An Evening for Every Parent
Teen Esteem launches a new year with guest speakers, Ken and Pam Rogers, San Ramon Valley residents. Ken and Pam have turned the tragic loss of their son Scott in 2008 into a mission of sharing compelling information that will benefit every parent in the community. Please join the director, board and volunteers of Teen Esteem for this exceptional evening.
Fall Benefit Dinner 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Oak Hill Community Center
3005 Stone Valley Road,
Danville, CA.
$50 per person (tax deductible portion $25)
All tickets must be purchased in advance.
Teen Esteem is a non-profit organization that equips, educates and empowers teens, parents, educators and the community on issues related to adolescent health.
Please RSVP October 10 by email: events@teenesteem.com or by mailing a check or payment to:
Teen Esteem
P.O Box 966
Danville, CA. 94526
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Loveworks will be helping with this event and the team is in need of servers and 2 bartenders.
Please contact loveworks@sanctuaryweb.us or Jess Gracewski for more details. Those helping should plan to arrive at 5:30pm
Friday, October 2, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Loveworks Opportunity - City Ministries Manna Truck
We'll be serving City Ministries by a cleaning up the Manna Truck. We are going to clean and help prepare the truck to be sold!
When: Saturday, June 13th 2009
Start Time: 9am - meet at Cornerstone to Carpool (10am at the Storage unit if not carpooling)
End Time: 3pm or before if we are done
Where: Lock Away Storage (8555 Dublin Canyon Rd, Castro Valley)
Details: Lunch will be provided! Please rsvp so we know how much food to prepare!
Contact: Christen Lee - loveworks@sanctuaryweb.us
When: Saturday, June 13th 2009
Start Time: 9am - meet at Cornerstone to Carpool (10am at the Storage unit if not carpooling)
End Time: 3pm or before if we are done
Where: Lock Away Storage (8555 Dublin Canyon Rd, Castro Valley)
Details: Lunch will be provided! Please rsvp so we know how much food to prepare!
Contact: Christen Lee - loveworks@sanctuaryweb.us
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Trade It Up Clothing Swap!
Get busy and CLEAN OUT YOUR CLOSETS!
Doctor's Giving Back presents "Trade It Up!"
The event allows you two different options for participation:
1. Attend actual swap on May 16th with your "gently used" bags of give aways, and "trade them in" for someone elses "gently used" clothing, shoes, and for a small fee jewelry, DVD's, and children's books! We will be swaping between 9am and 4pm with different items coming in all day long. We will also raffle some amazing prizes and have an hourly auction for those "special" donated items that may be worth a bit more than our regular everyday items. The swap donation is $20 at the door and you will be given credit towards the number of "bags" of gently used/new items that you have donated. Come in with two bag fulls, leave with two bag fulls (Or more for an extra donation per bag you fill).
2. If you cannot attend and are still interested in helping our charity, drop off your donations of "gently used clothes and shoes" to our drop off site and help us collect clothes/shoes for our upcoming trip to Africa. Either way, getting rid of your unused items is a tax deduction and whatever remains after the swap will go to Africa.
If you would like to volunteer, please contact the Loveworks team at loveworks@sanctuaryweb.us.
See you there!
Volunteers:
Here are the times and locations:
Friday 4:30pm- Pleasant Care Medical 5601 Norris Canyon Rd. #140, San Ramon
We will load up cars with all the donated clothes so far.
Friday 5:00pm- Charlotte Wood Gym 600 El Capitan, Danville
We will set up and organize. Please come straight here if you cannot be at the office by 4:30.
Saturday 7:00am- Charlotte Wood Gym
It's early, but you know the garage salers will still beat us there!
Doctor's Giving Back presents "Trade It Up!"
The event allows you two different options for participation:
1. Attend actual swap on May 16th with your "gently used" bags of give aways, and "trade them in" for someone elses "gently used" clothing, shoes, and for a small fee jewelry, DVD's, and children's books! We will be swaping between 9am and 4pm with different items coming in all day long. We will also raffle some amazing prizes and have an hourly auction for those "special" donated items that may be worth a bit more than our regular everyday items. The swap donation is $20 at the door and you will be given credit towards the number of "bags" of gently used/new items that you have donated. Come in with two bag fulls, leave with two bag fulls (Or more for an extra donation per bag you fill).
2. If you cannot attend and are still interested in helping our charity, drop off your donations of "gently used clothes and shoes" to our drop off site and help us collect clothes/shoes for our upcoming trip to Africa. Either way, getting rid of your unused items is a tax deduction and whatever remains after the swap will go to Africa.
If you would like to volunteer, please contact the Loveworks team at loveworks@sanctuaryweb.us.
See you there!
Volunteers:
Here are the times and locations:
Friday 4:30pm- Pleasant Care Medical 5601 Norris Canyon Rd. #140, San Ramon
We will load up cars with all the donated clothes so far.
