Peninsula Baptist

Psalm 80

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

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In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Everyone is invited to our special events this month!

Peninsula Baptist Church Christmas Program – the story of Christ’s birth in scripture and song, Sunday, December 25th at 6:30pm.

New Year's Eve at the church - games & snacks, prayer, singing, and scripture reading. Saturday, December 31st, 8pm to 12:01am.

A Song about Praying.

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Music Festival and Hymn Sing this Saturday

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August Events

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SPECIAL EVENTS:

Music Festival and Hymn Sing: August 20th, 1-7pm

Vacation Bible School For All Ages: August 29-Sept. 1, 10-12:30

WEEKLY EVENTS:

Bible Studies:
Sundays 9:45am
Men's Bible Study: Fridays 7pm
Individual studies available: please contact Tom Hardy or Jason Schooler

Prayer:
Sundays: 9am
Wednesdays: 7pm (enter through the back door)

Please join us for lunch and fellowship each week after the Sunday morning service.

Church Announcements, March 27, 2011

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New Announcements: Next Sunday, April 3, There will be a member's meeting at 5:00pm to take the Lord's supper and a business meeting at 5:30pm.

Church Announcements, March 6, 2011

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ELDER SEARCH COMMITTEE: See Pastor Tom Hardy if you are interested in working on an elder search committee.

PRAYER:
Sunday Mornings, 9am
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 3pm (enter through basement door)
Wednesday Evening, 7pm (enter through basement door)

BIBLE STUDY:
Sunday Morning: 9:45am
Mens Bible Study: Friday, 7pm (in the apartment behind the church)
Small group and individual Bible studies available during the week, see Tom
Hardy or Jason Schooler for more information.

VANCOUVER AVE. BAPTIST 67TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Vancouver Ave. First Baptist Church has invited us to join them for their 67th anniversary celebration, Sunday, March 13th at 3pm. Pastor Hennessy will be speaking from 1 Thess. 1:2-10, and the shape note singers will sing several selections.

Church Announcements, February 27, 2011

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The only new announcement: There will be a celebration at Vancouver Ave. Baptist Church on March 13 at 3:00. The shape note singers have been asked to sing. All are welcome to attend and join in fellowship. Please see Tom Hardy for more information.

Church Announcements, February 20, 2011

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PRAYER:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday: 3pm (Enter through the basement door)
Wednesday: 7pm (Enter through basement door)
Sunday Morning: 9am

BIBLE STUDIES:
Sunday Morning: 9:45am
Men's Bible Study: Friday 7pm (enter through basement door)
Small group and individual studies available during the week --see
Jason Schooler or Tom Hardy for more information.

SHARED MEAL: after the morning service on Feb. 27.

Church Announcements, February 6, 2011

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PRAYER:
Sundays: 9:00am.
Weekdays:
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays: 3:00pm, enter through the basement door.
Wednesdays: 7:00pm, enter through the basement door.

BIBLE STUDIES:
Sundays: 9:45am.
Men's group, Fridays: 7:00pm, enter through the basement door.
Women's group: TBA.
Small group and individual studies available during the week: contact Jason
Schooler or Tom Hardy for more information.

Homeschool Group Valentine's Party: Monday, February 14 at 2:30pm. All welcome! Enter through the basement door.

Church Announcements, January 23, 2011

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PRAYER:
Sundays, 9am
Wednesdays, 7pm, enter through the basement door
Weekdays, except Wednesday, 3pm, enter through the basement door

BIBLE STUDIES:
Sundays, 9:45 am
Men's group: Fridays, 7pm, enter through the basement door
Women's group: TBA
Small group and individual studies available during the week, see Jason
Schooler or Tom Hardy for more information.

Fifth Sunday Sing Jan. 30, 3-5pm, all are welcome

Church Announcements, January 16, 2011

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PRAYER:
Mon, Tues, Thurs., and Fri. 3pm, enter through the back door
Wednesdays 7pm, enter through the back door
Sundays 9am, upstairs in the library

BIBLE STUDIES:
Sundays: 9:45am
Small group studies available during the week, see Jason Schooler for more info.

