Join us during this special time of year as we choose to give, serve, and love differently. Click here for some ideas to inspire you to love differently this season. Share the creative ways you’re celebrating differently by posting a comment. celebratedifferent.org/love
Come enjoy a morning of celebrating the season with the ladies of Ocean Hills, and hear from our Guest Speaker, Christine DiGiacomo. Contact Diane with questions.
December 14, Ocean Hills Chapel
$20
We LOVE our bookstore and need some of YOU to help us run it! We’re looking for volunteers who love people and would like to help them purchase some of the items at our bookstore! We will train you on what you need to know – we just need people who are willing to jump in!
Contact Jaclyn if you would like to help out.
Help kids shop and wrap gifts for their families, as they “spend” their hard-earned homework points. For many families, these gifts will be the only ones they’ll receive this Christmas. More info and sign up online.
Saturday, December 14, 9:30-11:45a
Boys & Girls Club of SJC
Thank you so much for your participation in Celebrate Different. Your generosity was amazing, and you are making a difference in the lives of people in our community. We had a great Thanksgiving service where we got to hear stories of all the different ways people are thankful. This weekend we will continue our series in Luke, making our way to the Birth of Jesus.
On Sunday evening we will have our 1st Annual Tree Lighting. It will be a fun time of celebration, games, singing, and snow for the kids. Please mark your calendar with the times of our Christmas Eve Service (3 & 5p). It will be a celebration you won’t want to miss. As always, everything we do is designed not only to be a blessing to our church, but also to be an opportunity for you to invite your friends.
Blessings,
Jeff
Join us as we kick off the Christmas season! There will be hot cocoa, real snow, a gingerbread house contest, Christmas carols, and much, much, more! Be sure to invite your whole family and bring your friends! Contact Jaclyn for more information.
Sunday, December 8, snow & fun begins at 4:30p with program at 5:30p
Donate to our night of fun!
Box of graham crackers (need 10)
16 oz. tub of icing (need 30)
Candy (ex: Gumdrops, Red Hots, Candy Canes, Peppermint Rounds, M&M’S, Marshmallows, Life Savors, Skittles)
Empty pint-size & rinsed out milk cartons (need 30)
Hot chocolate packets (need 100)
Hot cider packets (need 100)
Donate towards cost of SNOW! (need $400)
Drop off to church offices by Fri, Dec 6, 5p
Also if you would like to help out Sunday Dec 8 after church, we will be setting up the front lawn and transforming the area for the Tree Lighting! Contact Jaclyn for more information!
Hopefully for you it has been a week of gratitude, and like we talked about this weekend, you’ve had the opportunity to “be the one.” We had a great time Wednesday night in the Chapel in an intimate setting sharing all that we are thankful for. It was a time of sharing and being a family together. We have a lot of exciting activities planned for the Christmas season. The Tree Lighting will be something you won’t want to miss. It will be a fun night of singing, and contests…and food…and, we are bringing in real snow! And of course we will be lighting the tree and celebrating Jesus’ birth. For Christmas Eve, we have a very special night planned. We want to help you celebrate this season in a compelling and powerful way, and part of that is experiencing Christmas with your church family as well as your community. That said, think of these events with your friends and neighbors in mind.
You may have noticed a little construction by the office building, we are putting in a baptism. It is going to become a great part of the church, a place where we can experience life-change and celebration. If you haven’t been baptized, now is the time to start thinking about it. As we go into this season, I am thankful for you. I love walking through life together; growing closer to each other and to God.
Blessings,
Jeff
Serve those who serve our country by putting on a Christmas party for Marines and their families. Register online.
Saturday, December 7, 2-5p
Camp Pendleton
Wow, what a great Sunday we had this past weekend! Your generosity was overwhelming; we handed out 195 food bags and saw 178 returned – completely full! That is almost double our goal for Thanksgiving, and of course, the turkeys keep coming in (insert joke here).
We will be giving out almost 200 dinners this Saturday as a way to help meet the needs of our community. Way to go! As part of Celebrate Different, we will continue to have opportunities this season where we get to give back and bless others. What a blessing it is to be part of a great, vibrant church that is focusing on growing closer to Jesus and each other, while making a difference in our community at the same time. As you can see below, there is a lot going on at Mariners Church Ocean Hills. So, invite a friend to and jump into this great adventure God has for us.
Blessings,
Jeff
Help us reach out to those in need in our community through distribution of Thanksgiving-in-a-bag & turkeys while engaging in some fun holiday activities too! We are gathering this Saturday to pass out all the bags you all have graciously donated. For more info, please contact Juliefernandez.julie@icloud.com, 562.787.4433
**If you still want to donate a turkey, you can drop it off at the offices during work hours, or you can bring on Saturday when you come to help pass out the bags!
Sat, Nov 23, 10a-12p, on campus