Major's Minute
Thanks to all for your prayers while Gwyn and I were away at Officers' Councils (Pastors' Retreat). Our days were filled with teaching, sharing, worshipping, fellowshipping - and eating! And the camp was the perfect setting, so beautiful in the fall.
This is one of my favorite seasons - the fall. The leaves change colors and there is a different smell and crispness in the air. You can wear sweaters, scarves, and boots and snuggle in a warm blanket. Better yet, you can drink a nice hot apple or pumpkin-spiced drink and read a book (or watch a movie) next to a warm fire. It naturally provides the ambiance for sitting, reflecting, pausing.
It's a transitional season. In a nutshell, the leaves turn from green, red, yellow, orange, to brown before falling off the tree - deciduous trees - due to the change from chlorophyll, xanthophyll, carotene, sap, and photosynthesis processes over time. Meanwhile, oxygen for us and food for the trees are byproducts of this process.
What stage are you in? What are you transitioning from or to? What changes are happening within you? Are there things that need to die so that another area can grow?
Take time to reflect and renew. God loves you.
“I am the Lord; that is my name!
I will not yield my glory to another
or my praise to idols.
See, the former things have taken place,
and new things I declare;
before they spring into being
I announce them to you.” (Isaiah 42:8-9, NIV)
“Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? (Isaiah 43:18-19a, NIV)
Major AnnMarguerite Jones
Prayer Room
We encourage you to come and pray before Sunday's Holiness and Worship Service. Pray over the requests that have been shared during the week. Pray for those seeking the Lord. Pray for those who are lost. So many things to pray for ...
“Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them,” Matthew 18:19-20.
SUNDAY:
9:30 AM - Praise Team Rehearsal - Chapel
10:00 AM - Prayer Room Opens - Side Room of the Courtyard
10:00 AM - Corps Cadets & Sunday School - Classrooms 2 & 3
11:00 AM - Worship Service - In-Person and Facebook
12:15 PM - Youth Music Rehearsals
TUESDAY:
6:00 PM - Men's Bible Study - Fireside Room
6:00 PM - Women's Bible Study - Hybrid
7:00 PM - Songsters Rehearsal - Chapel
8:00 PM - Senior Band Rehearsal - Chapel
WEDNESDAY:
10:00 AM - El Sobrante Home League: White Elephant Auction - New Life Center
THURSDAY:
10:00 AM - CAMEO: Enneagram Test by Major Robin Bottjen - ZOOM ONLY
(Major Robin is a staff officer at DHQ based in Sacramento. This is why she will lead us through Zoom. It is easier to manage the meeting if everyone is in front of their own devices. Please be sure to complete the test that was mailed to you this past week. See you online!)
The Salvation Army Concord Corps