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Upcoming
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Family Fun Night every Sunday!
Palm Sunday Service @ 9am & 11am
April 13th
Holy Thursday Service @ 7pm
April 14th
Good Friday Service @ Valencia UMC, 7pm
April 16th
Easter Service @ 9am & 11am
Save the Date!
May 7th
Spring, Ring & Sing
May 21st
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Ministry Links
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Birthdays
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Kay Moioffer
4/1
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Jim Swartz
4/1
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Donna Spencer
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Emily Reinard
4/3
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Steve Pemberton
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Brielle Farmer
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Sara Floyd
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Eleanor Stahl
4/7
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Zilpha Gibson
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Letter From the Pastor
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Upcoming Events & Sermon Series
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Update From Board of Trustees
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Emergency Preparation - Next Step!
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Small World Preschool Update
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 Find out what's happening in
Maturing Ministries,
COSROW, and
Hospitality Committee.
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Letter from Pastor Melissa
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Dear Beloved Community,
In John 20:18, "Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, I have seen the Lord". "Christ is Alive!" We sing, shout and claim this on Easter. The gift of Christ's resurrection means that each of our lives are given the chance to be reborn and remade in the image of God's goodness. Each time we welcome Christ into our lives to bring that life of God, that creative energy that God is pouring out on us and creation from the beginning of time, we are given new life. In fact, when we engage in the miracle of Easter we celebrate and rejoice that God with the resurrection of Christ stopped the world from flowing from birth to death
. With the coming of Christ our creative God is moving from birth to death to rebirth.
Life in Christ means we don't move from life to death but from death to life. Each day, each moment and each time we live in Christ's life we move into new life.
As our Lenten journey opens into Easter Celebrations, let us prepare for that Celebration in a few tangible activities. First, let's finish our Lenten journey of uncovering ways to live into this life with Christ. I rejoice in the way many of you have engaged new foundational faith practices to deepen your relationship with God and to embody Christ's love to the people close to you and the ones you meet by chance.
Second, join our special tradition of worshiping with Valencia UMC and Friendly Valley during Holy Week. We at Santa Clarita UMC will host Holy Thursday Service, on April 13 at 7pm and Valencia UMC will host Good Friday Service on Friday, April 14 at 7pm.
Third, Celebrate the Good News of Christ's resurrection giving us new life and God's spirit filled energy for living every day. Easter Celebrations are on Sunday, April 16 at 9am and 11am (with an egg hunt between services). You can share this beautiful new life by inviting people to church and our Holy Week Celebrations.
The message and miracle of Easter was always meant to be shared; just as Mary Magdalene did on that first Easter. Christ has risen for us and for the world! This Easter let's make sure we share it!!
May you know the joy of Easter,
Pastor Melissa
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Family Fun Night!
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Weekly
5:00 pm for Dinner
6:00 pm for Groups!
Men's, Women's,
Youth & Children's Groups
Come for a free dinner at 5 (this week prepared by our Women's group)and stay for groups at 6. Child care is available for our little ones under the age of three years. Meetings will be April 9th & 23rd. No Meetings April 2nd, 16th, 30th and the month of May.
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Upcoming Events & Sermon Series
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Many of you have Fit Bits or devices that help you track your physical fitness. I love how when I am in a meeting or at a baseball game and someone looks down at their device and says, "Oh I almost made all my steps today!" or "I better get moving I am so far behind in my steps!" Our time of Lent is almost like one of those devices. Lent helps us to focus on growing in our faith. It puts into place practices that help us connect to God and deepen our faith. Lent is our Faith Fit time.
Lent is one of the oldest seasons in our church calendar. It is a season of self-examination and turning our eyes to Jesus.
Over the years the observance of Lent has changed and many ways of observing Lent have emerged beyond just fasting and giving up items in our life. In fact adding something thing has become popular. Like adding a spiritual practice or adding a service to others helps us prepare our hearts for the celebration of Easter. What are those spiritual practices that help us be Faith Fit? The new sermon series starting on the first Sunday of Lent will help us discover new practices, or recover spiritual practices that help us grow spiritually so we can be faith fit.
The Fifth Sunday of Lent: April 2: A Life of Service
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Update from Board of Trustees
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Emergency Preparation - Next Step!
We have shown that we have purchased Emergency Supplies to ensure we are prepared for the most likely disaster situation in Southern California - which is a massive earthquake. All of our supplies are accessible in Shed B with any key for our campus.
Our next step has to be recruiting a core of people that can be first responders in an earthquake.
Those of us who experienced the Northridge quake remember how scary this was. The bad news is that USGS tell us that the Big One in Southern California could be 50 TIMES STRONGER.
Our largest risk situation is during mornings when the Small World is open! During this time we have limited staff on site and if a large quake happens at this time we could easily have 50 children in need of help!
Most estimates say that our Emergency Services could be overwhelmed and could take 6-8 hours to respond to a call. It seems prudent to plan on a degree of Self Sufficiency during this time and to plan on a team of our own people to respond to help rescue these priceless children and care for them for a prolonged period - maybe as much as 72 hours.