POTLUCK: January 23 after the morning church service

5TH SUNDAY SINGING: January 30, 3-5pm

Church Announcements, December 26, 2010

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Sunday Morning Prayer at 9:00am
Sunday Morning Bible Studies at 9:45am
Sunday Morning Worship at 11:00am
Sunday Evening Worship at 6:30pm
Wednesday Evening Prayer at 7:00pm

New Years Eve Party! Friday December 31, 7:30pm to midnight
Bring games, snacks, songbooks, etc.

Church Announcements, December 19, 2010

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PRAYER:
Sunday Mornings, 9am
Wednesday Evenings, 7pm (downstairs)

BIBLE STUDIES:
Sunday Mornings, 9:45am
Small group studies throughout the week, see Jason Schooler for more information.

CHRISTMAS PROGRAM: Sunday, December 26, 6pm. This program is called "There's a Star in the East", and features a presentation about Jesus' birth and joyful songs from many places. Come enjoy sharing Christmas caroling and treats.

Practice for the Christmas program is Thursday, December 23, 6pm. Enter through the basement door.

Church Announcements, December 12, 2010

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PRAYER:
Sunday Mornings, 9am
Wednesday Evenings, 6:30 pm, enter through the back door

BIBLE STUDIES:
Sunday Mornings, 9:45am
Small group studies throughout the week, see Jason Schooler for more info.

CHRISTMAS PROGRAM: December 26, 6pm
Practice Thursdays, 6pm, enter through the basement door

Rene Sahir Concert - More info and poster

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Brother Rene Sahir, a classical guitarist and pastor of the Father's Love Church in New York, is planning on doing a concert at Peninsula Baptist!

Sunday, December 12th, 3pm
Peninsula Baptist Church
Concert is free. Any donations will go to support church-planting efforts in Indonesia, which Brother Sahir will also be speaking about.
For more info, contact Peninsula Baptist.

Take a look at some samples of his guitar playing here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VedS6SlJlhU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTE26llTVZw

Here's the concert poster:

Rene Sahir Concert--Correction

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The correct date and time for the Rene Sahir Concert: Sunday, December 12, 3:00 pm, at Peninsula Baptist Church.

Church Announcements, November 28, 2010

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PRAYER:
Sunday Mornings: 9am
Wednesday Evenings: 7pm, enter through the basement door

BIBLE STUDY:
Sunday Mornings: 9:45am
Small group studies throughout the week. See Jason Schooler for more information.

CHRISTMAS PROGRAM: Sunday, December 26, 6pm. Rehearsals are planned to start this Friday. See Rachel Hardy for more information.

RENE SAHIR CONCERT: December 12th at 3pm (NOTE DATE/TIME CHANGE). All freewill offerings collected will go to the church planting work brother Sahir is doing in Indonesia.

Church Announcements, November 21, 2010

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PRAYER:
Sunday Mornings, 9am
Wednesday Evenings, 7pm (downstairs)

BIBLE STUDY:
Sunday Mornings, 9:45am
Small group studies during the week -- see Jason Schooler for more info.

THANKSGIVING POTLUCK: Next Sunday, November 28, 1pm

CHRISTMAS PROGRAM: Sunday, December 26, 6pm; Rehearsals are planned to start the week after Thanksgiving. See Rachel Hardy for more info.

Church Announcements, November 14, 2010

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Evening Service, tonight, 6:30pm

Prayer:

Sunday Morning Prayer, 9am
Wednesday Evening Prayer, downstairs, 7pm
Prayer Conference at Hall Blvd. Baptist Church. Nov. 17 - 7pm; Nov. 18, noon and 7pm. For more info. call Hall Blvd. Baptist, (503) 684-0804. 14145 SW Hall Blvd, Tigard.

Bible Studies:

Sunday Mornings, 9:45am
Fall Women's Bible Study, final study for this year on Friday at 1:30pm. See Margaret or Alberta for more information.
Small group Bible studies during the week--see Jason Schooler for more information.

Rene Sahir Concert: December 11, 7pm. Brother Rene Sahir, pastor of Father's Love Church, has offered to come and share his musical gifts as a guitarist and also tell about the church planting work he and his church are doing in Indonesia.

