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

"COME DOWN OUT OF YOUR TREE-HOUSE" (Luke 19:1-9)

Jesus offered to Zacchaeus true community, deep Christian spirituality, and a passion for justice-the three marks of a healthy church. Look at the first mark-true community. If you go back to our text, you will see in verses 5 and 6 that when Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. Jesus said, "Come down, for I'm going to go to your house and be a guest in your house." And Zacchaeus hurriedly climbed down and took Jesus to his home with great excitement and joy. You see, Jesus exemplified the spirit of true community by reaching out to a lost sinner. Jesus broke with tradition and began a fellowship with an outsider.

Our church is going to change dramatically when we stop inspecting our navel and begin to see that the real work is outside of the church. If we would become less occupied with our petty problems and get involved in the mission of the church, we would find that people will change their attitudes about us and we would change our attitudes about ourselves.

Jesus was interested not in a membership for Zacchaeaus but in a relationship with Zacchaeaus. And the reason that I know that is because Jesus said: "I'm going to come where you live. I'm going to speak your language. I'm going to learn your culture. I'm going to take a seat in your space." You know somebody is really trying to reach you when they come outside of their box, bias, and comfort zone to where you live. I pray that we will get back with a passion to true community, deep Christian spirituality and finally, simply to a passion for justice.

Sincerely in Christ,

Pastor Stephen King

Memorial Tabernacle Church (CHSC)

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Oakland's 1st Social Media Mayoral Candidate Forum

Thursday, August 21, 7-9pm

#Oakmtg Live Forum: August 21, 7-9 pm. Oakland Council Chambers

1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland California 94610

Candidates:

Jason Anderson Ken Houston Rebecca Kaplan

Saied Karamooz Patrick McCullough Bryan Parker

Courtney Ruby Libby Schaaf Nancy Sidebotham

Dan Siegel Joe Tuman Jean Quan

Charles Williams

Filmed Live:

ATT Uverse Channel 99
KTOP Comcast Channel 10
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityCouncil/s/VideoArchive/index.htm

Moderator: Richard Raya. Meet the 2014 Candidates for Mayor of Oakland and listen as they answer YOUR questions. How to participate?

Spread the word! Share this email with all of your Oakland friends and family.
Join the event page on Facebook and invite your friends!
Follow @oakmtg on Twitter and RT event details to your Oakland followers.
Watch the Live Forum in person or on television. Host watch parties with your friends and discuss the issues. This is a very important race for our city, and now is the time to learn more about the people who are asking you to put them in charge.

#Oakmtg is a hashtag of highly engaged Oakland residents who follow local city council and other civic meetings and share information via social media.

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. There will be a Planning Meeting after our August 17 service.

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! Share with everyone! We have also added it to 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."