June 1            8:30a        Children’s Ministries Appreciation Breakfast

June 8            9:00a        Children & Youth Promotion Sunday

June 8            4:30p        Potluck and Q & A Session

June 13          8:00p        Welcome New H.S. Freshman 5th Quarter

June 14        10:00a        Welcome New Jr. High Swim Party

June 16            TBA        Soccer Camp Leader Training

June 17-20      9:00a        Soccer Camp

June 21          5:00p        “Welcome Freshman” College Party

June 22          2:00p        Children’s Musical Rehearsal

June 22          3:30p        Elder Board Meeting

June 29          4:00p        Yankee Doodle Day 

Soccer Camp is back.  The camp will be at Shaffer Park June 17th through June 20th from 9am to 12 noon.  Download the registration form off of the church website or see Christie Runion.

Book Surfer Bingo    

Book Surfer Bingo is back!  TACC's summer book club for ages 2-15 begins June 15th.  Go to the church library to check it out!

"Welcome Freshman"
College Party                

The college group is having a welcome party for new freshman at the home of Craig and Millie Alexander from 5 – 10pm on Saturday, June 21st.  Join them for fellowship, games, swimming & BBQ.  Cost is $10 if you come alone, and FREE if you bring a friend!

Yankee              
Doodle Day                 

Join our patriotic celebration on Sunday, June 29th, from 4 – 7pm.  The day will include free food and a free concert, a dunk tank with our favorite pastor ready to take a dive, reptile show, face painting, water balloon toss, soccer shoot, watermelon eating contest, and more!  

Children's Musical Rehearsal Dates   

The children of TACC will be rehearsing for an August performance of Good Kings Come In Small Packages.  Sunday Rehearsals run from 2—3:30pm on June 22; July 13, 20, 27; August 3, 10, 17.  Dress rehearsal on Saturday, August 23, 10am—12pm.  Final rehearsal on Sunday, August 24 at 5pm, and musical performance at 6pm.

SCRIP                       

June is graduation time.  Your graduate might enjoy the Gap Tri-card.  It is redeemable at Banana Republic, Old Navy and Gap stores nationwide, online, at outlet stores and Factory stores.  Other suggestions: itunes, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.

Father’s Day is June 15!  May I suggest Sears, Omaha Steak, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Ace Hardware, Bass Pro Shop, Best Buy, or Ritz Camera scrip for the dad in your life? 

Patriotic
Musical Performance  

We are pleased to announce that the Villa Park High School Concert Band, and hopefully the Orange High School Chamber Singers (including our very own Jillian Wojtanowicz), will be performing at our Yankee Doodle Day on Sunday, June 29th.  Please make plans to attend this fun filled event!

New Community Outreach!        

The Deacon Board has started an exciting new Community Outreach!  We are visiting new homeowners in our area and giving them a welcome basket, including information about TACC.  Please help support this Ministry by donating any of the following items or volunteering to help assemble and/or deliver them. We need small baskets, maps, coupons, spaghetti sauce and noodles, kitchen towels, area restaurant or business coupons, pre-wrapped cookies, picture hangers, paint brushes or any other items you think appropriate.  Please coordinate with Mike Bast (714) 906-3800.

New 
College & Career Class        

We are starting a new College and Career Sunday School Class beginning June 8th in Room 208. The class will be team-taught by Tyler Alexander & Josh Kennedy, with additional support from Granden & Stephanie Meier.

The right kind of participation in a worship service begins long before the service actually starts.  Our attitudes and actions during the week will often determine whether we will be pleasing to God on Sunday.  It is also helpful to keep in mind what is happening and what to do as you worship.  Here are a few suggestions:

1. Have we been walking in holiness with God during the week?  Psalm 15 asks, “O Lord, who may abide in Thy tent?  Who may dwell on Thy holy hill?”  The answer is given in verse 2-5: those who live lives of integrity, do good, speak truth, do not slander …

2. Our relationships with other Christians should be right also.  Matthew 5:23-24 tells us if we have come to worship and something is amiss, we should leave our offering, go make it right, and then come to worship.

3. Pray for the worship service, the leaders, your pew-mates, and the pastor.  Pray for yourself that you would serve God more effectively on Sunday mornings.  Pray during the service for yourself, others and the worship leaders.

4. Getting to bed on time is helpful.  Sleepy Christians have difficulty concentrating and staying awake.  Get up early enough to have a good breakfast and arrive 5 minutes before worship begins.  Spend some time greeting others and sitting in silence preparing for corporate worship.