Church Announcements, November 6, 2010

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PRAYER:

Sundays, 9am
Wednesdays, 7pm
Weekday Mornings, 5:30am

BIBLE STUDIES:

Sunday Morning, 9:45am
Fall Women's Bible Study: Fridays through Nov. 19, 1:30pm -- see Margaret or Alberta for details or directions
Small group Bible studies available during the week -- see Jason Schooler for more information

HALL BLVD BAPTIST CHURCH PRAYER CONFERENCE: Nov. 17-18, 2010

Hall Blvd. Baptist Church 14145 SW Hall Blvd Tigard, OR 97223

Call (503) 684-0804 for more information

Church Announcements, October 31, 2010

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Prayer:
Sundays at 9am
Wednesdays at 7pm

Hall Blvd. Baptist Church extends an invitation to a prayer conference Nov. 17-18, 2010. Call 503-684-0804 for more information.

Bible Studies:
Sunday Morning 9:45am

Women's Bible Study Fridays at 1:30pm -- See Margaret or Alberta Hardy for more
information and directions to Margaret's house.

Small group studies during the week--see Jason Schooler for more information

Business Meeting Next Sunday (11/7) at 5:30pm

Church Announcements, October 17, 2010

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Sunday Morning Prayer, 9am

Bible Study, Sundays, 9am

Wednesday evening prayer, downstairs at 7pm

Fall Women's Bible Study, Fridays at 1:30 through November 19. Meets at Margaret's house, please contact her for details.

Fall Revival Services Oct. 17-20, beginning at 7pm

Shared meal next Sunday after the morning service

5th Sunday shape note singing on 10/31, 3-5pm, all are welcome

Flyer for the Revival

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Announcements for the Week of October 10, 2010

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Fall Women's Bible Study, Fridays at 1:30 pm, through November 19th. Contact Margaret or Alberta Hardy for more info.

Fall Revival coming up, Oct. 17-20. Services each evening at 7:00 pm.

Daily Prayer for the revival: The church will be open daily at 6:00 am and 6:00 pm for about an hour if you want to come and pray.

Announcements for the Week of October 3, 2010

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Fall Women's Bible Study: Fridays at 1:00pm, through November 19, 2010. Contact Margaret Hardy for more information.

Fall Revival coming up, October 17-20, 2010!

Vacation Bible School

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Christian Music Festival

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A Christian Music Festival is scheduled for Saturday, August 28th at Peninsula Baptist. By God's grace, the festival will include several participatory singings, as well as live acoustic and acapella music from Christian groups. The Bisceglia family, The Allens, the Peninsula Baptist Children's Choir, and the Hardy Family are some of the groups scheduled to come. Save the date - more details to come!

Summer Women's Bible Study

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Our church is having a Summer Women's Bible Study on Fridays at 1pm at Margaret Hardy's house. If you are a lady in the Portland area and you would be interested in studying the Bible, feel free to email peninsulabaptist@gmail.com, and we can send you directions! We are currently studying "How Do I Live As a Christian?"

Online Christian Resources

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The internet has many useful Christian resources! Let's glorify God in how we use the internet, "bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." (II Corinthians 10:5).

BIBLE STUDY RESOURCES:
www.studylight.org and www.biblos.com both offer searchable bibles in many English translations and foreign languages, as well as helpful concordances and commentaries.

THEOLOGICAL AND CHRISTIAN LIVING RESOURCES:
www.twowaystolive.com is a basic presentation of the Christian gospel.

www.albertmohler.com and www.epm.org both provide contemporary commentary, articles, and sermons written or linked to by Al Mohler (president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) and Randy Alcorn (director of Eternal Perspective Ministries), respectively.

www.spurgeon.org and www.johnbunyan.org include all the sermons and writings of Charles Spurgeon and John Bunyan, two famous historical Baptist preachers.

www.boundless.org - Christian answers to practical life questions about relationships, career, etc.

http://www.sbc.net/bfm/bfm2000.asp is the Baptist Faith and Message, Peninsula Baptist's statement of faith - also available on the Peninsula Baptist website: www.peninsulabaptistchurch.org

MISSIONS AND INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES:
www.persecution.com is the Voice of the Martyrs website. It has a lot of prayer topics about our persecuted brothers and sisters around the world.

www.imb.org and www.namb.net have info about international and North American Southern Baptist missions.

www.jewsforjesus.org is the website of Jews for Jesus, an organization that spreads the gospel primarily to the Jewish people.

