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

"A RIGHT NOW PRAISE!" (Luke 1:46-49):

All Mary has is a promise and some problems, but she makes the promise bigger than the problems so the problems don't prohibit her praise. Why? Because she is trusting in the promise. Because she knows that if God said it, he can back it up!

Somebody reading this needs to learn how to praise on a promise in spite of the problems that seem to be standing in your way. You need to learn how to thank God for what he has told you he is going to do. You don't need to have it before you learn to shout about it. As a matter of fact, it's your praise that will help you get through the problems. Your praise becomes the power that propels you through your problems. Why? Because you are magnifying God, making God bigger than what is trying to stand in your way, and while it might be too much for you, it's not too much for God.

I'm pregnant with possibility, and that's enough to make me shout! It will be some months before it comes to fruition, but I will not wait until it comes forth to shout. I am shouting just because I am a blessing with a blessing on the way! It's going to be rough along the way, but I will shout my way through difficulties. I may not see it yet, but I can shout about it because a baby does not become a baby when a mother holds it; a baby is a baby when a mother conceives it! Spiritually speaking, my possibility has already been conceived in me. I'm just waiting for it to be born, but I will not wait until then to shout about it. I'm gonna shout right now!

Sincerely in Christ,

Pastor Stephen King

Memorial Tabernacle Church (CHSC)

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Pastor's Blog

Your Support is Needed for the "Keep Warm" Care Packages!

Assembly Thursday, Dec 18, 5-9 p.m.
Distribution at CPC Friday, Dec 19, 5:30-8 p.m.
Distribution at TMC Saturday, Dec 20, 6:30-8 a.m.

Warm Blankets * Warm Socks * Warm Gloves * Warm Hats * The cold winter weather is here, but not everyone in our community have warm blankets, warm socks, warm gloves, and warm hats. Last year, we blessed the lives of 200+ homeless and low income neighbors through our Homeless Christmas Giveaway, and we are doing it again this year! Your support will help make it possible to distribute 300 "Keep Warm" Care Packages Friday, December 19 & Saturday, December 20, 2014!

Packages will include socks, gloves, hats, fleece blankets, and toiletry products. Item Donations are being collected at Memorial Tabernacle Church, 5801 Racine Street, Oakland. Financially support this outreach event today by sending your donation to the church office at 514-58th Street, Oakland, CA 94609 OR give online http://mtchurch.org/contributions.shtml by selecting Contribution type 'Homeless Christmas Giveaway'.

You may also give and register to volunteer online at https://mtchcg2014.eventbrite.com/!

Women's Ministry: Third Sunday Women's Breakfast

Sunday, December 21, 8:45-10 a.m.

MTC Christmas Celebration

Mon, December 22, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

The presence of MTC Family, Friends and Supporters is requested at this event as we celebrate family, reflect on 2014 and anticipate the birthday of Jesus Christ! Participate in our Ugly Christmas Sweater Competition. You must wear it! :) Entry Donation is $5.00 per person. RSVP in vestibule or by emailing [email protected].

Christmas Prayer Service

Thursday, December 25, 6-7 a.m.

Join us Christmas morning for a special Christmas Prayer Service. All are welcome and invited. Doors open at 5:40 a.m.

Sowing into the Ministry

Many of us recite the Lord's Prayer in which we ask God to "give us this day our daily bread". 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

Need A Gift For Christmas?

Thank you to all who have supported our 89th year t-shirt fundraiser. We have shirts remaining and what better gift to give those who you love and care about. They can wear them at outreach events, around town and church! Request your gift today: http://goo.gl/K3qOYf.

Give securely online at http://mtchurch.org/contributions.shtml, select 'Contributions' and click 'Eighty-ninth Anniversary Shirt'. You may also give it to Sister Tiffany following worship. All checks to 'Memorial Tabernacle Church'.

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."