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June 2010
P A S A D E N A C O V E N A N T C H U R C H
By Kreig Gammelgard, Transitional Support Pastor & Tim Dally, Lead Pastor
Pastor Tim Dally and Elaine have arrived in Pasadena!
Read it again, folks. This is not a figment of your imagination nor a typo…, but truth. The long and
prayerful search for a new lead pastor is complete, and an exciting new ministry adventure lies before you.
God is so good!
As a brief reminder, let me re‐introduce you to God’s man for this season in the life of Pasadena Covenant:
Tim is ordained in the Christian Church and has served for 30 years as a youth pastor, church planter,
executive pastor, transition pastor and lead pastor at churches of various sizes and ages. Tim was
introduced to the Evangelical Covenant Church by Dr. David Nystrom, a former guest speaker at
Pasadena Covenant Church, and Vice President of Academic affairs at William Jessup University near
Sacramento, where they met when Tim was an adjunct professor. Tim will transfer his ordination to the
Covenant in the near future while settling into his new “tribe”. With a variety of educational degrees in
Theology, Philosophy, Spiritual Formation and Religion and Society, including a D.Min in Practical
Theology in the Postmodern Context; plus his plethora of experience in the church and his passion for
people. This is a wonderful fit for leading Pasadena Covenant Church for many years to come.
Tim would readily admit that Elaine, his wife of 30 years, is the better half. They have 4 grown children,
two who live in the LA area, and Tim and Elaine will soon be grandparents!
Tim has a love for sports, both watching and playing; a love for art, both drawing and painting; and a love
for collecting things and trying new things. If you don’t find him in the office, you have a good change of
finding him at the gym, a bookstore, a coffee shop, or on a hike.
To get in touch with Tim you can reach him at [email protected] or (626) 795‐9381 ext. 103.
From my perspective, I am leaving Pasadena Covenant Church in very capable hands. Enjoy one another.
Love one another. Follow and serve God together. I’ll look forward to staying in touch with you all and
now a word from Tim:
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I have an assignment to write something for a space in the ‘newsletter.’ The first thing that comes
to mind is a statement: We listened intently, after saying something about “wherever,” and we are in
Pasadena. This is the place we felt called to be – this is the “wherever” part beginning to happen. Who
would have imagined this?
We have spent a little over 30 years listening and being “wherever” we needed to be. It has often
been surprising, but not a surprise, about the places and things that needed to be done. The rear
view mirror has always made a little more sense than looking out the windshield and following
that voice. That place in the book of Hebrews where it describes Abraham and Sarah as going into
the future with a God they barely knew has forever meant something to me. I have always desired
a trusting faith like Abe that has more to do with following, seeking proximity to God and his
leadership, rather than waiting for a lot of clarity.
This Sunday I will be installed as the Lead Pastor of Pasadena Covenant Church. I know it will be
an important moment for me on the stage. As I spend time on my knees I will be remembering
servanthood, passion, commitment, giftedness, integrity, and the God I answer to. When I respond
to the challenges of pastoring it will undoubtedly become a ‘marker’ in my life. The occasion will
have meaning and continue to gain new meaning through the years as I start by saying – “By the
grace of God I will…I do.” The “installation” ceremony will cause me to remember who I am and I
am wondering what that will mean here in this place, at this time, being who I am. Then about the
time everyone is getting really bored with the whole affair my heart will be racing in the
confirmation trying to imagine what is next at a place with such a legacy.
In the Bible, the leadership of God led people into promises, suffering, celebration, relationships,
the wilderness, exile, the waters of baptism, prayer, all kinds of victories and brand new places.
We don’t always know where we are going with clarity, or what is next, but we listened and this is
the place we felt called to be. I don’t know how many things Sunday’s “installation” can mean, but
for my self and my family it is about following and being called to be here. We listened, and after
saying something about “wherever,” we ended up in Pasadena.
Trustee/Council Meeting for 2010
June 7th - Trustee Council June 19th - Leadership Retreat
July 5th - Trustee Council August 2nd - Trustee Council
Staff Out of the Office: Laurie Cornell: June 7 - 19th
Upcoming Preachers at Pasadena Covenant Church!
