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Guru Rusty River's Conversational Calendar
for  January 2011

This Month's Conversational Theme Is: "The world is at our doorstep; let us welcome them in!"


 


Lobby Coffee shop
Don't forget, before and after each and every service our  very own Radiant Cafe is open serving the very best of the very finest drinks (AND that includes STARBUCKS!) and cuisine there is.
Located in the lobby, our coffee shop proudly  brews all the Starbucks favorites! With specialty breakfast foods, burgers and grilled chicken sandwiches. It’s the perfect place to grab a quick meal before service or hang out with your friends afterwards. Proceeds go toward financing our foreign missions.
Drive Thru Latte Stand
Located just outside the south entrance to the building. Start your day with the smooth, sweet flavors of Radiant Cafe's Best! We also offer delicious breakfast sandwiches and a variety of treats and pastries.
Volunteer Opportunity!
Do you love the coffee shop environment? This could be the perfect place for you to volunteer - we're looking for cashiers and baristas to help out on the weekends! If you're interested, just contact one of our staff and get started this week!
Contact the Coffee Ministry or call (889) 666-271 for more information.
 

        
 


 

 
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   Compass Bible Studies
Develop Your Walk
Held before or after each weekend service, these 45 minute classes are a great way to grow in your walk with God and make new friends.

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Life Groups
Connect with Life Groups
Rusty's small group ministry is designed to help you build relationships and grow in your spiritual life. RRM is a big place, but Life Groups make it small again!
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My conversation today will be on how meditation can help you become healthier and happier in 2011

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A Lifestyle of Giving
Jesus said in Luke 6:38, "Give and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
To be successful in your walk with God, commit to honor God with your finances. When you commit to give the Lord the first 10% of your income, God promises He will pour out blessings you cannot contain. Tithing is the first key to financial prosperity
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The aum Mantra
A mantra is a sound, syllable, word, or group of words that are considered capable of "creating a spiritual transformation."
Endorsed by your own Guru Rusty and Charles Swindoll. Come, sit with us every Wednesday evening from 7 to 9PM in the Temple, learn and participate in this phenomenal meditation technique. 		6 7 8

 
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My conversation today will center on achieving the impossible.

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jonny baker
Pioneer Leadership Training
OK I figured it's about time to give anyone interested an update of where i have got to with developing pioneer ministry training. a bit of back story may be in order...
The upshot is we are using a foundation degree in ministry through RRM  university in partnership with some others. It is 16 modules which we are spreading over 3 years
For more information on getting started, call 800:6666
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My conversation today will focus upon the topic, "Because of your serving and support, over the past 40 years, we have moved the mountain."

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Missional Tribe
Missional is a Shift in Thinking:
•From programs to processes
•From demographics to discernment
•From models to missions
•From attractional to incarnational
•From uniformity to diversity
•From professional to passionate
•From seating to sending
•From decisions to disciples
•From additional to exponential
•From monuments to movements
For more information on how you can participate, call 801-6666
 
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My conversation today will center us on, "sow a seed of love into the your community.  Love prompts giving, and because He gave to us, can can give to us."		 24 25 26
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My conversation today will center us around, "Dwelling in Heaven's Suburbs:
Creating a culture of resurrection is key to full-orbed ministry."
 

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 		     Come, Join us in a new Worship Experience!

How do we respond to God, or our concept of God? For this 'Response' service, twelve stations were designed based loosely on a theme of meditation and discovery, each station requiring a contemplative approach but with a strong interactive, tactile element. This gave the participants the opportunity to escape the chaos of everyday life and commune with God on a focussed, spiritual level.

STATION 1 - PREPARATION (Instructions) This is where we take a moment to meditate on the knowledge that God will meet us anywhere, anytime. And so, even in this humble house, we ask you to remove your shoes, switch off your phone and meditate for a minute in preparation.
STATION 2 - HATE (Instructions) To be still enough to commune with God we must overcome hate, anger, frustration, impatience and other negative thoughts.Write down all your negative emotions at the moment and then burn them as a symbol of your readiness to calm down in the presence of God (at least for tonight)! You may like to go back and repeat some of the other stations now that you have taken control of your negative thoughts!
STATION 3 - TREADMILL (Instructions) Grab a piece of chalk and write a message to God on the treadmill. Not easy, is it? The need for stillness is paramount when it comes to effective communication. Now imagine God trying to talk to us amidst all the chaos of our lives!
STATION 4 - NOISE  (Instructions) Look at the TVs and slide show - it's just meaningless noise, but what grabs your attention and why? If you were God trying to get your attention in a chaotic world, how would you do it? If you like, write anything at all on the screen as a protest, plea or prayer.
STATION 5 - M&Ms (Instructions) In relationships of any kind it has been said that there is only "ministry or manipulation". That is, we either help people, or we use them. Take 5 minutes to read anything in front of you with this in mind. Eat a few M&Ms and consider how this knowledge could be useful to you tomorrow.
STATION 6 - BITTERSWEET (Instructions) Life is a bitter/sweet affair. Consider you spiritual journey as you sample the foods and read the reflections.
STATION 7 - DAWN (Instructions) Have you ever attended an ANZAC Day dawn service? Two dawn-themed videos ask pertinent qustions about suffering and sacrifice.
STATION 8 - DESIGN A CHURCH (Instructions) What should church really look like? Have a crack at designing your own... or just write down your thoughts. Comment on what others have craetd/written.
STATION 9 - BOX  (Instructions) What's in the box? Lift the curtain and have a look. Are we guilty of compartmentalising, and using tunnel vision to pigeon hole too quickly? Take a look then at the painting on the wall. How many objects can you identify in the painting? How does the artist's approach differ from the box installation? Which is better?
STATION 10 - THE RABBIT HOLE  (Instructions) If you could be shown the truth about everything, would you really want to know? Enter the rabbit hole, wtach the video and make you decision!
STATION 11 - MEDITATION ZONE (Instructions) Return here as often as you like for contemplation, prayer and reflection. Burn a candle and some incense if you wish.
STATION 12 - COMMUNION (Instructions) This is for everyone, regardless of your beliefs and doubts. On their own, the bread and wine are nothing. Read the stories and become part of the story. Finally, consider which stations have impacted you the greatest. What have you learned that can help you maintain some spiritual communion in your everyday life? Share with the others!
Join us every Sunday evening at our Alternative Worship Installation right on the main campus of R.M.M.      


