Here are some interim updates:
Prayer Gathering - Tuesday, May 1, at 7pm we will be gathering here at EAC (East Ave Community) for a time of prayer related to the Almond Orchard decision. Call Leo Frost, 893-2420 or Jayson Nash, 345-6121 for more info.
Monday night Women's Group will continue to visit different homes through May. Summer they'll enjoy a monthly speaker.
Benefit Concert is scheduled for Sunday, June 3 in the Downtown plaza from 10am-8pm. Wow!! Want to be involved in the planning or set-up? Contact Cathy Frost at 893-2420
Playgroup - Tuesday mornings Sheri Nash leads a preschool playgroup with moms & grandmas. They’re currently meeting at Hooker Oak Park at 10am. Join them for some fun!
Small Groups – Several new groups are forming; singles, couples, young & “mature”. Contact Richard, 894-4437, to stay connected through a life changing small group.
Stay connected!!
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
ROAD TRIP!
One of the best things about being young and having few commitments is the freedom to throw the few things you own into the car, and just take off! Although I never did it in my youth, I always wanted to head out on a Road Trip!
Well, thanks for a few flames, and God's greater plans, we can! And we are! Our theme this summer at Matthew's Cafe fits just where we are... Folks we are headed out on a ROAD TRIP!
It begins Sunday, June 3rd with a big, Benefit Worship/Concert in the City PLAZA for US... the Cafe, performed by bands, worship teams and lots of people in the Community who love the Cafe. Wow. What a blessing.
Then, it's Summer Sundays for the Month of JULY - Worship in the Park!
Followed by CAFE Fiesta - Sunday, July 29th in the Park hosted by our Hispanic Congregation and packed with worship, mexican food and games!
We will have a complete schedule out soon that will include the worship schedule for the Summer and all the activities.
So... pack it up... throw in the lawn chairs in the car, grab the blankets and the kids... and let's head out for the summer!
Who said we need to sit at home and veg all summer?
We are hitting the road.
ROAD TRIP!
Love ya.
Terry
Well, thanks for a few flames, and God's greater plans, we can! And we are! Our theme this summer at Matthew's Cafe fits just where we are... Folks we are headed out on a ROAD TRIP!
It begins Sunday, June 3rd with a big, Benefit Worship/Concert in the City PLAZA for US... the Cafe, performed by bands, worship teams and lots of people in the Community who love the Cafe. Wow. What a blessing.
Then, it's Summer Sundays for the Month of JULY - Worship in the Park!
Followed by CAFE Fiesta - Sunday, July 29th in the Park hosted by our Hispanic Congregation and packed with worship, mexican food and games!
We will have a complete schedule out soon that will include the worship schedule for the Summer and all the activities.
So... pack it up... throw in the lawn chairs in the car, grab the blankets and the kids... and let's head out for the summer!
Who said we need to sit at home and veg all summer?
We are hitting the road.
ROAD TRIP!
Love ya.
Terry
Monday, April 23, 2007
Where's My Group...Pt 2
More location updates...
Monday's Women's Small group is going to be rotating locations...call Danielle Darbro for more info.
Preschool Playgroup is meeting this week at Hooker Oak Park's front playground at 10am. Sheri Nash 345-6121.
Worship Team is rehearsing Tuesday nights at East Avenue Community Church.
Prayer Team has relocated to First Christiabn Church in the Library at 6:30pm on Tuesdays.
Celebrate Recovery will resume on May 2 out at City Light Church...15 W. Eaton Rd...Wednesdays at 7pm.
Friday's Sons of Thunder are going to meet at the Market Cafe, 1387 E 8th St.
Sat nite ballroom dancing has moved to Studio One's Dance Studio on Mangrove.
Benefit concert tentatively scheduled for June 3 downtown,,,save the date!!!
Monday's Women's Small group is going to be rotating locations...call Danielle Darbro for more info.
Preschool Playgroup is meeting this week at Hooker Oak Park's front playground at 10am. Sheri Nash 345-6121.
Worship Team is rehearsing Tuesday nights at East Avenue Community Church.
Prayer Team has relocated to First Christiabn Church in the Library at 6:30pm on Tuesdays.
Celebrate Recovery will resume on May 2 out at City Light Church...15 W. Eaton Rd...Wednesdays at 7pm.
Friday's Sons of Thunder are going to meet at the Market Cafe, 1387 E 8th St.
Sat nite ballroom dancing has moved to Studio One's Dance Studio on Mangrove.
Benefit concert tentatively scheduled for June 3 downtown,,,save the date!!!
