Special Workshops: Nurturing a Community of Belonging + Courageous Conversations
You are warmly invited to participate in a special, two-part workshop series, led by conflict and reconciliation expert Dr. Betty Pries. In our current divisive and siloed world, we pray these trainings will further equip Villagers to witness the Kingdom of God through a reconciled relationship with God and with one another.
Nurturing a Community of Belonging
October 27, 2-4pm
This workshop explores why becoming a community of belonging is so critical for congregations, especially as it relates to being reconciling people. The workshop will encourage participants to celebrate the ways their leadership already nurtures belonging and will consider additional ways congregations can depend their commitment to belonging as an urgent need of our time. The workshop will answer the question: "Why does being a community of belonging make you a better - and more Christ-like - congregation?"
Courageous Conversations
November 3, 2-4pm
Conversations impact all aspects of our personal, professional and congregational lives, deeply influencing our ability to be reconciling people. Sometimes conversations flow smoothly and easily; other times they are tough and even distressing. Courageous Conversations walks through the mechanics of working through hard conversations, explores the spirit of effective dialogue, and empowers participants to be at their best when tough conversations need to happen.
Community Basics
Sundays, October 27, 5-7pm | Columbia 201
If you are newer to our community or are interested in becoming a covenantal member, join us for our next round of Community Basics! You are invited to this second of two-evening class hosted by Village leadership and members. We will enjoy dinner, get to know one another, and explain who we are and what we believe as a missional, multicultural community in Christ. Community Basics is open to everyone, and we highly encourage newer Villagers and anyone seeking Covenantal Membership to attend.
Wednesday Boba Night
Wednesday, October 30, 5:30-7:30pm | Village Café
Join us on Wednesday, October 30, for The Village Cafe’s very first Wednesday Boba Night! All Villagers and members from our surrounding community are invited. Our heart is to facilitate a fun, warm environment that brings our church community together before various weekly fellowship times. We hope that this event would also open up opportunities for evangelistic outreach, where family and friends can be invited to get boba and attend fellowship afterwards!
Worship and Prayer Night
Friday, November 1, 7pm | Chapel
We are eager to share in a night of worship and prayer. In these challenging times, it is even more important that we pray for healing, justice, and peace in our communities and around the world. Let’s come together in faith and prayer, trusting in God’s power to bring about transformation in our world and in our communities. Join us!
Village Serve Day
Saturday, November 2, 9-12am | Village
You're invited to join us for a campus serve day! We will weed out a few of the parking lot islands to make room for plants and remove misplaced rocks from the South Lawn. Gloves and gardening tools for the weeding portion are welcome! Let us know you're joining us by emailing Christian Neufeld above.
Village Culture Trip 2025: Central America Info Meeting
Sunday, November 3, 12:15pm | Columbia 201
Living on God's mission, to be in right relationship with Him and with others, involves being in relationship, with and learning about, the Image of God all around the world. Our next Village Culture Trip will take us to El Salvador and Guatemala, March 21-30, 2025, immersing us in the culture, beauty and history of those two countries. Come learn more about the trip at the info meeting on Sunday, November 3, at 12:15pm in Columbia A. Parents, please pick up your children first before coming to the meeting. This is trip is appropriate for all ages! Questions? Email Pastor Insil Kang.
Village Youth Camp 2024
November 1-3, two night overnight camp | Estacada
For all our families of youth from 6th grade to 12th grade, Youth Camp is coming up in just one month on November 1-3! We’d love to ensure all our youth can register and join us for this amazing weekend of sharing God’s story, worshiping, eating tasty food, having great fun, and growing deeper in community together.
Adults, we’re also looking for a couple more cooks for the weekend! Contact
Pastor Drew Fajen or
Pastor Monica Ibarra to volunteer.