We have the supplies on site. Now we need help to react to this situation. We are planning to train our Team of First Responders but we need your help.
We need at least 10 able bodied people to respond in a morning earthquake situation. Those of us on Trustees who teach know we may be held at our schools until the Principal releases us. That could be hours or days. We need your help in this critical area.
If you are interested in helping please email me or any one of our Trustees and we will set up a meeting to start the process.
Thanks for your Help
Keith Paul
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Small World Preschool Update
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We welcome Spring at Small World with big smiles! The teachers and children were very happy at school for many reasons. The biggest reason was the fact that the beloved train was repaired and coated with primer paint so that we could "board" the train again and let our imagination take us anywhere.
Thank you to David Heetland and crew!! We are excited to see what colors will be added to the train to brighten up our yard.
The weather has been wonderful for watching the buds appear on the trees and to run, jump and play again on the yard now that the rains have passed. In the classrooms, the children celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday this month and had fun with shamrocks and leprechaun stories. Early academics continue with everyone writing and identifying letters, cutting with scissors and recognizing shapes and colors. We all said, "Cheese" on picture day this month and captured our big smiles to remember forever!
Also, Small World children have enjoyed Chapel with Pastor Melissa in the classroom every month. In March we were invited and led by Pastor Melissa to join her in the sanctuary for Chapel. The children gathered with their teachers and heard two lovely stories, one about springtime and one about Easter. To conclude Chapel, we sang "Here comes Peter Cottontail" and "Jesus loves me".
- Michelle Moyer
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What's Happening
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Maturing Ministries - M & M 's 
Maturing Ministries or better known as M & M's.
We seniors meet the 2nd and 4th Friday of the month in the Fireside room. We start gathering between 9:30 to 10:00 for coffee and maybe a tidbit or two. We are led by Joy to share our Joys and Concerns with prayer and on to selected readings, jokes or celebrations. The first Friday of the month is to celebrate birthdays. Our morning ends with lunch about 11:15 - 11:30. All seniors are welcome to join us.
Our monthly Out To Lunch Bunch meets the first Friday of the month @ 12:30. This month we will be going to Red Robin. Remember what is said @ Red Robin - Stays at Red Robin!!! All Ladies Invited!
Hospitality Committee meets the 2nd Wednesday of the month. We meet in the conference room of the church at 7 pm. Anyone interested in joining our committee is welcome. This spring we will work on a new directory and a welcome table. Any ideas are always encouraged and welcomed. Thank you.
The Joyful Bible Study is continuing the Foundations Study for Lent. We start at 9:30 in the Fireside room and END when we stop our discussions. All Ladies are welcome!
Mother, Daughter and Friends Tea will be May 13, 2017
Watch for more information. We want all of the women and girls in the church to be a part of this special event.
COSROW
May 13th "A Princess Tea" Annual Mothers and Others Tea Tickets will be on the patio soon!
September 15, 16 and 17 Annual Ladies Retreat at Aldersgate. Sign ups will be held on the patio.
November 13th Annual "Fall Boutique". Start crafting, collecting books and planning your food items to sell.
Anyone wishing to participate in our activities are very welcome, The next meeting will be April 24th at 7 pm in the Fireside Room.
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J.A.M. Club
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Happy Spring! We have so many exciting things happening in with Family Ministries, you are not going to want to miss out.
Our Sunday school unit for April is Hosanna! April 2, Cock-a-doo-dle-doo; April 9, Hosanna!; April 16, Alleluia!; April 23, Come to Dinner; April 30, Feed My Sheep. We are looking forward to journeying the Lenten road with our kids, walking through the sorrow and the joy.
For Family Fun Night we will meet April 2, 9, 23. We have finished looking at Old Testament Superheroes, and will begin looking at Heroes of the New Testament. We are prepping for VBS by seeing how God used ordinary people to do extra-ordinary things. Hopefully by the time we get to VBS our kids will be able to look at themselves as the Superheroes God intended them to be.
And speaking of VBS:
You too can be a hero in our kids Eyes, please consider volunteering, there are plenty of jobs that can use you.
- Kristi Smith
Vacation Bible School
June 26th - June 30th
from 9am - 12:30pm
At Santa Clarita United Methodist Church's VBS Hero Central, your students will enjoy an interactive, energizing, Bible-based good time as they discover their strength in God. They will become Heroes and explore how to serve God and God's mission for their lives.
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Youth Ministries
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Youth Sunday!
Join us on Sunday, 4/23 as our youth take over the service! All youth should come out and help us run the service. More details to come! :)
Senior High Mystery Trip!
Our Senior High youth (grades 9-12) will be going on a super secret mystery trip together! Where to? We can't tell you that just yet. :) Contact Brandon if your youth is within that grade range and is interested in attending this awesome weekend so he can put you on the email blast for more info.
When: May 19-21
Where: TBA
Cost: TBA
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