Our blog features come right from our CCOJ: This Week weekly worship brochure.
Get to Know...Eli Wnek
Posted 7/20/11
What Bible verse do you tend to live by? John 3:30.
Tell us about your family. Wife, Mary, high school sweetheart; girls Lily, 6; Ruthie, 4; Josey, 2.
What’s your favorite 80s movie? Top Gun.
What sports did you play in high school? Football, basketball and track.
When did you first accept Christ as your Lord and Savior? The locker room couch my second week of college.
Favorite ice cream shop and flavor? Dollies Ice Cream, Brevard, North Carolina—Mint Chocolate Chip.
Tell us about your pets. Shrek, Donkey and Dragon (Arizona desert tortoises).
What’s on your iPod? Leadership podcasts.
What website do you visit most? Google.
What are the last three books you read? Sustainable Youth Ministry, Visioneering, Little House on the Prairie.
What sports teams do you root for? AZ Cardinals.
What has been one of your biggest influences? Reading the Bible.
Morning person or night owl? Morning.
What three people, living or dead, would you like to have dinner with? John (disciple), Jim Davis (only when he buys), Noah.
How did you come to be at Joy? Got hired.
What inspires you? Excellence. I love watching people do things well. It can be anything...
If you could visit anyplace in the world, where would you go? The beach.
What was the first concert you went to, and how old were you? Bobby Brown, 12 years old.
Favorite board game? Anything but Uno.
Volunteer Spotlight: Susan Luse
Posted 5/3/11
Susan moved to Arizona from Spokane, WA, in 1977, but didn’t start attending Joy until 2002, when she became a member. According to Susan, “I ushered my first day here! I needed to be connected to a purpose and people who loved the Lord. I was returning to church after many years of no church and no God in my life…and I still need all of you in my life today.” In addition to her church family, Susan has two sisters in Washington and a brother in California.
Susan is the one who greets you on Sunday mornings as you grab a cup of coffee and a treat at Taste of Joy. She arrives at church at 6:30 AM to start setting up and doesn’t leave until everything is put away at 1:00 PM. She oversees the entire coffee service here, including ordering supplies, equipment and invoicing.
In the past, Susan has been an usher and a service leader, so she fills in during the services wherever help is needed. She supports Joy Seekers, helps with senior care for two of our parishioners and makes nursing home visits.
Susan continues to support her church because she believes if you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem.
4 Things About Me: Katie Emory
Posted 4/3/11
Four jobs I have had in my life:
- Customer Service Agent for Delta Airlines
- Co-owner / Manager of a Commercial Transportation Safety Consulting
- Freightliner Truck Sales office manager
- Oasis Ministry associate (best job ever!)
Four movies I’d watch over and over:
- Pure Country
- The Wedding Planner
- Top Gun
- The Sound of Music
Four places I have lived:
- Growing up—Seattle, Washington
- Raising family—Auburn, Washington
- Milton, Washington
- Glendale, Arizona
Four TV shows I love to watch:
- (Actually, I’d rather read than watch TV)
- I am a sports fan – NFL Football & MLB Baseball
- NCIS
- Secret Millionaire
Four places I have been on vacation:
- Hawaii (my personal favorite)
- Princess Cruise on the Mexican West coast
- Yellowstone
- Arizona (before I moved here)
Four of my favorite foods:
- Spaghetti
- Pad Thai
- Fried Chicken
- Turkey
Four places I would like to be right now:
- Hawaii
- Enumclaw, WA (with 3 of my grandchildren)
- Corona, CA (with 2 of my grandchildren)
- Disneyland
Four Bible verses I live by:
- Philippians 4: 6-7
- Matthew 6:33-34
- Proverbs 3:5-7
- Psalm 121
David's Worship Picks
Posted 3/17/11
Worship leader David Martinez shares a few of his favorite worship albums (click to check them out on iTunes):
- Tonight the Stars Speak - The Glorious Unseen
- Singalong - Phil Wickham
- A Collision - David Crowder Band
- The Medicine - John Mark McMillan
- Pages - Shane & Shane
- United We Stand - Hillsong United
- Finger Painting EP - The Ember Days
- Consumed - Jesus Culture
Wondering about some of the new worship songs we've been singing at 9:45 & 11:15? Here are a few of them...
- "With Everything" - Hillsong United from the album Passion: Awakening
- "Cannons" - Phil Wickham from the album Cannons
- "Like a Lion" - David Crowder Band from the album Passion: Awakening
- "Rooftops" - Jesus Culture from the album Come Away
- "You Count the Stars" - We Are Creation (Unreleased)
Get to Know...Pastor David Tomb
Posted 3/13/11
What Bible verse do you tend to live by? Philippians 4:4-7
Tell us about your family. This summer Barb and I will celebrate 40 years of marriage. We are blessed by our children Christie and husband David, Mark, Lisa and husband Jeff, and their three families have provided us with 8 beautiful and precious grandchildren from ages 12 down to the one that if she hasn’t arrived will be here tomorrow.
Favorite 80s movie? Star Trek II, Star Trek III and Star Trek IV...I loved them all!
What sport did you play in high school? Football, but it wasn’t a pretty sight!
When did you first accept Christ as your Lord and Savior? As a child of four during a revival.
Favorite ice cream shop and flavor? Culver’s; a “concrete” of any flavor.
Tell us about your pet. Pupcake, a cockapoo, who has long since departed, brought delight and joy to our family’s life for 17 years.
What’s on your iPod? Hmm...still loading it.
What sports teams do you root for? All Arizona teams.
Who has been one of your biggest influences and why? My wife, Barb. Her steadfast, quiet but confident faith in Christ, her strong intuitive love with its consistent expression to all that are blessed to know her makes her the most remarkable person I have ever known.
Morning person or night owl? Morning, for now, if there is enough good coffee available.
What three people, living or dead, would you like to have dinner with? C.S. Lewis, Ronald Reagan, and Barbara Bush (and there are more).
How did you come to be at Joy? Bev Altopp, my sister, called and asked if I would have interest in teaching Bible at JCS. Though I no longer teach, that is where the journey at Joy started.
What inspires you? The great worship music of the church, both classic and contemporary, when it is well sung and passionately believed. And then the King of Instruments, the pipe organ/classic organ, again well played, stirs me deeply.
If you could visit anyplace in the world, where would you go? London.
What was the first concert you went to, and how old were you? Sometime in the middle of the last century and at the end of the last millennium my family attended a Southern gospel “sing” that featured the “Sunshine Boys.”
Favorite board game? Scrabble.