Join One of Our Monthly Spiritual Expressions Groups that are designed to:
1)  help people till and prepare their spirit to be receptive to God.
2)  help people till and prepare their emotional-self so that they may form a healthy relationship with God and with one another.
3) help people till and prepare their minds, with the renewing of their minds, so that they can think and reason according to the Scriptures.
4)  help people till and prepare for life application and ministry service.
We meet on Temple Square, tent104 every Friday 5PM-Sunday 7PM.  Call 800.666..6666 for reservations

January 1, 2011

Dear Friends,

HELP US NOT REPEAT LAST YEAR! PLAN AHEAD!

Do you remember what happened in many churches across America (including Saddleback) last year at Christmas? Thousands came to our Christmas services all week but then stayed home and missed our regular weekend services. The super-low attendance the day after Christmas resulted in a low offering and created a deficit!   Gratefully, you responded enthusiastically to an email I sent asking you to mail-in your offering if you’d missed the weekend service. The deficit was made up in 48 hours because of the generosity of Saddleback people.

I don’t want to have to do THAT again!!  Especially because the timing of Christmas this past year was even worse this year, with Christmas being on Saturday! Many families were out of town or recovering on Saturday and Sunday.

SO…. THIS WEEKEND, I’m asking you to bring TWO WEEKS of your offering (with your Faith Commitment Envelope) so we don’t repeat what happened last year, and I won’t have write you again! Thanks SO much! You are so faithful!
 

Guru Rusty and Sister Rruthie


Dear Guru Rusty River Ministries family,

Sister Ruthie and I would like to thank you for all of your generous giving, your commitment and your selfless sacrifices that have made 2010 such and amazing year. In addition, thank you for staying in faith and believing for God to do great things through the RRM Church!
Because of you, this year we saw over 347,950 people accept Jesus as their Savior in our weekend services. Hundreds of thousands attended our live worship events in the United States and around the world, and we delivered hope to nearly 50,000 people in Dodger stadium and millions more through the live television event. Without a doubt, 2010 was one of the greatest years of ministry that we've ever known.  We know that you will help us far exceed last year's triumph for the Lord!
With just a few weekends left in the year, I would like to ask you, along with the many other families of RRM, to consider a special year-end gift. We have made it through a very challenging year, and nothing would prepare our church more for 2010 than to experience a supernatural outpouring of support.
It is a new season of God’s favor. It is a season to discover and seize God’s increase on our church and on our lives. I am so excited about what is to come here at RRM and around the world as we share the hope of Jesus.
Check below to give a special year-end gift.
Partner with RRM in the work being done throughout the world.  You can be a part of God's work by donating resources to be used to reach others with the message of Jesus Christ.

Thank you so much for being a vital part of the RRM family.
Expecting God to do greater things,
Guru Rusty and Sister Ruthie


Your Gurus Rusty and Ruthie thank you for your support.  As many thousands of you have inquired, let us say we'll soon update this very outdated picture.  We have yet to find time in our very busy schedule of meditation and contemplation to sit for a fresh one.

Donate in any amount, and receive this keepsake coffee mug
 

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Lifetime Charitable Gift Annuity
The Benefits of a Rusty River Ministries Lifetime Charitable Gift Annuity
 

The Rusty River Ministries Lifetime Charitable Gift Annuity is a financial agreement which enables you to make a gift of cash to Rusty River Ministries in exchange for benefits to include assured income for life, tax savings, and an excellent rate of return.

Excellent Rate of Return
Today's low interest rates on savings and certificates of deposit may require that you find other ways to plan for your future financial security. A Rusty River Ministries Lifetime Charitable Gift Annuity will provide you with a competitive rate of return - up to 9.50 percent, depending on your age and the number of annuitants in your agreement. When you include the tax savings from the charitable gift involved, the "effective rate of return" on your investment is even greater.

Age Rates*
70 5.70%
75 6.30%
80 7.10%
85 8.10%
90 9.50%

*RRM. Gift Annuities are not available in AL, HI, MD, and WI, or outside the USA. Rates subject to change.

Life Income and Tax Savings
Your Rusty River Ministries Lifetime Charitable Gift Annuity is backed by Rusty River Ministries, which assures you will receive your annuity payment at the same rate for life. During your lifetime, your funds will be invested in U.S. government backed securities for maximum safety. Your annuity can be established for either one life or two. You simply choose the type of annuity and payment schedule which is best for you. The annuity is irrevocable. This service is not available outside of the United States

If you itemize your deductions, you will receive an immediate income tax charitable deduction for the year in which your annuity is established. By funding your annuity in cash, a portion of the income you receive will be a tax-free return of principal for your life expectancy.
 

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