Friday 5:00pm- Charlotte Wood Gym 600 El Capitan, Danville
We will set up and organize. Please come straight here if you cannot be at the office by 4:30.
Saturday 7:00am- Charlotte Wood Gym
It's early, but you know the garage salers will still beat us there!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Served By God, Serving Man
"May God raise up a generation of men and women who are so satisfied in Jesus that we are resolved to sacrificially pour ourselves out for the joy of His church. "
A pretty good article by David Mathis on gospel-driven service among God's people was recently posted on Ligonier Ministries (http://www.ligonier.org/). The original article can be found here.
Served By God, Serving Man
by David Mathis
My dad hasn’t been to seminary. He has no formal theological training. Nobody pays him and Mom for their endless hours serving the church. But they could write an article on sacrificial service to the church. They’ve lived it.
Pop is a dentist in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He and Mom moved to town in the late seventies after dental school and a couple years practicing on marines. They didn’t know anyone when they arrived. They visited churches, soon found one, and have been there for over three decades now.
I remember Pop giving all day Saturday to referee church basketball and getting up before five to get things ready for the men’s breakfast. Mom gave herself to the ladies of the church and helped launch the prayer room. I remember Pop putting the final touches on his Sunday school lesson and driving straight from work to an evening search committee or deacons’ meeting.
The kids didn’t suffer from our parents’ church service. We only benefited. Parents who served the church became more and more sacrificial at home.
I guess my folks are old school — and biblical. They didn’t join First Baptist for the entertaining music or youth ministry or cool preacher. They found a church where they could be blessed by God and be a blessing to others.
So many of us think about it the other way around. We think of church in terms of our serving God and receiving from others. But this is backwards.
Sacrificial service in the church doesn’t start with serving. It starts with being served by God. Then as we are satisfied in Him and who He’s revealed Himself to be in His crucified Son, we gladly overflow in service of others.
The Bible actually warns us against serving God. There is a clear sense in which we must not serve Him. Jesus’ spokesman Paul says that God is not “served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything” (Acts 17:25).
We humans can’t give God anything that He hasn’t already given to us. Jesus’ ancestor David prayed, “All things come from you, and of your own have we given you” (1 Chron. 29:14). Nowhere is this seen clearer than in Jesus Himself, who “came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).
Beware serving the God who became man not to be served!
But there’s another sense in which Christians do serve. We serve others. And we do so “by the strength that God supplies” (1 Peter 4:11). God is the giver. Our posture toward Him is one of receiving, even in our service.
As we turn from facing God to face our fellow Christians, there should be a reorientation of the posture of our souls from receiving to giving. What amazing communities our churches are when we gather both with the expectation of receiving from God and with the expectation of giving to others.
It’s easy to miss the gospel way either by attempting to give to God or by presuming to receive from others. Take, for instance, many from my dad’s generation. Born to World War II veterans who knew duty and the valor of service, they get the idea of serving others but transpose this to their relationship with God: “Grit your teeth. Do your duty. Serve God and man. Sacrifice for God whether you like it or not.”
This isn’t gospel. Dutiful sacrifice doesn’t honor God as much as it honors our stone-like will. And thus it undercuts the very source of strength that enables us to serve others.
On the other hand, I’ve seen some from my generation expect to receive from God, but accompanying this good expectation is a tragic, culture-capitulating, self-centered posture of feeling entitled to receive from others.
Neither of these errors is “in step with the truth of the gospel” (Gal. 2:14). Believing the gospel reorients our posture toward God. Jesus did not come to be served by us, but to serve us by giving His life. He is the giver. We are the recipients of His grace.
And believing the gospel also reorients our posture toward others. We no longer expect to receive from them. Our default stance becomes one of giving. As Jesus has infinitely blessed us, so we want to bless others — finite as that blessing will be. And in serving them, we point them to Jesus who blesses infinitely.
The church that seeks to give to God and receive from others will suffocate faith and smother love. But if Jesus’ gospel takes root, we will gladly come to God to feast and drink. Then with our hands full and our thirst being quenched, we will most gladly do good to others, especially the church — those who are of the household of faith (2 Cor. 12:15; Gal. 6:10).
O, how we need pastors and laymen like Pop and Mom! With every healthy vocational minister should be a crew of church-serving lay people who will receive from God and then give themselves to meet the needs of their church. I saw it in my parents and a pack of other selfless leaders as I grew up in Spartanburg, and I see it at Bethlehem Baptist Church, where I am now.
May God raise up a generation of men and women who are so satisfied in Jesus that we are resolved to sacrificially pour ourselves out for the joy of His church.
David Mathis is executive pastoral assistant to Pastor John Piper at Bethlehem Baptist Church and Desiring God in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A pretty good article by David Mathis on gospel-driven service among God's people was recently posted on Ligonier Ministries (http://www.ligonier.org/). The original article can be found here.
Served By God, Serving Man
by David Mathis
My dad hasn’t been to seminary. He has no formal theological training. Nobody pays him and Mom for their endless hours serving the church. But they could write an article on sacrificial service to the church. They’ve lived it.
