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42 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | JUNE 2020 Women's Evening Bible Study "I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my savior. The sovereign Lord is my strength." Habakkuk 3:18-19 We hope and we pray. We wait for God to answer. Our faith may be tested as we meet the challenges of unprecedented times in our nation. We receive peace and strength as we study God's unchanging Word. In the parable of the Prodigal Son, the father is challenged with the younger son's eagerness to leave home and experience the worldly side of life. The son returns in rags, dirty, hungry, and broke. How does the father respond? He shows compassion, forgiveness, and love. He celebrates the homecoming by giving him new clothes, sandals, signet ring, and a party. This parable teaches us that God is compassionate and loving. We trust Him to see us through these uncertain times. We continue our study in the Parables of Jesus and invite all women of Four Seasons to join us. I have been doing the study on video. First, I send out an email with the lesson questions for the ladies to review. We have started sharing photos with one another of activities we are doing as we shelter at home. This has been a great way to have fun and stay connected. To receive the lesson and video, please email me at baerhuggy@icloud.com. Also, you can participate in our photo share. Our gatherings are held in The Lodge Game Room on the first and third Thursday at 5:30 pm. We look forward to the day that we will see each other again. Hope to hear from you soon! Until we meet again, I continue to pray for you to be well and contented. ~ Mary Baer, baerhuggy@icloud.com Life Guide Bible Study As of this writing, we do not know when the current "shelter in place" orders might be lifted. It seems best to assume we will not resume regular meetings until September just following Labor Day. We will determine the date for our opening potluck and first session hopefully by August. Please continue to uphold each other in prayer and keep in touch by phone and email. Come September, we will plan to continue our regular meetings on Tuesday evenings at 7 pm in the third section of The Lodge Ballroom. We invite all residents to join us for fellowship, discussion, and learning from God's Word. Please contact Doc or Letha Sellars with any questions or comments at (951) 797-3302 or docletha72@gmail. com. ~ Doc Sellars First, can I just say how much I miss the "Believe…" Women's Bible Study members! Even though we still meet every Friday at 10:30 via teleconference, I miss your sweet faces and miss giving you a welcoming hug! That said, I am thankful that we have a teleconference resource to still "meet" together and share the Word with each other. Thank you to all who have attended each week. We have an average of 34 women attending, and under the unique circumstances we are meeting, I am grateful for every one of you who have joined every week. You are all amazing, and I love you! We finished our "Waiting" series (just waiting, waiting FOR the Lord, waiting ON the Lord), then we had a lesson on what it means to be a Christian, and last week began a three-week series on "Spring Cleaning." We talked about living a Martha life a Mary way — you had to be there to understand. Then we had two lessons on Spring Cleaning our spiritual lives. What does that mean? Again, you had to be there… Our next series (seven weeks) beginning May 29 to mid-July is entitled "Wonderful God." We will be studying how amazing it is that God simply SPOKE creation into being. We will focus on the seven natural wonders of the world and parallel with seven wonders of our awesome God. The lessons are powerful and thought-provoking, and hopefully will resonate with all the ladies. I still have the "End Times" series of eight lessons on hold until we can meet either in the game room or the ballroom. If any of you new residents would like to join an amazing group of Godly women who love the Lord, you are welcome to join us by teleconference until further notice. Please email me for more info. In the meantime, stay well, stay safe, and be blessed! ~ Eileen Gilbert- Antoine; egcellent@msn.com "Believe…" Women's Bible Study Intercessory Prayer group Greeting intercessors, friends, and neighbors! I pray that everyone in your family is doing well. It has been a hard month, but we are survivors. As seniors, we could write a book about all the storms we've gone through. But without faith, we would not be able to stay in the trenches during hard shifts, and we refuse to throw up our hands and say we give up. We always face the problem head-on. We have learned to stand against circumstances beyond our control because we are warriors! We will not give up or be defeated — defeat is not in our DNA. We will not look down but we will look up; there is a secret place we can go in time of trouble, a resting place where we can find peace and safety. The place is found in your prayer closet. Our prayer group and other prayer groups are praying for our communities, cities in the US, all first responders, and the world. We will not rest until a vaccine is found for the coronavirus. We will resume our meeting at The Lodge as soon as it is safe. Until then we are praying on the conference line every Monday at 9 am. If you would like to join us, please email me at eaglewatchwb@ aol.com. ~ Cookie Bonner; eaglewatchwb@aol.com Just in case: Check with your club contact to confirm meeting place, date, and time.