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Updates
Celebrate Recovery
Will be meeting at City Light Church, 15 W. Eaton Road, on Wednesdays at 7pm beginning May 2. NO meeting this week!
Work Day Postponed
The Almond Orchard site has not been released to us by the fire investigators (several) and insurance adjusters (several more!) We will need all the help you can offer when we are cleared to begin clean up, but for now…we wait!
Benefit Concert Planned
The plans for a Benefit Concert continue. Tentative date is Sunday, June 3. An amazing outpouring of community support! Check back for details.
Will be meeting at City Light Church, 15 W. Eaton Road, on Wednesdays at 7pm beginning May 2. NO meeting this week!
Work Day Postponed
The Almond Orchard site has not been released to us by the fire investigators (several) and insurance adjusters (several more!) We will need all the help you can offer when we are cleared to begin clean up, but for now…we wait!
Benefit Concert Planned
The plans for a Benefit Concert continue. Tentative date is Sunday, June 3. An amazing outpouring of community support! Check back for details.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Celebrate Recovery
Celebrate Recovery will meet for at least the next few weeks at the Music Express Inn on the corner of Hwy 32 and El Monte Ave
(across from Marsh Jr. High) at 7pm. See you there!
(across from Marsh Jr. High) at 7pm. See you there!
Ch..ch.ch..changes!
OK...changes already! The Annex is NOT available to use for ministries so...
we're moving them again...most are gathering at the Cafe and then moving to their alternate location. Some are still looking. Celebrate Recovery location is holding...check back later today.
Discovery Classes on Sunday will be held at the 2801 Godman (the corner of E Lassen & Godman. Parking in Our Divine Saviour's parking lot is allowed in the row closest to the Learning Center.
Continue to pray for our neighbors in the Almond Orchard. String Bead is still without power and concerned about how extensive the demolition will need to be and how that will impact them.
Exciting things are still happening in regards to a festival organized for us by the young people and bands touched by the outreach at the Cafe. Mark the date - May 20th and check back for more info.
Cathy
we're moving them again...most are gathering at the Cafe and then moving to their alternate location. Some are still looking. Celebrate Recovery location is holding...check back later today.
Discovery Classes on Sunday will be held at the 2801 Godman (the corner of E Lassen & Godman. Parking in Our Divine Saviour's parking lot is allowed in the row closest to the Learning Center.
Continue to pray for our neighbors in the Almond Orchard. String Bead is still without power and concerned about how extensive the demolition will need to be and how that will impact them.
Exciting things are still happening in regards to a festival organized for us by the young people and bands touched by the outreach at the Cafe. Mark the date - May 20th and check back for more info.
Cathy
Monday, April 16, 2007
Where's My Group?
Okay...we'll take this a week at a time for now! Here's the arrangements for ministries the week of April 16-22:
Monday - Womens...(Contact Donna) Precepts - wrapping up with one more meeting OFFSITE - Contact Jodi for location
Tuesday - Preschool Playgroup - ON!! in the annex at 10am Prayer Team - 6:30pm Annex
Wednesday - Celebrate Recovery 7pm in the annex (know any one with a bunch of folding chairs we can borrow?)
Thursday - Mocha Team Mtg - Annex @4pm Worship Team Reahearsal 7pm - Annex
Friday - Sons of Thunder 6:30am where? IN THE ANNEX!! Bring your own coffee!
Sat/Sun - Discovery classes will be held offsite with the location still to be determined. We will contact all participants who signed up and post the info here. Want to attend but didn't sign up? Email me at cdfnchico@aol.com.
I'll be "doing business" in the annex afterschool tomorrow...today! making calls, etc..if you need to stop by with questions of concerns...
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Blessings...Cathy
Monday - Womens...(Contact Donna) Precepts - wrapping up with one more meeting OFFSITE - Contact Jodi for location
Tuesday - Preschool Playgroup - ON!! in the annex at 10am Prayer Team - 6:30pm Annex
Wednesday - Celebrate Recovery 7pm in the annex (know any one with a bunch of folding chairs we can borrow?)
Thursday - Mocha Team Mtg - Annex @4pm Worship Team Reahearsal 7pm - Annex
Friday - Sons of Thunder 6:30am where? IN THE ANNEX!! Bring your own coffee!
Sat/Sun - Discovery classes will be held offsite with the location still to be determined. We will contact all participants who signed up and post the info here. Want to attend but didn't sign up? Email me at cdfnchico@aol.com.
I'll be "doing business" in the annex afterschool tomorrow...today! making calls, etc..if you need to stop by with questions of concerns...
