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Welcome to the PCJC website. Our goal is to do God’s business here. We see this site as a ministry opportunity and hope this will be a place where the Conference can share dreams, information and testimonies, responding to and announcing the movement of the Holy Spirit amongst us. We hope to minister through this tool and see the web as a new ministry frontier. I hope this site will be used by you to interact with your Conference, increasing your effectiveness as you lead the lost to Jesus.

You can partner with other churches through missions trips; your church can advertise job opportunities; we’ll be developing innovative ways to communicate; there will be basic church information and much more. We hope you will give us new and innovative ideas on how we can improve this site. The “guys” doing all the real work will be continuing to put up information on the site as they receive input from our Conference community. I believe God brought us together as a Conference of churches many years ago so we could partner in ministry. What a great tool this can be for us all. I pray many come to Jesus because of these efforts.

Wayne Katayama, Brittany Wong, Josh Morey, Melissa Hokama, Lauren Fukuzama, Erin Akamine, Evan Miyashiro, Daniel Nomura, Lindsey Asami and Erin Morioka will be leaving for Japan on June 27 until July 27. They’ll be keeping you posted on their adventures through their blog.

Jason Lee and Grace Kim are leaving for China to teach English this fall. They will be posting updates on their blog to keep you informed on their trip.

David and Jodi Yokota have just returned from a two year missions service in Kobe, Japan.

The Tang family will be serving on a two year mission trip to Thailand with Zoe International. Check their blog updates frequently and keep them in your prayers.

The Epic TOKYO team will depart LAX on Friday, June 27 at 12:25 PM on American Airlines. If you’d like to see them off, come to the INTERNATIONAL terminal by 10 AM.

The Epic NAGOYA team will depart LAX on Friday, June 27 at 8:45 AM on United Airlines going to San Francisco. If you’d like to see them off, be at the DOMESTIC terminal by 6 AM.

They will return on Sunday, July 27 at 10:20 AM.

From July 18-30, six people from the Peninsula youth group will serving at Koganei Free Methodist Church, working with children, youth, and college students. Team AGAPE is a mixed Nichigo-English team comprised of: Katsuya Omine (28), Satomi Fujikawa (25), Neal Okano (18), Jen Young (17), Yukiko Orii (16), and Richie Takasugi (14).To find out how you can support the team in prayer contact Katsuya at katsuya@gmail.com

Keep up with what Jason is doing in Asia by going to his weblog at: http://jamakalee.wordpress.com/

The Campus Crusade EPIC Japan Team returned on Sunday, July 27. Find out all about their journey by going to Erin, Lauren and Wayne’s blog at: http://www.xanga.com/tokyojapan08 or Brittany’s blog at: http://www.brittanywong.blogspot.com/

After a whirlwind 10 day trip to Japan, the Peninsula AGAPE youth team returned Wednesday, July 30. Find out all about their journey by going to : http://www.xanga.com/agape2008

Six members of our One Voice church in Pasadena along with Pastor Paul and Anne Kim left Sunday, August 10 on a 7 day missions trip. For updates go to: http://web.mac.com/onevoicechurch/onevoicechurch/Kazakhstan_Updates.html

Join us Saturday, November 1 as we kick off Cinergy 08 – The Power of Community. Admission is FREE but tickets are required. Reserve your tickets by emailing Office@pcjcfm.org or calling (626) 285-6788 with the number of tickets you want AND the names of the people you need tickets for.

Check out the Cinergy website at www.cinergylive.org

Visit the Tang’s web blog!

www.tangsinthailand.blogspot.com

We’re so excited to be here! Thanks for partnering with us in this exciting adventure. Please check back every so often for updates, photos, and videos of our experiences and what God is doing in and around us here in Thailand.

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Kroiboonyasing Rd, Lannathara
A. Hangdong, Chiang Mai 50230
THAILAND

E-Mail: dr_tang4@hotmail.com

Hi All. Midwinter ‘09 Registration is here!

Theme: Jesus IS

Speaker: Stephanie Wright

Guest Speaker: Katsuya Omine

Worship: Gaulton and the Grieves

Attached is the Registration form for your churches. Please pass it out A.S.A.P. Last year we had to turn some kids away because they didn’t get their registration in on time.

