For the members, family and friends of the Downey Adventist Church
Remember Your Mother
A Mother’s Love by Cary Fisher
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ave you noticed that we often compare the attributes of God by our own human characteristics? For example, we tell inspirational stories on how people were able to forgive others under impossible circumstances and use it as an illustration on God’s forgiveness towards us. We might hear a story of a solder in war sacrificing his life for his friends, and discuss how it relates to Jesus dying on the cross for us. Now as we reflect
on God’s love, the greatest human example that we can find must be the love that a mother has for her child.
that person. A mother’s love is the closest form of an unconditional love that God has for us.
Like God’s love for us, a mother’s love begins as she brings life into this world. We also understand God by the way a mother nurtures a child, and provides and protects for him or her all throughout the child’s life. However, the most powerful attribute of a mother’s love is that no matter what a child does, a mother will always loves
The Bible says, “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (I Corinthians 13:7). God’s unconditional love allows me to believe that no matter how far away that we may have left God, God is always near us. God will never give up on us and we know that He has saccontinued on page 2
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Small Group Outreach Event
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he Outreach Event for our Small Groups will be May 2nd. We will be showing the movie “God’s Not Dead.” This would be a wonderful opportunity to invite your “adopt a friend” that you have been praying for as well as other friends and family members. There will be some door
Whoever you are, wherever you are, on Mother’s Day, remember your mother. Without her and your father, you would only have been a dream and a hope, never a reality. No wonder God gave us the commandment: “Honor your father and your mother ...” (Exodus 20:12, nrsv). God gave us life through them. —Charles Ferrell
prizes for the guests only.
Stewardship and Prayer page 3
Doors open at 6pm. We will have a time of worship at 6:30pm. Then there will be some snacks as we get ready for the movie.
Taste & Inspiration on page 5
Invite a friend or two and join us! =
What’s happening? see pages 6 & 9 Our Church Family page 7 At the Starting Gate page 8 Kid’s Page on page 9