Want to comment here but don't know how? Click on comments and create a "Google Account" if you don't have one. You can get one free using your own email address and it allows you to do lots of cool Googley stuff...like leave comments on this blog!
Blessings...Cathy
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Let the Re-Modeling Begin!
The voicemail message was short and to the point:
"Terry, the Cafe is on fire, give me a Call!" The problem was that I was in Houston.
Right after that message, my cell phone started ringing.
As I sat, 1000+ miles away, I was both stunned (like I am sure you were when you heard the news) and I wept. How could the Coffeehouse be gone?
As my plane pulled into Sacramento at 1:30am, and my cell phone came back to life, I had another cell message, as equally impactful to my heart.
"Hey there Terry, I am sure you have had a quiet, lonely plane ride home, and that this will be hard for you to see the Cafe. So I am praying for you. But I also wanted to tell you how proud you would have been of the people in this body, and the way they responded to this disaster. The response almost to a person has been "it's just a building.. it's not what Matthew's Cafe is! Matthew's Cafe is the people."
As I walked around inside the Coffeehouse this morning, and talked to many who came by, only one day after the fire, I heard people in a good/strange way say they were excited. I kept hearing works like: "Somehow God is in this doing a new work." and "I wonder what's next, and how God is going to use this?"
Wow. I have always wanted to be part of a people who would believe with their lives. But to sit back and watch followers that I have the priviledge to do church with, love Christ with their lives! To see people I love reflect what they believe with their actions and attitudes, you realize that there is something far greater happening than the loss of a building.
And you know, who knows what God is at work doing! Honestly!
Maybe he is doing some re-modeling, maybe re-furbishing, maybe re-newing us, may be re-visioning us.
Whatever the reasons, and whatever the end-outcomes, we do know that somehow, and someway, "God causes all things (even some of the most devastating moments of life) to work together for good, to those who love Him and are called according to His purposes (Romans 8:28)."
How am I? Saddened... a little, and yet in a strange way hopeful, also wondering what's next.
How are you? It's okay if you feel the loss. It is not unspiritual if you feel the hurt of losing something that you know is important. Sounds pretty normal to me.
But remember... we all belong to something and someone far greater, far more important, and far different than what we have known church to be in the past... we all belong to God, and to the new work He is doing in our hearts. We all belong to each other, to our Lord, and to a place called Matthew's Cafe, that still remains.
We meet will meet Sunday, April 15th at 9:00 and 10:45am for prayer at the Coffeehouse and some coffee. And then at 1:00pm at East Avenue Community Church for a combined service of all our congregations. Address: 1184 East Avenue.
And stay tuned... let the re-modeling of our lives begin.
Love ya.
Terry Walling
"Terry, the Cafe is on fire, give me a Call!" The problem was that I was in Houston.
Right after that message, my cell phone started ringing.
As I sat, 1000+ miles away, I was both stunned (like I am sure you were when you heard the news) and I wept. How could the Coffeehouse be gone?
As my plane pulled into Sacramento at 1:30am, and my cell phone came back to life, I had another cell message, as equally impactful to my heart.
"Hey there Terry, I am sure you have had a quiet, lonely plane ride home, and that this will be hard for you to see the Cafe. So I am praying for you. But I also wanted to tell you how proud you would have been of the people in this body, and the way they responded to this disaster. The response almost to a person has been "it's just a building.. it's not what Matthew's Cafe is! Matthew's Cafe is the people."
As I walked around inside the Coffeehouse this morning, and talked to many who came by, only one day after the fire, I heard people in a good/strange way say they were excited. I kept hearing works like: "Somehow God is in this doing a new work." and "I wonder what's next, and how God is going to use this?"
Wow. I have always wanted to be part of a people who would believe with their lives. But to sit back and watch followers that I have the priviledge to do church with, love Christ with their lives! To see people I love reflect what they believe with their actions and attitudes, you realize that there is something far greater happening than the loss of a building.
And you know, who knows what God is at work doing! Honestly!
Maybe he is doing some re-modeling, maybe re-furbishing, maybe re-newing us, may be re-visioning us.
Whatever the reasons, and whatever the end-outcomes, we do know that somehow, and someway, "God causes all things (even some of the most devastating moments of life) to work together for good, to those who love Him and are called according to His purposes (Romans 8:28)."
How am I? Saddened... a little, and yet in a strange way hopeful, also wondering what's next.
How are you? It's okay if you feel the loss. It is not unspiritual if you feel the hurt of losing something that you know is important. Sounds pretty normal to me.
