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Volume LXIII No. 22 October 30, 2019

A Publication of First Christian Church of North HollywoodA Congregation of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Robert M. Bock, Senior PastorLouise Sloan Goben, Associate PastorJennifer Le’au, Director of Children’s MinistriesJeremy Gillett, Director of Youth MinistriesAlfredo Gomez & Loydi Rivas Gomez, Pastors, Spanish Speaking Congregation

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First Christian ChurCh of north hollywood

4390 Colfax Avenue, North Hollywood 91604

www.fccnh.orgGet in the spirit of Thanksgiving and join

the interfaith community for an evening of music, inspirational readings, heartfelt music, children’s message, and a word about the work

we do together in our community to serve people in need. Please bring non-perishable

proteins* which will be donated to the North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry.

Service sponsored by the North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry. www.nhifp.org

*Peanut Butter, Tuna & other Canned Meats, Beans

Donations can be dropped off at the church office during normal business hours or given to Deborah Luster in the Narthex on the morning of the second Sunday of the month. Also, please note additional do-nations needed on page 5 of this newsletter for the an-nual Thanksgiving in the Park event – contact Deborah with any questions at 323.854.6707.

The Human Needs Committee can always put your gently used but no longer needed items to use by pass-ing them along to the needy in our community. Please take a look at the list below and consider donating one or more of these items:

jackets socks jeans blankets tents t-shirts

sleeping bags baseball caps sweatshirts sweatpants tennis shoes

(men’s/women’s)

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2019 Trunk or TreaT awardsBesT decoraTed TrunkGoes to the Brooks Family with their Pirate ship. It had 3 masts, skeletons and a trunk full of treasure too!

kId’s choIce awardwent to the Frost Family with their will You Pick My nose? trunk decoration ... where the trunk-or-treaters

had to reach into the nose to get the treats (and sometimes got ramen noodle “boogies” as well)! The

kids LoVed it!

There were so many cute costumes with witches, Medusa, unicorns, fairies, action heroes galore, as well as 3 dinosaurs. Two of the most original went to axel sobel as a washing machine (photo at left) and Milana resta as Pastor Bob (pictured at right).


I have not played with dolls in a very long time, but recently I saw a new Barbie that I really want! It is called “Day of the Dead Barbie!” (Pictured at right.) Isn’t she beautiful? Unfortunately, Mattel ran out of them pretty quickly and she is on back order. If I am lucky, I may be able to purchase one by next year. That the doll sold out so fast tells me the influence of the Day of the Dead ob-servance has achieved a distinct place in popular culture. While I have known about the celebration of “Dia de los Muertos” for many years, I came to a new appreciation of it when Disney released the film Coco a few years ago. If you have not seen this film I must tell you that it is delightful. And it has a compelling message as well.

Dia de los Muertos has its origins in ancient Meso-American cultures – the Mayans, Incas and Aztec civi-lizations. In these cultures it was understood that death is as much a part of life as our living is! Those who have “died” continue to be present to us, so people sought to welcome and honor them. In the movie Coco the film-makers present the idea that as long as we continue to remember our loved ones who have died, they have not died at all. The only way one can truly die is if we forget them when they have gone. When the last person who physically “knew” the dead no longer remembers, then one has truly died.

To help us remember, “ofrendas” (little shrines) are set up in one’s home. They are traditionally decorated with marigold flowers and small “skulls” made of sugar and brightly decorated. The most prominent feature would be photographs of those being honored. There are four parts to the ofrenda representing four elements – wind, fire, earth and water. Our deceased loved ones would of course need water to drink after making such a long journey to visit us, and they would need food. Bread is at the shrine to offer as food and to represent the earth from which wheat is grown. Cut out paper flags

“Just A Thought ...” by rev. louise sloan goben

are strung across the streets and homes to represent the wind/air and candles or lanterns are lit to represent fire.

Perhaps what is most important is Dia de los Muertos is a joyful time – not intended to be sad or mournful. In its origins, the day is not specifically reli-gious. But then, as has happened to so many other non-religious traditions that come from other cultures and civilizations, the Church has resignified the days. Dia do los Muertos corresponds to the dates of October 31st to November 2nd. All Hallows Eve (Halloween) and November 1st becomes Dia de los Inocentes (“Day of the Innocents”) or Dia de los Angelitos, (“little angels”) where children are specifically remembered. November 2nd is the traditional Dia de los Muertos.

