean her.
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