Membership Class
Want to learn more about the vision and values of Epicentre? Our membership class will walk you through our story, guiding convictions, and share why we do things the way we do. Come join us and learn more. This class will also fulfill the requirement in becoming a member but we welcome all. The next class is on Saturday, June 2, 9:30a-12:30p, location 133 Electric Drive Suite 200 Pasadena, CA 91103. Please email lawrence(at)epicentrechurch.org for more information or to RSVP.
Welcome to our 2012 Church Retreat themed “Selah.” Selah is a Hebrew word used in the Old Testament to denote pausing in order to reflect. This year, we felt a clear sense that it was going to be a year of storms. Amidst challenges and busyness, we are choosing selah this memorial day weekend as a missional community. It is in those places of “selah” that we get perspective of all that is going on around us. Perspective is like being in the eye of a storm – the place of peace and stillness where we can get clarity. We can then re-order our lives and bring transformation as we allow God to meet us, fill us anew, and follow Him with confidence and trust.
Chris Rattay is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College, and has lived in urban Los Angeles for 12 years. He spent time in South LA and USC, promoting efforts of justice and reconciliation between different ethnic groups. Chris served on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at USC and was an Associate Pastor at Epicentre Church before moving into Lincoln Heights and planting a church. Chris also started IntheCity, a non-profit ministry and initiative to mobilize and train leaders from within the city for the city. Chris enjoys coaching track and football at Lincoln High School, as well as his son’s T-ball team. Chris is married to his wife Maggie and have three children: Josiah, Jaden, and Samantha. Besides telling stories, Chris loves playing golf and watching Jack Bauer save the world.
Dates & Times
Friday, May 25 – Sunday, May 27, 2012
Location: Azusa Pacific University – Upper North Turner
Regular
Want to go deeper in your relationship with God and understand what you’ve been made for? Epicentre Training School (ETS) is a 9-month discipleship school that provides a setting for those desiring to grow in areas including relationship with God, character growth and personal healing, Biblical foundations, and ministry practicals. It’s a combination of class time, small groups, discipleship, and hands on learning that begins in September and ends in June with a two-week outreach. Applications are now being accepted and are due June 15. If interested, contact shirleen(at)epicentrechurch.org or attend an info meeting on May 27 during church retreat (4-5pm, location TBD) or June 3 (1-2pm, B107).
Interested in joining Epicentre’s Worship Ministry? It is an exciting time at our church, and we are currently looking for people to join our team (sound, media, music). Please email ben(at)epicentrechurch.org if you would like to get involved!
Coffee Talk
A church-wide event or dating, engaged, and married couples. Join Mike & Debbie for a morning (time/date to TBD) at their house in La Canada. Coffee Talk will provide a space to connect with other couples and invite Q & A on different topics related to marriage. For more information contact Jessie Lam at jessie(at)epicentrechurch.org
Marriage Live
Sign up for a powerful course that can be taken at home or in small groups through DVDs. The home or small group course will take place from June-July 2012 and you can reserve your copy of this life-changing curriculum by contacting Mike & Debbie Sayovitz at sayovitz(at)sbcglobal.net. The Marriage Live is followed by a Marriage Live Retreat that takes place on August 11th, 2012 in Santa Clarita at Church on the Way.
See our couples promote the Marriage Live Curriculum here: Marriage Live Promo
The newest 2011 World Mandate cd is here! Songs include Restoration and many more for $13. We also have a small quantity of World Mandate West t-shirts at a discounted price of $8. Get your cd or t-shirt at the resource table before they run out!
Antioch Ministries Int’l has 8-month overseas internships in Lebanon, UK, and Uganda, starting in September 2012. This is a great way to experience cross-cultural missions within a team context and receive some of the best training in reaching the lost and Acts 2 community. Applications are being accepted now. Due 4/1/12. Information is available at the Hospitality Table.
World Mandate West Conference:
World Mandate is a conference for anyone who loves Jesus and wants to know more about His passion for the nations of the world. Through worship, inspiring teaching and powerful encounters with God, you will have the opportunity to have your heart revived and become more aware of what God is doing in the earth.
We will join All Peoples Church in San Diego for this conference from February 3rd-4th, 2012 at their location at Horace Mann Middle School and then return to Epicentre for our World Mandate West service on Sunday, February 5th.
Event Schedule (listed on site, scroll down): http://worldmandatewest.eventbrite.com/
Housing:
Children’s Program: We’re excited to have Shawn Dunn, children’s pastor from Antioch Waco, come and lead the children’s program (for ages 0-12). The children’s program will take place simultaneously with the main conference.
Transportation: We would like to advise you to leave plenty of time on Friday to get down to San Diego. If possible, carpool with the lifegroup members or those who live near you. Try to leave by 3pm or earlier.
For more information, visit http://worldmandatewest.eventbrite.com/. Registration is up and prices are $20 for adults and $12 for kids 0-12.
Here at Epicentre, we’re incredibly grateful to have teams of faithful volunteers who serve joyfully and help make our Sunday services possible.
If you’ve been blessed by God through our church and consider yourself to be part of our family, please consider signing up to serve on one of our Sunday ministry teams. Come and contribute your gifts and talents so that together we may be an even greater blessing to many! It’s a joy and privilege to serve, and it can be a lot of fun too!
For more info and to sign up, as well as to update your info in our church directory,
click here.
Dear Epicentre Family,
I'd like to take a few minutes to share with you some reflections about life and Epicentre.
As many of you know, I've been an Apple fan for a l-o-o-o-ng time. And of course, I've been a fan of Steve Jobs. Here's a confession: I regularly read a website called "Cult of Mac". 
I don't think Steve Jobs’ passing was a surprise to anyone who's been following Apple recently. But still, I think his death seemed like a sudden shock. It's a reminder that each of us only has one life to live. That each of us does have the ability to choose what we live for. To choose to make tough choices. To persevere in difficulty. Because we have a vision for something insanely great, as Steve Jobs would sometimes say.
Of course, that's what Jesus did. He gave his life for you and me. Not to live a life of middling mediocrity. Not to live a life for short-term returns and long-term loss. But to live a life of significance and meaning because it is focused on the right things.
I'm really appreciative because many of you, along with our staff, have laid down your lives for the sake of the kingdom and the gospel. By helping your children sleep after a longer-than-usual night at lifegroup. By investing in others even when it seems you don't have time for yourself. By getting up after you've fallen into an old sin pattern. By continuing to try and understand parts of the Bible that don't seem understandable at first glance. By setting up chairs early on Sunday morning. By having Sunday lunch with some people you don't know very well.
Though we can't always see it, those acts of obedience (and faith that if we do the right things, God will see) are paying off. Our kids are learning great things. People are coming to faith. Families are slowly finding some order in the midst of chaos. People are getting loved on. God is bringing new, passionate people to Epicentre, and they keep telling me how welcoming everyone is.
I'm really grateful for that. As you might remember, over this past year, we've received a number of encouraging (and prophetic words) telling us God is going to bring breakthrough. In line with that, our church leadership has been working to strengthen our body for what God has in mind for us: listening to families so we can better minister to them; focusing on developing new leaders from APU and Fuller; bringing better organization to the infrastructure of our church so our growth can be sustained. Keep praying for us.
I feel blessed to be part of our body! And excited for what's ahead. As this Fall begins, let's keep pressing into him, praying and supporting each other, and looking forward to what God has for us.
Blessings,
John Lo
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