July 2021

Watch “The Testimony of Tom Cantor”

Watch “The Testimony of Tom Cantor” on YouTube. Tom teaches our adult Sunday school class and usually gives the sermon on the first, third, and any fifth Sunday of the month.

From the video description:
A Message of Hope and Gladness for Jewish People – This is the personal testimony of Tom Cantor, President of Scantibodies Laboratory, Inc. in Santee, CA. Join Tom as he recounts his life story and how he met Jesus Christ and asked to Him to be his Lord and Savior.

Read Tom Cantor’s testimony “How a Jew Came to Know and Put his Trust in The Lord Jesus Christ” or Tom’s expanded testimony which he has a mass mailed to Jewish people “Changed”. Also, we have free copies of “Changed“ by Tom Cantor at the Chapel. You can get directions Here.

You can learn more about Tom Cantor’s outreach to the Jewish people at Israel Restoration Ministries.

The Wessex Gospels – Read John 3:16 in English from 1000 years ago!

“The Wessex Gospels (also known as the West-Saxon Gospels) are a full translation of the four gospels of the Christian Bible into a West Saxon dialect of Old English.” These were translated between 990 A.D. and 1175 A.D. LINK

Here is John 3:16 in Old English from the Wessex Gospels, “God lufede middan-eard swa þæt he sealde hys akennedan sune þæt nan ne for-wurðe þe on hine ge-lefð. Ac habbe þt eche lyf.”

Here is John 3:16 from the King James Bible, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

See how many words you can guess. I found it helped when I read it out loud. Also, “þ” in old English is the “th” sound. (I had to look that up.)

The Lord of the Rings fans will recognize the third word, the hyphenated one!

POETRY

July 25, 2021 Worship Service, sermon by Sohrab Ramtin on Rumble, too

Watch our July 25, 2021 worship service including singing, announcements, a musical special, and a sermon by Dr. Sohrab Ramtin. We were blessed by a visiting singing group “The Believers” who sang the musical special “Stand and Leaning Medley.” The sermon by Sohrab was from I Thessalonians 2:7-12, “Parent Pictures of Ministry.”

The Chapel emphasizes the Lord Jesus Christ through Missions, Prayer, and the Word of God.

We are a Bible believing Christian church, an Open Plymouth Brethren assembly. All leadership is volunteer, enabling the majority of our giving to go to evangelists and missionaries worldwide. There are opportunities to serve for those interested in participating, including outreach, hospitality, and music.

Lord’s Supper: 9:30am (Except 1st Sunday of each month)
Sunday School: 10:00 am (all ages)
Coffee Break on patio: 11:00 am
Worship Service: 11:15am (Every Sunday)

6964 Mission Gorge Road
San Diego, CA 92120

Adventures with Grandma by Joelee Chamberlain

We have free copies at the Chapel of “Grandma” Joelee’s new book “Adventures with Grandma: Pretend visits to the Tabernacle and the Israelite camp.”

Grandma takes the grandsons on “let’s pretend visits” to the Tabernacle of the Lord and to the camp of the children of Israel as they wandered in the wilderness. Each visit is bookended with homey scenes of cookies, Grandma’s dog, and either sharing with Mama and Daddy about what they learned or talking with Grandma about it as they eat lunch together. In the visit to the Tabernacle, they respectfully stand outside the courtyard, peer into the courtyard, and ask questions of a friendly Levite and a helpful priest as to what is inside the Tabernacle and what is done. In the visit to the camp, they ask questions of a kind Israelite as they watch the camp gather manna, prepare to move, and then move following the pillar of cloud. Both of these stories are connected to the Gospel.

This is based on two of her “Children’s Bible Audios-Stories for Kids.” Her audios are available on SermonAudio, iTunes, Google podcasts, Stitcher, and any more podcast sites

Sunday Hymn – The Family of God

“The Family of God”, words by William J. Gaither & Gloria Gaither and music by William J. Gaither, was an part of our worship service last Sunday.

It was played as introductory music and was our closing hymn. In between, the sermon by Sohrab Ramtin was from I Thessalonians 2:7-12, “Parent Pictures of Ministry”, about how the apostle Paul was like a mother and father to the Thessalonians.

