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Everyone is invited
Guerneville Community Church BACK YARD
12060 Highway 116, Guerneville, CA
April 11, 2021     11:00 am
first church service at our  church in over a year!
Please wear a mask & observe social distance guidelines.


alleluia!

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​GUERNEVILLE COMMUNITY CHURCH - UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
12060 Highway 116, Guerneville, CA
Mailing address:  
PO Box 765, Guerneville, CA 95446
Pam Tinnin, 
Pastor   707-921-8078

PASTORAL SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE BY PHONE AND FACEBOOK.​
​Beginning April 11, 2021, we will be having weekly
services at our church home on Highway 116. 
​Initially we will meet outdoors in the back yard and eventually back into our sanctuary.  Happy Eastertide!
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EASTER sunday Message
April 4, 2021
Pamela j tinnin
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Pastor Pam Tinnin, Guerneville Community Church-UCC, Guerneville, California. Even though vaccinations are reaching more and more people, the pandemic restrictions are still with us. I will continue to send videos of my weekly messages. Our tiny congregation met face to face this morning at the local cemetery. We decided that 9am was early enough with all that has gone on. It was a beautiful morning, most of all, beautiful with faces we have rarely seen in person in this past year. Here is a message I video-taped yesterday for Easter morning but computer difficulties kept it from being sent. It’s a story about how resurrection is often not what we expect. New life happens in many different ways. I hope your Easter has been one of at least some joy and that sees hope rising for all of us. Namaste, Pastor Pam


Thanks to all who donate to keep our church alive.
without fundraisers and weekly offerings it is a challenge to keep up with ongoing expenses.  we appreciate your support.

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​See Pastor Rebecca's recently posted rant on the last page.
Archives of Rebecca's rants and Pam's sermons are found on this website.
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Participate in our year round fundraiser, our premium nut and candy sale.  The full catalog  is online at https://gcc.terrilynn.com  

GCC receives 30% of the sales.  



“A Vision” by Wendell Berry

If we will have the wisdom to survive,
to stand like slow-growing trees
on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it,
if we will make our seasons welcome here,
asking not too much of earth or heaven,
then a long time after we are dead
the lives our lives prepare will live
here, their houses strongly placed
upon the valley sides, fields and gardens
rich in the windows. The river will run
clear, as we never know it,
and over it, birdsong like a canopy.
On the levels of the hills will be
green meadows, stock bells in noon shade.
On the steeps where greed and ignorance cut down
the old forest, an old forest will stand,
its rich leaf-fall drifting on its roots.
The veins of forgotten springs will have opened.
Families will be singing in the fields.
In their voices they will hear a music
risen out of the ground. They will take
nothing from the ground they will not return,
whatever the grief at parting. Memory,
native to this valley, will spread over it
like a grove, and memory will grow
into legend, legend into song, song
into sacrament. The abundance of this place,
the songs of its people and its birds,
will be health and wisdom and indwelling
light. This is no paradisal dream.
Its hardship is its possibility.


Poet, essayist, farmer, and novelist Wendell Berry was born on August 5, 1934, in Newcastle, Kentucky. He attended the University of Kentucky at Lexington where he received a B.A. in English in 1956 and an M.A. in 1957. Berry is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, essays, and novels. He has taught at New York University and at the University of Kentucky. Among his honors and awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, a Lannan Foundation Award, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He married Tanya Amyx in 1957; they have two children. Wendell Berry lives on a farm in Port Royal, Kentucky.

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anniversary sunday is coming up!

​   GUERNEVILLE COMMUNITY CHURCH 

   126TH ANNIVERSARy  celebration
    

            IN 1894, SEVERAL GUERNEVILLE AREA FAMILIES CAME TOGETHER WITH A MUTUAL DESIRE TO FORM A CHURCH. THE SANTA ROSA EPISCOPAL CHURCH OFFERED THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A MISSION CHURCH, BUT THE GROUP DECLINED, YEARNING FOR A CHURCH OF THEIR OWN. 
           ON APRIL 9, 1895 THE NEWLY ORGANIZED CHURCH REQUESTED ADMISSION INTO THE SONOMA ASSOCIATION OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES. ON APRIL 26, 1895 THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION WERE ESTABLISHED FOR THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF GUERNEVILLE AND FINALIZED AT THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE IN SANTA ROSA.  
IMMEDIATELY, WORK BEGAN ON THE ORIGINAL CHURCH ON FIRST STREET IN GUERNEVILLE. FOR SEVENTY YEARS THE CONGREGATION WORSHIPPED AT THAT LOCATION.
           IN 1965 THE CONGREGATION MOVED INTO THE NEW CHURCH THEY BUILT ON ARMSTRONG WOODS ROAD. OVER THE YEARS THE CHURCH BECAME KNOWN AS THE GUERNEVILLE COMMUNITY CHURCH. ITS OFFICIAL NAME REMAINS THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF GUERNEVILLE. 
          BY 2018 THE CHURCH STRUGGLED WITH THE FACT THAT THE BRIDGE, THE ONLY VEHICLE ACCESS TO THE CHURCH SITE, WOULD HAVE TO BE REPAIRED OR REPLACED COSTING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. THE FINAL BLOW CAME IN FEBRUARY 2019 WITH A FLOOD THAT DECIMATED THE PROPERTY. THE CHURCH HAD BEEN FOR SALE FOR SOME TIME, BUT AFTER THE FLOOD A SALE SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE. ON MAY 16, OWNERSHIP WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE LOCAL elementary SCHOOL.
          MIRACULOUSLY, IN JULY OF 2019 THE CONGREGATION FOUND THE PERFECT MEETING PLACE
​ AT 12060 HIGHWAY 116, JUST TWO MILES FROM GUERNEVILLE.
          WITH GREAT EXCITEMENT, WE LOOKed FORWARD TO CELEBRATING OUR 125TH ANNIVERSARY AS AN ACTIVE CONGREGATION ON APRIL 26, 2020. THE CHURCH’S HISTORY HAS BEEN PART OF GUERNEVILLE HISTORY.
SADLY, PLANS were POSTPONED DUE TO THE PANDEMIC OF 2020.
​          during our service on april 25th, we will celebrate 126 years.

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