Christ Reformed Info

Church Calendar 2012

January

February

17–18 – High School Snow Trip (Lake Arrowhead)

19 – Congregational meeting at 9:00 a.m.

26 – Installation of new church officers

 March

10 – Ladies’ Book Club (Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan)

April

1 – Palm Sunday

5 – Maundy Thursday

6 – Good Friday

8 – Easter

28 – Ladies’ Book Club (The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

May

19 – Ladies’ Spring Tea (hosted at the Szucs’ home)

June

9 – Ladies’ Book Club (Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3, sections 1-10, John Calvin)

11-15 – Synod: Nyak, New York (Hosts: Pompton Plains Bible Church). Location: Nyak College, 1 South Boulevard, Nyack, NY  10960   

23 – Annual Picnic and Benevolence Fundraiser - Pearson Park, Anaheim

http://christreformed.wix.com/2012picnic

July

24 - High School Youth evening at Sky High Sports

The High School youth will be having an evening of jumping at Sky High Sports in Costa Mesa on Tuesday, July 24. Meet at the church at 6:30 PM if you wish to carpool there or at Sky High at 7:30 PM if you wish to meet us there. Pick up time from Sky High will be approximately 9:30 PM or from the church at 10 PM. Bring $12 to jump for one hour or $18 to jump for two hours.

28 – Ladies’ Book Club (Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3, sections 11-25, John Calvin)

August

2 - HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH/CHURCH EVENT

Reserve your spot now for our exciting Hollywood Bowl event Thursday, August 2. Family and friends are welcome. The concert begins at 8 PM, but we will meet at 5 PM at the Lakewood Mall park-and-ride. The LA Philharmonic will be playing Beethoven with special guest, French violinist, Renaud Capucon. Tickets are $1 each and bus tickets are $5/each round-trip (leaves from/returns to Lakewood Mall). You are also welcome to meet us at the Bowl if you prefer. Bring jackets, blankets, binoculars, or picnic baskets (we will picnic at the Bowl before the concert). We have purchased 70 tickets for HS youth, your families, and your friends. To reserve your space, please contact Winona at the church office, 714.538.1057 with your desired number of tickets by July 29.

19 - Angels Baseball Night for our High School Students

High School students and their families will want to mark their calendars for a fun Anaheim Angels game on Thursday, August 19. The game starts at 7:05 PM. We’ll be meeting there at the stadium. Please sign up at the HS table after church today for this event and turn in your money to Matt Thacker by Sunday, July 29. Unfortunately, this is a strict deadline to ensure we are able to purchase the desired number of tickets before they sell out.

September

22 – Ladies’ Book Club - Calvin's Institutes, book 3, chapter 20, "Prayer, Which Is the Chief Exercise of Faith, and by Which We Daily Receive God's Benefits"

29 – Ladies’ Fall Luncheon, 11:30 a.m. at the home of Peggy Hamilton

October

6 – Men's Book club - Kenneth Samples' book 7 Truths that Changed the World: Discovering Christianity's Most Dangerous Ideas (Baker Books, 2012).

28 – Christ Reformed Church’s 17^th anniversary

November

17 – Ladies’ Book Club (Christianity and Liberalism, J. Gresham Machen)

22 – Thanksgiving service at 10:00 a.m.

December

7 – Church Christmas Party

8 – Men's Book Club

March

Saturday, March 5 (Women’s Book Club)

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels As Eyewitness Testimony by Richard Bauckham 

Saturday, March 12 (Men’s Book Club)

God's Pattern for Creation: A Covenantal Reading of Genesis 1 by W. Robert Godfrey

April

Saturday, April 9

The Ladies spring luncheon will be held at the home of Polly O’Meara on Saturday, April 9.  All ladies of Christ Reformed church are invited to attend with their daughters.  We hope you can join us for a beautiful spring day filled with great food, fellowship and laughter.   For more information please call the church office at (714) 538-1057.

