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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – On March 6 the Sunday worship service at the Middletown Community United Methodist Church changes time to 11 a.m. and will feature Rev. Timothy Locke as the Sunday speaker.
In mid-January, Linda Diehl Darms, chair of the Staff Parish Relations Committee, held two church gatherings to asses the effectiveness of the addition of a noon service beginning last September.
“It was the consensus of the congregation that a single service is preferred and 11 a.m. is the compromise time,” Darms said. “We last changed worship time from 11 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the early 1980s after Middletown no longer shared a pastor with Lower Lake. We do have a very small membership so it is preferable to have a single service incorporating elements of the Spirit Alive service with our New Life Service.”
The Methodist Church continues to offer Bible study on Thursday evening but on March 6 will begin a 9:30 a.m. Bible study of the Hebrew scriptures, also known as the Old Testament.
For more information about programs and services of the Middletown Methodist Church email
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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – On Sunday, Feb. 27, the eighth Sunday after Epiphany at Galilee Lutheran Church, 8860 Soda Bay Road, worship service will begin at 10 a.m.
The message and a special time for the children will be presented by Rev. Martha Neff Stum, with special music by the Chancel Choir.
Communion will be served during service and all baptized believers are welcome at God's table.
On Tuesday, March 1, at 7 p.m., they will continue their Bible study series, which is looking at stories from the Apocrypha.
Come join us for study and fellowship. Coffee will be available for everyone.
Prayer Crafters had to be put on hold due to the weather. A new date for the first meeting will be announced soon.
The group will be making pocket prayer shawls and cross necklaces for men and women in the military and hats and scarves for the homeless here at home. No experience is necessary. This group will be co-ed. A light supper will be served at 6 p.m. followed by Prayer Crafters.
The church invites community members to join its friendly congregation in worship, Bible study and Prayer Crafters.
For more information or to view the church's calendar of events visit www.galileekelseyville.org .
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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Women and pastors of Lake County are invited by Lake County Church Women United to celebrate the 2011 World Day of Prayer on Saturday, March 5, beginning at 10:30 a.m. at the Middletown Community United Methodist Church.
The church is located at the corner of Washington and Armstrong, one block off Calistoga Street east of the Middletown Post Office.
World Day of Prayer is a worldwide ecumenical movement begun by Christian women of many traditions who come together each year to observe a common day of prayer on the first Friday in March.
However, in Lake County, they have chosen the first Saturday in March to also include working women.
Offerings collected at World Day of Prayer services will address environmental issues, drug consumption and trafficking problems as they directly affect women and children around the world.
Each year a special program is developed by women from different countries to be presented worldwide.
The 2011 program is designed by the women of Chile in South America and features readings are from Deuteronomy 8:7-10 and I Kings 17:8 -16 with the theme, “How many loaves have you?”
The commemoration also asks participants to meditate on the questions, “What are your gifts? What can you share?”
This year's Lake County presentation will be by Middletown United Methodist Women.
More than three million people worldwide will be praying and worshiping together during this annual day of prayer, using a service prepared by Christian women in Chile.
Church Women United is an international ecumenical Christian women’s movement representing Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and other Christian women.
This organization has more than 1,200 local and state units in the United States and Puerto Rico.
CWU's members represent 26 supporting denominations and organizations.
Everyone attending is asked to gather in the Methodist Social Hall between 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. for a social time with the program “How many loaves have you?” beginning at 11:00 am in the sanctuary.
At noon, a lunch will be served with a requested $2.50 donation.
If there are two or more persons from a church attending, please RSVP by calling 707-295-7174. If four or more persons from a church are attending, please bring a dessert and a salad that serves six or more persons.
At 12:30 p.m. Church Women United will hold its meeting to have updates on the Natalie Mitchell Shoe Fund (a program to provide vouchers for needy Lake County school children with shoes and socks) and activities of the Lake County Churches.
CUW of Lake County also is a member of The International Fellowship of the Least Coin (FLC) is a worldwide ecumenical movement of prayer for peace and reconciliation.
Persons in this movement make a commitment to spend time in prayer, and to uphold in prayer others who are victims of jealousy, hatred, violence and injustice.
Every time one prays, she sets aside a “least coin” of her currency as a tangible token of her prayer. CWU is the custodian for FLC offerings in the United States.”
The common goals of Church Women United World-Wide include:
We intend to grow in our faith and to extend our vision of what it means to be Christian women living and working in society.
We intend to strengthen the visibility of the ecumenical community.
3. We intend to work for a just, peaceful and caring society.
4. We intend to use responsibly and creatively the resources God has entrusted to us – our intelligence, our time, our energy and our money – as we carry out the mission of Christ through Church Women United.
For more information about Lake County Church Women United e-mail
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Sabbath Services will be held on Saturday, March 19, 10:45 a.m., at the Lakeport Community Seventh-day Adventist Church, at the corner of Park Ave and Hill Road.
Brehms' first sermon will be about “Lifting Up Jesus” as the churches celebrate his call to Lakeport.
He will be joined by his wife of 32 years, Karren, for a potluck “meet and greet” after the services in the Fellowship Hall.
Brehms is a fifth generation Adventist and a product of Adventist education attending Monterey Bay Academy in Watsonville and Pacific Union College in Angwin, ultimately graduating from Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, Texas in 1997.
He majored in religion with emphasis in teaching while holding a second major in music with emphasis in brass. He also is a baritone soloist and is proficient on the keyboard.
Pastor Brehms began his pastoral ministry at the St. Mathew’s Seventh-day Adventist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He was then called to pastor the Ashland, M Morehead and West Liberty Churches in Eastern Kentucky, where he was ordained to the Seventh-day Adventist ministry in Portland, Tennessee in the summer of 1993.
Over the past 25 years, Pastor Randy Brehms has served on academy boards, school boards, and has served as president of local ministerial associations in Kentucky, Texas, Nebraska and California, and thus brings of wealth of experience to strengthen the church’s supported Westlake Seventh-day Adventist School.
He enjoys interacting with ministers of other faiths, and has always involved himself in local area activities.
He and his wife have five children and three grandchildren.
He is the current music director at the Redwood Camp meetings.
their other interests are working with prayer ministry, cooking schools, public evangelistic outreach, praise music, which includes Southern gospel, gardening and supporting community services.