Coast News and Reminders


We hope this new blog with be helpful in our communication at Coast and in other ways as well. Let us know what you think and we’ll try to utilize the blog in the best ways possible.

Don’t forget to “spring forward” this Saturday night and move your clock ahead one hour for the Daylight Savings Time Change on Sunday.

Please be in prayer for Moe Khakbaz as he leaves today for a month to visit his family and to share the gospel. Pray for wisdom and boldness and opportunity and fruit in his witness to his family and others, as well as God’s protection and provision for him and his family during this time.

If you have not heard there is a parenting conference this Saturday that is being put on by IBCD. Some Coasters are already planning to go (Jan and I are). You can find out more by going to www.ibcd.org and contacting IBCD.

This Saturday (March 13) is the food box distribution at Thomas Paine at 9 AM. Contact Mike Hodson for more info at 949-285-8172.

This Sunday during the 9 AM Pastor's class, we will look again at Psalm 20 - "God Save the King!" (Part 2). At 10:30, we will look again at Romans 3:26 - "What Are You Trusting Jesus For?"(Part 2).

We are searching more aggressively now for another facility. Please be on the lookout for possible church facility opportunities or industrial space opportunities in Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Garden Grove, Westminster or Midway City, and in a zone along the 405 freeway extending approximately two miles on either side of the freeway and ranging between Bolsa Chica Rd. on the west end and the 55 freeway on the east end. If you have any information or suggestions, please contact Ben Urbina and the facility search team.

We want to say thank you to Aaron Hodson for working with our 4-7s Sunday School. “Thank you Aaron!” Jan Miles is going to be the coordinator/teacher for this age group each week. Joy Rupprecht will also teach and be working with the children each week, with others helping in various ways.

Please remember that we need to be out of the school auditorium by 12:30 after our worship service. Sometimes our service goes long and this makes it more difficult to do in terms of getting the chairs picked up and the sound equipment out. But try to be sensitive to the time if you are just talking with others and try to move your conversation outside by 12:30 for the janitor’s sake and for the sake of our agreement with the school district.

If you didn’t get notes last week, I’ll have some available on the back table this week. I ran out of ink in the midst of the production of the notes and didn’t have another ink cartridge, as I thought.

If you would like to add songs to the Coast Anchor blog or add your blog to the Coast Anchor blog list, email me and let me know. Obviously, we will try to manage this as seems wise and good.

Please take our translation survey at the bottom of this blog and let us know what your translation of preference is at the present time.

Remember you can access many things on the Coast website at www.coastcommunitychurch.com. (sermon and teaching audio, notes, birthdays, prayer requests, and contact information for Coast families, etc). If you need login information for the members only section, contact Chris Johnson at cjohnson@silentorb.com.

As most of you know, there are home fellowships (based on geographical region) that meet once a month. If you don't know which one is closest to you or if you are not very close to any of the present home fellowships and would like one to be started closer to you, please let us know. All three of the present home fellowships are meeting next Friday (March 19).

Don't forget your coffee cups for Sunday morning. We would like to leave the "purchased" cups primarily for visitors and newcomers to Coast. Let us come to worship with empty cups ready to be filled!

Check your bulletins on Sunday for other upcoming meetings and events.

Pray for one another "without ceasing," especially those in need of jobs and business growth as well as for those with babies on the way.

Keep trusting His promises, He's never failed us yet and He never will!

The Promise of Changelessness

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (Hebrews 13:8)