PANCAKES AND POPSTARS FUNDRAISER

Centre Stage will hold their annual community fundraiser to support the arts in our community. It will be held Saturday, May 12,2012 at First Presbyterian Church of Monrovia at 101 E. Foothill Blvd, on the corner of Myrtle and Foothill.

The event will be from 8am-1pm. Tickets are $5.

The morning will be filled the smell of a hot a pancake breakfast, hours of live entertainment, opportunity drawings, carnival games, and lots of vendor shopping just in time for Mother's Day! A great day for the whole family for only $5!!!

Tickets can be purchased at the event or by calling Centre Stage at (626) 297-4758. Tickets will also be sold in front of Tutti Fruiti Yogurt shop in the Best Buy shopping Center on Mountain in Duarte on May 4th-6th.

Come for the pancakes, stay for the Popstars!!!

May Edition of Tower Times

The Tower Times now available. It should be in your email box. If you need a copy, please contact the church by calling (626) 358-3297 or by email Church@fpcmonrovia.org to be add on our email list.

God Bless, 

Call for prayer from Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) partners in Sudan

WEST GEREIF BIBLE SCHOOL AND SUDANESE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH DESTROYED IN ATTACK by Judson Taylor Communications Associate World Mission LOUISVILLE ― In addition to the continuation of serious inter-ethnic conflict in the newly formed Republic of South Sudan, increased tensions between the Republic of Sudan and South Sudan have led to fighting along the border, and now a global partner of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has seen its Bible school and church attacked and destroyed. According to the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC), a group of individuals has demolished the West Gereif Bible School, a Presbyterian church, and two independent churches. Presbyterian World Mission has been in communication with the leadership of SPEC regarding this incident, and a statement from the Moderator follows below. Presbyterian World Mission does not have any mission co-workers serving in the Republic of Sudan. Presbyterian World Mission and the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church ask all Presbyterians in the United States and Christians everywhere to continue to keep the PC(USA)'s global partners and all the people of Sudan and South Sudan in your prayers. Statement from the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church 22 April 2012 Dear members and leaders of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am here to inform you briefly about the news from Sudan concerning the burning and destruction of one of the most important places of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC). This occurred yesterday when more than 500 people from Ansaar Alsoona, which is a fundamentalist Islamic group, announced a jihad against Christianity and immediately attacked the Gereif Bible School and the West Gereif SPEC church on that same compound, as well as two independent churches in West Gereif. The group burned, destroyed, and looted everything in the churches and the Bible school including books, air conditioners, computers, photocopy machines, refrigerators and many other things. They even took the students’ things like books, bags, and clothes, and they burned them, as the students were not there. SPEC Christians are assembling this afternoon (Sunday, 22 April 2012) at the West Gereif compound, which includes the Gereif Bible School and the church. So please, we need your prayers and the prayers of all churches in the United States, and even all the world. Rev. James Par Tap Moderator Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church Read the story online →

Tecate Mission Trip to Rancho San Juan Bosco Update

This is an update on the trip to the Orphanage.  We have 17 people signed up to go.  How exciting! 

·        Pray for energy as we are painting

·        Pray for Jesus love to shine through even though there is a language barrier

·        Pray for servant’s hearts as we make food for all the kids and staff

·        Pray for no fear in trying to communicate with the boys

Also, there will be a special offering this Sunday…April 22.  The money will be used for buying shoes for the directors of the program, Misael and Yolanda, as well as just gifting them with money that they can use as they see fit.  As of right now, they have 30 boys, 7 girls and 8 staff so that is a lot of mouths to feed and a lot of clothes to clean.  Thank you for your generosity in the past and even for your future generosity.  We are grateful to consider them one of our partners in ministry.   See you on Sunday!!

Alicia Glass and the Tecate Team

Mission Lunch this Sunday!

The Mission Committee invites you to join them for lunch after church Sunday April 15 in the Fellowship Hall.
 Janet Guyer will be sharing more about her ministry as the PCUSA HIV/AIDS consultant for Southern Africa and she will be bring pictures.
 Nancy Sharpe is preparing lunch for us and offering baskets will be on the tables to help cover the cost of the food.
 Looking forward to seeing you there!
 Pat DeVorss
Mission Committee Chair
 PS:  There will be a Noisy Tin Can Offering also on Sunday too.  The money will be used to help those who come to our church for emergency aid, especially the homeless.

Progressive Dinner

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