Note that this is by no means an exhaustive list (and that Peninsula Baptist does not necessarily endorse every piece of content available through these websites…).

Upcoming Shapenote 5th Sunday sing, May 30th

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This year (2010) May has five Sundays. That means Peninsula Baptist will be hosting its regular fifth Sunday Sacred Harp singing. We begin singing at 3:00 PM and continue till 5:00 PM. As usual we will be singing from the Sacred Harp hymnal a 'shape note' hymnal which has been in continuous use since it was first published in 1844. Everyone is welcome.

Easter Sunday - Greatest of all Days

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On Easter Sunday we commemorate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. For Christians this ought to be the most jubilant of all days for on this day we celebrate the triumph of Life over Death, of Light over darkness, of hope over despair, of mercy over judgment. When the church celebrates Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday we are commemorating and reverencing the most profound expression of God’s victorious Love for us. Easter is not about a dead Jesus destroyed for our sin, hanging cursed upon the cross. It is instead about the irrepressible vitality of God's Life. It was brought about as the result of his infinite love! Easter is the day when we celebrate how that love has resulted in Peace. Peace between God and man, the peace established by the New Covenant in Christ’s blood and sealed by his resurrection. -

Most Christians around the world observe at least two special days each year, two days which they place in a different category from the other days of the calendar. Those are Christmas and Easter; the first celebrating the day when Christ was born and the second the day when he rose again to life after having been put to death.

Correspondingly there are two ways in which Christ’s earthly incarnation differs from every other person who has ever lived. First, Jesus was neither created nor did he come to being as the result of procreation. His carnal, earthly body was spiritually generated by God's will and then brought forth into this world from out of a virgin’s womb. Secondly, he died and then by his own power came back to life.

In the gospel of John chapter 10 vs 17 & 18 Jesus said, "I lay down my life, that I might take it back up again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again." And at the time when Jesus raised a man named Lazarus from the dead he told Lazarus' sister, Martha, "I am the resurrection and the life". Jesus wanted it to be clearly understood that he wasn’t merely capable of bringing the dead back to life, that he didn’t just have the knowledge of how to accomplish it, or the faith to do it. Instead he is the living embodiment of resurrection, he is the source and author of resurrection, his very being is resurrection, for he is is, in his very person, the resurrection and the Life.

Of all the miracles pertaining to Christ's life two stand out. The first is that Jesus came into the world by way of a virgin birth the second is that he rose from the dead by his own power. Both of these occurrences are entirely unique in world, ( history and both of these events are celebrated by the church and also by the world at large. In view of the emphasis the Bible places on each of these unique characteristics of Christ's earthly sojourn it’s interesting that Christmas garners a bigger celebration than Easter.

At Christmas all the schools close for a couple of weeks, everyone gives gifts to one another, it seems like everyone makes heroic efforts to contact or be with their families. People all over the world extend to one another tidings of peace and good will. It is not unusual for the Christmas season to bring ceasefires in wars - There are great festivals of song and light during the season leading up to Christmas and on Christmas day itself it seems as if the whole world stops and celebrates.

At Easter on the other hand, the day given for the celebration of Jesus’ triumph over death, things are so much more subdued. No one gets time off work, no presents are exchanged. People generally don’t offer one another greetings of peace or good will.

Now, this all is ironic because the different levels of intensity with which we magnify the two days is exactly opposite to the significance they are given in the Bible and opposite to the significance which they hold in the lives of believers.

Christ’s virgin birth is written of in two of the four gospels, Matthew and Luke and afterwards it is never once mentioned again anywhere in the New Testament. Now, of course a thing only needs to be mentioned once in the Bible to be of capital importance. Nevertheless, while Christ’s virgin birth receives only two mentions in the entire New Testament Christ’s resurrection is referred to about seventy five times. Two mentions of the virgin birth - seventy five of the resurrection.

Of course Jesus could not have entered the world as a human without being born, but Jesus primary mission for coming into the world was not to be born, as important as the everlasting Father being born as a baby was to the fulfillment of prophecy. Christ’s primary mission in coming to the world was to die; to die the death which could atone for all the sins of humanity and to rise again in triumph over death, thereby putting God’s seal upon the promise of eternal life. We would not have received our salvation had Jesus never been born, that’s true, but it is not Christ’s birth which brings us our salvation but rather his death and his resurrection.

