November 16, 2022

Presbytery of San Fernando

125 S Louise St., Room 207, Glendale, CA 91205

818-891-4781

November 16, 2022

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Sunday, Nov 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance, Matthew 25: Eradicating Systemic Poverty Sunday

Thursday, Nov 24: Thanksgiving

Sunday, Nov. 27: First Sunday of Advent; Advent & Christmas Devotional

Tuesday, Nov 29: Giving Tuesday

Next Presbytery Meeting:

November 29 at Silverlake Community Church

2930 Hyperion Ave, Los Angeles

4:00 PM Pre-Presbytery Meeting:

Church Vitality and God's Abundance- A Pre-Presbytery Gathering

One of our Presbytery's current goals is to support our congregations' vitality. With that in mind, our upcoming pre-presbytery session will consist of a panel followed by questions and answers about how we will continue to use the resources entrusted to us to further God's mission. We hope you can join us for this open and honest conversation before the Presbytery votes on the 2nd reading of the budget.

5:00 PM Dinner and Alternative Gift Market

6:00 PM Stated Meeting

Click HERE for a summary of September meeting.

A People of Gratitude

A Thanksgiving Reflection by Executive Presbyter Rev. Dr. Juan Sarmiento

God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work…

You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us; for the rendering of this ministry not only supplies the needs of the saints but also overflows with many thanksgivings to God.

2 Corinthians 9:8, 10-12 emphasis added

Many of us will share meaningful meals with relatives and friends in a few days. With Turkey or without it, Thanksgiving is an excellent occasion for Christians to remember three very foundational realities:

All that we are, and everything we have is due to God' grace,
Gratitude is the fitting response to that grace and shapes the way we live,
Both grace and gratitude are to be expressed in our life together.

New Episodes Drop Every Monday

Mark Fields is the new worshipping community leader for Kinship Collective, a member of the church starters church, and active in our presbytery. He’s been working with our presbytery staff and leaders around helping with translating issues around Biblical Justice and race. He’s also the one who has helped us cast a vision for what it means to have conversations about how we discuss racism and diversity in our presbytery.

For more information regarding podcast:

CLICK HERE

For the trailer describing the podcast:

CLICK HERE

During this season as we focus on thankfulness, please help NVCS provide turkeys for those in need in our community.

Join us in partnering with our friends at North Valley Caring Services for their annual Thanksgiving turkey drive. North Valley Caring Services is accepting donations for $35 per turkey. Donations can be made at

https://www.nvcsinc.org/donate

Write “Turkey Drive” in the comment area on the donation website or donate through the NVCS Facebook page - Facebook.com/nvcsinc.

Thanks to all of our partners and volunteers in the San Fernando Presbytery for helping us care for our community.

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