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New things happening in our community, check out our calendar of events!
One of a few local groups helping the victims of Haiti.
Let us join them in the efforts to bring some relief
February 8, 2010
News Flash !!
Please click on the map below to see all the new updates for the prayer walk event held on Saturday, January 30, 2010.
Our next prayer walk will be February 20, 2010 same location and time as last prayer walk meeting.
We are in need of more captains, if your heart is for our city and want to be part of this great event please contact Pastor Ron Shires (831) 905-1726 or Dina Castillo (831) 585-2208
We would like to ask as well who would like to help out with bringing food for the before and the after prayer walk event, we have a sheet with a list of what you can contribute in bringing, which you can fax back to us so we can keep everyone posted of what we still need.
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Prayer Walk
Praying for Every Home in Salinas
By Pastor Ron Shires
January 29, 2010
In my more recent devotions in the book of Judges I was blessed by the story of Gideon and his three hundred. I sensed God's stirring in my spirit and began to pray for 300 people to walk the streets with us and pray for God's kingdom to come into the lives of the people there.
I felt pretty sure that three hundred people on the streets...Read more.
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One of the fascinations of life is attempting to notice how God speaks and works. It’s not like we can figure it out and make a formula for it, but there are patterns, I think. It is a relationship – not a contractual or commercial arrangement. It is about agreement, cooperation and loyalty...Read complete story
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We will be meeting together at 9 AM on Saturday, January 30, 2010 before going out to pray in the back parking lot of:
First Prebyterian Church
South Salinas
1044 S. Main St
Salinas, CA 93901
For more information contact
Pastor Ron Shires
(831) 905-1726
Check this website out, a website dedicated in helping others.
Imagine This! TV
February 2, 2010
Come and support a family in need
Come out and support a great family dealing with some health issues. The McMillen’s are wonderfully, supportive and community minded family and they need our help! The event will be held on February 27th at the Root 68 Building on Hwy 68, See the attached flyer for more details and come out to support. We all need a little help now and again!
January 20, 2010
Shoreline Church January 3, 2010
Pastor Dennis McFadden Message
Notes by Jeff Taylor
"How do we make changes in our life that make a difference?"
1. The way we talk, text and e-mail each other. James 1:19-20, 26 Communication, the words we use to express ourselves are most powerful, positive and nurturing or hurtful and destructive...Read more...
January 15, 2010
A Strong Nation
By Dina Castillo
It is time to take seriously our marriages. Our nation, our states, our cities, and families need the benefits of strong marriages. It affects every area of our lives...Read more.
Time With Him
By Pastor Jack Alisea
Because you have chosen to fast and enter into this time of consecration, you have set yourself up to experience and encounter God in a fresh and new way. In my own personal life, I have experienced the release of God’s anointing, his favor, and blessings as a result of fasting. Many of you have decided that you do not want to go through this year like you did last year. You are not content to go through another year the same way...Read more...
January 7, 2010
"A Fight, worth fighting"
By Johnelle Allen
I don't know where to begin. I came into the year 2009 with a mother of 59 years of age diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. From January to April my mom was in the hospital fighting for her life, I drove back and forth from Salinas to Monterey, leaving my child with various friends from Church. This was a struggle. I would come home, praying the whole drive home because...Read more...
Check out the Men’s Fellowship in South Salinas
Men's Fellowship in South Salinas at First United Methodist Church across from John Steinbeck Library on Wednesday mornings, there is breakfast and fellowship. It’s open to all! We prepare, pray, eat, teach, offer prayer requests and pray for those requests as well.
Thank you very much, to Pastor Jim Luther who is kind enough to allow us to invade and use his facilities.
By Jeff Taylor
I met this very unique and powerful artist at one of the booths at Spirit West Coast, who loves to give what God has given her, Love, joy, peace, hope and Life, through her paintings that have been inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Check out this great web site where you can get awesome paintings that will not only make your home more beautiful, but it will also uplift and encourage you and those who may see these paintings.
A note from the artist,
My prayer is that this art will bless you and give you encouragement. Heal you inside and most of all give you an opportunity to share your faith to whomever sees it. May the Holy Spirit continue to grow in you and transform your life into a life of Worship to God.
Blessings,
Charlene S. Rice, Artist
Devotionals
Week of February 8, 2010
When Your Heart Longs to be Romanced
By Cindi McMenamin
When God Pursues a Woman's Heart
Let me guess. You are a woman who doesn't look forward to Valentine's Day! Whether you are single and without a special someone in your life, or married and tired of being disappointed from unmet expectations on the "Day of Romance," you are not alone.
Surveys show that countless women feel frustrated every year and let down on February 14th primarily because of unmet expectations. Women look for expressions of love that will meet their preconceived romantic notions. And many times, even well-intentioned men can't possibly compete.
In a recent study of what makes married women happy, it was found that the biggest predictor of women's happiness is their husband's emotional engagement. The extent to which he is affectionate, to which he is empathetic, to which he is basically tuned into his wife was the most important factor in predicting the wife's happiness. The study also found "if the wife had to choose between having a husband who is taking half the housework and having a husband who is really making a conscious, deliberate effort to focus emotionally on his wife, the emotional focus is much more likely to be a paramount concern."
That speaks volumes of what women want and expect. And men, who tend to be more action-oriented in how they show their love (by helping with the chores, repairing the garage door, and bringing home a paycheck) can miss the mark with us when it comes to trying to express their affections on Valentine's Day, or any time, for that matter.
That said, fulfilling a woman's idea of romance is not something most men, in particular, specialize in. In fact, many men struggle with how to convey their feelings in a way that their wives or girlfriends will understand and appreciate. And often times, what they think will impress you, doesn't.
But what if this year you took the man in your life off the hook? What if this year you focused not on your expectations or the disappointment that the "Day of Romance" tends to bring, but on the Author of Romance, Himself, and what He's been trying to show you day in and day out about how cherished you are in His sight? In other words, what if this year you looked to God to meet your expectations first and then let the man in your life (if you have one) do what he can and see it as an added bonus?
For instance, look at the tender words God says, in His Word, to and about His people:
• He calls you unforgettable: "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! (Isaiah 49:15).
• He says He has always loved you and always will: "...I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness" (Jeremiah 31:3).
• He calls Himself your Husband: "For your Maker is your husband - the Lord Almighty is his name - the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth. The Lord will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit…" (Isaiah 54:5-6a).
• He says His love for you is greater than anything you'll ever find on this earth: "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13). And then Jesus did just that -- He laid down His life for you...one He calls "friend."
• He promises He'll never leave you: "...Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you" (Hebrews 13:5b).
• He assures you in His Word that He has chosen you as His own: "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight…" (Ephesians 1:4).
• He assures you in His Word that nothing will be able to separate you from His ever-pursuing love: "... neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:39).
Reading verses like that, over and over, is like re-reading portions of a love letter that resonates with our hearts. And when our emotional tank is filled - by recognizing that we are valuable, loved and pursued in the sight of an all-knowing, all-loving God - we can then receive whatever our husband or boyfriend has to offer as the "cherry on top." Or, if nothing else is offered us, we still know we are loved and we are more able and stable to deal with whatever does - or does not - come our way.
So go boldly into Valentine's Day this year, my friend, and celebrate it because of how loved and cherished you are in the eyes of the Living God. And if you have a husband or boyfriend who makes an attempt that isn't quite to your expectations, thank God for him and bless him anyway. Your "True Husband" will be watching!