And I believe that it is this very distinction which makes Christmas a bigger holiday than Easter. The birth of a child who brings the hope of peace and good will to men can be celebrated in one way or another by most anyone. But the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ following his atoning death on the cross can only be truly celebrated by those who have experienced the atonement for which he died; by them who know him personally through faith. The resurrection sounds like nonsense to those who do not know Jesus and the power of God's Love. In saying all this, let it be understood that I would not want to see the celebration of Christmas diminished in any way. Instead I would wish to see us celebrate Christ’s resurrection in a much, much greater way. At least for us to acknowledge on that day how without the resurrection there is no such thing as the Christian faith. There could be the virgin birth, the wonderful teachings, the miraculous healings, even the death on the cross yet without Christ’s resurrection we would still be in our sins, for the death that sin introduced through the first Adam would not have been overcome by the Life of the second Adam. As Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins." (I Cor 15:17). Had Christ not risen from the dead the whole human race would still be in the death of Adam’s disobedience without the hope of eternal life offered to 'whosoever' will put their faith in Christ.

May God richly bless you on the celebration of Christ's resurrection, the greatest of all days.

Continuing Revival

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Our Spring Revival services are over. Our evangelist (and now our good friend), Steven Bednar, has returned to his home in Arlington Texas. However, the revival which the Lord Jesus has ignited in the hearts and the minds and the souls of His people at Peninsula Baptist is gaining momentum. As we pray and commune with one another and talk about our dreams, our hopes and our plans for the future it is evident that God's Spirit is on the move among us invigorating us with joy.

We are beginning to pray about and to discuss options for ways that we might reach out to the folks in our neighborhood this summer. We hope to see you as we visit some of our neighborhood parks with music and good news. Meanwhile plans for a Fall Revival began to take shape this week. STAY TUNED...

As we prepare now to celebrate Easter; as Christians around the world once more commemorate the agonizing death Jesus Christ suffered on our behalf followed by his triumphant resurrection to everlasting glory I pray that each and every soul who claims Christ as Savior will be enlivened by that eternal, omnipotent Power which raised Jesus from the grave so that he may be exalted above all else in all of our lives.

Day of Prayer - Week of Prayer

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Come pray with us on Thursday, March 4th! The church building is scheduled to be open for prayer all day - 8am to 8pm. All are welcome to come for any amount of time on that day. We plan to gather and then whoever wishes to pray aloud may do so...or you can simply listen and pray along in your heart.

Following the day of prayer and partly in preparation for the upcoming revival, we are also planning on having a Week of Prayer, Monday, March 8th - Saturday, March 13th, at 7pm each night. Lord willing, we will pray for an hour or so every evening. Feel free to come to the church and pray with us for any length of time on those evenings as well.

"And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints..."
Ephesians 6:17-18

Revival Schedule

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Looking forward to our upcoming revival!
The schedule of events is:

Sunday, March 14 - 11:00am, morning service; 6:30pm, evening service

Monday, March 15 - 7:00pm, evening service

Tuesday, March 16 - 7:00pm, evening service

Wednesday, March 17 - 7:00pm, evening service

Everyone welcome - for more info, see the website.

Reading the Book of Acts

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Join us for a reading of the entire Book of Acts! The reading is scheduled for Friday, February 5th at 6:30pm at the church. Everyone is welcome - we generally take turns reading, so feel free to come just to listen, or to read a selection aloud yourself.

"...whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." -Romans 15:4

Spring Revival

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A Spring revival at Peninsula Baptist is scheduled for March 14-17! A student from Southwestern Theological Seminary will be coming to preach, Lord willing. We're working on planning and praying to get ready - feel free to contact us at peninsulabaptist@gmail.com or 503-285-5701 for more information or to get involved.

Sunday Morning Prayer

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We wanted to announce a new weekly event at Peninsula Baptist Church - Sunday Morning Prayer. All are welcome to come and pray with us in the church library at 9am every Sunday! Bible studies follow at 9:45am.

"Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ..."
-Colossians 4:2-3

"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."
-Hebrews 4:16

New Year's Eve Get-Together and Gospel Reading

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Peninsula Baptist is planning to host a New Year’s gospel reading and get-together on Thursday, December 31st, starting at 8pm. The plan is to read the entire Gospel of Luke aloud, as well as having other activities available for breaks and for the younger set. All are welcome come to the church and read the Bible and fellowship together on New Year’s Eve!

Christmas Program

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The Peninsula Baptist Church Christmas Program has been scheduled for Thursday, December 17th at 6:30pm. All are welcome to come enjoy an evening of music! We pray that this will be an opportunity for all of us to learn more about and glorify the Lord Jesus Christ together.

The plans include a simple presentation about the events surrounding the birth of Christ, choral and solo versions of various historical and traditional carols, and everyone singing along with favorite Christmas songs.

Just as a sampling, some of the songs we plan to share are:
"There's a Song in the Air" (traditional American carol)
"Remember Adam's Fall" (Renaissance carol by Thomas Ravenscroft)
"Star in the East" (traditional American song)
"Andjeli Pevaju" (Serbian carol)
"Sussex Carol" (traditional British)
The program also includes favorite Christmas songs like "O, Holy Night," "O Come All Ye Faithful, and "Joy to the World."

We hope that you will be able to join us!

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL

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We're having Vacation Bible School August 17-21st, from 9am -12 each morning. All ages are invited to have fun together with Bible stories, songs, Scripture memorization,crafts, games and snacks. If you're reading this and would like to register or get more info, email us at peninsulabaptist@gmail, or call 503-708-8980.

Summer Music Festival!

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Come to our free Summer Music Festival!

More info on our website, and on the poster below:

Summer choir at Peninsula Baptist

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Summer choir is starting at Peninsula Baptist church. We will be meeting at 6:00 pm on Wednesdays through August 19th, and will sing at the Christian Music Festival on Saturday, August 22nd. All ages are welcome to come sing with us!

New website!

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There is now a new website! Please visit us at peninsulabaptistchurch.org!

The Gospel in 6 minutes

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Here is an excellent short article by John Piper that was featured recently in the Peninsula Baptist Church bulletin:

What's the Gospel?

What’s the gospel? I’ll put it in a sentence.

The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no condemnation for those who believe, but only everlasting joy.

That’s the gospel.

You Can't Outgrow the Gospel

You never, never, never outgrow your need for it. Don’t ever think of the gospel as, “That’s the way you get saved, and then you get strong by leaving it and doing something else.”

No! We are strengthened by God through the gospel every day, till the day we drop.

You never outgrow the need to preach to yourself the gospel.

How the Gospel Strengthens

Here’s an illustration, and I use it not because it’s any big deal to speak from my life, but because it’s what I walked through and where I most pointedly in the last year experienced the power of the gospel to make me strong. (Many of you are walking through things much heavier than prostate cancer—much heavier.)

Do you remember the verses that I shared with you back in February that were almighty for me? It was that moment right after the doctor says, “I think we need to do a biopsy,” when this stab of fear comes. It didn’t last long, mercifully.

And then came—what? 1Thessalonians 5:9-10. It’s just as pure gospel as you can get.

God has not destined you for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,who died for you so that whether you wake or sleep you will live with him.

Settled. Peace like a river.

The Gospel Is Perfect for Your Needs

That’s just gospel—perfectly timed, perfectly applied, perfectly suited to my need. That’s why the Bible is so thick—because there are so many different needs that you have. And there are suitable places where the gospel is unfolded for you, so that if you immerse yourself in the whole book, always with an eye for what Christ has wrought for you and purchased for you in this thick, glorious history of God’s interaction with people, he will give you what you need.

Therefore, everything in me says, and I hope to say until the day I die, “Now, to him who is able to strengthen me, according to Paul’s gospel, to him—to that God—be glory forever and ever.”

God came into history in Jesus Christ; he died in order to destroy the power of hell and death and Satan and sin; and he did it through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

A Plea to Believe

I know that there are people reading this who are not trusting Jesus Christ, and therefore can only expect condemnation. So I’m just going to plead with you here at the end, lay down that rebellion. Lay it down. And simply embrace the gospel that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Righteous One, died for your sins. He was raised on the third day, triumphant over all his enemies. He reigns until he puts all of his enemies under his feet. Forgiveness of sins and a right standing with God comes freely through him alone, by faith alone.