June 6th: Tim Dally Installation
June 13th: Mission Sunday
June 20th: Tim Dally
June 27th: Tim Dally
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Tuesday, June 15, Sarah Circle meets from 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in the Fireside Room. We welcome all women to join us for service projects, including preparing kits for VBS. At 11:30 a.m. we will have a “Chat with Elaine Dally” to get acquainted with our new pastor’s wife.
There will be a salad luncheon following our meeting. For more information, please contact Mary Barkman.
Beyond the Box
We meet in the Gathering Place from 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Sunday mornings with light
refreshments. All are welcome to come. For further information, please contact Bruce Wear (626) 797-
4126 or [email protected].
Couriers
All are welcome to join us for good teaching and good fellowship in the Fireside Room. We are
currently studying in Hebrews with John Wipf. Refreshments will be served. For further information
contact Marilyn Hanks (626) 791-3782.
Companions in Christ
In our Sunday morning Companions in Christ group, we reflect on the Bible study materials on
the core value of knowing God. Newcomers are welcome to try us out to see if they would like to join our
group. We meet from 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. in the second-floor room above the Gathering Place, off the
west stairway to the balcony. For more information, please contact Jennifer Mawhorter (909) 621-2389 or
Companions in Christ
We are an open group and welcome newcomers. We meet in the Corner House. For further
information please contact Anita Sorenson (626) 791-9116 or [email protected].
Alpha Next Steps
We meet in the Santa Barbara Room. For further information please contact Randy or Marianne
Hill at (626) 798-2097 or [email protected] /[email protected].
Sunday Morning Happenings For Adults at 9:00 a.m.
The next Koinonia Prayer and Praise
potluck will be on Sunday, June 6th, at
6:00 p.m. at the home of Jim and Dianna
Willette.
Please contact Dianna to coordinate your
potluck item.
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Save the Date!
Aslan’s Place
PCC Family VBS
For all ages, infant thru adult!
Dates: Monday-Friday, July 12-16
Theme: C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch,
and the Wardrobe
Schedule:
Optional early activities*:
5:00 - 5:45 p.m.: active games
5:45 - 6:30 p.m.: brown bag dinner
Main Event:
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.: opening assembly & video
7:30 - 8:00 p.m.: age group Bible study & discussion
8:00 - 8:30 p.m.: family crafts & counselor trivia challenge
* Join us when you can!
$15 per family optional donation requested from
PCC families to help defray costs. Please invite your
friends & neighbors to join us as our guests!
Volunteers needed for Aslan’s Place!
Aslan’s Place is an exciting, fun-filled adventure
into C.S. Lewis’ classic The Lion, the Witch, and
the Wardrobe, that will take place Monday-Friday,
July 12 - 16, from 5:00 - 8:30 p.m. It’s also a great
way for Pasadena Covenant to reach out to our
neighbors. Please consider volunteering your time
to make this dream a reality. Helpers are needed
for the following positions.
1. Photographer (5 - 9 p.m. daily)
2. Registration (5 - 6:30 p.m. Monday & Tuesday)
3. Brown-bag dinner host (no cooking involved)
4. Craft leader (no planning required, 7:30 - 9 p.m.
daily)
5. Active game leader (no planning required, 4:30
- 6 p.m. daily)
6. Sound/video tech (6 - 8 p.m. daily)
7. Set design set-up/take-down (Sat. and/or Sun.
July 10 - 11 and July 17 - 18)
For more information regarding any of these volunteer opportunities, please contact Vikki Randall
Sixth Grade Promotion Sunday!
On June 27th, the 6th graders will move from
Club 145 to the Youth program. This will give
you a jump start on all the fun summer activities!
Plan to attend Pancakes & Parables at 9:00 a.m.
on Sundays!
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Cross-Cultural Communication Specialists Praise & Prayer Requests :
Each year members of the congregation are invited to apply for a grant to help support them in a short term ministry. This year two members
have received grants for this purpose.