Election Day Prayer Morning
Tuesday, November 5, 6-9am | Columbia 201
Join us for prayer on Tuesday, November 5, election day prayer meeting from 6am to 9am to lift up our nation before God in a spirit of humility and trust, praying for peace, wisdom, and God's will to be done, remembering that our hope is ultimately in His kingdom.
Giving
Your faithful support is always appreciated. We encourage our community to participate in worship this way: "G
ive something, give regularly". It's quick and secure to give online through Pushpay. If you prefer to mail a check, send it to us at 330 SW Murray Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005. For gifts of stocks, IRAs, or other creative methods, please contact
Patty, Finance Manager.
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Newsletter Sign UpChristmas Eve Children's Choir
We are excited to have a Children's Choir sing in both Christmas Eve services this December. Sign up your child today! There are two mandatory practices on Thursday, December 19, and Sunday, December 22.
Sanctuary is Open for Prayer
Come for prayer in the Sanctuary, Monday-Saturday, anytime between 7am-10am. Keeping our ministry partners, friends, family, and those around the world in mind, the Sanctuary is now open for anyone to come and pray. Spend time with God, praying for the world and our nation, including the upcoming election. The Sanctuary will be open for morning prayer for the remainder of 2024.
Are you detail-oriented, hardworking, and find delight in keeping spaces clean and well-maintained? We're looking for a reliable and dedicated Custodian to join our team! In this part-time role, you'll be responsible for maintaining a clean, safe, and welcoming environment. You'll handle general cleaning tasks, light maintenance, and ensure that our facilities shine. If you're ready to make a real impact in a vital role, we'd love to hear from you! If you are ready to help keep our spaces looking their best, contact our Senior Manager of Operations Christian Neufeld to apply.
Village Kids Opportunities
Do you like to live in the moment? Do you enjoy cheering people’s accomplishments? Do you get excited about God’s Word? If so, we’d love to talk to you about serving in Village Kids. We need adults like you to experience moments with kids as we worship together and learn from God’s Word how to live like Jesus. Currently we are looking for people to serve Sundays with our very cute kindergartners, and in the gym with 1st-5th grade. Contact Pastor Ruth Jordan for more information.
Beaverton Symphony Upcoming Concert
We are pleased to welcome our friends at Beaverton Symphony Orchestra back to Village for their next season of concerts. Their fall concert, Brahms Violin Concerto, will be held in the Sanctuary on October 25 & 27. Tickets are available on Beaverton Symphony’s website, linked above.
Welcome to Village!
Welcome! We are so glad you're here experiencing our missional, multicultural community. Please consider stopping by the info counter or coming to the front of the stage during Sanctuary Greeting Time for your welcome gift and to meet some of our pastoral staff.
Our 8:15am Chapel Service is designed to be accessible to those who seek to know more about God and church as well as those who are long-time believers. The more intimate worship space and service rest on the timeless traditions of the global church as well as leaves open room for simplicity and creativity in our multicultural worship response. We sit at tables to worship in community and take communion weekly together as the body of Christ.
In our 10:30am Sanctuary Service, we engage with a diversity of cultures and languages as we worship and study the Word of our Diverse God together. You are welcome to make a joyful noise and join us in singing in a language other than your own! Our preaching team is made up of different cultural and language backgrounds, so we are blessed with Sundays when the preaching is in a different language than English, with live translation. Our non-native English-speaking church members do this weekly, so the larger church sharing this experience is important to to being a missional, multicultural community in Christ. 한국어 통역이 있습니다 y traducción en español. Nursery care for ages 0-3, Kids programming for ages Pre-K to 5th Grade, and Youth programming for 6th-12th Grade are also available.
Kids Ministry: Special Guest
Sunday, October 27, 10:30am
Kids Ministry welcomes Missions Celebration special guest, Marilyn Escher, this Sunday. She will share with our 1st-5th graders how the Bible is more available to all peoples and nations than ever before in our history.