I plead with you, don’t try to be strong in your own strength; it will not be there when you need it. Only one strength will be there—the strength that God gives according to the gospel.

Don’t put it off.

[This text is an edited transcript of the audio. It is excerpted from the sermon, “God Strengthens Us by the Gospel.”]

By John Piper. © Desiring God. Website: desiringGod.org

Sunday morning classes!

2009-06-06T09:37:00.000-07:00

The church has recently begun two Sunday morning classes at 9:45 am. One of them is a Sunday morning bible study, led by Jason Schooler. This class is taking an in-depth look at the book of John. The second class is a Bible stories and memorization class, which will include crafts and activities. This one is taught by Ethan Hardy. All ages are welcome at either class!

Christmas Progam

2008-12-21T14:18:00.000-08:00

The Christmas program is still planned for tonight, December 21st, at 6:30pm. Come if you can - we're planning on enjoying music, a presentation of the story of Jesus' birth, and a short message together.

Bring friends and your christmas treats!

Most recent letter from the Shadburnes

2008-11-13T21:46:00.000-08:00

Dear Peninsula Baptist Church,

I want to get you involved with our ministry now. As I mentioned in our update we have formed a relationship with our neighbors. We have formed a special relationship with one who i will call K-san. (I can't give her full name for security purposes.) She is a young woman here probably in her early 30s. She's married to a man named C-San and has a 6 year old daugher named A-san. They live across the street from us and one house over. From the beginning she has made it clear that she wants to help us and if we ever need anything to please call on her. She has definitely been a great help to our family. We are not sure if she's a person of peace as of now, but we are praying that she will become a future believer. She's very interested in our family and we already seem
to have a connection with her.

To give a little bit more information she is a stay at home mom and her husband works full time in Hiroshima, which is a hour and a half train ride from our neighborhood. He loves his family but work takes up a lot of his time.
Please be praying for this wonderful family that has already been such an answer to prayer. Please pray that our relationship continues to grow stronger. She has already asked us to call each of them by their first names, which I've heard the Japanese only ask friends to do. Big step for us! Also, pray that the Holy Spirit would be working in their hearts and that we would be effective witnesses.

Thank you so much for your unending support.
Love and prayers,
The Shadburnes

Shapenote singing

2008-11-12T21:38:00.000-08:00

Everyone is invited to our "fifth-Sunday" singing this month! It is scheduled for November 30th, 3-5pm at the church - this is a fun way to learn more about traditional American hymn-singing. Feel free to stop by and listen or join in.

A letter from the Shadburnes

2008-10-10T20:14:00.000-07:00

Dear prayer supporters,

We want to begin by saying thank
you to everyone for your willingness to pray for Japan and our family. I know many of you have been praying for us for a long time and we deeply thank each one of you. We are proud and grateful to say that Greater Gresham Baptist Church, Riviera Baptist Church, Japanese International Baptist Church, Eugene Japanese Baptist Church, Parkdale Baptist Church, and Peninsula Baptist Church have all agreed to develop a strategic prayer partnership with Okayama Japan and us. We are very excited to develop and strengthen these prayer partnerships and watch how God uses all of us to touch Japan with the gospel. With greater partnerships we can complete much more work than by ourselves.

We will be back in Portland early October and will be flying into Japan October 17th. We want to keep you up to date and informed with all that God is doing in Japan. Please utilize our website and stay in touch with us through it (www.OutreachOkayama.com). Here you will find photos, links, and much more information. Along with updates and
newsletters we also pray for the chances to come visit you as much as possible when on state
side. We have valued our time
with you and want to be able to
spend more time with you.

Please stay in touch.
We want to hear from you!
Dana, Amy,
Caden and Ashton Shadburne

Announcements

2008-03-10T00:05:00.000-07:00

Hello, there! Hope to see everyone at the revival next week!

Here's a few church announcments....

-The church will be open for pre-revival prayer on Monday, 12-2pm, and Tuesday, 4:30-5:30.

-Revival prayer service, Sat., March 15th.

-Revival services March 16th-19th, 7pm.

-Potluck, March 16th, after the morning service.

-Homeschool activity group, Wednesdays, 2pm.

Awake Sleeper!

2008-02-23T19:10:00.000-08:00