Pray for Katie VanStelle, who will participate in a
Summer Teaching Program with ELIC (English
Language Institute China).
She will teach English for
five weeks in China. Her
students will be English
teachers who are required to
take continuing education
classes. Her desire is that through this programs she
will not only help her students in their careers as
teachers, but that there will be an opportunity to
share about spiritual matters.
• “Please pray for physical needs while I’m in
China...for safety in traveling, for restful sleep, for
stamina, and for health.
• Please pray for meaningful connections with
my students, that God will open the door for
conversations about faith and that my students can
see Jesus’ love lived out in me.
• Please pray for the Christian school where I
am currently employed. Pray that our enrollment
will grow so that we can impact more lives for God’s
glory.”
• Praise: “I am so thankful for all the people
that have supported me on this journey. My family
and the women in my Companions group have been
constant prayer partners and great encouragers
throughout.”
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Pray for Jana Wipf who will travel with a team from
Maranatha High School to Nairobi, Kenya and then
to Arusha, Tanzania. In Arusha, they will work with
a soccer club which aims to
keep kids off the streets and
out of drugs and gangs. The
soccer club works to equip
young boys with life skills to
help them become active,
contributing members of
society. The team then travels
to a Maasai village in the bush. There they will
interact with children, teach English classes and help
repair run-down classrooms. Then they will travel to
Nairobi where they will serve at the Missionaries of
Charity Home, founded by Mother Teresa. This is
both an orphanage and a hospital.
Jana says, “I am incredibly thankful to have the
opportunity to go on a trip like this, and to have the
overwhelming support of people around me who will
pray for me and my trip, and donate money to make
anything we do there possible.”
• Pray for overall safety for everyone involved—
that there will be no sickness, injury, or anything else
that would be problematic.
• Pray that there will be unity and relationship
building, both within Jana’s team and with the
people with whom they come in contact, wherever
team goes.
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Jr. High! Game Night: Kick off the summer with a night of Capture the Flag, Mission Impossible, Sardines, and other awesome games. Pizza and drinks provided.
June 28th 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Location: Youth Center, $5.00
Sr. High! Coffee Hang Out: Come celebrate the end of the school year by chillin’ in the youth room with some good coffee and good company. We’ll chat, play games, and just relax.
June 18th 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Location: Youth Room
All Youth! Pool Parties: Join us on Wednesdays once a month for a pool party! Locations will be announced on the website.
June 30th 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Location: Youth Room
Elizabeth House Update -- Summer 2010
Summer 2010 activities include a June family BBQ and a July alumni workshop on Preventing Child Abuse. These are for current and past residents and their families.
Elizabeth House needs used furniture for residents who are moving out and setting up their own households: Table & Chairs, Beds (frame, mattress & spring), dresser, couch, chairs. If you know someone who is getting rid of good used furniture, please contact Judy Wipf, Elizabeth House Liaison.
Elizabeth House always needs gently used baby clothes, children’s clothing and maternity clothes.
A huge THANK YOU goes to 11 very special people in our church family. These 11 individuals created study and devotional materials for adult small groups, Sunday School classes and individuals to use throughout the entire year. The topics of the material focused on the 6 primary core values of our church and the seasons of Advent and Lent. The purpose of the materials was to foster unity and sharpen our sense of identity as a church while we traveled through the season of transition and preparation for a new pastor.
Feedback on the use of these materials has been positive: “It stimulated lots of good conversation”; “I had never thought of things that way before”; “It was good to go over basic ideas with people I’ve known for years”; “Wow, it’s really great that people in our own church wrote these materials! We are really blessed to have such resources.”
The authors are as follows:
We Seek to Share God – Steve Stuckey
Multi-generational Community - Susan Wood & Susan Aoki
Advent Reflections – Joni Bicker, Susan Aoki & Susan Wood
Service – Pat and Charles Del Pino
Knowing God – Kyron Millard
Lenten Reflections – Linda Peacore
Welcoming All – Kaylene Redfern
Worship – Debbie Edgar
None of the materials could have been published and distributed over the internet with out the wonderful editing, formatting and proofing done by Susan Wood and Becky Still. If you enjoyed using these materials, as you see these authors and editors on the church campus, please express your appreciation for all their hard work and service.