In the Church’s observance, November 1st is called All Saints Day, where the Church remembers those who have been canonized as “Saints.” All Soul’s Day, November 2nd is to honor all the faithful who have died. There is a slight caveat to All Soul’s Day, as includ-ed in that tradition is the remembrance of those who may have attained heaven, as well as those we are not so sure about… perhaps they were received in purgatory. We offer our prayers for their souls that they might one day be received by God in the heavenly realms.

Much of the history of these traditions are some-what lost to those of us in our modern practice of “trick

Three religions look to Abraham as the “father of faith”: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. And there are many other Bible figures that also appear in the Quran and in Islamic thinking. We will consider people from Adam & Eve to Jesus and John the

Baptist. Some of them may surprise you and hopefully all of them will enlighten you.

bible charactersin the

mondays 7pm or tuesdays 10am in the annex

Do this in remembrance of me.– Luke 22:19 –

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Dr. Amir Hussain is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he teaches courses on world religions.

He is the author of the book Oil and Water: Two Faiths, One God, an introduction to Islam written for Christians in North America.

It is an honor to welcome Dr. Hussain.Please join us on Monday night, November 4th at

7:00 pm in the Ed. Annex to welcome Dr. Hussain.

dr. aMIr hussaInMondaY . noVeMBer 4 . 7PM

in the educational annex

Do Jesus’ work this holiday season for those less fortu-nate! The local homeless population has almost doubled in the past few years and the Human Needs Committee is looking for help feeding the homeless November 23 – the Saturday before Thanksgiving. We need volunteers to work as well as donations: financial, food (including full turkeys or hams), warm clothing, jackets, sleeping bags or bedding. We request that if you donate a turkey or ham that it be COOKED.

Drop off the following PREPARED FOODS

SAtuRDAy, NOvEmbER 23between 10:00 am and 11:30 amcooked and carved Turkey or Ham

rolls • butter • pies (store bought ok) loTs of side dishes (veggies, mashed potatoes,

yams, etc)• sodas & bottled water

call sharon Johnson at 818.414.0782 or deborah luster at 323.854.6707

Please call us and let us know what you are donating – this will help us to plan any shopping we may need

to do in order to fill the gaps in supplies.

or treating” with children on Halloween. I was raised to remember grandparents and other family members who had died by taking flowers to their graves. We usually did this on Memorial Day, which has an entirely differ-ent significance. We remembered nonetheless.

I invite you to remember those you love whom you have lost. There is no need to construct a shrine in your home, but I would invite you to set out a photograph of your loved ones. You might like to light a candle too. Most importantly, remember. Give thanksgiving for those who came before. Keep them among the “land of the living” by honoring their legacy and knowing that they are an intrinsic part of who you are.

Pastor Louise

Just A Thought...” continued


Instead of doing the Operation Christmas Child this year we are going to be filling backpacks with school and art supplies and they will be donated to children in the greater Los Angeles area that are in need of them. We would like to ask for donations of the following items. There is a box in the Narthex and donations can be left there or people can just write a check and I’ll buy what we need as donations come in:

new items needed

school supplies donations

Thank you!Jason Peterson

[email protected]

Notebooks (wide-ruled & college-ruled)

Pens Pencils

Pencil Pouches Erasers Glue/Glue sticks Folders/Report Folders

3-Ring Binders Loose Leaf Paper Crayons Markers

Rulers Scissors Art supplies

to order items on AmAzon And hAve shipped directly to JAson peterson go to:www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/35G41QPD4HWBH?ref=cm_sw_em_r_wl_mw_nH6MLPSFbNhZH

Three religions look to Abraham as the “father of faith”: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. And there are many other Bible figures that also appear in the Quran and in Islamic thinking. We will consider people from Adam & Eve to Jesus and John the

Baptist. Some of them may surprise you and hopefully all of them will enlighten you.

bible charactersin the

mondays 7pm or tuesdays 10am in the annex

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daylight savings time endsat 2am sunday . november 3remember to set your clocks back 1 hour

before going to bed saturday night. The North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry serves roughly 5,000 people each month, and we are in need of

wholesome, health giving food—high protein foods are especially needed. Our

next Ingathering Sunday is November 17th. Please bring your donations to the

Narthex or the Church office.

in suPPorT oF THe

inTerFaiTH Food PanTry

ingatheringsundaynovember 17


wrong in worship and widening the platform to what can be a new kind of worship, attire, praise, and mes-sage. Meeting them where they are might mean helping them work through in real time, answers to complex questions about faith. Meeting them where they are is helping them help someone else feel as at home as they do at FCCNH. Meeting them where they are is to show them and teach them how to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ so that their Spiritual maturity can infuse the movement of the Holy Spirit in our midst.