Pop is a dentist in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He and Mom moved to town in the late seventies after dental school and a couple years practicing on marines. They didn’t know anyone when they arrived. They visited churches, soon found one, and have been there for over three decades now.
I remember Pop giving all day Saturday to referee church basketball and getting up before five to get things ready for the men’s breakfast. Mom gave herself to the ladies of the church and helped launch the prayer room. I remember Pop putting the final touches on his Sunday school lesson and driving straight from work to an evening search committee or deacons’ meeting.
The kids didn’t suffer from our parents’ church service. We only benefited. Parents who served the church became more and more sacrificial at home.
I guess my folks are old school — and biblical. They didn’t join First Baptist for the entertaining music or youth ministry or cool preacher. They found a church where they could be blessed by God and be a blessing to others.
So many of us think about it the other way around. We think of church in terms of our serving God and receiving from others. But this is backwards.
Sacrificial service in the church doesn’t start with serving. It starts with being served by God. Then as we are satisfied in Him and who He’s revealed Himself to be in His crucified Son, we gladly overflow in service of others.
The Bible actually warns us against serving God. There is a clear sense in which we must not serve Him. Jesus’ spokesman Paul says that God is not “served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything” (Acts 17:25).
We humans can’t give God anything that He hasn’t already given to us. Jesus’ ancestor David prayed, “All things come from you, and of your own have we given you” (1 Chron. 29:14). Nowhere is this seen clearer than in Jesus Himself, who “came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).
Beware serving the God who became man not to be served!
But there’s another sense in which Christians do serve. We serve others. And we do so “by the strength that God supplies” (1 Peter 4:11). God is the giver. Our posture toward Him is one of receiving, even in our service.
As we turn from facing God to face our fellow Christians, there should be a reorientation of the posture of our souls from receiving to giving. What amazing communities our churches are when we gather both with the expectation of receiving from God and with the expectation of giving to others.
It’s easy to miss the gospel way either by attempting to give to God or by presuming to receive from others. Take, for instance, many from my dad’s generation. Born to World War II veterans who knew duty and the valor of service, they get the idea of serving others but transpose this to their relationship with God: “Grit your teeth. Do your duty. Serve God and man. Sacrifice for God whether you like it or not.”
This isn’t gospel. Dutiful sacrifice doesn’t honor God as much as it honors our stone-like will. And thus it undercuts the very source of strength that enables us to serve others.
On the other hand, I’ve seen some from my generation expect to receive from God, but accompanying this good expectation is a tragic, culture-capitulating, self-centered posture of feeling entitled to receive from others.
Neither of these errors is “in step with the truth of the gospel” (Gal. 2:14). Believing the gospel reorients our posture toward God. Jesus did not come to be served by us, but to serve us by giving His life. He is the giver. We are the recipients of His grace.
And believing the gospel also reorients our posture toward others. We no longer expect to receive from them. Our default stance becomes one of giving. As Jesus has infinitely blessed us, so we want to bless others — finite as that blessing will be. And in serving them, we point them to Jesus who blesses infinitely.
The church that seeks to give to God and receive from others will suffocate faith and smother love. But if Jesus’ gospel takes root, we will gladly come to God to feast and drink. Then with our hands full and our thirst being quenched, we will most gladly do good to others, especially the church — those who are of the household of faith (2 Cor. 12:15; Gal. 6:10).
O, how we need pastors and laymen like Pop and Mom! With every healthy vocational minister should be a crew of church-serving lay people who will receive from God and then give themselves to meet the needs of their church. I saw it in my parents and a pack of other selfless leaders as I grew up in Spartanburg, and I see it at Bethlehem Baptist Church, where I am now.
May God raise up a generation of men and women who are so satisfied in Jesus that we are resolved to sacrificially pour ourselves out for the joy of His church.
David Mathis is executive pastoral assistant to Pastor John Piper at Bethlehem Baptist Church and Desiring God in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Friday, February 6, 2009
You've Been Served
Join Sanctuary for a night of food and entertainment at You've Been Served!
When: Feb 20th @ 7pm
Where: The Chapel @ Cornerstone Fellowship
Cost: $30
Dress: Business Casual
Contact: 925.447.3465 x5441 or events@sanctuaryweb.us
When: Feb 20th @ 7pm
Where: The Chapel @ Cornerstone Fellowship
Cost: $30
Dress: Business Casual
Contact: 925.447.3465 x5441 or events@sanctuaryweb.us
Monday, January 26, 2009
Helping Stacy Move!
There is an upcoming opportunity to help Stacy Worgull move.
When: Sat. Jan. 31st @ 9:30am
Where: Dublin
Contact: Loveworks
Food and lunch will be served. If you are able to provide or bring a truck, please do so!
When: Sat. Jan. 31st @ 9:30am
Where: Dublin
Contact: Loveworks
Food and lunch will be served. If you are able to provide or bring a truck, please do so!
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