Welcome!

Pastor Stephen King & the Memorial Tabernacle family welcome you to our weekly newsletter. We invite you to become a part of this growing ministry that is "reaching to teach, teaching to change" one person and one block at a time. Find your place to GROW into the person God has designed you to be!

Notes from Sunday's Sermon

"THE LORD IS THERE" (Ezekiel 47:1-6; 48:35)

Saints, there is water available from the temple but not for the temple dwellers. Those of us within the temple have been enlivened by the wind (the Spirit). But the water is for those on the outside. You see, saints, the water in this text is representative of influence, influence that touches lives and changes communities. Influence that draws people to our doors without you and I having the ability to identify the source and tap into it for our personal comforts. This message is about more than some bones. It's about whether we are going to use our water, our influence, for others.

Church, if you really want to see God draw, start lifting him up! Do you want to see leadership that speaks once again with a prophetic voice, anointed, Spirit-led and God-directed then give Him praise! Do the basics; do the main thing, the primary thing: praise God! Praise brings God to the church. Praise is a weapon against the enemy! Praise makes God dance! Praise is the passkey into the house of blessing and supply! Water (meaning influence) is generated in our cities when we praise. Our cities will wake up. Our cities will experience a shakeup. Our cities will be built up if we lead them through our praise. They will come to church because the Lord is there!

Sincerely in Christ,

Pastor Stephen King

Memorial Tabernacle Church (CHSC)

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Pastor's Blog

We Are Proud of You . . . !

I would like to congratulate and thank Ms. Tonya Love, creator, producer, writer, and editor of the First Social Media Oakland Mayoral Forum, televised and video streamed last night at City Hall, for a job well-done.

Tonya's involvement in city governance and community affairs has made her a recognizable leader in the City of Oakland. Tonya loves Oakland and has a deep passion to make every citizen-young and old-aware and informed about city government and how it works. More important, she wants to encourage young people to get involved in the political process by letting their voices be heard.

If you've never met Tonya, just look up and you may see her riding her bike around town or walking about city streets with that big smile on her face. Or, stop by Memorial Tabernacle Church, and you will see her ushering and singing above the congregation, swinging to the beat of the MTC gospel choir.

Thank you, Tonya, you made us all proud!

-- Pastor Stephen King

Eighty-ninth Anniversary Engagements

Pledge

As a member and/or supporter of the ministry, please plan to give the $150 Anniversary Contribution ($300 Annually) Sunday, September 21 in support of the ministry. If you are unable to be with us physically, you can give securely online at http://mtchurch.org/contributions.shtml. Select Contribution type "Eighty-ninth Anniversary Pledge".

Planning

All are encouraged to engage in planning and facilitating anniversary activities . Sister Brenda Benjamin and Pastor King invite everyone to engage with their skills and talents. As always, we will need your support in all of our committee. You may sign-up for a committee(s) after service in the fellowship hall.

Word Today Daily Devotionals

Devotionals are available for September, October, & November. A $4.00 donation is requested. Devotionals may be obtained in the fellowship hall.

Let these bless your life or someone else.

Sermon CDs

Did you know that every service is recorded for your time of study beyond Sunday? We know that sometimes you just need to hear that message again. We all have those sermons that speak directly to the needs we have in our lives.

Please see a Music Ministry representative and complete a request form to obtain your CD. Donation $5.00.

Happy Birthday to Our August Birthdays

The MEMORIAL TABERNACLE CHURCH FAMILY would like to wish the following member(s) a Happy Birthday:

Sis ERNESHIA PARKER - Aug 6th
Sis PATRICE MOSES - Aug 13th
Sis NUVIA ALVAREZ - Aug 24th
Sis SHARON IRVING - Aug 24th
Bro RICHARD MOSES - Aug 27th

A special Happy Birthday to anyone we may have missed. May God richly bless you on your very special day!

Upcoming Celebrations

Save-the-Date! It will be unlike any other! See Sister Brenda Benjamin if you need tickets for your family and friends. Share with everyone! EventBrite (https://mtcsaladfestival2014.eventbrite.com)

Eighty-ninth Church Anniversary Celebration Worship Service |

September 21, 10:30AM. Our theme is "Re-digging Old Wells. Hope for A New Generation". Our guest speaker will be Bishop Ernestine Reems of Center of Hope Community Church. The scripture is Genesis 26:18...

"And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He called them by the names which his father had called them."

Giving

We thank you in advance for your support of our ministries at the Memorial Tabernacle Church.Give into the ministry of Memorial Tabernacle by sending your tithe, offerings, and/or financial gifts today. Give securely online at http://mtchurch.org/contributions.shtml. You may also mail your contribution to: Memorial Tabernacle Church, PO Box 3024, Oakland, CA 94609.

"For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be." ~ Matthew 6:21

A Mission-Driven Church

Our Mission...

The Memorial Tabernacle Church has come together by the Holy Spirit for the specific purpose of preaching and teaching the word of God, (the Bible), and about Jesus Christ, God's son, and to proclaim the gospel of the Kingdom of God to the North Oakland Community and its environs; to bring healing to the brokenhearted and deliverance to the oppressed.

Our Foundation...

"And let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more, as you see the day drawing near." (Hebrews 10:24-25)

Prayer "Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God."

(Philippians 4:6)

" Worship Let us therefore, receiving a kingdom that is firm and stable and cannot be shaken, offer to God pleasing service and acceptable worship, with modesty and pious care and godly fear and awe."