June 7, 2011
June 12 promises to be another full and wonderful Sunday at Lakeshore. It is Pentecost Sunday. It is Graduation Sunday. It is quarterly meeting of the Congregation Sunday. On Sunday evening Dr. Naw San Dee KD, pastor of the San Francisco Kachin Baptist Church, will be ordained. The Kachin church has been meeting at Lakeshore for over three years and is the newest member of the Pacific Coast Baptist Association.
The title of my sermon this Sunday is “Choose Your Teachers Well.” The sermon is taken from John 14 and Psalm 1. In the gospel Jesus promises his disciples that even though the time is coming that he will no longer be physically present with them, he will not leave them alone. He promises “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.” The Psalm warns against following the consel of the wicked and praises those who take their instruction from “the law of the LORD.” Clearly, the Scriptures urge us all to choose, to continue to choose, our teachers well.
Prayers of the Congregation
- Idella Berry – soon to move to SNF in Alameda
- Paul Keener for his mother
- Barbara Bowman for her father
- Jack Travis and Carol Norris
- Steve and Carol Leichter
- Jessie Guiton for her sister
- Bette Pancoe – Summit Hospital
- Richard Ice – home
- Thanksgiving with our graduates and their families
- Phil and Gloria Meads for their daughter, Joy
- Kay Baxter for her family
- Ann Fields for her family and the families of the SF firefighters who lost their lives
- Tess Benin for her Aunt Rose
- Sandra Dunn
- Doris Evans for Jenny Leche and family, Charlotte Evans and caregivers, Merlin Edwards II and family
- Thanksgiving for a wonderful Hunger Walk
- Sheila Sims for her mother – Kaiser Hayward
- Susan Joachim – Alta Bates Hospital
- Cherie Smith for her son Alex
- Alean Saunders-Coffey for her friend Hilda
- Mary Karne
- Matt Henry and Amy Pearson – moving to Pendleton, OR
- Joan Patten for Paula and John
- Marian Ott – recuperating from oral surgery
- Al Johnson and Roy Browner
- Terecita Arciaga
- Bonnie Sato – chemotherapy
- All our shut-ins
- Middle East Peace Negotiations
- The 30th Anniversary of the first documented AIDS cases in San Francisico – prayers of memory and hope
Announcements
I would be very happy to have you join me in Sacramento on Tuesday, June 14, as more than 1,000 representatives of the faith communities of PICO California gather to bring a faith and values perspective to the state budget debate. Transportation and lunch will be provided. The plan for the day is:
8:30 AM Bus leaves from Eastmont Mall
10:30 AM Gathering at Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
11:30 AM Faith Event on the Capitol Steps
12:00 Noon Lunch
1-3:00 PM Legislative Visits
5:00 PM Back in Oakland
Let me know if you will be attending ASAP so I can tell the OCO office how many people will be riding the bus.
Basketball Players – The Samaritan Meighborhood Center is sponsoring a 3 0n 3 Tournament beginning on July 17 and running through August 19. Sign up sheets in the Narthe