Missions Friends
Thursday, October 24, 7:30am | 158th & Walker IHOP
Marilyn Escher will be our Missions Friends guest this Thursday. Marilyn Escher, World Venture, has served in Senegal as a Bible Translator for over 40 years. While she is retired and living in Tacoma, WA, she is still very involved in the final steps of publishing the entire Bible in the Wolof language. Come hear Marilyn’s report and rejoice with her in the completion of this lifetime project. She will also share with us the ministry of several local Senegalese who are special to her.
If you are not a regular attendee at Missions Friends, please RSVP at missionsfriends@gmail.com by Wednesday noon so we can let the restaurant know how many to expect this week.
Guest Testimony
Sunday, November 3, 8:15 & 10:30am
We are honored to hear from a ministry partner in both services, sharing their testimony of being on God’s mission. Because of the sensitivity and details they will share with our community, this portion of the service will not be livestreamed. Please join us in person at 8:15am in the Chapel or 10:30am in the Sanctuary to hear from our guest!
Global Fair: Kids Ministry
Sunday, November 3, 10:30am
On November 3, Kid’s Ministry will transform the gym full of fun learning centers offering games, crafts, and cultural activities that teach about God’s heart for the world. Your children will not want to miss out on this special Sunday. Prizes are offered at every station! Kindergarten should be dropped off and picked up at their regular classroom.
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Yoon
Sunday, November 10, 8:15 & 10:30am
We are pleased to welcome Villager, Christian humanitarian and international worker Dr. Stephen Yoon to speak in both Sunday services. Dr. Yoon is the Co-founder and Director of IGNIS Community and founder of Pyongyang Spinal Rehabilitation Center (PYSRC) in North Korea. Stay tuned for details on a Village Global Update meeting with Dr. Yoon.
Guest Preacher: Dr. Bassem Melki
Sunday, November 17, 8:15 & 10:30am
In the midst of conflict and warfare, we welcome Dr. Bassem Melki to join us via video. Dr. Melki is the Director of Peacemaking and Non-Formal Training Department at Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Lebanon. This sermon will be in English with English, Korean, and Spanish subtitles.
Sermon Recap
Pastor Mauricio Rivas, Acts 26:1-11 & 19-29, "On Trial"
In today’s passage, the apostle Paul is on trial, charged with undermining the Jewish faith with his teaching. But these false charges provided him an opportunity to respectfully but boldly testify about his faith in Jesus.
“It is because of my hope in what God has promised our fathers that I am on trial today,” Paul told King Agrippa. “This is the promise that our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. O king, it is because of this hope that the Jews are accusing me. Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?” (Acts 26:6-8).
Paul goes on to tell his story: “I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth. And that is just what I did…” (Acts 26:9-10). But then, Paul explains, Jesus turned his life around 180 degrees. “Now,” Paul concludes, “I can testify to everyone…that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, and in this way, announce God’s light to Jews and Gentiles alike…. I pray to God that both you and everyone here in this audience might become the same as I am, except for these chains!” (Acts 26:22-23, 29).
Discussion Questions
Question 1
As Pastor Mauricio pointed out, almost all of us have things in our past we’re not proud of. The apostle Paul said of himself that he was “the worst of sinners!” (1 Tim. 1:15). But Paul’s encounter with Jesus – Jesus loving him rather than condemning him – utterly transformed Paul’s life. As Jesus observed, those who have been forgiven much, love much (Luke 7:36-47)! Have you experienced being forgiven? How did that impact you?
Question 2
Paul told King Agrippa “It is because of my hope…that I am on trial” (Acts 26:6). Paul tells the Romans that he was praying that they would “overflow with hope”: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Romans 15:13). What does that look like, in practice, from day to day?
Question 3
1 Peter says that “if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it. But do this in a gentle and respectful way” (1 Peter 3:15, NLT).
• Has anyone ever asked you about your hope as a believer? If so, how did you explain it?
• How can we be more intentional in living out the gospel in a way that makes people curious? As individuals? As a believing community?
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