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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.
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Doors open at 2:30 p.m. with the feature film beginning at 3 p.m. at Middletown Community United Methodist Church located at 15843 Armstrong and Washington streets.
Jeffery Lyons, WNBC says “The Legend of Bagger Vance is superb ... a masterpiece.”
"February is the month our church honors Multi Cultural Awareness and Black History,” commented Pastor Voris Brumfield.
"Our community Life Team offers free films twice monthly to bring people of the greater Middletown area and Lake County together as a family,” Brumfield said. “We view empowering films in the home built in 1897 to honor our Creator. This film was chosen because of it's appeal in answering what a small town does to save itself after the Great Depression? It is also a story of acceptance, renewal, love,
salvation and oh yes, golf too.”
Brumfield said the United Methodist practice “open hearts, open minds and open doors” following the teachings of Jesus Christ.
All are invited to join together at the Middletown Community United Methodist Church on the second and third Saturdays each month. The next film will be shown on March 12.
For more information on this and other Middletown Methodist programs email
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Beginning in February United Christian Parish in Lakeport will hold two worship services plus Sunday school.
The 9 a.m. service features the contemporary music of the Praise Band Wing and a Prayer and offers a special time during the service for children.
At 10 a.m. they offer Sunday school classes for all ages from preschool to senior citizens.
At 10:45 all are invited to join the church for a good old-fashioned hymn sing where you are invited to choose your favorite music. Then at 11 a.m. they offer a traditional worship service featuring the Chancel Choir, the professional organ music of Mel Taylor and Communion.
For the month of February the church's worship services will focus on relationships. Even if you are not presently in a “relationship” you may have been, may about to be and/or certainly have friends and family who are.
God’s word is filled with great wisdom about how to treat all manner of relationships and in an increasingly divisive and fragmented world we could use a good dose of wisdom. Join the church for the entire series.
Upcoming services and topics include:
Sunday, Feb. 13, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.: “Being a Partner.” Feb. 14 is Valentine’s Day and the world around us seems hooked on romance. But is the media image of marriage reasonable or Biblical? Whether or not you are married, you know someone who is and chances are very good you know someone who is struggling in their marriage … what are the keys to a healthy relationship between adults? What does the instruction to submit to one another mean and why is it only quoted against women?
Sunday, Feb. 20, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.: “Being a Parent.” While children clearly have rules that are set forth to describe expectations of them in their role as child, what about parents? From Dr. Spock to Jim Dobson to every pop psychologist out there, the role of parent seems ever changing. Are there some unchanging principles for parents to follow? What does the Bible say?
Sunday, Feb. 27, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.: “Being Divorced.” According to the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology (and other agencies who report very similar numbers) records show that 50 percent percent of first marriages, 67 percent of second and 74 percent of third marriages end in divorce.
While many churches preach against divorce few delve into what scripture teaches us about what to do once it has happened. Since so many people will experience divorce it seems wise to look for such inspiration.
This service will not glorify divorce, nor villainize those who have lived through it. They will examine the most often quoted passage about divorce in the Bible, Malachi 2:16, or more accurately the most often MISquoted verse. They will examine the difference between knowing that you ought to keep working on your relationship and asking if there is a time to acknowledge the covenant is irreparably broken.
Child care is offered during all services.
Visit the church's Web site at www.LakeportUCP.org for more information on the church and ministry within the community.
United Christian Parish is located at 745 N. Brush St. in Lakeport.