May 3, 2014

Victorian Tea Party This Week!     

     Sunday, May 4th is the Victorian Tea Party at 1pm. Sign up in the foyer. This is a fundraiser for the Pathfinder Club. If you can’t attend, you can still purchase a ticket and make a donation. Thanks!

Mother’s Day Breakfast

     Join us on Saturday, May 10th for a special Mother’s Day service. We will begin the day with a free breakfast for the ladies. Breakfast will be served from 8:30 to 9:15am. That way everyone can be at Sabbath School by 9:30am. Oh by the way, the men can come too.

Work Bee Pictures

     We had a great turn out for the work bee. Thank you for your support! Many hands helped finish the work quickly. Check out the pics on Facebook or on Flckr.

Increasing our Facebook Reach

     As you know we have a Facebook page. This page is for our members and hopefully for people who are not yet members or even not yet Christian. We could use your help increasing our reach.
     The algorithm Facebook uses to determine what posts are shown is complicated. Most of us have liked more pages and have more friends than Facebook thinks we will go through in a day on our newsfeed. So they have to limit how many posts they show each user. How to determine which posts to show is the question. The method can be summed up with the more people who interact with a post (like, comment, share) the more it will be shown to other people. Comments and shares are worth more than a simple like - but all interactions help the post be more popular and hence shown to more people. This article does a pretty good job explaining the process if you care for a bit more detail - Read more here
     Now we are to the part where you can help. We would encourage you to interact with the posts on the Downey Church facebook page. We understand that no one will click on every single post. But if you can be intentional about liking and commenting (and maybe an occasional share to your wall) that will help us increase our reach quite a bit.  That might even lead to additional souls in the Kingdom - who knows.
    Thank you for your consideration regarding this.

This Sabbath   

     On May 3rd, we will start a new sermon series call Who Are We. The first sermon is called God.  We will start our sermon series on the fundamental belief that there is a God that is all powerful with a character that is centered around love. There is no greater understanding that shapes us more than knowing that we truly have a God that is intimately active in our lives.

 

Dates to Remember

May 3 - Pathfinders / Adventurers @ 3pm
May 4 - Women’s Tea @ 1pm
May 10 - Mother’s Day Breakfast 8:30 to 9:15am
May 11 - Mother’s Day
May 17 - Pathfinders @ 3pm
May 18 - Pathfinders @ 9am
May 24 - Youth to Griffith Park
May 26 - Memorial Day - Office Closed
May 31 - SGA Chorale

 

Next Sabbath

     The message on May 10th is Who Are We #2: Creation. It will be a reminder of where we come from. After all, the very first words of scripture writes, “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”  Believing that we weren’t randomly placed here shapes the way we view ourselves and the way we see the world around us.