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June 6th: Club 145 (1st - 6th grade)
Birth - 5 years: Regular classes June 13th: No Club 145 (1st - 6th grade)
Birth - 5 years: Regular classes
June 20th: Club 145 (1st - 6th grade)
Birth - 5 years: Regular classes June 27th: Club 145 (1st - 6th grade)
Birth - 5 years: Regular classes
The Pasadena Covenant Men’s Book Club will meet on
Thursday, June 24, in the Corner House at 7:00 p.m.
to discuss Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber.
On July 29, we will discuss Santa Biblia: The Bible
through Hispanic Eyes by Justo Gonzalez.
Please contact Tom Andrews for more information
[email protected] or (626) 797-6190.
Save the Dates: Important Church Dates
Saturday, June 5: Welcome celebration
dinner for Tim & Elaine Dally at the church
(time to be announced).
Sunday, June 6: Tim Dally officially installed
as part of the worship service (Evelyn Johnson
& others from the conference to attend).
Saturday, June 12: Farewell & appreciation
BBQ for Kreig Gammelgard (evening time and
location to be announced).
Sunday, June 13: Mission Sunday followed by
an all church luncheon (fundraiser for the
youth mission trip).
Sunday, June 20: Celebration lunch for Laurie
Cornell following worship.
Sunday, June 27: Evening Worship Service
Celebrating what God has done through Joan
Reeve Owens at 6:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary.
Bars of soap
Spaghetti sauce, or pasta sauce
Canned Fruit
Canned Chili
Canned Beans
We need the following supplies!
Spaghetti or noodles
Peanut Butter
Spaghettios or ravioli
Bulk Dried Beans
Contact Kaylene Redfern for more information at [email protected]
Thank you for your support!
If you would like to be added to our “Email or Phone” Prayer Chain list, please contact Doreen Rudder at the church office.
Pasadena Covenant Church 539 North Lake Avenue Pasadena, California, 91101-1217 Return Service Requested
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1 Tuesday 1:00 p.m. Erik Tyberg Memorial Service 2 Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Jr./Sr. High Youth Group 3 Thursday 4 Friday 5 Saturday 8:00 a.m. Men’s Breakfast 5:30 p.m. Welcome Celebration Dinner for Tim & Elaine 6 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Classes for all ages 10:00 a.m. Prayer Gathering for the Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 11:45 a.m. Hospitality 6:00 p.m. Koinonia Prayer & Praise potluck 7 Monday 9:30 a.m. Food Closet 7:00 p.m. Trustee Meeting 8 Tuesday 9 Wednesday No Youth 10 Thursday 11 Friday 12 Saturday 5:30 p.m. Farewell BBQ for Kreig
13 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Classes for all ages 10:00 a.m. Prayer Gathering for the Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 11:45 a.m. All Church Luncheon (youth mission trip fundraiser) 12:30 p.m. Food Closet 14 Monday 15 Tuesday 9:30 a.m. Sarah Circle 16 Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Jr./Sr. High Youth Group 17 Thursday 18 Friday 7:00 p.m. Sr. High Coffee Hang Out 19 Saturday 8:00 a.m. Leadership Retreat 20 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Classes for all ages 10:00 a.m. Prayer Gathering for the Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 11:45 a.m. Celebration Luncheon for Laurie Cornell 21 Monday 6:45 p.m. Peace & Justice Meeting 22 Tuesday
23 Wednesday No Youth 24 Thursday 7:00 p.m. Men’s Book Club 25 Friday 26 Saturday 27 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Classes for all ages 9:30 a.m. Teacher Breakfast Meeting 10:00 a.m. Prayer Gathering for the Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 11:45 a.m. Hospitality 6:00 p.m. Evening Worship Service Celebrating Joan Reeve Owens 28 Monday 6:00 p.m. Jr. High Game Night 29 Tuesday 30 Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Jr./Sr. High Youth Group
JUNE 2010
