Happy Friday, Friends at FBCP!
Chip and guest Noah Moore (one of our FBCP youth!) have all the updates and information along with the latest slang the kids are using these days. You can listen to all the goodness in the audio below, but here are the highlights:
We look forward to gathering again for outdoor worship on Sunday. As always we will livestream the service and post a recorded version later in the day. Thank you for honoring our agreements so that we can love each other well and stay safe and healthy:
Stay in your car if you are able to drive to the garage.
Wear a mask whenever you are outside your car.
Keep 10ft of space between you and others.
Share your love by not hanging around before or after service.
Stay home if you aren’t feeling well and let us know how we can help care for you!
This Sunday our time of worship will be a service of lament and a celebration of the lives of Ed Enriquez, Harold Lane, Bob Maase, and Tom Harris. We also have created an online space to share your memories. If you have something you want to share in honor of Ed Enriquez, Harold Lane, Bob Maase, or Tom Harris, you can send a written, audio, or video version to lindsay@fbcpasadena.
Starting this Sunday, you are welcome to bring items to contribute to the Friends In Deed Bad Weather Supplies. Here is a full list of items that are needed to support our neighbors who don’t have shelter in these colder months.
Starting this Wednesday, 2/24, we’re offering a Lenten Bible Study over Zoom from 12-1pm that will run each Wednesday during Lent. Chip will be the host and each week a different member of our staff will lead a discussion based on the scripture passage for the week in a Lenten devotional created by the folks at SALT Project. You can pick up a physical copy of the devotional at Outdoor Church or you can access a digital copy here . We would love to add your voice to the mix, so be sure to look for the Zoom invitation in the coming week!
On this Day in History: 79 years ago on this day President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, a policy which resulted in nearly 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans being turned out of their homes, their businesses and neighborhoods and sent to live in concentration camps scattered across the United States.
We remember this action on this day in order to honor those who suffered but also as a way to acknowledge that violence, racism and hatred continue today against the broader Asian American Pacific Islander population, some of whom are brothers and sisters with whom we worship and live. Let’s commit ourselves to the ongoing work of educating ourselves in this part of our history, to seeing and acknowledging where injustice continues and to do what we can to stand with our brothers and sisters and fight for justice.