31 Ways to Pray for your Children
Download the PDF of "31 Ways to Pray for your Children" by Bob Hostetler.
Precept Bible Study
Precept Upon Precept Bible Study: The Book of Exodus - Let My People Go Dive into the Book of Exodus with this inductive Bible Study method that brings you directly to the Word of God apart from another’s understanding or interpretation of the text. Studying the book of Exodus, we will watch Moses develop as a leader. See God deliver His people by judging their enemies. Learn powerful truths about His ways. A remarkably practical study of deliverance, redemption, the Law, and the Tabernacle. For women age 16+ with any level of familiarity with Christianity. Please Note: Individual study time commitment is approximately 5hrs/week. Tuesday evenings (6:45pm-8:30pm) from September 12- December 5 at Parkside Church. No childcare available. For more info contact Amanda Den Harder (amandaclock@hotmail.com). REGISTER HERE!
EMOTIONALLY HEALTHY SPIRITUALITY
For over 20 years, Peter & Geri Scazerro have been leading people through this course they developed with real people in their church in New York. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality An 8-week course introducing people to a transformative spirituality with God. In this course, you’ll learn how to slow down your life and develop a personal relationship with Jesus. Discover how to: Confront the Crisis of Emotionally Unhealthy Spirituality Know and Become Your Authentic Self in Christ Discover How Your Family of Origin Affects You Today Find Your Way Through "Walls" to Grow into Maturity Enlarge Your Soul Through Embracing Grief and Loss Integrate Silence and Sabbath to Slow Down for Jesus Grow Into an Emotionally Healthy Adult Design a Lifelong Plan to Live in God's Love Next offering: Tuesday [...]
GATHER
Gather is the name for our cross-generation women's events (Age 4-100). Our first Gather is a women’s breakfast on Saturday, May 4th at 9:30 a.m. at the church. There will be worship, an all-age panel, pancakes and more. Sign-up is at the Welcome Desk on Sundays. Reserve your spot: $5 for adults (age 12+) and $2 for kids. Questions? Contact Pastor Renee (renee@parksidechurch.ca).
CELEBRATE RECOVERY
Celebrate Recovery “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” MATTHEW 5:6 (NIV) Celebrate Recovery is in Mission! A Christ-centred 12-step program proven to help people find freedom from habits, hang-ups and hurts. > We meet every Wednesday at 7:00pm > Located at Parkside Church (33837 Prentis Ave., Mission, BC) For more information, call Pastor Catherine (778-241-8402) or Eugene (778-240-0955). celebraterecovery.ca
IS IT A TRICK OR TREAT?
Christian parents struggle with Halloween. It's a day where our city celebrates (plays with) evil and death. It proves the blindness and naivety that much of our world has to the reality of Satan/evil (as well as the good side of the spiritual). Like Christmas, it's history and contemporary practice is a melting pot of morphed beliefs and practices. Each person has a unique (tailored or naive) perspective on it and its various traditions. And like Christmas, it can be used for good or bad. (Christmas can be wonderful if you forget about the people that suffered to make your Walmart toy, the impact that toy will have on the planet, the materialism and entitlement we teach our children in that season, and the debt that we incurred from buying it). Don't worry, I still think Christmas is [...]
FREEDOM SESSION
The end of September might sound like a long way off, but it will be here before you know it! And with it, will be Freedom Session - a 20 week, intensive healing-discipleship journey that uncovers the roots of pain in our lives and invites Jesus Christ to heal those areas of our hearts. Freedom Session deals with real issues…pornography, broken marriages, sexual woundedness and abuse, depression, anger, fear and addiction. Beneath these symptoms, you will find a wounded and empty heart, looking for hope and meaning. As Jesus begins to heal the heart, the unhealthy and destructive ways we used to escape the pain in our lives become less and less attractive. Shame loses its grip on our lives and the lies that controlled us are replaced by God’s truth. More details (i.e. [...]
