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Hi Everyone,

I wanted to send an email to encourage everyone this week AND to introduce you to our BRAND SPANKING NEW Thread Email!!!!! I hope you like it. Please bear with us as we learn the new formatting system and we get it all together. And please let us know if you have any suggestions or ideas. We are really open to whatever you have to share. We want this to become a resource of encouragement and communication.

Thanks so much for being a part of our extended family and keeping up with us!

We would LOVE your articles and thoughts. If you have a poem, word, letter, thought, words from the LORD or Scripture, just send it to us and tell us to consider it for the newsletter and we will review it and add the best of the best!

Again, we hope that you will be blessed and encouraged!

Thanks for your time!

Blessings!

pd

AND before you read the article below by Oswald Chambers, PLEASE check out our brand new podcast download area on our church website!!!! We are even listed in iTunes!

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OSWALD CHAMBERS, “My Utmost for His Highest.”

If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left —Genesis 13:9

As soon as you begin to live the life of faith in God, fascinating and physically gratifying possibilities will open up before you. These things are yours by right, but if you are living the life of faith you will exercise your right to waive your rights, and let God make your choice for you. God sometimes allows you to get into a place of testing where your own welfare would be the appropriate thing to consider, if you were not living the life of faith. But if you are, you will joyfully waive your right and allow God to make your choice for you. This is the discipline God uses to transform the natural into the spiritual through obedience to His voice.

Whenever our right becomes the guiding factor of our lives, it dulls our spiritual insight. The greatest enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but good choices which are not quite good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. In this passage, it would seem that the wisest thing in the world for Abram to do would be to choose. It was his right, and the people around him would consider him to be a fool for not choosing.

Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us. We have to learn to walk according to the standard which has its eyes focused on God. And God says to us, as He did to Abram, “. . . walk before Me. . .” ( Genesis 17:1 ).

Dustin Hedrick

Senior Pastor

Dear Friends,

As the new athletic director at Saint Anselm’s, I wanted to reach out to you and inform you of our summer camps this summer for Girls and Boys, with offerings of soccer, basketball and tennis.  We would be open to any discussions about tournaments and other ways that SAAS can link with our community.

Thank you for your consideration. 

Yours truly,

Jose Padilla Perez

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=121660357858741#!/event.php?eid=124079187619818&ref=ts

http://www.saintanselms.org/data/files/news/HomepageNews/brochuresports3.pdf

And as a supportive note, I am really all about us getting behind Pastor Jose in this position and truly believe that this is our chance to contribute to an all around great school on our community. There will be much more we will have to offer to serve and be a part later!!! – Blessings, PD

ACTIVATE, let’s change things up a bit.

Here’s what I mean.  We’re currently at a confluence of three different things.

1)      I want you all to become more comfortable with the entire congregation and I want you to have greater exposure to older generations who can sow into you.  No matter how great I am [and I know I'm just awesome like that ] I can’t address every need that you have. 

2)      We have been talking about starting a small group outside of Sundays where you can invite friends and we can fellowship and hang out. 

3)      I’m planning my first mission trip ever and it’s going to call me away from a whole lot of Sundays for planning and fundraising.

THEREFORE

We’re going to move our plans for a Small group up.  As in next week.

Yes, next week.

Starting Tuesday, June 1, we’re going to have ACTIVATE small group on Tuesday nights.  Place: 3 brothers pizzaria by Twinbrook Metro.  I’m going to do the crazy stalker thing and Facebook friend you all and invite you to an ACTIVATE group that will make it easier to coordinate future events.  If Tuesday nights in general simply won’t work, let me know and we’ll pick another day no big deal.  This first one is on me and will be pretty chill.  We will get started in on the spiritual gifts series that you were all interested in.

Ideally this small group will be for the older half (16 +) of our "youth."  12-15 will still have Sunday morning stuff where we can dig deep and acclimate that generation to a mode of thinking which most of you all just sort of showed up with.

Ok, that’s the plan.  I’m going to invite a few people outside of ACTIVATE to join us for a couple of different reasons, but there won’t be too many, and I’ll try to make it as safe and comfortable as possible.  If ANYONE, makes you feel off, awkward, or uncomfortable, you let me know and I’ll take care of it.

I’d ask you to RSVP but I know how futile that can be

Much love and God’s blessing on you all,

–

Seiji Yamashita

ACTIVATE Director

Seijiyamashita(at)washingtonballet.org

www.tapestrychurch.org

Sesame Place-June 5, 10 am

Payment due by May 22nd.  $25 per person ages 2 and up.  $8.50 for a restricted food voucher This is a group rate for 15 or more people.  I need to have RSVP’s and money by May 16th.

$15 to park. Location:  Langhorne, PA….just outside of Philly.

