questions about how to

register or to volunteer to

help.

What will children going

into K – 6th grades be

learning at Cave Quest:

Following Jesus the

Light of the World? That

depends on you!

VBS builds relationships

with God, prepares chil-

dren for a life of service in

the name of Jesus, and ex-

tend our ministry into the

lives of families who are

looking for a Christian

community.

That only happens when

dozens of adult volun-

teers provide the means

for God to work.

You are needed here.

A games leader? A de-

votions leader? A snack

preparer? An adventure

leader? How has God gift-

ed you to help?

VBS will be happening

the mornings of July 18th –

22nd. The cost will

be $30 per student,

with a maximum of

$50 per family.

Scholarships are

available.

Register children

and/or volunteer at

our mini-web site

at: https://

www.groupvbspro.com/

vbs/ez/faithcave.

For more info contact

Lia Gyore at li-

agyore@hotmail.com or at

909 962-7060 for any

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H OW Y O U C A N H E L P turn it and the form to the

Parish Hall.

SPECIAL OFFERING

Use a white pew envelope

at church or mail your gift to

Faith Lutheran Church, 505

East Bonita Avenue, San Di-

mas, California 91773 to help

pay expenses not covered by

registration fees. Mark it

VBS for this purpose.

TO FIND OUT MORE

Contact Director Lia

Gyore with the contact info

above .

SHARE & POST

FLYERS

Pick up VBS fliers at

church or down load them

from our website at

www.faithsd.net. Give

them to families and post

them wherever you can.

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M O U N T A I N M O V E R

S P E C I A L

P O I N T S O F

I N T E R E S T :

Faith Lutheran Church

has a median age in the

high 30’s.

We encourage the pres-

ence of children at

worship. We also

provide free profes-

sional child care.

Our new worship and

ministry building is

designed in a California

Craftsman style.

Discover the many

things God is doing at

FLC on our website

at: www.faithsd.net

Subscribe to our

free weekly E-pistle

Ezine, and be a part

of our PrayerNet by

sending your email

address to

flc@faithsd.ne.

Get details from our

FLC This Week

printed announce-

ments at worship ser-

vices.

For More

MATERIAL NEEDS

Forms are posted on

the announcement wall at

church. Pick one, pur-

chase the item, and re-

BUILDING PRO-

GRESS ON 5TH

CHURCH IN TAN-

ZANIA

The walls are up and

pipe has been purchased.

Our brothers and sis-

ters in Christ have been

meeting on a dirt floor

and will complete this

phase when we have

raised the funds.

Please make this oppor-

tunity a part of your giving

plans.

ADULT CHOIR

Come and sing a new

song to the LORD!

Come on Thursdays at

7:00 p.m. in the worship

space and learn to sing in

a choir.

All experience levels

are welcome.

Contact Dan Ambrosini

at ambrosini.daniel

@gmail.com or at (909)

392-8400 to participate.

SACRED SPACE,

SACRED DANCE

Our Walk, Dance, Pray

ministry moves to a spe-

cial summer format in

July.

Come for prayerful

walking outside, & exer-

cise and prayer in the

worship building on Fri-

days at 4:00 p.m.

Call Rev. Sally Welch

at 909 599-3978 for

more information.

The Women of Faith

will resume their regular

gatherings and Bible

Study on September

10th. They will help in-

formally with various

projects through the

summer.

Contact Nancy Brew-

ster at 626 484-5894 for

more info.

The Men of Faith

gather the second Satur-

day of each month at

8:00 a.m. in the church

parking lot.

They go out for break-

fast together and return

to do work projects.

Come and enjoy the

fellowship and the work.

Contact Jerry Bain at

626 810-2733 for info on

B R I N G Y O U R F A I T H I N T O F O C U S

WOM E N O F F A I T H M E N O F F A I T H

R I D E O N O U R I N D E P E N D E N C E D A Y F L O A T

church by he end of wor-

ship on Sunday.

The parade starts at

10:00 a.m. on Monday.

Come and help decorate

the float starting at 8:30

a.m.

Contact Doug Hal-

vorsen at 626-532-0576

for the float location, or

ask at the parade check-in

desk.

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the Men of Faith.

Help celebrate the 4th

of July and reach our

community for Jesus

Come and ride on our

Faith Lutheran Church

float in the La Verne In-

dependence Day Parade

on Monday, July 4th.