I don’t know if our CCLI license allows us to put the lyrics here, as it is still copyrighted, but we can share it as our closing hymn on YouTube HERE

Local Apologetic/Evangelistic Outreach by David Hall

David Hall runs an apologetic/evangelistic outreach in Balboa Park. He does not go to the Chapel, though his daughter and her family did before they moved north for more musical training – https://www.delamottestrings.com

Here’s a link to an update about his latest outreach https://www.facebook.com/1226810861/posts/10226976149929508/

I (Paul) have had the opportunity to help out with this outreach on a couple of occasion. It’s really great. It includes evidence from creation and the Bible to point people to Christ. It is a unique outreach in that has evidence from creation, prophecy, typology, and legal evidences all pointing people to the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ. But after all, isn’t that like the kind of reasoning the apostles did in the book of Acts?

If you’re ever in Balboa Park on a Saturday, you can stop by at the Bea Evenson Fountain area https://goo.gl/maps/ZRwbW1CVGSy5neja6

You’ll see a bunch of posters set up with pictures from science and prophecy. They are pictures like the ones on these free hand outs –

Join us for July 30 Summer Friday Family Night

Join us on Friday, July 23, 2021, for fellowship and worship at our Summer Friday family night. We have a potluck starting at about 6:15 PM, and an informal service at about 7:30 PM. The service includes hymn singing, a memory verse, a presentation, and a closing chorus from the last two verses of Jude.

Families usually bring a main dish and salad or dessert, singles one dish, but if this is your first time, you don’t have to, as some of us bring extra.

This Friday’s short talk will be on value of more literal translations like the King James Version, and will give some tools from literature and forensic statement analysis to help in understanding the Bible. It will be connected to the gospel.

You can find directions on our website HERE

Mission Valley Community Chapel
6469 Mission Gorge Rd
San Diego, CA 92120

Join us for worship and fellowship next Sunday August 1, 2021

Join us next Sunday, August 1, 2021, for worship and fellowship. We will be having live streamed and in-person services at the Chapel.

We will be live streaming our worship service at 11:15 a.m. To watch, go to our Facebook page (under videos).
https://www.facebook.com/MissionValleyCommunityChapel/

Our in person service will include:
10:00 am Sunday School, Tom Cantor, founder of Israel Restoration Ministries, teaching adult Sunday school
11:55 a.m. Coffee break/refreshments
11:15 a.m. Worship Service, Tom Cantor preaching the sermon
-Communion following the message

(We have a traditional worship service including prayer, hymn singing, announcements, a musical special, and a sermon from the Bible.)

Get directions on our website HERE

Mission Valley Community Chapel
6964 Mission Gorge Road
San Diego, CA 92120

The Chapel emphasizes the Lord Jesus Christ through Missions, Prayer, and the Word of God.
We are an evangelical Christian Bible church, an Open Plymouth Brethren assembly. All leadership is volunteer, enabling the majority of our giving to go to evangelists and missionaries worldwide. There are opportunities to serve for those interested in participating including in outreach, hospitality, and music.

Friday Night Hymn – I Love to Tell the Story

On Friday family nights, we sing a few hymns. The Gospel (Good News) of our Lord Jesus Christ has also been called The Greatest Story Ever Told, His-story, Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact (in “Myth Became Fact” by C.S. Lewis), and in one of the hymns we sang,“I Love to Tell the Story”, it’s called The Old, Old Story.

I Love to Tell the Story
Words by A. Katherine Hankey, Music by William G. Fischer

1. I love to tell the story of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and His glory, of Jesus and His love;
I love to tell the story, because I know ’tis true,
It satisfies my longings as nothing else would do.

Chorus:
I love to tell the story,
’Twill be my theme in glory,
To tell the old, old story
Of Jesus and His love.

2. I love to tell the story, more wonderful it seems
Than all the golden fancies of all our golden dreams;
I love to tell the story, it did so much for me,
And that is just the reason I tell it now to thee.

Chorus

3. I love to tell the story, ’tis pleasant to repeat,
What seems each time I tell it more wonderfully sweet;
I love to tell the story, for some have never heard
The message of salvation from God’s own holy Word.

Chorus

4. I love to tell the story, for those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest;
And when in scenes of glory I sing the new, new song,
’Twill be the old, old story that I have loved so long.

Chorus

Tuesday Night Prayer Meeting July 27, 2021

Join us in prayer this Tuesday, July 27, at 7:00 PM for prayer. We meet at the building, Mader Hall, across from the chapel itself. We usually meet for about an hour.

You can get directions on our website HERE

Mission Valley Community Chapel
6964 Mission Gorge Road
San Diego, CA 92120