The Golden Age Foundation would like to thank everyone who has signed up for the Ralphs Community Rewards Program to raise funds for the GAF. Beth Greeley (right, back) and Diana Lambert (right, front) assisted a group from the LW Filipino Association in signing up for the Ralphs Community Rewards program last week in Clubhouse 6. Those who can’t sign up for the program in person can go to www.ralphs.com/i/community-contributionprogram.

COMMUNITY CHURCH SPRING FLING BAZAAR All LWers are invited to Community Church’s Spring Fling Bazaar on Saturday, April 27, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at 14000 Church Place, next to the St. Andrew’s Gate. Tables set up on the church grounds will feature a variety of vendors, baked goods from church members and Granny’s Attic, and collections of old and new items with something to surprise almost anyone.

Year round, Community Church accepts donations of food and personal items for those in need. LWers are encouraged to share the love and join Community Church in helping others. The church regularly has first time worshippers each week, and invites those who are new to attend Community Church’s fourth Sunday of Easter service on April 22 and see what “the Friendly Church” is about. There

John 16:33 says “These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” Sometimes it seems that life’s challenges are constant. However, there is a constant that is so much greater, and his name is Jesus. He is the one believers can turn to and depend on in the midst of life’s challenges.

Seal Beach Union Evangelical Church is a church dedicated to helping people in Leisure World live a peaceful life. Pastor Myung Hoon Joo serves the congregation through the Bible-centered preaching and leadership at each service. Sunday worship is a balanced ministry of powerful words, praise, and prayer. The church meets on Sundays in Clubhouse 3, Room 2, at 1 p.m. The church also holds

Leisure World Korean Community Church’s (LWKCC) Sunday services are held at the sanctuary every week at 11:50 a.m., and a morning prayer meeting led by the senior pastor is held every Tuesday through Saturday at 6 a.m. Breakfast is served after the morning service every Saturday, in the fellowship room. LWKCC is located in LW next to South Gate at 14000 Church Place. For more information,

The Bible never hides the sins and weaknesses of God’s people, nor God’s wrath against disobedience, as the Book of Numbers makes evident during Israel’s wilderness wanderings and the Book of Jeremiah at the time of the first temple’s destruction and the Babylonian exile. Yet Jeremiah testifies to God’s almighty, changeless love, quoting the Lord, “I have loved you with an everlasting love;