Help distribute goodies.

We need riders and we

need distributors.

Please bring bottled

water, Capri Sun pouch-

es, and candy to the

.

or a blanket. The

church will provide the

movie, the

popcorn

and the

drinks.

It’s a

great time

for bond-

ing.

Come and watch Star

Wars under the stars!

LIFT is a group for

post-Confirmation

through high school

youth. They host movie

nights, community ser-

vice projects, Bible

study, and more.

Our Christians in Action

(C.I.A.) group is for young

adults (from approximately

20—35 years of age). All

young adults are welcome.

They gather for Bible

Study, brunch, community

service projects, beach

trips and more.

They are planning a

book drive for the Prison

Library Project.

They will also be help-

ing with the outdoor fam-

ily movie nights this sum-

Our thanks to all who

provided the food and to

the Men of Faith and the

Women of Faith for their

organization of this fun

annual event.

We had another wonder-

ful Chili Cook-off in June.

We held it indoors because

of, ironically, the heat. And,

after many, many years of

inexplicable losses, first

place in a blind vote went

to Pastor David Berkedal!

Many delicious chilies

were provided, and a table

of wonderful corn bread

and toppings were served.

Come Friday, July

29th and bring family

and friends to the next

movie in the first Star

Wars. trilogy: The Em-

pire Strikes Back!

Wear a costume if you

like, or not.

The movie will start

around 8:20 p.m., when

it is dark enough, on the

central green area.

Bring a lawn chair and/

L I F T C I A

C H I L I C O O K - O F F T H A N K S J U L Y O U T D OO R M O V I E N I G H T

U R T H E C H U R C H M I N I S T R Y O P P O R T U N I T I E S SUNDAY SCHOOL

ENDS FOR SUMMER

Our Sunday School

classes will resume Sep-

tember 18th.

Please be praying about

whether God might be

calling you to help in

some way in the fall.

NEW FLC PENS

Our FLC pens have a

new look. The barrel

and trim now have the

same colors as our build-

ings.

Take some and leave

them anywhere people

use pens. Help get our

contact

infor-

mation

in circu-

lation.

NEW WENESDAY

FORMAT

Grow in your faith

Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.

at our En*Theos Bible

Study with contemplative

prayer, spiritual songs,

and group discussion.

Share a wonderful

spirit of curiosity and

sharing.

Child care will be pro-

vided if requested

(flc@faithsd.net)

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mer.

Contact James Berkedal

(jberkedal @ gmail.com)

with questions.

Check the group’s Face-

book page, Christians in

Action, for more info.

They will be helping

with our outdoor family

movie nights on July

29th, and August 19th.

Contact Candace Mar-

tinez at martinez. can-

dace000@gmail.com or

at 909 234-1555 for oth-

er activities. Find them

on Facebook at LIFT

(Living in Faith To-

gether).

tickets.

Enjoy the game in the

company of your Chris-

tian community at FLC!

We received six

new members in

June. Pictured with

Pastor Berkedal are

Dale and Debra

Nunnally, Jenessa

Williams, and Ralph

and Marilyn Ward.

We welcome our new-

est members!

Contact the church

office at flc@faithsd.net

or 909 599-3978, or

speak with Pastor

Berkedal for information

on our

next

classes.

We have reserved a

block of tickets at $8 each

for the Rancho Cucamon-

ga Quakes vs. the Route

66ers (both teams are

affiliated with the Dodg-

ers) game on Friday, July

15th.

It’s also Family Feast

Night so hot dogs, ice-

cream sandwiches and

sodas are $1.00 each.

Sign-up at the an-

nouncement wall asap so

we can order enough

N EW M E M B E R S R E C E I V E D F L C T O R C Q U A K E S

T H R E E M O R E T H I N G S 1.) FIRES IN

FOOTHILLS

Recent brush fires came

close enough to leave a

thin coating of ash but no

damage

in our

immedi-

ate area.

We

contin-

ue to pray for fire fighters

and other first responders

and all those effected.

2.) SEEDS OF

FAITH ORGANIC

FOOD GARDEN

Our garden provides

food for our emergency

food pantry and our share

table, and teaches people

how to grow their own

healthy food.

Contact Lisa at 626 422

-9097 or at lisam-

blair127@ yahoo.com for

info on how you can

learn and help.