5. Sing with enthusiasm.  Think about the words.  It’s alright to sit or stand or kneel.  If you are tired, sit.  If you are thankful, sing with joy.  If you are repentant, kneel.  It’s good at times to stop your own voice and listen to the voices of God’s people singing.  Close your eyes and imagine the glory of heaven as the congregation sings.

6. Pray with the pray-er.  Don’t let your mind wander.  Ask God to keep your heart focused.

7. Make an effort to understand and retain as much of the message as you can.  Take notes.  Help your children take notes.  Hold the worship guide for your children and point to the words that you are singing.

8. Examine the teaching carefully.  Ask the pastor, or teacher, questions about what he has said; but be careful to maintain a humble, teachable spirit (James 1:19-20; 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22).  Take some time during the week to read and study the text that the pastor will preach on.  Buy a few commentaries and be prepared for the pastor’s teaching.

9. Discuss the message with other Christians after the service.  Ask them questions, encourage them by telling them how you were challenged.

10. Decide to make any changes necessary as a result of what you have heard and sung.  Pray for God’s help to change and practice it daily.  Ask for the help of other Christians to hold you accountable and to pray for you.

11. Thank God that He allowed you to be with the people of God.  Be mindful of friends, relatives, neighbors and work friends who are not worshipping God and invite them to come with you. 

Youth          
Ministry

June 8th Children & Youth Promotion Sunday.

June 13th Welcome New H.S. Freshman 5th Quarter, 8-11pm.

June 14th Welcome New Jr. High Swim Party, 10am-1pm.

June 16th Soccer Camp Leader Training.

June 17th – 20th Soccer Camp, 9am—12pm.

Children's 
Ministries               

Promotion Sunday is June 8.  All kids, kindergarten through 6th grade, move up to their new class.  Superbook Olympics, our second hour summer program begins that day too.  Grades one through six meet in room 207 at 10:45am.  See mailer.

Soccer Camp coming this summer!  Save the dates:  June 17th-20th, 2008.  Boys & girls ages 6-12 (entering 6th grade).  See church website for more detail.  Kids, invite your schoolmates before summer break.

The Children’s Choir will be performing the musical "Good Kings Come in Small Packages," Sunday, August 24th at 5pm.  For practice/rehearsal schedule see the church website.  Make it an outreach!  Invite neighbors and family.

All Children’s Ministries volunteers, teachers, teacher’s aids, nursery, AWANA, music leaders, and SBO, are invited to a breakfast in your honor on Sunday, June 1st at 8:30am in the Family Center.  We appreciate you all!

Come one, come all to our Yankee Doodle Day, June 29th, 4-7pm.  There will be lots of activities for kids.

As we read the book of Acts we see that prayer was a part of everything they did… and they deployed their missionaries through prayer, Acts 13:2-3.  May we continue to pray in one accord for each missionary who serves as our representative in these various venues to which God has called them.

Mark and Carolyn Williams share some wonderful statistics of God’s faithfulness in the work of Dynamic Church Planting International during the year of 2007. 
1. We trained a total of 4,043 leaders. 
2. Training took place in 28 nations, 6 more than originally projected. 
3. 13 countries received training for the first time; of the 13, USA staff only led the training in 5 countries.  Leaders from nearby nations led the others. 
4. 30 nations have been “opened” to DCPI training – we consider a nation opened when there are at least 5 Certified Trainers. 
5. There are now 1,415 members of the Fellowship of 5,000.  This group is the Certified Trainers and Dynamic Associates who are multiplying churches and disciples around the world.
 
Recently, Mark gave us five of the top ten reasons why it is vitally important to train church planters. 
1. People in every country of the world desperately need Jesus.
2. New churches reach people for Jesus.  New churches experience a much higher rate of conversion than older ones.
3. Many nations are starved for training.  In many nations there are believers eager to plant churches, but lacking the know-how.  They do not want or need us to come do the work, but they need us to train them how to do it.
4. Jesus taught us to focus strategically.  Jesus focused his efforts on those who would multiply.  The inner circle of three, Peter, James, and John, the twelve and the seventy two whom he appointed and sent two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was to go, Luke 10:1.
5. Indigenous trainers make training relevant for each country.  Local trainers know the language and culture.

Mark tells us, “because our materials are biblical principle based and not methodology specific, they work around the world.”  Prayer requests: wisdom in planning and facilitating the many and varied opportunities to put these services for Christ and His church to the greatest effect; sustained growth and spiritual clarity for those leaders already in place; family health needs; travel safety; adequate financial support.

We are delighted to have four members of our Burma team home with enthusiastic reports of God’s providence in their daily efforts.