Series: True for You?
Message: All Things Are Yours
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Message Summary:

What if we were to claim the good, the true, the holy, wherever and whenever we found it? What would it look like to live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it?

Creekside Langley Speaker: Ron Maitland

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Creekside North Shore Speaker: Colin Griffiths

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May 27, 2006

Hassan Qazilbash will become Creekside’s newest member! Hassan is of Muslim background and will be the first Muslim Christian member of Creekside. How cool is that?

Sabbath morning is going to be a huge God honoring celebration at the North shore campus.

Sun Run Report

Report from Pastor Jim.

Thank you so much for your prayers and overall encouragement. Our Creekside Sun Run Team finished well and we rejoice we could represent each of you and God.

14 of our team finished the event. 1 person was sick and could not participate. There were three other Creeksiders who participated. Look for some photos on our website. You might have seen the news coverage, but this was the first time ever that the 50,000 mark was broken. 50,700+ actually participated.

I know this is an early invite, but 2007 Sun Run is coming. Wouldn’t it be thrilling to have a huge portion of Creekside along with our friends participate?

You’re the first to hear this, but because of our team effort and some bubbling enthusiasm, our joy and service may spread!

Our conference president and treasurer, Gordon Pifher and Michael Wixwat, are interested in taking this event BC wide.

Imagine having hundreds of people on a BC Team, from all across BC!

Imagine having each one sponsored to help a really worthy cause in addition to what the Sun Run already does.

Imagine having a grand concert on Sunday night celebrating the overall accomplishment and handing the charity a cheque for thousands of dollars!

Imagine even bigger if you like. Higher than the highest human thought is God’s ideal for his children. None of this is reality, but it could be.

The Revelators

Rob and Ken (Creekside Langley people) have formed a band. They have an apocalyptic emphasis in their music. If you’d like to hear them, come to the House of James in Abbotsford on April 28, 2006 at 8:30 p.m. They’re in concert and would love to have your support.

A New Series Begins

We start a new series this week called “True For You”. We want to start some discussions around key questions about truth:

Here is the series summary:

How do you know whether the sun will rise tomorrow? How do you know that you are not dreaming now? How do you know that your teacher has not been possessed by aliens? And how would you know if he had? In fact, how do you know that anything is true?

Where do I find truth? How do I decide if something is true? And how does this apply in my life?

Be sure to check it out for yourself and invite your friends. We know this series could start some pretty deep discussions.

Coming Events

May 10, 2006

This is the day we check the receipts in our “high tech money manager” (remember the brown bag?) May 13 we will hear each other’s stories about this.

May 27, 2006

Hassan Qazilbash will become Creekside’s newest member! Hassan is of Muslim background and will be the first Muslim Christian member of Creekside. How cool is that?

Sabbath morning is going to be a huge God honoring celebration at the North shore campus.

Blessings and joy,

Jim and Colin

Rob and Ken (Creekside Langley people) have formed a band. They have an apocalyptic emphasis in their music. If you’d like to hear them, come to the House of James in Abbotsford on April 28, 2006 at 8:30 p.m. They’re in concert and would love to have your support.

Series: True for You?

Series Summary:

How do you know whether the sun will rise tomorrow? How do you know that you are not dreaming now? How do you know that your teacher has not been possessed by aliens? And how would you know if he had? In fact, how do you know that anything is true?

Where do I find truth? How do I decide if something is true? And how does this apply in my life?

Dear Creeksiders.

He is risen!

Did you think of His resurrection at all this last week? I hope so. It’s so important that Colin and I are team teaching about it tomorrow.

Here’s a summary of our message called "The Hope".

What if we could know that despair is not the last word? Hope is! What if we could know that death is not the last word? Life is! How would that impact the way we do life? Jesus addresses these questions and demonstrates His answer in the most amazing “show and tell” ever.

I am looking forward to celebrating with you again. If you would like to join me, you are warmly welcomed to the Bible Discovery time at 9:30. It’s a great place for questions and all are welcomed as we look at God’s word in depth.

