Please click on the link below to access the newsletter, The Source, for January 2017.   The Source Newsletter Jan 2017

This year, Christmas Day falls on Sunday!  Since it is such a special day, our worship service on Christmas Day will be a little different.   First off, there will be no Sunday School during the service, so children are invited to join their families in worship. Second, we will form...

This year, our Christmas Eve service will be a service of  Lessons and Carols.  The children will be helping to  reassemble the Nativity as we read the story leading up to Christ’s birth.  Concluding the service will be the traditional candle lighting! The service will be at 6:00 PM in...

Our next “Messy Church” aka “Messy Caroling” this month, will be on Friday December 16th and because of the combining of these two events,  we will now end at 9:00 PM instead of 8:00 PM.   We will be bagging cookies and going caroling in the neighborhood.  A meal will be...

Our preschool children will be presenting their annual “Christmas Sing” event on December 13th and 14th in the Sanctuary at 9:15 AM.  All are invited to come and see and hear these delightful children sing both popular songs as well as a well-know hymn or two.  What a great way...

Pastor Glen and Cyndy (and Nathan) Haworth invite you to an open house at their home (a.k.a. “The Parsonage”) on Sunday, December 11th.  Come by anytime between 4pm and 7pm.  Don’t bring anything, just yourselves and your holiday cheer! The Parsonage is located at 9662 Nightingale Ave., Fountain Valley. Call...

One of the most important books that I read in seminary was titled The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder.  In it Yoder dismisses the traditional view that Jesus was totally a-political, that He took no interest in, nor  interacted with, political matters.  Yoder, in contrast, says that Jesus...

The United Methodist Men (UMM) had a one-day retreat on Saturday, October 29th led by Pastor Glen Haworth.  The theme of the retreat was “Fishing for Men”.  A fun day was had by all in fellowship, learning some key elements of discipleship  with other men and families and personally growing...

Pastor Glen will be giving a series of messages during Advent, using the Lectionary readings from Isaiah.  The series is titled “Advent Hope” and will focus on four areas of our hope:  Peace (November 27, Isaiah 2:1-5), Righteousness (Dec 4, Isaiah 11:1-10),  Joy (Dec 11, Isaiah 35:1-10),  and God-With-Us (Dec...

Please click on the link below to access the December 2016 newsletter, The Source.   the-source-newsletter-dec-2016