3.) FLC PRE-

SCHOOL GRADS

Our Faith Pre-school

held its 2016 graduation

ceremony for students

going into

Kindergar-

ten in the

Fall.

Our con-

gratulations

to our students, their

families and to our won-

derful teachers and staff!

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B Y T H E N U M B E R S Faith Lutheran

Church Fan Page likes

on Facebook: 748 (+22)

Average daily

faithsd.net web site

visits in past 30 days: 21

FLC Pens left or seen

in 361 locations

in 60 cities in California

in 17 other states

in 21 other countries.

People received as

members in 2016: 18

Worship attendance

at this point in 2016

compared to 2015: -7%

Giving to our General

Ministry Fund at this

point in 2016 compared

to 2015: -13% (+2.5%

needed for Budget)

Giving to our Mort-

gage Fund this year:

$51,869.00 (52.58% of

goal at 50% of year)

Emergency Food

Pantry giving in 2016:

3,283 lbs. (42.9% of our

7,800 goal at 50% of the

year.)

Students enrolled in

our pre-school: 66.

You can connect to

all our social media

on the “Media” tab at

www.faithsd.net.

Check out our page at

“Faith Lutheran Church

San Dimas” on Face-

book. Click on “like” to

become a fan. And, you

can friend Pastor

Berkedal on Facebook

by doing a search for

David Berkedal.

“Follow” us on Twit-

ter by going to twit-

ter.com, from our Media

tab and signing-in,

Pastor Berkedal’s Blog

posts short articles peri-

odically. Check it out

through our web site

Media tab.

Check out our

YouTube channel at

www.YouTube/FLC505

and get your free sub-

scription to FLC videos.

Find pictures of our

events on our Faith Lu-

theran Church Fan Page

on Facebook and in

Shutterfly albums

(password faithsd).

Skype Pastor Berkedal

at david.berkedal.

Username on Insta-

gram: flcsd. #FLCpens

Review us on

Yelp.com on your phone

Find special opportuni-

ties for giving at

www.faithsd.net.

Come in and get con-

nected.

between them. Each

person was occupied

with their own thoughts

or projects.

About 2.5 hours after

we arrived, the juror

“wrangler” came in, took

attendance again and

announced that what

looked like a very long

case had ended with a

plea deal.

We were thanked for

I was called in for Jury

Duty in June. I arrived

with, I would guess, fifty

people, checked in and

waited.

The roll was taken and

we waited some more.

Then we were told

that the courtroom was-

n’t ready for us yet.

I noticed that almost

everyone had sat with at

least two or three seats

our service and excused.

We left with hardly a

word between us, and yet

I felt that we had bonded

around a shared experi-

ence.

We, the Church, are a

community of shared

words and experiences.

How do we share that

community with the

world?

S O C I A L M E D I A C O N N E C T I O N S

A N O T E F R O M T H E P A S T O R

C H A N G E S A T 1 0 : 00 A . M . Q U I L T S P R E S E N T A T I O N

Hand-made quilts

were presented to

graduating seniors

Elizabeth Crowther,

Dominic Martinez,

William Ruiz, Andrew

Schreck, Ian Schubert,

and Steven Wood in

June.

Members of the con-

gregation had traced

their hands and signed

their names on the backs

of the quilts to remind the

graduates that wherever

they go they are surround-

ed by a great cloud of wit-

nesses. (Hebrews 12:1)

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We will be introducing

new music for our 10:00

a.m. Sunday worship ser-

vice this month.

Our current service is a

mix of several settings and

our new music will all be

from Setting 8 in our

hymnbook and is written

for a band.

Learn and sing a new

song to the Lord!

Find an expanded version of

this story and comment on it

at http://pastorberk-

edalsblog.blogspot.com/

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F A I T H L U T H E R A N C H U R C H

P H O T O O F T H E M O N T H

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THE VISION CORNER

What if we provided the funds to pay our

mortgage, support all our existing ministries, and

call an associate pastor and a minister of music?

What gifts and strengths would we want those

persons to have? What new ministries is God

calling us to do? Who could we reach toward

realizing our mission to introduce people to new

life in Jesus Christ that grows into enthusiastic

living?

Send your thoughts to flc@faithsd.net or call

them in to the church at 909 599-3978, or speak

with Pastor Berkedal or a

member of our Church

Council about them. Pray

about how you can help

realize our mission.

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