I got a Facebook page. I’m honestly not sure how it happened–the techno-details are blurry, but the friends requests rolled in, and the stark choice between “confirm” or “ignore” seemed brutal. (Everyone got confirmed except … Read More
Operation Christmas Child – A Report
by Joan Franklin www.samaritanspurse.com The final report on Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child has just been received. This Franklin Graham organization was able to collect 4,881,577 shoeboxes from the U.S. and 3,085,424 from other developed … Read More
Giving in Wartime
Giving money away is the barometer of Christian joy. At least it can be. While it is possible to give a portion of our income to the Lord’s work for the wrong reasons (to earn … Read More
Mission Nannys in Italy
by Betty Sullins Mission Nannys has a volunteer named Ashley serving in Rovigo, Italy. She has been there for two years, helping local church members’ families by rotating her work with them on a … Read More
Concentrating the Mind Woefully: Why the Recession May Be a Blessing to the Church
Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. So said Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century, and we might add that a … Read More
Every-Member Ministry
• Did you know that, every single week, there are a few elderly members of our Body who are picked up and driven to church? Did you know that the same is done every week … Read More
Youth Advent Poems
by SBCC’s 5th & 6th Graders During Advent, the Youth Ministry took time, along with the larger body of SBCC, to reflect on the coming of Christ. As we studied the theme of joy … Read More
How Our Special Offerings Have Helped Opportunity International
by Opportunity International www.opportunity.org A marketplace ministry in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Opportunity International is a not for profit organization motivated by Christ’s call to serve the poor. We help families in the developing … Read More
How Our Special Offerings Have Helped SBCDC
by Pastor Hugo Since Santa Barbara Community Church has partnered with Santa Barbara Community Development Center (SBCDC), it has been a tremendous blessing for our/your ministry. Santa Barbara Community Church’s donations have helped us continue … Read More
A Very Good Sound
Leave it to existentialist philosophers to contradict each other and almost make the same point. It was Jean-Paul Sartre who said, Hell is other people and his contemporary Albert Camus who said, Hell is alone. … Read More