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Welcome to Parkdale Evangelical Free Church!

Join us for weekly gatherings, Bible discussions, prayer sessions, and kids' activities. Explore Esther, Nehemiah, and 1 Peter teachings in a welcoming environment. All are welcome!

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Welcome to Parkdale Evangelical Free Church!

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  1. Welcome to Parkdale Evangelical Free Church! August 6, 2017

  2. Gatherings Sun, Aug. 20 @ 12pm • Potluck BBQ @ Eagle Beach Elk Lake

  3. Reaching Out COBS Bread • Saturday night pick-up @ COBS& bagging @ church @ 7:20pm • Sunday distribution!Take as much as you’d like!

  4. Going Deeper • Weekly gathering – Tuesday nights in fall • Teaching video & small group discussion • 12-step homework • Sponsor/mentor • Pamphlets in Foyer Freedomsession.com

  5. Going Deeper Book Discussion • Fellowship • Food • All Welcome! Sun. Aug. 6 @ 4pm

  6. Prayer Calendar • Weekly: Lord’s Prayer • Daily: Biblical examples & teachings • Bulletin & Prayer Chain: specific requests

  7. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your Name.Your kingdomcome. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread.And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

  8. Prayer • Requests & Thanksgiving

  9. Offering • Online givingnow availableon website: Parkdalechurch.ca

  10. Kids’ Minute • Junior Church for kids up to 12 years old

  11. God’s Story: Finding our Place in His Unfolding Plan August Reading: Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah • 2 Chronicles 36: God’s Trial • Esther 4: Called for such a Time

  12. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeTimes of Silence

  13. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeTimes of Silence Barbara Brown Taylor, “When God is Silent” • “Silence is as much a sign of God's presence as of God's absence – that divine silence is not a vacuum to be filled but a mystery to be entered into, unarmed with words and undistracted by noise – a holy of holies in which we too may be struck dumb by the power of the unsayable God."

  14. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeTroubled Times: 11 Months to Live (1-11)

  15. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeTroubled Times: 11 Months to Live (1-11) Esther’s Dilemma • Her people aren’t safe – by order of king • Their lives depend on her • She’s safe, as long as she does nothing • Her life is threatened if she approaches the king

  16. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeTroubled Times: 11 Months to Live (1-11)

  17. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeTroubled Times: 11 Months to Live (1-11) 1 Peter 2:11-12 11 Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

  18. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeKairos: That God-Moment (12-17) Mordecai’s words to Esther • She’s not safe • Justice: she will perish for doing wrong • She’s not needed • Providence: Help will come from elsewhere

  19. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeKairos: That God-Moment (12-17)

  20. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeKairos: That God-Moment (12-17) Rabbi Zusya: • “In the coming world, they will not ask me: “Why were you not Moses? They will ask me: Why were you not Zusya?”

  21. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeKairos: That God-Moment (12-17) • Who has God made you to be? • Wherehas He put you? • Whathas He given you to offer?

  22. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeKairos: That God-Moment (12-17) Psalm 31 14 But I trust in You, Lord;    I say, “You are my God.”15 My times are in Your hands;deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me.

  23. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeHearing the Call, Recognizing the Caller • “Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening.” • “Vocation is not a goal to be achieved, but a gift to be received.”

  24. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeHearing the Call, Recognizing the Caller

  25. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeHearing the Call, Recognizing the Caller • What kind of person has God made you to be? • What needs has He put before you, burden on heart? • Through your job, relationships, resources, opportunities…how can you lovingly contribute to peace, justice, hope on earth in a way that draws people to know & love Him?

  26. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeHearing the Call, Recognizing the Caller Psalm 139 13 For you created my inmost being;You knit me together in my mother’s womb.14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;    Your works are wonderful,    I know that full well.

  27. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeHearing the Call, Recognizing the Caller 15 My frame was not hidden from You    when I was made in the secret place,    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;    all the days ordained for me were written in Your bookbefore one of them came to be.

  28. Esther 4: Called for such a TimeHearing the Call, Recognizing the Caller • Who has God made you to be? • Wherehas He put you? • Whathas He given you to offer?

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