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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Guest missionaries to Central Asia, Tim and Eve Austin, with their family, will be speaking at Lakeport Christian Center on Sunday, Feb. 3, at 6 p.m.
As a family, the Austins have been serving in Central Asia since 1996, with a focus on church planting among the unreached.
After 15 years, they are currently preparing for a transition to more countries to work with missionaries and national teams throughout Muslim populated Central Eurasia.
Their focus will be leadership development, member care and training for new initiative of placing church planting teams among the least reached areas of the region.
They call some of these strategic places the “zero zones,” where there are zero churches, zero Christians and zero missionaries.
They also will be working with the national pastors and directors of training initiatives throughout Central Eurasia, both church-based and colleges/seminaries.
The public is invited to attend.
Lakeport Christian Center is located near the Lake County Fairgrounds at 455 S. Forbes St.
For more information call 707-263-4514 or online at www.lcchub.com .
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – St. John’s vestry member Anne Barquist of Lakeport shares her love of music with church parishioners and the community.
She has arranged three Wednesday noon-time concerts during Lent at the church on Feb. 27, March 13 and March 27.
It’s church tradition during Lent to offer music for people to come in for meditation and enjoyment. All are invited to attend St. John’s music series at 1190 N. Forbes, Lakeport.
Tom Aiken of Kelseyville will play his Flemish harpsichord, performing early music appropriate for the instrument, on Wednesday, Feb. 27.
Parish organist Mel Taylor, Kelseyville, will play the Allen organ in a concert of Baroque and early classic music on Wednesday, March 13.
Bob Culbertson of Lakeport will treat the audience to a recital on his Chapman stick. Invented by Emmett Chapman in 1974, the stick is a 10- to 12-string touch board. Using fingertips of both hands, parallel to strings, a full range of sounds is produced. See examples at Culbertson’s music at www.stickmusic.com .
St. John’s is the presence and ministry of The Episcopal Church in Lake County since 1877.
The church building was recognized as a historical interest by California Historical Resources Commission in 1989.
Last year, the church earned an Award of Recognition for its restoration and preservation by the California Heritage Council, California Trust for Historic Preservation.
The church parish is a visible, welcoming family of Christ, resolved to deepen personal relationships with God. All are welcome to Sunday services at 10 a.m.
For further information, please call Fr. Leo at 707-349-6563 or see St. John’s Web site, www.saintjohnslakeport.org .
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lakeport Christian Center is holding a new bike giveaway contest.
The boy and girl who bring the most visitors to church by Easter Sunday, March 31, will be awarded a new bike.
Want to join the contest? Come to Lakeport Christian Center at 455 S. Forbes St.
For more information call 707-263-4514 or visit www.lcchub.com .
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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Jan. 20 will be a full day of services at United Methodist churches, including Middletown United Methodist Church.
“We completed a very busy Advent and Christmas Season, but as of Jan. 6, the completion of Epiphany – which is 12 days after Christmas when the Magi were said to have arrived at the birthplace of Christ – we will celebrate this Sunday Martin Luther King Day, Human Relations and Ecumenical Sunday at our 11 a.m. New Life Service and 1:30 p.m. Spirit Connection Service,” Brumfield said.
Meshing these important events into one hour for both services will be challenging. But in reality, they blend well when realizing that the Christian beliefs of Dr. King gave him an abiding faith in humanity that included persons of many faiths working to assure human relations for all people.
Some believe that Christians of differing denominations and persons of other faiths do not or can not “get along.” But in Middletown members of various churches are working together for worship services and community projects like the community Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners and the Easter Sunrise service at the cemetery.
As 1 Corinthians 12:12 says: “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.”
Michael Pommier writes, “I cannot imagine that there are separate wings in heaven, one for each denomination.”
Growing up in the Catholic Church, he added, “I continue to celebrate my faith.” However, he is perplexed that “people of different faiths do not get along simply because of their chosen faith.”
After all, Pommier continues, people of “all Christian faiths pray to the same God, just in a different way. If you walk up to a stranger and ask, ‘Do you believe in God?’ and they answer ‘yes,’ can you determine what faith they celebrate just by their answer?”
Brumfield concluded, “We are blessed to have many opportunities in Lake County for people to come into relationship with our Creator God.”
At Middletown United Methodist Church there are two services on Sunday to connect people to the Holy Spirit at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
All who seek to grow spiritually are invited to connect with a faith community and grow in love.
For more information about the programs and services at Middletown United Methodist Church call 707-295-7174.