Dr. Marc Drake, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church Sun Lakes After Jesus died, he was buried in a tomb with a big stone rolled up against it. A short time later, the religious leaders came to the Roman governor Pilate and asked for permission to seal the stone and guard the tomb. They expressed concern…
Category: April 2018
April 2018
Lady Sluggers wrap up season
Larry Wolfe The Lady Sluggers Senior Softball team recently wrapped up their 2018 season in the Valley of the Sun League. Even though they didn’t have a winning record this year, they had lots of fun and improved significantly over the course of the season. The team had several new players, including Roseanne Kuefner, who…
April 2018
Pastor’s Corner
Jerry McGhee, Pastor Easter Sunday does not celebrate colored eggs, rabbits and a new dress or suit. Easter Sunday is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth from the grave. Easter Sunday is the celebration of the established fact that Jesus fulfilled both Old Testament prophecy and His own words. John 2:19 records…
April 2018
Residents participate in Phoenix Senior Olympic Games
Kenneth Nelson, a Phase 1 resident for the past five years, has been to the Senior Olympic games twice before this year. He participated in singles in 2012 and did not earn a medal. He entered again in 2016 and earned third place and a bronze medal. This year, Ken decided that he would enter…
April 2018
Table Tennis Olympic winners
Gerry Vogelsang Irene Stillwell, Executive Director of the Arizona Senior Olympics, presented the Gold Medal in Table Tennis to Sun Lakers Gerry Vogelsang and Ken Nichols and the Silver Medal in Table Tennis Advance Single to Gerry Vogelsang.
April 2018
Unity: Long, sweet love
Kay Davis Unity Church of Sun Lakes is an active, thriving, positive, supportive, loving spiritual community. We follow the teachings of Jesus as well as other Spiritual Masters. Our prayers are affirmative, and we adopt a health minded lifestyle. We invite you to come and share in our Sunday morning celebration at 9:30 a.m. in…
April 2018
Blossom time with John and Mary Giger
Doug Ross, Director of Promotion Given the fact we suffered no hard freeze this winter, it will not be so hard to restore our gardens and welcome in spring this year. At Sun Lakes Community Church, we will celebrate the season at our Spring Dinner on Sunday evening, April 15, 2018. And if you complete…
April 2018
Cottonwood Pickleball Club helps the community with AED training
Irene D’Aloisio, President On February 27, 30 members of the Sun Lakes Pickleball Club Cottonwood (SLPCC) gathered in the Phoenix Room in Cottonwood to learn how to save the lives of people in distress. The Sun Lakes Fire Department/Arizona Fire and Medical Authority (AFMA) provided CAP members to lead a class in how to use…
April 2018
Be still…
Pastor Jean Newell, Sun Lakes United Methodist Church “Detoxed!” That’s how someone recently described what happened one weekend at a spiritual retreat. “We couldn’t wear our watches or use our phones or access to computers. We spent three days being detoxed from the world.” I hadn’t thought of it like that, but that’s exactly what…
April 2018
Vitriol and bigotry
Rabbi Irwin Wiener, D.D. I am amazed that after the world has endured two world wars, skirmishes that eventually developed into full-blown conflicts, hate that has, and continues to permeate societies, that we still find the ability to foment bigotry on a scale thought unimaginable at this time, in this place. The headlines are filled…