Christ Reformed Info

Steve Irons, chairman of our missions committee, has developed two new pages here on the Christ Reformed blog.

The new resource is entitled "Missions and Our Missionaries" and includes two sections. 

• One is a journal with the latest news from our missionaries and from the missions committee (http://www.christreformed.org/mission-news/). 
• The other is a series of links to all those missions we currently support (http://www.christreformed.org/links-to-our-missionaries/). 

Be sure to stop and look through this great resource!  (Scroll down the right sidebar.)  And be sure to pray for our missionaries!

Caitlin Phillips (daughter of Jeff and Casey Phillips) will be performing Mozart 2^nd Flute Concerto in D Major with the Debut Orchestra on Sunday, November 1.  For concert information please click on the link below.

http://www.ymf.org/events/the-music-of-arvo-part/

The Debut Orchestra is the second–oldest pre–professional training orchestra in the country and is comprised of 71 of Los Angeles’ most talented 15–25 year–old musicians. The orchestra’s rich history includes more than 41 world premieres, including works by such renowned composers as Igor Stravinsky, Ingolf Dahl, and Michael Torke. The orchestra adheres to a professional rehearsal schedule and performs the full range of orchestra literature, from Baroque to 21st– Century, including works for both chamber and full orchestra. For more than 50 consecutive seasons, the orchestra has performed admission free concerts for the public in professional venues throughout Los Angeles, with audiences totaling more than 5,000 annually.

Musicians are selected each year through blind auditions adjudicated by members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and other eminent, Los Angeles–based musicians. Orchestra members receive a scholarship to support their studies. The thousands of Debut alumni in orchestras around the world illustrate the importance and success of the training they receive.

You are cordially invited to attend a choral concert at Christ Reformed Church on Tuesday, September 15, at 7:30 p.m. The USC Recital Choir, under the direction of Pamela Compton, will perform Psalm settings by Byrd, Goudimel, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Kodaly, Chesnokov, and others.  A dessert reception will follow directly after the choral concert.

Ben Sasse, (who together with his wife Missy, were members at Christ Reformed before Ben began Ph.D. work at Yale), has contributed an essay (co-written with US Senator from Texas, John Cornyn) on health care.  

You can read it here:  http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/08/health-care-debate-reform-polls-opinions-contributors-speech.html

After completing his Ph.D. at Yale, Ben became U.S. assistant secretary of health and human services, and now teaches at the University of Texas and advises health investors.

Several Christ Reformed families took a well deserved vacation among the mountains in Mammoth Lakes California the week of August 9th. They were joined by several others who drove up to get together for a hike into the wilderness.  There was great food, fellowship and of course fantastic stargazing during the Perseids meteor shower.

At 6am on August 14th seven men started from Agnew Meadow along the Pacific Crest Trail toward Thousand Island Lake and then via the John Muir Trail back to their start point, for 17 miles of beautiful vistas and lakes and 3,000 feet of climbing.

While out of the trail they may not have found themselves, but they did find plenty of mosquitoes and blisters.

It’s always nice to have some great news to share about our church members.  For those of you who know Kevin Hermansen I am sure you will appreciate the following article from the Orange County Register. 

Click here: Local: Anaheim man honored for pro bono work | law, work, school : OC Register Print Edition

The following is the reading list for the Men’s book club for 2009

1. Michael S. Horton, Christless Christianity
2. Gary L. Johnson & Ron N. Gleason, Reforming or Conforming
3. J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism
4. R. C. Sproul, The Holiness of God
5. Graeme Goldsworthy, Preaching the Whole Bible As Christian Scripture
6. Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism
7. J. I. Packer, Knowing God
8. James W. Sire, Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life As A Christian Calling
9. Timothy Keller, Reason For God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
10. John Calvin, A Reformation Debate-With Jacopo Sadoleto