Christ Reformed Info

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 additional information on the silent auction items click on the link below.

http://www.christreformed.org/church-events-announcements/

A Church Picnic 

to benefit the Benevolence Fund

Saturday, August 29, 2009

10:00-2:00 p.m.

Pearson Park, Anaheim

400 N. Harbor Blvd., between Sycamore and Cypress

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

Silent Auction:

A silent auction will be held during the picnic. Proceeds from the auction will be used for the benevolence fund. Some of the items available to bid on are:

• Dodger tickets
• Laker tickets
• Homemade quilt
• Photography session + photo package
• Original artwork

Bring your own picnic, an appetite for fun and some competitive spirit for family games and entertainment! The Elders and Deacons will also play an exhibition baseball game. Who do you think will win?

We hope you can join us for this very special event.

Additional Silent Auction Items:

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/

A memorial service for elder Fran Shanahan will be held at Christ Reformed Church on Thursday, September 18, @ 11:00 AM.  A reception will follow.

Fran received the crown of life on Sunday, September 7, @ 6:00 PM.  Our friend and brother died of organ failure after undergoing major surgery to deal with the return of the cancer he had fought so long and so bravely.   He was buried at Pacific View Cemetery in a private service on Wednesday, September 10.

Fran's children have established a wonderful website in his honor.  Please check it out and leave your words of condolence and encouragement to the family.  Click here: http://www.fshanahan.com/

We ask you to remember the Shanahan family in your prayers, as Mimi mourns the loss of her husband, and their children, Stuart, Patrick, Audry, and John, mourn the loss of their father.

But the Shanahans grieve with hope!   And so do those who knew and loved Fran.  As Paul reminds us in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18:

"But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.  For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.  For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord,  that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.  For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.  Therefore encourage one another with these words."

Every year a group of church members drive up to Mammoth Lakes for a little fellowship and fun.  We hope you enjoy these pictures from this years adventurous group.

Who hired these guides?

Kids of summer

This is what fun looks like

Is that Micki Riddlebarger hiding behind the camera man?

The Anderson Men

The Bergeron Family 

The Akiyoshi family

Our fearless leader