Email jensor06@yahoo.com for more info. and to RSVP

Mountain Heritage Arts and Crafts Festival June 12 , Harpers Ferry Laura Galvin will be organizing this event: Entrance fee is $7 but if you let Laura know you are attending she can get a $1 coupon. The festival includes live bluegrass, wine tasting good country food and some AMAZING crafts! Please email Laura at:

lauragalvin83@googlemail.com

www.jeffersoncountywvchamber.org/festival/info.html

Cookout Series Last Sunday of the month beginning in June. Come to Dustin and Lori’s 4100 Delancy Drive after morning service (2pm) for food on the grill. Bring a side dish or dessert to share. For more info contact Patrick Kim at  patrickdkim@tapestrychurch.org

Tapi Café-  June 13

Be a part of our first coffeehouse (talent show) as a performer or volunteer! The event will be held on at 5:00pm here at Rockview Elementary. Sign up sheets are available! For more info, email Julie Kwon at shinaie@gmail.com

Newcomers Luncheon June 13

Following the morning  service (2:00 p.m.) all newcomers are welcome to join Pastor Dustin for lunch to learn more about the history and values (and really exciting stuff!) of the Tapestry Church.  Please contact PD (Pastor Dustin) if you would like to attend.

Anniversary Service June 13

Come celebrate 6 years of the Tapestry at the Tapi Café as we share our history, our mission and fellowship. Invite your friends and family to join us for this spectacular event.

July 4 Water Outreach and  Family Night, Kensington, MD. Tapestry family style potluck picnic and fireworks. Save the date, more details to come. Contact is Lori Hedrick.

Small Group Update

*Some* of our small groups are on break for the summer and will be resuming the second week of September. Check with your small groups to see if you’ll be "off" for the summer.

Ladies Small Group

Ladies, does life’s little disappointments got you down?  Are there thoughts and feelings you have left unattended and are now ready to face head on? If so, join me as I offer real life biblical solutions to addressing those everyday issues we so often overlook and sweep under the rug.  It’s time to take the mask off and get real!  Psalm

51:5 Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. Anger Part 1 & 2 June 10th & 24th, Unforgiveness Part 1 & 2 July 8th & 22nd , & Depression/Grief Part 1 & 2 August 12th & 26th; Time 7pm. For directions, please call Ashley Shepherd at 240-997-0476.

And DONT forget

First Saturday of the Month – Sabbath – Jack & Jeanne Dillon’s 7pm.

Meal, worship and fellowship.  Call 301-535-7937 at jeannedillon@tapestrychurch.org

TapiCafe

The Tapestry’s 6^th Anniversary Celebration!

Sunday, June 13, 2010

5:00 pm

Rockview Elementary School

PERFORMERS

So you think you can dance?  sing?  act?

Maybe break out in some poetic rhythm n rhyme?

Your talents are limitless!

Sign up to entertain & inspire!

VOLUNTEERS

We need your hands, feet,

& creative minds!

Sign up to serve in one of our awesome crews!

Stage | Kitchen | Waiters | Design

All proceeds will benefit the Lakota Indians of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota!!!!!

Don’t forget to invite your family & friends!!!!!

Fill out attached forms and email to

Julie Kwon – shinaie@gmail.com or submit in person to Zuzana Melnova by Sunday, May 16, 2010!!!

Having God’s "Unreasonable" Faith

Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you —Matthew 6:33

When we look at these words of Jesus, we immediately find them to be the most revolutionary that human ears have ever heard. “. . . seek first the kingdom of God . . . .” Even the most spiritually-minded of us argue the exact opposite, saying, “But I must live; I must make a certain amount of money; I must be clothed; I must be fed.” The great concern of our lives is not the kingdom of God but how we are going to take care of ourselves to live. Jesus reversed the order by telling us to get the right relationship with God first, maintaining it as the primary concern of our lives, and never to place our concern on taking care of the other things of life.

“. . . do not worry about your life. . .” ( Matthew 6:25 ). Our Lord pointed out that from His standpoint it is absolutely unreasonable for us to be anxious, worrying about how we will live. Jesus did not say that the person who takes no thought for anything in his life is blessed— no, that person is a fool. But Jesus did teach that His disciple must make his relationship with God the dominating focus of his life, and to be cautiously carefree about everything else in comparison to that. In essence, Jesus was saying, “Don’t make food and drink the controlling factor of your life, but be focused absolutely on God.” Some people are careless about what they eat and drink, and they suffer for it; they are careless about what they wear, having no business looking the way they do; they are careless with their earthly matters, and God holds them responsible. Jesus is saying that the greatest concern of life is to place our relationship with God first, and everything else second.

It is one of the most difficult, yet critical, disciplines of the Christian life to allow the Holy Spirit to bring us into absolute harmony with the teaching of Jesus in these verses.