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Women's Tea: SOLD OUT!

2009-11-19T19:00:54Z

Due to the overwhelming positive response, there are very limited spaces left for this event. To be placed on a wait-list, please contact Lisa Severios at lseverios@malibupres.org or (310) 456-1611 x.208

If you are already attending, please sign up to bring two dozen of your homemade cookies!

Deck the Halls!

2009-11-17T19:31:07Z

It's time to dust off our Christmas decorations after being in storage for two years and finally decorate a place of our own! Bring some Christmas cookies to share, and get ready to transform the Sanctuary!

Thanksgiving Day Interfaith Service

2009-11-17T19:25:22Z

Malibu Pres is honored to host the annual interfaith service this year as a testament to our renewed sense of service and appreciation to the community. Please join us for this special ecumenical service to start the holiday season off right.

World Impact Toy Drive

2009-11-09T23:47:34Z

This Christmas season, MPC is supporting World Impact's Toy Store, which provides toys for needy families. On Sundays, we will be collecting new, unwrapped toys valued between $5-$50 which we will deliver to World Impact. (A drop off box will be on the patio).

Volunteers are needed at the Toy Store Dec 12th from 12-1pm & 6:30-9pm.

The address is: 2001 S. Vermont, Los Angeles.

Please help be a blessing to a Los Angeles child. Contact Debbie Becker 310-457-1001.

Thanksgiving Food Drive

2009-11-09T20:37:29Z

The Malibu Presbyterian Deacons Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive is kicking off November 19th. Help support this event by donating food at our collection table in front of the Malibu Ralphs. The food collections will go to needy families from Cloud and Fire, Greater New Morning Baptist Church in Los Angeles and SOS. If you'd like to volunteer during any of the collection times, please contact Ken Ogawa @ 310-562-6102 or John Kingsbury @ 310-456-1196 or Dayne Sieling @ 818-445-7305

Collection Times:

Nov 19: 12-8pm

Nov 20: 9am-8pm

Nov 21: 9am-3pm

Christmas Choir is Back!

2009-11-09T20:10:04Z

Join us as we sing in four-part harmony as a part of congregational worship on Sunday, December 13. Rehearsals will be in the sanctuary. We will not only learn some music but also discuss the spiritual meaning behind the songs. Singers at all levels are welcome. Questions about joining the choir: contact Kevin Iga, (818) 384-0521, kiga@pepperdine.edu.

Rehearsal Schedule:

Nov. 18 7:00-8:30 pm Christmas Choir rehearsal

Dec. 2 7:00-8:30 pm Christmas Choir rehearsal

Dec. 9 7:00-8:30 pm Christmas Choir rehearsal

Concert:

Dec. 13 both services: Christmas Choir sings

Town Hall Meeting

2009-10-26T21:16:15Z

We are having an informational meeting about our new sprung buildings, and the plans for the permanent rebuild of our church. Everyone is welcome. Childcare and dessert is provided.

Watch Your Grocery Shopping Earn $$ for MPC!

2009-09-22T16:20:02Z

Ralphs Community Contribution Program makes fundraising easy just by swiping your Ralphs card! A portion of your grocery purchase will come to MPC. For more information, click: Ralphs Community Contribution Program and follow these easy steps:

1. Log on to Ralphs.com

2. Click on Community Contribution

3. Click on Participant

4. Follow the easy steps to enroll

5. Sit back and watch your grocery shopping earn money for MPC!

Support MPC with eScrip

2009-08-28T21:42:10Z

eScrip is a fundraising program that contributes a portion of every purchase made at participating merchants to MPC, including online purchases! This is a free, simple way to help Malibu Pres. Just keep on buying groceries and shopping! Enroll at www.escrip.com.

About the Program:

eScrip is proven to be a fantastic resource for fundraising where participating business partners contribute a percentage of your grocery loyalty cards, credit card, and debit/ATM card purchases to the school, group or organization of your choice.

Here's How it Works

• You register any one or all of your existing grocery loyalty, debit and credit cards for use in the program.

• Participating merchants will make contributions to your chosen group, based on purchases made by you, just by using the cards you have registered.

• Your purchases are tracked and available to you online, allowing you to see just how much you are earning on MPC's behalf!

Why Build a Temporary Church Structure?

2009-08-11T17:13:09Z

Some of you have been asking, "Why build a temporary structure? Why not just wait until we're ready to build a permanent church building? We could save a lot of money by foregoing the temporary structure." These are great questions. Let me bring you up to date with the reasons for the approach we are taking in rebuilding our church.

