The Penticton Church of the Nazarene
523 Jermyn Avenue V2A 2E2 Penticton, BC, Canada

Our online auction is LIVE, and you can now bid on over 75 items! Head over to www.givergy.ca/MissionPossible/ on any device to take a look at all the items up ...for grabs! Whether it's a trip to Bordeaux, France, a staycation in Vancouver, Whistler, Victoria or Tofino, a couple bags of coffee, or a gift card to your favourite restaurant, all proceeds from the gala will be going towards our Employment Readiness Program! Support our associates in their journey to a sustainable livelihood, and help keep our community in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside clean and safe! Special thank you to our gold partners DP World, Long Life Windows & Doors Ltd., and Strand for helping us make this possible! Don't forget to get your virtual gala tickets by donation at https://mpgala.eventbrite.ca/ as it starts in just ONE week! #OnlineAuction #YVR #VirtualGala #OnlineAuctionVancouver #Vancouver #DTES

Our auction starts TOMORROW at 12 p.m. PST Here is one last sneak peek before the items go live! Once we post the link tomorrow, you will be able to view all ...the items and sign up for a Givergy account which will allow you to easily bid on our items as well as set maximum bids. For more information, head to MPGala.ca or send us a message! Don't miss out! The auction ends on December 2nd at 9:15 p.m. PST! Auction items featured in this video were donated by Fairmont Waterfront,Wedgewood Hotel & Spa, JW Marriott Parq Vancouver, Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel, Delta Hotels by Marriott Vancouver Downtown Suites, VCC Salon & Spa, Matchstick, Everything Wine, Maison Cote, Port of Vancouver and Burrowing Owl Estate!! Thank you for supporting us Tickets for the virtual gala are also now available by donation at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mission-possible-gala-at-home-e! #OnlineAuction #DTES #YVR #VirtualGala #VancouverAuction

THIS HIT ME HARD. Have you ever noticed how in the scriptures men are always going up into the mountains to commune with the Lord? Yet in the scriptures we ha...rdly ever hear of women going to the mountains. But we know why right? Because the women were too busy keeping life going; they couldn’t abandon babies, meals, homes, fires, gardens, and a thousand responsibilities to make the climb into the mountains! I was talking to a friend the other day, saying that as modern woman I feel like I’m never free enough from my responsibilities, never in a quiet enough space I want with God. Her response floored me, That is why God comes to women. Men have to climb the mountain to meet God, but God comes to women where ever they are. I have been pondering on her words for weeks and have searched my scriptures to see that what she said is true. God does in deed come to women where they are, when they are doing their ordinary, everyday work. He meets them at the wells where they draw water for their families, in their homes, in their kitchens, in their gardens. He comes to them as they sit beside sickbeds, as they give birth, care for the elderly, and perform necessary mourning and burial rites. Even at the empty tomb, Mary was the first to witness Christ’s resurrection, She was there because she was doing the womanly chore of properly preparing Christ’s body for burial. In these seemingly mundane and ordinary tasks, these women of the scriptures found themselves face to face with divinity. So if like me you ever start to bemoan the fact that you don’t have as much time to spend in the mountains with God as you would like. Remember, God comes to women. He knows where we are and the burdens we carry. He sees us, and if we open our eyes and our hearts we will see Him, even in the most ordinary places and in the most ordinary things. He lives. And he’s using a time such as this to speak to women around the world. Original : Heather F.

Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.

"This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent... each Bible chapter, Genesis 1 Revelation 22. The line's color shows the reference's distance from the other. A cross-reference is a Scripture that references another Scripture. Had the Bible been written by one person or at one time this would still be amazing; however, the Bible was written by 40 authors over the span of 1500 years on 3 different continents. The Bible is complex, diverse, and intricate, and yet it has one unified message: God lovingly is redeeming all who believe!" John Durham

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"Peter believed that the witness of the power and presence of Christ would be magnified if the church would practice Philadelphoi love for one another. Let’s practice that love, and maybe, this month, we could begin that practice by loving our pastors."

Last week, a young Amish man named Steven Yoder was killed in a mill accident here in New Wilmington, Pa . Steven left behind a wife named Mary, and five chil...dren under the age of 13, and one on the way. I asked my Amish friend Teena what would happen to the family. "How will they financially make it, since the Amish do not carry insurance?" Teena answered, "The church will take care of them." The church, in an Old World Order Amish group, is the entire community. "We are the church! We will all pitch in and help her until her sons are grown and can financially support her. If every body gives a little, she will have a lot " Today, I stopped by Teena's and she asked me what the weather is supposed to be like on Saturday. I said it was going to be cool, but dry. Teena said, "Good, because at least ten teams of men are going to Mary's house to plow her fields, winterize her home and barn, get her a winters supply of coal (to heat her home) and wood (for her to cook with) . The women are all going to cook and bake to help feed the men, who are taking care of Mary's farm, and bring food for Mary to have enough all winter. I'm glad it will be nice for them." This is community. This is church. When there is a need, it is taken care of. Not by a few, but by all. Lord help us to be a better community and a better church. Let our eyes see the needs. Let our ears hear the cries. Let our hands pitch in to do the dirty work. Many hands make light work. We all need each other.

Today we celebrate the 112th anniversary of the Church of the Nazarene! Learn more about the history of our denomination at nazarene.org/founding.