Saturday, April 30 (Women’s Book Club)

Putting Jesus in His Place:  The Case for the Deity of Christ by Robert Bowman and J. Ed Komoszewski

May

Saturday, May 7 (Men’s Book Club)

Living in God's Two Kingdoms: A Biblical Vision for Christianity and Culture by David VanDrunen

June

Saturday, June 11 (Women’s Book Club)

The Justification Reader by Thomas Oden

Saturday, June 25 (Annual Church Picnic/Benevolence fundraiser) Pearson Park, Anaheim 

July

Saturday, July 30 (Women’s Book Club)

God Is Great, God Is Good: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible by William Lane Craig and Chad Meister

August

Saturday, August 20 (Men’s Book Club)

Word, Water and Spirit - A Reformed Perspective on Baptism by J. V. Fesko (Parts 2 & 3)

September

Saturday, September 24 (Women’s Book Club)

Creation out of Nothing: A Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Exploration by Paul Copan and William Lane Craig

October

Friday, October 28

7:00 p.m. - Reformation Hymn Festival

Saturday, October 29 (Men’s Book Club)

The Holy Spirit by Sinclair B. Ferguson

Sunday, October 30 - Reformation Sunday and Christ Reformed Church's 16th Anniversary 

November

Saturday, November 19 (Women’s Book Club)

Redeeming Science: A God Centered Approach by Vern S. Poythress

Thursday, November 24th

Thanksgiving service at 10:00 a.m. 

December

Friday, December 9 at 7:00 p.m.

Church Christmas Party

Saturday, December 10 (Men’s Book Club)

The Justification Reader by Thomas Oden

Friday, December 23 at 7:00 p.m.

Service of Lessons and Carols 

February

Saturday, February 6 (Stretch the Mind in 2010 – Women’s Book Club)

Augustine and His World by Andrew Knowles

March

Saturday, March 27 (Stretch the Mind in 2010 – Women’s Book Club)

Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton

April

The Ladies spring luncheon will be held at the home of Mimi Shanahan on Saturday, April 10, beginning at 11:00 a.m.  All ladies of Christ Reformed church are invited to attend with their daughters.  We hope you can join us for a beautiful spring day filled with great food, fellowship and laughter.   For more information please call the church office at (714) 538-1057.

May

Saturday, May 22 - (Stretch the Mind in 2010 – Women’s Book Club)

John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor by Robert Godfrey

June

Saturday, June 26 - Annual Church Picnic

Pearson Park, Anaheim

 400 N. Harbor Blvd., between Sycamore and Cypress

Meet at the picnic shelter on the corner of Harbor and Sycamore.

July

Saturday, July 24 (Stretch the Mind in 2010 – Women’s Book Club)

Making Sense of It All: Pascal and the Meaning of Life by Thomas Morris

August

September

Saturday, September 18 (Stretch the Mind in 2010 – Women’s Book Club) we will have our book club meeting at the home of Richard and Rebecca Wischkaemper at 2:00 PM.

J. Gresham Machen: A Guided Tour of His Life and Thought by Stephen J. Nichols

October

Saturday, October 16 - Ladies’ Fall Luncheon

Friday, October 29 - Church Hymn Festival at 7:30 PM.  This year's theme for the Hymn Festival is "Guilt, Grace and Gratitude".

Lutheran theologian Robert Preus once said that one of the best ways to learn the Christian faith, was to "sing the faith into our hearts."  Join us on Friday, October 29 at 7:30 p.m. for our third annual Reformation Hymn Festival as we seek to do just that.

Our hymn festival will follow the Heidelberg Catechism's three-fold division of guilt, grace and gratitude.  Through the reading of Scripture and our confessions, and through singing the Psalms and the great hymns of the Reformed tradition, we'll be reminded of our guilt before God, the greatness of God's grace toward us in Jesus Christ, and having "sung the faith into our hearts," Lord willing, we will leave with our hearts filled with gratitude.

Sunday, October 31 - Reformation Sunday and Church's 15th Anniversary 

November

Saturday, November 13 (Stretch the Mind in 2010 – Women’s Book Club)

Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis

Thursday, November 25th - Thanksgiving service at 10:00 a.m. 

December

Church Christmas Party - December 10 at 7:00 PM

Service of Lessons and Carols - December 24 at 7:00 PM 

Join us on Saturday, August 29, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. for our Church picnic at Pearson Park in Anaheim. The picnic will be held from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.  Come see the deacons and elders square off against each other in baseball, bid on some great auction items during the silent auction, and buy some fantastic baked goods.   Bring your own picnic, an appetite for fun and some competitive spirit for family games and entertainment!  We hope you can join us for this very special event.

Pearson Park is located at 400 North Harbor Blvd. between Sycamore and Cypress in the city of Anaheim.

For those of you who were not able to attend Fran's memorial service, we've posted the audio of the entire service.

http://links.christreformed.org/realaudio/091808Shan.mp3

Please be sure to check out the Shanahan family website devoted to Fran's memory.

Click here: http://www.fshanahan.com/