First, I want you to know that many people in the church are involved in our rebuilding, and the committees they serve on are continuously in prayer to discern and follow God's leading, as, we trust, are the rest of the members of our church. We believe God hears our prayers, loves his people, and is walking with us every step of the way along this journey of rebuilding: rebuilding not only financially and structurally but also spiritually.

The Insurance Settlement Committee: We have an outstanding committee representing MPC in negotiations with the insurance carrier, Lloyd's of London. These negotiations are complicated and protracted, with the parties agreeing on some matters and disagreeing on others. The insurance committee has been in protracted negotiations with the insurance company over the various coverage amounts to be paid to the church under its insurance policy. These items include extra expenses, personal property replacement, rebuild expenses, soft costs and business interruption.
The Building Resurrection Committee: This committee is ably chaired by Chris Laubach and comprised of several members of our church. The committee has invested significant time, energy, and resources meeting with our architect, Dominy & Associates, various governmental agencies, and receiving input from and providing periodic status reports to members our church.
Church Staff: The staff has been involved to one degree or another with these committees and vendors, praying and providing input about their respective program needs; capacity and design input; and feedback on design drawings.

With this preliminary background, let me address the pending questions. We are building a temporary structure for several reasons.

A. Financial Reasons: First, it allows us to work through our insurance settlement, and to wait out this tough economic climate. MPC and the insurance carrier are far apart in a final resolution of the cost to rebuild our permanent structure. Resolution may require arbitration and will take more time.

A partial settlement of part of the church's claim provided funding to build the nursery school, fund fire related expenses, and to build the temporary church. These funds came out of the extra expense claim and will not effect the amount of money due from the insurance company for the other claims currently being negotiated with the insurance company such as the rebuild of the permanent church.

Recall that our fire-loss in October of 2007 occurred before the global economic meltdown. We had begun preliminary studies for a capital campaign that would cover the shortfall between the projected cost of our new church building and the insurance settlement. There is a couple complicating factors. First, it may still be several months before we settle with the carrier and determine the final settlement amount. And second, if there is any shortfall between projected costs and the settlement amount, a capital campaign will be necessary, although now is not a propitious time to have one. We have to wait out our negotiations with the insurance carrier, and we have to wait out the economy. Hence, we have a need for temporary quarters to call home.

B. Timing: As mentioned, negotiations with the insurance company are complex and time consuming. We have been in Webster Elementary's auditorium for 18 months. Going forward with only plans for a permanent rebuild would require time for planning/entitlement/permitting (PEP), which conservatively could take 24 months, plus a construction period of up to 24 months. Staying at Webster the whole time could be difficult for all concerned. After only 18 months at Webster our attendance numbers have slipped, but we anticipate them improving when we get into our more permanent home. Waiting 4 years to build out a permanent would only exacerbate this issue. The temporary church structure will give us a home during the PEP period and give us time to properly negotiate with the insurance company, be diligent in our planning, design and budgeting, and conduct the capital campaign at a better time. Our next exodus back to Webster will then be only for the period of construction of our permanent church buildings. Attendance should remain strong during that final period because construction of the permanent buildings will be evidence of the fruit of our prayers, labor, and waiting on the Lord.

C. Usage Demand for Facilities: MPC is more than a one-hour a week church. As I mentioned above, it will be a significant period of time before we break ground on our permanent building; we have to accomplish a lot before we get there. In the meantime, we have ministries that need a facility to gather in Monday through Saturday for children, youth, and adults. The sanctuary space will be an available venue for larger gatherings, including Sunday worship, and the smaller sprung will be subdivided into three additional classrooms that either can be partitioned off for private use or opened for use by a larger group. The house, sanctuary, and these classrooms will be equipped with audio-visual and provide capacity to handle most all of our needs.

D. Community Gathering Spot: Our new campus will be both a beacon and a blessing to our community. It will serve as a place where the gospel is preached and people mark the sacred transitions in life. The temporary sanctuary will be very nice and a suitable venue for worship services, weddings and memorial services, a meeting space for A.A. and Alanon, Boy Scout troops, Community Bible Studies, recitals, and school graduation events.

E. Revival: We hope our temporary structure, looking like a tent, will remind us of our spiritual roots - the Tent of Meeting that was used by the Israelites as they wandered through the Sinai desert on their way to the Promised Land, and the tents used by the American churches in our fledgling Republic in the 17th and 18th centuries, as ministers preached the gospel in tent revivals!

We believe our temporary campus will capture the imagination of our community and inspire us all, as the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, continue to usher in the Kingdom of God in and through us, in Malibu and beyond.