Let us think on what this means for our youth. Let us think on what this means for this church 20 years from now. Let us think how we can continue to do great work in our little corner of the world as we seek to help our youth handle a complex world with a complex faith.

With Love,Jeremy Gillett

Director of Youth Ministries

I greet you in the wonderful magnificent name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

I spend a lot of time with our youth and I’ve learned that being a middle school and high school youth today is to be engaged in a world of deep contradictions with multiple layers of complexity. Our youth, like many adults, are at various stages of faith development. Some enjoy a deep faith, others waver at times and another group of young people are faithful but have tough ques-tions as to why certain situations unfold the way they do if they’re practicing Christians. We should know that at the early age of 12, our youth are experiencing bul-lying, being introduced to drugs and are trying to navi-gate ever-changing school environments, and by the way…they’re continuing to experience puberty. How are they to handle this level of complexity?

For me, being active in a faith community is part of the answer. A church home is a place they can feel open to be themselves. “Themselves” does not equal disre-spectful behavior, comments, or actions. However, be-ing themselves might mean they dress, talk, and express their praise and gratefulness for and to Jesus Christ dif-ferently than we do. What am I trying to say? Well, we as adult leaders and mentors can foster a church home for our youth that gives them permission to explore their relationship with Jesus. We as adult leaders and mentors can make the church a place of refuge from which the youth can seek wisdom and understanding. And make no mistake – we need to be this kind of place for our young people.

Get to the point Jeremy! Sure thing, Spirit. There is a conscious effort from The Devil (yes, that’s the word, Devil) to overtake the spirits of our youth and we have to be an open place for conversation and worship that will meet youth where they are in life and on their spiritual journeys. Meeting them where they are in life might mean having less complexity in what is right and

There will be a service of baptism in the 10am service on Sunday, December

8, 2019. Anyone interested in being baptized on that day should contact the

church office at 818.763.8218.


1 Sean Adair Thomas Dalesandro Jacqui Dixon Bill Edwards Samantha Maslar Richard Melendez2 George Crosby Michael Carlson Ryan Eiklor Ava Martineau3 Sage Elliott Ernesto Valdez4 Adam De Lucia5 Deborah Dalesandro Virginia Keene Troy Pieper Sonia Soliman6 Dorothy Brooks Ella Helmerich Katherine Taylor Mel Wolf7 Jack Brown8 DeOnzell Green Justin Jackson Joshua Owen9 Rayna Ahner Harris Pieper10 Cindy Kaller Katie O’Brien Loretta Rodriguez

11 Piper Goldschmidt Elizabeth Holmer Janet Radford T.J. Smith12 Chase McKinzie Annette Romano13 Marla Fain Olivia Reed14 Sydney Bax Jack Harris Patsy Meyer Kreitler Sarah Porcaro Erin Zavala15 Debbie Chyba Jim Ross16 Dorma Hughes Emanuel Lupei18 Alexander Hirsch Jim Gattis Collin Melendez Andrew Nawoj19 Shannon Webber-Lewis20 Deborah Edwards Marcelo Murillo21 Jennifer Le’au22 Chloe Drastal Stella McFadden Ian Morgan23 Shaza Hanafy Maura Ross24 Angela Hayes Cassidy Snider Connor Spagnolo25 Lynda Swavely Margaret Taylor Wedda

26 Deborah Currin27 Liz Ellwein Ivanna Garza Jasmine Kelleher Gavin Rhoads28 Lamont Cooper James Pazzo Jayla Jackson29 Bill Murray30 Rowan Glenn Jack Farnham

1 John & Susan Randi2 Jamie & Justin Jeter Charlie Mount & Arden Lewis-Mount5 David & Sheri Izzard7 Michael & Rhonda Kinosian Cosmo & Heidi Moore10 Michael & Bernadette Batts13 Michael & Margaret Carlson16 Ken & Ann Wilson22 Robert Sarton & Maree Cheatham26 Manny & Pamela Chavez James & Diane O’Brien

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Food PanTry volunTeer ConTaCTsTransportation Teams:

Maggie Talton [email protected] Representative:

Erin Zavala [email protected]

another way to donate to the pantry

Make your donations to the Interfaith Food Pantry through the FCCNH web page

(https://fccnh.charityfinders.com/Donate%20Cash).

the Food pantry IS In need oF:Canned tuna, canned chicken, rice, canned beans (pinto, navy etc.), boxed (dry)

cereal, diapers, powdered milk, baby food, peanut butter and tomato products!

sunday, november 3 #2 Louise Goben Galen Goben Jeff Goben Hutch Hutchinson Fred Sloan