Other News

www.creeksideonline.org is happening. If you haven‘t checked out the new look, please do. We keep improving it to be more current and more user friendly. If you have friends you’d like to share a message with, feel free to send them here. They can download the audio messages or listen online.

A big thanks goes to Sherman, Steve, and Chris for making what looks so great really stay great. Thanks web teamers!

Vancouver Sun Run

Ready or not it going to happen 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 23, 2006.

Our Creekside Team has 15 members this year. I know of at least one other Creeksider who’s participating individually.

I am planning on having fun this year and enjoying the wonderful sunny day that’s forecast.

If you’re not running or walking with us, and want to help, I have a couple of suggestions our team would appreciate:

1. Root us on.
Pastor Colin is planning to cheer us on at the finish line. And take pictures. I’m sure he would love to have you join him.

2. Pray for us.
With around 49,000 participants – all going to the same place at varying speeds and groupings, it can get a little crowded to say the least. But, who knows, God may be gracious!

God’s best to you!

Pastor Jim Gaull & Pastor Colin Griffiths

Series: Who Is Jesus?
Message: The Hope

Message Summary:

What if we could know that despair is not the last word? Hope is! What if we could know that death is not the last word? Life is! How would that impact the way we do life? Jesus addresses these questions and demonstrates His answer in the most amazing “show and tell” ever.

Creekside Langley Speaker: Jim Gaull

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Creekside North Shore Speaker: Colin Griffiths

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Series: Who Is Jesus?
Message: The Mystery

Message Summary:

Why is it so few of us get to experience greatness, power, and success? Jesus deals with this question at a time when His life seems to be a total failure. His conclusions could lead you to think and live in totally new ways.

Creekside Langley Speaker: Jim Gaull

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Creekside North Shore Speaker: Colin Griffiths

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Hi Creeksiders,

I am so excited about last weekend! 50 people (25 from each campus) visited over 400 homes with a Pay It Forward gift from Creekside. This was a real win for us and it was so much fun. You have to check out the Langley pictures and North Shore pictures here. Thanks so much to everyone who worked behind the scenes and who showed up to make this happen.

It was a team effort…

Dan Fleming and Mike & Andrea McGill did an awesome job of organizing the whole thing with their willing helpers.

Jonathan Penner designed the cards.

Jessica Davis did a lot of research to get the gloves at a good price.

Then 50 people took to the streets and honored God!

Someone asked why we did not have a thousand gloves. You have to love that enthusiasm!

Jim Gaull {:>
(posted by Sherman Hu, c/o Jim Gaull)

Easter is one of those huge deals for Christ followers and it is an excellent time to connect with your friends who have questions about God.

We have two events planned to help unpack what Easter is all about:

Connecting

It’s Friday evening, 7:00 p. m. at Deer Lake School, 5550 Gilpin, Burnaby.

The Thursday before Jesus died He connected with his Jewish roots by celebrating The Passover and showing how it was fleshed out in His life. We are going to relive that experience by connecting ancient traditions with present reality. Children will play a special part in this family friendly experience.

This will be a great time for Creeksiders from both campuses to connect. Invite your friends as well. This will be an experience as we remember Jesus - who He is and what He has done.

Saturday Gathering

At 10:30 a.m. at each campus we continue our series, “Who is Jesus?” Last week we talked about The Man who is fully human and experiences the full range of human emotions. He intentionally connects with people at their lowest point.

This week we talk about The Mystery – There are some things about life and Jesus and his teachings that are really hard to wrap your head around. Here is one confusing thing that we are going to talk about this week:

Why is it so few of us get to experience greatness, power, and success? Jesus deals with this question at a time when His life seems to be a total failure. His conclusions could lead you to think and live in totally new ways.

Have a wonderful Easter weekend and I’ll look for you!

Jim Gaull & Colin Griffiths
(posted by Sherman Hu, c/o Jim Gaull & Colin Griffiths)