Once we get closer to the date, I’ll email out the breakdown of icebreakers and the gritty details. Until then, please be in prayer for all the prep work, Stephanie – as she prepares, and the Worship Team.

Click here to download the registration form!

Starting this month, Pastor Gary Gaulton has made the transition to full time superintendent. The PCJC office will remain at Mission Valley but his email address has changed. Please send all email to Gary@pcjcfm.org.

Pastor Steve Bryant joined Clovis Free Methodist in September as senior pastor and Pastor Dave Fukuyama joined Mission Valley in October as senior pastor.

The site debuted at Leadership Conference in June and is updated on a regular basis. Stay tuned for exciting new features in the weeks to come! Visit us at www.pcjcfm.org

You are invited to join Pastor Cliff Rapp and Sue Tatsui to Israel where the Bible will come alive as you walk where Jesus lived and ministered. A deluxe extension to Egypt is also available June 1 – 9, 2009.

Please contact Eiko Yamamoto at (714) 540-7400 ext. 1222. or email eiko@worldviewtravel.com

A Journey of Faith Informational

TREASURES OF EGYPT

PCJC Women’s Retreat in Manhattan Beach.

Friday , January 9 – Sunday, January 11, 2009

Click here to download the information packet

“Don’t worry” – are you kidding me?

So much is happening around us. Wall Street is reeling. “Don’t worry”. Up one day and dropping like a rock the next. Recently we’ve witnessed the biggest one day loss in history as the Dow dropped to an all record low. “Don’t worry”. The mortgage companies have been taking it on the chin for quite some time, and lately we’ve seen some large banks fail and others merge. And yet Jesus tells us, “Don’t worry”.
When Jesus said these words the days weren’t as hard, as tough or as troubling as they are today, right? Or were they? In the first century the average life span was 35 – 40 years, there was no health care system, no welfare system, no unemployment, no Medicare and no AARP. The government was not talking about bailing out the troubles of the day, the government was adding to the troubles of life in Jesus day. And yet he said, “Don’t worry”. But life is hard. “Don’t worry”. But there’s not enough to eat. “Don’t worry”. But where will I find a job. “Don’t worry”. “Don’t worry”.
And yet in Matthew 6 Jesus told those listening to him, “So I tell you, don’t worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food, drink, and clothes. Doesn’t life consist of more than food and clothing? Look at the birds. They don’t need to plant or harvest or put food in barns because your heavenly Father feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than they are. Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? Of course not. Don’t worry about my life? “That’s just not reality today” is a thought I think most of us struggle with, maybe more than we like to admit. Why?
We have become too self sufficient and self reliant in our day. Jesus makes a point that the birds don’t neither plant or harvest into barns, and yet God knows their needs exactly. In another place Jesus compares the insignificant value of a sparrow to the immeasurable value of our lives, and then reminds us that if God cares for little things like sparrows how much more does he care for us. “Don’t worry”. Our God will supply.
Someone said to me the other day, “No matter what the stock market does, the birds are going to keep flying.” There’s a lot of wisdom in that thinking. Why do the birds keep flying? Because that’s what birds do. They don’t fret. They don’t worry. They fly. And they trust the one who made them to fly to feed and care for them every day. No matter what happens on Wall Street.
Our worry over the economic conditions will not “add a single moment to your life”. So don’t. God knows exactly what this day and the next day and the next hold for us. He has our future in his hands. He will carry us through this financial crisis, economic downturn, pending recession, or whatever term you have found yourself using to describe the days we’ve seen lately. Trust His faithfulness to you in your past to be His guarantee of His continuing faithfulness to you and your family as we press on into His future.
Remember, the future is bright for us, for our God is already there. “Don’t worry” is good advice and a great way to live when you know who holds the future.

Pastor, Rev. Mark Ziegler with his wife Cindy.

Pastor Mark Ziegler is pastor of Desert Cross Community church in Phoenix, AZ. Visit their website at www.dc3fmc.org