Wednesday, november 6 Studio City Team

Thursday, november 7 #3 Rae Eiklor Mike Eiklor Neil Eiklor

sunday, november 10 #4 Luis Oliart Barbara Erdahl Robin Frank

Wednesday, november 13 Studio City Team

Thursday, november 14 #5 Rosey Tamkin Barbara Erdahl Derek Reisinger Cathy Reisinger

PLEASE SUBMIT ARTICLES VIA EMAIL [email protected] or [email protected]

Please indicate “newsletter” and/or “bulletin” in the subject line if articles are for publication. Articles can

also be delivered to the office M-F, 9am to 5pm.

is midnight sunday!

n e w s l e t t e r

Aenean a magna vel pede vestibulum rhoncus. Nulla cursus orci quis tortor.

November 10th

2:00 ~ 4:00 @ Church of the

Chimes

LETÕS CELEBRATEWHO WE AREÉ

AMAZING VOLUNTEERS! We Invite You to Our 1st (of many)

Volunteer Gatherings to Celebrate Our Achievements andto Get to Know Each Other a Little Bit Better.

Please bring hors dÕoeuvres & desserts to share. Church of the Chimes ~ Bower Hall

14115 Magnolia Blvd, Sherman Oaks 91423Please R.S.V.P. by November 5th @

[email protected]

LEt’S CELEbRAtEWHO WE ARE...

AmAziNg vOLuNtEERS!We invite you to our 1st (of many) volunteer

gatherings to celebrate our achievements and to get to know each other a little bit better.

Please bring hor d’oeuvers & desserts to share.

Church of the Chimes – bower Hall14115 magnolia blvd,Sherman Oaks, 91423

Please RSvP by November 5th @ [email protected]


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CHurCH sTaFF

Robert M. Bock Senior PastorLouise Sloan Goben Associate PastorAlfredo Gomez Pastor, Spanish Speaking CongregationJennifer Le’au Director of Children’s MinistriesJeremy Gillett Director of Youth MinistriesTyana Parr Director of Children’s/Youth ChoirsDavid Rigsby Music Director/OrganistChristine Karasseferian Director of FinanceChris CarsonChurch AdministratorGabriela Dorantes Administrative AssistantGlenda Morgan Brown Administrative AssistantTerri Burton Church PublicationsMichele Amundsen Wedding Director Elmer Maldonado Building & Grounds SuperintendentMiriam MancillaDirector of Christian Nursery SchoolGreg Kirkland Media Director

volunTeer sTaFFJacob Beam, Craig Brooks, Janette Jara, Tom Louie, Susan Marble, Jeff McFadden, Denise Ovaldson, Tiffany TappSound Technicians

Luis Oliart Security

in MeMoriaMEarle Immel Minister of Music Emeritus

Merle E. Fish, Jr. Minister Emeritus

by Way oF rePorTWeek of Sunday, october 27, 2019__________

10:00 AM Worship Service 175 5:30 PM SpiritSong Service 32 7:00 PM Evenlight Service 9 7:00 PM Wednesday Service 2 Sunday School Children 42 Youth (morning) 16 Youth (evening) 3

10:00 AM Worship Service $4,682.00 5:30 PM SpiritSong Service $1,382.00 7:00 PM Evenlight Service $2.00 Wednesday Meditation Service -- Sunday School Children $8.00

total General offerinG $6,074.00

Ann & Maurice Davis Scholarship Fund $10.00

Mark your calendars for the CWF Fall Jewelry Sale on Sunday,

November 24th, at the Meet & Greet following the 10am service.

For more info email [email protected].

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November 3 EldErs:

10:00 am Diane O’Brien (O) Morgan Stoddard (C) 5:30 pm Anna Sigala 7:00 pm Anna Sigala

diaconatE:

Marla Fain Mona Levin Patricia Turnquist Barbara Wiles Mike Eiklor Rae Eiklor Jeff McFadden Jennifer McFadden

Upcoming diaconatE:

November 10 Bill Drastal & Karen Drastal

First Christian Church of North Hollywood818/763-8218 • FAX 818/763-8457Web Site: www.fccnh.orgemail: [email protected]

pastor & sEnior Editor Robert M. BockproofrEading Glenda Morgan Brownart dirEction Terri BurtonprodUction sErvicEs Byron Armantrout

EmEritUs

Mary Ann Steuterman Billie KlineLillian Carlson Heather Kenney Margaret Defibaugh Cathy Melendez Fern Donald Chuck Mont Jean Johnson Wanda Kanoy Helen Scarna Kay Smith Betty Van Zanten Shirley McClure Deborah Wheeler Virginia Stebbins Cindy Kaller

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