The Rock Christian Fellowship

– Our LPD Church of the Week.

Thanks to Anna (Ben) Crumback at Sointula Community Church for producing the Church of the Week!

The Rock Christian Fellowship is in Ladysmith BC, and meets at the Eagle’s Hall on Sunday evenings. The church has an active ministry in the community, and globally through mission. Pray for them, as their team of volunteer leaders serve this local church.
 

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LPD Annual Conference:
 

March 1,2 at Vancouver Chinese EFC.
“Discipleship that Transforms”

Today and tomorrow, we look forward to joining with many of you, as we sharpen our focus on our call to make disciples of Jesus Christ.

Feel free to register late – or just to drop in as your schedule allows…

 

The Call to Discipleship

The cross is laid on every Christian…. When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die. It may be a death like that of the first disciples who had to leave home and work to follow Him, or it may be a death like Luther’s, who had to leave the monastery and go out into the world. But it is the same death every time – death in Jesus Christ, the death of the old man at His call. Jesus’ summons to the rich young man was calling him to die, because only the man who is dead to his own will can follow Christ. In fact, every command of Jesus is a call to die, with all our affections and lusts. But we do not want to die, and therefore Jesus Christ and his call are necessarily our death as well as our life.”                                                      

  – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

AROUND THE LPD

This Sunday, I look forward to visiting Grace Hanin Community Church, where we will be presenting Lead Pastor Shinil Park with his EFCC Certificate of Ordination. As you are aware, this church joined the LPD/EFCC at our conference in 2018, and Pastor Park is transferring his ordination from the Korean Methodist Church.

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Please pray for:

• Our LPD Conference, March 1,2 at Vancouver Chinese EFC. We look forward to seeing your church leadership team at this important time of growing and learning together.
• The Church of the Sent for Life Proclamation – This is our first Korean Church in the LPD (2002). Please pray for  Pastor Namgyu (Heejoung) Lee and the congregation. The church building they have been renting has been sold, and they will need to relocate by the end of April.
• White Rock Community Church has called a youth pastor. Josiah and Martha Wall are coming from Winnipeg.
• The Steveston Project Team – Allen and Hannah Chang and Daniel and Joyce Wong. Come hear their report of God’s work at conference!
• Grace Ethiopian Evangelical Church, Cross Fellowship Church and One Hope Community Church, who are joining the LPD/EFCC at conference.
• New Westminster EFC. Pray for Transitional Pastor Ralph (Karen) Hardy and Church Planters Jorge (Emily) Lin this church family, as they seek the Lord for the “new” work.
• Fort Langley EFC, as they as the congregation seeks the Lord in their search for a lead pastor.
• Tom and Sandy Ford and family, as he awaits transplants, made necessary through the impact of his diabetes. He has gone onto long-term disability as he awaits further treatment.
• Please pray specifically with me for Quadra Island Bible Church in their pastoral search. They are in need of a Pioneer, Bi-Vocational pastor.
• Carl Lindstrom, a faithful member and volunteer at New Westminster EFC, who has aggressive prostate cancer.
• LPD Board. Board members are Randy Lemke (Allana) – Chair, Patrick Chan (Sarah) – Property and Finance, Ben Crumback (Anna) – Island Liaison, Charles Labun (Carolyn) – Church Board Liaison, Rob Stewart (Karen) – DS, Tim Stewart (Emily) – Innovative Ministries, Kenneth Tsang (Mabel) – Chinese Church Liaison; Paul Yang (Jin) – Korean Church Liaison; Phil Yung (Grace) – Church Planting and Josephine Papp, LPD Office Administrator – Recording Secretary.
• North Delta EFC, in their search for an Associate Pastor for youth.
• Grace EFC, in their search for a part-time youth pastor.
• Steve (Gillian) Sharpe, in his ministry as LPD Missionary of Church Planting Development, serving both our LPD Missionaries and Church Plants, and church planting in the EFCC. Steve and Neil B are ministering at our LPD Conference this weekend.

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Upcoming Events:

Summer Ministry Opportunity

Looking for a youth mission opportunity this summer?

Vancouver Island?
Have you considered a beautiful island in the Pacific? – as in …

Some Island Churches would welcome ministry teams to come to the Island to minister with Vacation Bible School Ministry and children’s programs this summer.

Your church can take your VBS ministry on the road with your youth or mission team – and be a real blessing to Island churches too.

Please contact the LPD Office for information!

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LPD Pastor and Spouse Retreat

Nov. 22-24, 2019

Hello LPD pastors, we’d like to invite you to join us on Nov. 22-24, 2019 for a Pastors’ retreat!  We’d like to encourage you to take a breather in late November (before Advent begins) with your fellow pastors at Camp Charis in Chilliwack.
 

Please set this date aside and watch for details early in the months ahead.