But remember... we all belong to something and someone far greater, far more important, and far different than what we have known church to be in the past... we all belong to God, and to the new work He is doing in our hearts. We all belong to each other, to our Lord, and to a place called Matthew's Cafe, that still remains.
We meet will meet Sunday, April 15th at 9:00 and 10:45am for prayer at the Coffeehouse and some coffee. And then at 1:00pm at East Avenue Community Church for a combined service of all our congregations. Address: 1184 East Avenue.
And stay tuned... let the re-modeling of our lives begin.
Love ya.
Terry Walling
Update on the Coffee House
As you are aware the Coffee House is toast. Realistically, it will take months to rebuild.
The good news is that neither God nor the church is limited to a building. He is always with us and we are the church!!!
Here are some of the recent happenings:
At a meeting of leadership Friday night we decided that:
1. We will meet for prayer on Sunday (15th) at 9:00 and 10:45 in front of the cafe.
2. Then we will have a worship service at 1:00 as East Avenue Community Church on East Avenue. This will include Journey, The Hispanic Congregation, Celebration and Reaction
3. A phone tree is being set up to call everyone with the above information.
We are working with our insurance company about what to do next. Utilities and site services are being contacted.
Cathy is contacting ministries about space for their upcoming meetings.
She is also contacting people would rent/use the coffee house.
We would like no one to try to get into the burned out area until the Cause and Origin inspectors do their search through the rubble. They need to determine specific cause and responsibility for the fire. So please help them help us be not being in the burned out place. Cathy has some great pictures for you to view the damage (without having to smell the smoke!).
In a couple of week we will need help sorting through the rubble and cleaning up what can be salvaged. We will let everyone know when we can use help on the building.
Right now the biggest help you can offer is to one another. There are a number in our congregation who need personal touch. We have many who are struggling who need our loving arms around them. Now is the time to minister to one another. The building will take care of itself.
What a privilege it is to be part of this great body of followers of Jesus!
Keep loving and praying!
Larry Hobbs
The good news is that neither God nor the church is limited to a building. He is always with us and we are the church!!!
Here are some of the recent happenings:
At a meeting of leadership Friday night we decided that:
1. We will meet for prayer on Sunday (15th) at 9:00 and 10:45 in front of the cafe.
2. Then we will have a worship service at 1:00 as East Avenue Community Church on East Avenue. This will include Journey, The Hispanic Congregation, Celebration and Reaction
3. A phone tree is being set up to call everyone with the above information.
We are working with our insurance company about what to do next. Utilities and site services are being contacted.
Cathy is contacting ministries about space for their upcoming meetings.
She is also contacting people would rent/use the coffee house.
We would like no one to try to get into the burned out area until the Cause and Origin inspectors do their search through the rubble. They need to determine specific cause and responsibility for the fire. So please help them help us be not being in the burned out place. Cathy has some great pictures for you to view the damage (without having to smell the smoke!).
In a couple of week we will need help sorting through the rubble and cleaning up what can be salvaged. We will let everyone know when we can use help on the building.
Right now the biggest help you can offer is to one another. There are a number in our congregation who need personal touch. We have many who are struggling who need our loving arms around them. Now is the time to minister to one another. The building will take care of itself.
What a privilege it is to be part of this great body of followers of Jesus!
Keep loving and praying!
Larry Hobbs
Friday, April 13, 2007
More Than Just A Coffeehouse...More Than Just A Building!
Wow...pretty intense day...this afternoon the building that housed the Cafe caught fire...no one was hurt, but the facility was a total loss. We'll try to keep everyone posted with current information via this blog.
Sunday, April 15, we will meet in front of the Cafe for prayer and fellowship...and coffee! at 9am & 10:45. Then we'll head to East Avenue Community Church at 1184 East Avenue for a worship service at 1:00pm that will include all congregations; Journey, Celebration and Hispanic.
In the midst of the smoke, it was awesome to experience our body responding with less of a sense of loss and more of the certainty that the building was just a building and His work will continue. In fact, there was a real feeling of anticipation of the plans He has in store for us.
Sunday, April 15, we will meet in front of the Cafe for prayer and fellowship...and coffee! at 9am & 10:45. Then we'll head to East Avenue Community Church at 1184 East Avenue for a worship service at 1:00pm that will include all congregations; Journey, Celebration and Hispanic.
In the midst of the smoke, it was awesome to experience our body responding with less of a sense of loss and more of the certainty that the building was just a building and His work will continue. In fact, there was a real feeling of anticipation of the plans He has in store for us.
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