Minister for Harrison Pastoral Services

09/14/2024

Attendance Year to Date: 357 Residents.
Many of the same faces. Number of residents in my church service at Estancia Del Sol, for this year. Not counting myself and staff. PTL! Nine years of ministry!

08/29/2024

Comunion IS Essential

Without communion “church” is simply another social gathering. One might think, “What’s the big deal?” The deal is that we are gathered to remember what Jesus did for us. His death, burial, and resurrection. Christ asks two things of us. 1) to accept Him as our personal Lord and Savior and 2) Remember His DBR through partaking of the elements: the bread and the cup. The New Testament church in Acts (Acts 2) gathered for the breaking of bread and for prayer. We proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes again by celebrating communion. Even if there are non-Christians in our midst we are proclaiming Jesus. That is powerful! This is not a moment to brush aside or rush through, it is an act of worship. Keep Christ the center of all you do this week.

I designed this diagram to demonstrate all of the different aspects of Communion, so we may remember its importance.

08/26/2024

https://www.facebook.com/griefshare/videos/1086106402389153/?mibextid=CDWPTG

08/26/2024

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Profound Wisdom.

By Ann Lamont
My six-year-old associate, who sleeps down the hall about thirty feet away with both our doors wide open, wakes up on many mornings and predicts, "This might be the best day ever!"

Then, in the dead of night, a tiny voice calls out to me, "Nana, will you ever get sick or die?"

Then he cries at the very thought. He terrorizes himself.

I think this says it all.

If you are alive, conscious, and sensitive, which is to say, human, you're going to have incredible joy and terror this side of eternity. It's Life 101, life on life's terms, not on ours, all these things--fear, joy, grace, mess, isolation, communion--all mixed up together.

I hate this more than I can say. I don't like everything to touch.

Also, I don't love that at sixty-one, your skin can still break out, even as the wattles hang lower, like roman shades, and you might still get audited, or shingles. Not to mention that every so often, out of the blue, a sniper sneaks back into the tree and picks off someone without whom you can't--or at least don't want--to go on.

Or that other people, like obviously Jimmy Carter, handle fearful news with faith and elegance, while you KNOW that you will be more like a cross between Kylie Jenner and Ed Grimley.

While we are at it, I am a tiny bit tired of having issues around food and my body. I would like--and expected--to be all well by this age, which is to say, I'd mostly want healthy food. Really?

Also, I do not love that when you get older, your feet hurt fairly often because you walk a lot BECAUSE EVERYONE FUGGING TOLD YOU YOU HAD TO IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A GOOD OLD AGE. P.S. For the record, I refuse to eat kale. PPS. I have lost all confidence in lettuce. It is basically green crunchy air.

But back to my associate.

It is not helpful to tell each other cute things we saw on bumper stickers, whether our beloved people are six or sixty. It is condescending, and patronizing, and it make us turn on you. And yet! Two very short sentences do help, have saved me for often that I can recount:

The most important is "Me too." Yes, joyous and scared, chosen and lonely, healing and cuckoo, all at once. Yep. Me too.

The second is, "Courage is fear that has said it prayers." Courage when your kids leave, or you lose them, or evil pulls on them too hard; courage for the limbo of sick parents, and cold silences and dark nights. I think often of the weeks after the end of WWII, in the refugee camps for orphans and dislocated kids. Of course the children couldn't sleep! But the grown-ups discovered that after you fed them, if you gave them each a piece of bread just to hold, they would drift off. It was holding bread. There was more to eat if they were still hungry. This was bread to hold, to remind them and connect them to the great truth--that morning would come, that there were grown-ups who cared and were watching over them, that there would be more food when they awoke.

Wow. I mean, HELLO, the fourth great prayer. Hello, are you really there? I am! I'm right here, and I'm semi-okay, and you are right here, too, or at least down the hall, with the door wide open.

We are each other's holding bread.

Yesterday my pastor quoted Gandhi saying that there is so much hunger in the world that God comes to earth as bread.

We are so hungry! And we get to call out to each other in the dark, and the parents of our childhoods will not be pi**ed off that we have woken them. Our closest people, our chosen families, now say we can call them if we need to, and they will say, "It's fine that you called. Yes, me too! I know what that is like. I know exactly what that fear and isolated feel like. I'm listening, honey."

When my darling grandboy cannot get himself back to sleep, I don't tell him I promise never to get sick or die. I just go fish him out of the fear and the dark, and tuck him in next to me.

Reach for me, bread of God.

