Here's the final version of the worship rotation schedule for January-March 2013. You can click here or on the link to the right.
One minor change regarding scheduling conflicts, effective immediately: if you find that you're unable to serve for a particular Sunday, please CONTACT ME FIRST before checking for substitutes or trades. With many of us doing double (or triple) duties with various volunteer opportunities at church, I just want to have a heads up before you solidify any agreements with one another.
Happy New Year!
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
January-March 2013 DRAFT Schedule Online!
The DRAFT schedule for January-March 2013 is available here or at the link to the right. Thanks for your patience, as it took a little longer to get this one sorted out. Please notify me IMMEDIATELY of any possible schedule conflicts. The schedule will become final on Monday, December 24.
Monday, September 24, 2012
October-December 2012 FINAL schedule!
The FINAL worship rotation schedule for October-December 2012 is now available here or at the link to the right. Please contact me ASAP if and when you are aware of any schedule conflicts. Thanks again for your part in leading worship at ABC!
Sunday, September 16, 2012
October_December DRAFT schedule online
The DRAFT version of the worship rotation schedule for October-December 2012 is now available here, or at the link on the right. Please notify me of any schedule confilcts ASAP. The schedule will become FINAL on Monday, September 24. Thanks!
Monday, June 25, 2012
July-September FINAL schedule online
The FINAL worship rotation schedule is now available at the link to the right. Thanks for your input in helping to prepare the schedule. Please inform me ASAP if you are unavailable to serve on your appointed Sunday.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
July-September 2012 DRAFT schedule online
The DRAFT schedule for July-September 2012 is now available to view online; please see the link on the right. If you have any schedule conflicts, please contact me ASAP to let me know. The schedule will become FINAL on Monday, June 25. Thanks for continuing to serve!
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
April-June 2012 FINAL Schedule Online
The final worship rotation schedule for April-June 2012 is now available at the link to the right. If you are unavailable to serve on your scheduled day, please contact Glenn as soon as possible. Thanks!
Monday, March 12, 2012
April-June 2012 DRAFT Schedule Online
A rough draft of the worship rotation schedule for April-June 2012 is now available at the link on the top right corner of this page. Please review the dates and respond to me ASAP if you are aware of any scheduling conflicts. This schedule will become FINAL by Thursday, March 22.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Preparing for Lent
What comes to your mind when you hear terms such as “Lent” or “Ash Wednesday”? Your response would certainly be shaped by your past spiritual experiences—or inexperience—with these annual events. Some of us who previously worshiped in a “high church” tradition (Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopalian, etc.) might remember ashes on the forehead, fasting and prayer, or abstaining from something such as meat or smoking. Others, including many of us who have been life-long practicing Baptists, have had little or no experience with Lent-related practices.
Traditionally, Lent has functioned within the church as a time of preparation for believers, helping them to meditate upon the crucifixion and resurrection for a forty day period, culminating during Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The symbolism of “forty days” is related to the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness, fasting and praying before he entered into public ministry. Over the centuries, Christians have developed various disciplines to help them focus during the period of Lent, including fasting and prayer, as well as other forms of abstinence and self-denial.
In recent years, we have gently explored the season of Lent at ABC, making an effort to more intentionally prepare for Easter in the weeks preceding it. This year, we have chosen to work more methodically through this Lenten period, but in ways that are geared to address the needs and spiritual journeys within our own congregation. Our expression of Lent in the coming weeks won’t necessarily look like the way Lent is practiced in other churches; we will seek to find unique ways to examine the challenges of living our lives for Christ in a world filled with distractions and temptations. We will consider the cost of committing and devoting ourselves to Christ, remembering along the way the cost that Christ himself paid for us through his own death. For the next six Sundays, our pastors will be preaching on Scriptures concerning Jesus’ final days as he approached the reality of the cross. The other elements of our worship services will supplement the content of the sermons, and will also focus on various disciplines that we are called as Christians to practice daily, not simply during the season of Lent. These disciplines include such themes as confession, sacrifice, humility and compassion, forgiveness, perseverance, and faithfulness.
We invite you to join us on Wednesday, February 22, at 7:00 PM, for an evening of worship and reflection, as we officially enter into Lent as a community. It will be unlike any other Ash Wednesday service you may have attended, but it will be true to who we are as the Altadena Baptist Church family of believers. The service will be a meaningful way for us to prepare for what promises to be a spiritually enriching opportunity for us, both individually and corporately.
Traditionally, Lent has functioned within the church as a time of preparation for believers, helping them to meditate upon the crucifixion and resurrection for a forty day period, culminating during Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The symbolism of “forty days” is related to the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness, fasting and praying before he entered into public ministry. Over the centuries, Christians have developed various disciplines to help them focus during the period of Lent, including fasting and prayer, as well as other forms of abstinence and self-denial.
In recent years, we have gently explored the season of Lent at ABC, making an effort to more intentionally prepare for Easter in the weeks preceding it. This year, we have chosen to work more methodically through this Lenten period, but in ways that are geared to address the needs and spiritual journeys within our own congregation. Our expression of Lent in the coming weeks won’t necessarily look like the way Lent is practiced in other churches; we will seek to find unique ways to examine the challenges of living our lives for Christ in a world filled with distractions and temptations. We will consider the cost of committing and devoting ourselves to Christ, remembering along the way the cost that Christ himself paid for us through his own death. For the next six Sundays, our pastors will be preaching on Scriptures concerning Jesus’ final days as he approached the reality of the cross. The other elements of our worship services will supplement the content of the sermons, and will also focus on various disciplines that we are called as Christians to practice daily, not simply during the season of Lent. These disciplines include such themes as confession, sacrifice, humility and compassion, forgiveness, perseverance, and faithfulness.
We invite you to join us on Wednesday, February 22, at 7:00 PM, for an evening of worship and reflection, as we officially enter into Lent as a community. It will be unlike any other Ash Wednesday service you may have attended, but it will be true to who we are as the Altadena Baptist Church family of believers. The service will be a meaningful way for us to prepare for what promises to be a spiritually enriching opportunity for us, both individually and corporately.
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