Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders can enjoy Hartland Junior Summer Camp Sunday-Friday, July 8-13. Thanks to a generous family, camp cost will be $170 instead of full price! You may register your child with Natalie. Please turn in registrations and deposits before May 31.

Join us for “A Thrill Ride Through God’s Creation” at ourIncrediWorldAmazementParkVacationBibleSchool! VBS will be Monday through Friday, July 23-27, from 6-8 p.m. Talk to Natalie if you would like to help in areas such as planning, prepping, painting, teaching, acting, singing, games, crafts, and snacks.

Students for Hire

We have some students who would love to be hired to do some work to help with fees with camp and different youth events. If you would like to hire a student or more, please contact Pastor Nick.

Parent-Child Dedication

On Father’s Day, June 17, we’ll have a parent-child dedication. If you’d like to participate, talk to Pastor Tom or call him at 591-0234. This is for children under 4 years old.

On Monday, June 11, we will board a charter bus for theMagicMountaintheme park. This is open to everyone in our church family. The cost is $28, which includes entrance ($62 value) plus bus ($25 value). There are only 57 seats available on bus, and they will go fast. There will be no reserving a seat with a deposit. All seats must be paid in full. For seats or more information see Pastor Nick.

Sunday, July 1, Women’s Ministries will host the first ever Old-Fashioned BBQ and Live Auction right after church.  All proceeds will help send our women to the annual Women’s PacWest Conference inMontereynext January. Do you have a service you can donate that people could bid on? How about a homemade craft, woodworking, or food item? Perhaps you have event tickets, gift cards, or vacation packages to donate. This is an event open to everyone, and you won’t want to miss it!

Men’s Softball Team

We have a men’s softball team competing in a league in Reedley. If you are interested, signups are on the counter in church office. Thanks be to God and our loving church family, who has sponsored the team so the cost to play is free.

No Beginner’s Bible Class Next Two Wednesdays

Pastor Tom’s class, “A Beginner’s Guide to the Bible” will not meet this Wednesday or the next. We will resume on Wednesday, June 6.

Need to Brush Up on Your Bible?

Do you feel like your knowledge of the Bible has a lot of dangling threads and missing pieces? In eight short weeks you can change all that by attending Pastor Tom’s class A Beginner’s Guide to the Bible: 40 Handles You Can Use to Grab Hold of God’s Word. This class started last Wednesday night, but feel free to show up any Wednesday night! We’ll meet for eight more Wednesdays from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in our Fellowship Hall. Bring your Bible and a friend! No signups. Just show up!

A new Sunday School Class at the 9 a.m. session will kick off on April 22. It will take place in our Fellowship Hall. The HSMS (Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength) Class will focus on Mark 12:30, which is our mission to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.” All age groups are welcome. Bring a three-ring binder if you have one to start a personal binder with the material that will be given to help you grow in the following areas:

• Heart: Evangelism. Whether you share your faith a lot or a little, the Lord wants Christians to share the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ (Mark 16:15).
• Soul: Christian Theology. A good foundation in biblical theology is valuable. With it you can offer better counsel, refute error, teach the truth, and improve your relationship with God. Biblical theology is for every Christian (2 Timothy 2:15).
• Mind: Critical Thinking. Critical thinking is a crucial part of the defense of the Christian faith that is under great attack in the world today. Though thinking logically is an art, it can also be learned. God wants us to think more clearly and critically so that we can better defend the truth of Christianity as well as expose errors. As Christians we need to use our minds (Romans 12:2).
• Strength: Apologetics. Christian apologetics is the branch of Christianity that deals with answering critics who oppose or question the revelation of God in Christ and the Bible. This will help you easily learn how to answer problems and positions of false religious groups, atheism, evolution, and more (Jude 3).