And then when the light returns, who knows? This might be the best day ever.

08/23/2024

Very well stated. We want to develop Boundaries in our Relationships not Barriers. That is how Counseling and pre-marital counseling may assist and educate in the areas where we are weak.





”The difference between boundaries and barriers is honest transparency. When we erect a barrier with a person, it’s either because we’re afraid to be honest, tired of being honest and getting hurt, or feel like the relationship isn’t worth the hard work honesty sometimes takes. When we establish boundaries, we are brave enough to be honest but also compassionate enough to wrap the boundary in grace by clearly communicating the parameters of the relationship. Barriers set relationships on a regressive course that leads to isolation. Boundaries set relationships on a progressive course that leads to connection.” ~ Unglued, pg. 85

08/15/2024

People take the path of least resistance. Avoidance does not solve your problems it complicates them.

07/30/2024

Point to Ponder:

"Soul integrity is the heart of what we are after. Soul integrity is honesty that's godly. It brings the passion of the exploder and the peacemaking of the sufferer under the authority of Jesus where honesty and godliness embrace and balance each other." Lysa Terkeurst.
Incredible quote.

07/02/2024

Harrison Pastoral Services Hall of Fame Couple, Mr. & Mrs. Jose Celis, July 2, 2022.

Second Bi-lingual wedding I have done with an interpreter. It was a nice day.

Happy Anniversary!🎂

06/30/2024

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06/22/2024

Reminder for my Dad's service.

06/20/2024

Counseling is one of my strengths.

06/19/2024

Reviews that demonstrate that the client comes first.

06/19/2024

Reviews that demonstrate that counseling is truly one of my Spiritual Gifts.

06/19/2024

Another Ministry milestone... over the weekend I received an apology from a man that derailed my ministry plans in 2003, and 2020. I am glad to know that God worked on him so that he saw the error of his ways and was willing to own up to it. PTL! An answer to many hours of prayer.

06/19/2024

This is exactly why Minister for Harrison Pastoral Services, believes in Pre-Marital counselingas it does not matter what experiences one has had with marriage, one will always learn something about this living Covenant relationship.

SYMBIS pre-marital counseling takes one month in our program. Plan accordingly. We are available!

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06/17/2024

https://www.newsweek.com/disabled-workers-removed-social-security-1913067

It was not immediately clear why the number of disabled workers who are recipients of benefits from the agency fell in May.

06/12/2024

It has been ten years today...I was ordained into the ministry ten years ago today.

😇Every Sunday I preach at Estancia Del Sol, in Corona, CA.
😇I was on a podcast, that went nation-wide, in September 2022 speaking about the importance of pre-marital counseling.
😇I have provided pre-Marital counseling to Seven couples utilizing SYMBIS.
😇I have officiated the weddings for five of those couples.
😇 I have officiated several about five funerals and assisted with many more.
😇 I have led the Hospital and Visitation Ministry at Crossroads. I have co-trained 260 volunteers whom have served in the ministry. I preach at Corona Post Acute two to four Wednesdays per month.
😇I co-lead a Bible study at Avista, in Corona on Tuesdays.
😇 I have served for the past eight years as a Chaplain for Riverside County Fire Volunteer Reserves.
😇To God be the glory! Here is to another ten more years!

05/20/2024

It's Anniversary time for one of the HarrisonPastoralServicesHallofFameCouples.

Happy 7th Wedding Anniversary!

05/14/2024

Find this out before you get hitched.

04/26/2024

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations for W.E. Harrison, may be made to:

Chidamoyo Christian Hospital
P.O. Box 714
Sebastopol, CA. 95473-0714

04/26/2024

My father, William E. Harrison, (Bill, Mufundi) his Celebration of Life, will be Saturday, July 13, 2024, at 11 am, at Eastside Christian Church, Redlands. 1000 Roosevelt Road, CA 92374.
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03/03/2024

Very important promise this week.

01/13/2024

https://www.facebook.com/100064378973101/posts/762062545949704/?sfnsn=mo&mibextid=6aamW
The couple that the movie "The Color of Rain, portrayed. This is a very interesting video about widow/widower hood.
The kind of Hallmark movie I want to watch.

Love is a choice. The ancient Greeks defined “agape” as the highest form of love. In their deeply personal and moving talk, bestselling authors Michael and G...

01/12/2024

Chuck is using this scripture in today's sermon. S*x is for within marriage. The man that has an affair with a woman does not care about her.

Three aspects of purity to consider:
1) Mental Purity

2) Physical Purity

3) Reputational Purity