Bakersfield Community of Christ

We have been blessed by having Jenelle & Roger Walden and their two girls Malea & Riley from Tehachapi join our congregation the past two weeks. So wonderful to have the opportunity to get to know them. In the month of February we will be having two guest speakers. On Sunday the 21st our speaker will be Evangelist Stan Hunt from the Fremont congregation. Stan will also be holding a class starting at 9:30 on "The Samaritan Woman". On Sunday the 28th our speaker will be Elder Tricia Browne, she & her husband Bob will be coming down from Visalia to share with us.

On Sunday January 17 we all celebrated Betty Oldershaw's 90th birthday with a party at the home of Cathy & Janu Dave. We all appreciated the hard work that Cathy & Edith (& Don?) put in to making the party a success!

Wishing everyone a Very Blessed Christmas & a Happy New Year!

Tomorrow we will have Linda Walsh as a guest speaker with a dinner to follow. No cost. All are invited to join us as there will be plenty of food to go around.

We had a Wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner following church on Sunday. We had 20 people in attendance. Next Sunday we will be continuing our study in preparation for World Conference. Then on Sunday December 6 we will have Evangelist Scott Giles as our guest speaker.

We meet on Sunday mornings beginning at 10 am with fellowship and coffee, worship begins at 10:30. We open guests with open arms.

We value all people as Children of God and accept people for who and where they are. We have recently had visitors from the LGBT community and are looking forward to expanding our outreach in that area. Community of Christ will be hosting the annual GALA retreat for details you can go to www.galaweb.org

We are very pleased to have had 3 new people attend in the past month, 2 of whom have returned to join us. We also had a wonderful time on August 13 when we all went out to dinner to celebrate Edna Kliewer's 93rd birthday. We had 17 people in attendance.

We have been studying and preparing for both the World and National Conferences. We are blessed to have 2 guest speakers this month. On February 10 we will have Karen Jensen here from Stockton, and on February 17 we will have Linda Walsh here from the Visalia congregation. Looking forward to being able to worship & fellowship with two Wonderful Sisters in Christ.

We gathered at the home of Cathy & Janu Dave last evening to celebrate Bill Robinson's 90th birthday. We had a wonderful time. Today we have Mission Center President Ron Smith as a guest minister and will be going out to eat following the service.

We will be having a guest speaker, Linda Walsh here on Sunday August 3, with a luncheon to follow. We are also working with Henry Fultz on having a combined service with the Fresno congregation the end of September.

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We had a beautiful service yesterday. Tricia always has a wonderful message and a way of engaging the youth in her sermon. We had 5 youth in attendance, 3 were friends of Sarena & Kylie who said they will be back next week. Looking forward to growing our youth outreach.

This coming Sunday, March 18 we will have guest minstry offered by Tricia Browne of the Visalia congregation. We are looking forward to a wonderful worship experience as well as fellowship with a dinner to follow provided by Edith Gilman & Cathy Dave. A free-will offering will be taken for the dinner.