GATHERING AGAIN - IT IS TIME, WE'RE READY

Dear Coast Church Family,

We miss you. This shutdown has affected us all in so many different ways and we have done our best to serve you remotely. After much prayer, counsel, and consideration for everyone’s safety…it is time for us to begin gathering again.

If you’ve been to the Coast House before COVID19 you know that we’ve been at capacity and actively searching for a new building to make room for growth. No doors have opened yet but we will be “making room” by holding multiple gatherings. 

THIS SATURDAY 5/9, we will be gathering at 6:30pm and THIS SUNDAY 5/10, we will be gathering at 10:00am. We welcome EVERYONE to be here with us and trust that this is the best thing we can do right now, in spite of all that is going on. We hope and pray that this will be the start of a time of spiritual healing, renewal, joy, and a kindling of the fire of the Holy Spirit in your life. 

Assembling together as a community of believers is a constitutional right in our country. With respect and humility we are choosing to move forward with exercising that right. After nearly two months of taking precautions and not assembling together, this weekend we honor the Scripture found in Hebrews 10:25 once again by - “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together…”

In the Lord’s Service, 

Pastor Scott A. Shoemake & the Coast Family

P.S. A FEW THINGS TO REMEMBER:

-we will be practicing safety and have several precautionary measures in place such as: seating together as family groups/individuals only, extra cleaning/disinfecting of high-touch surfaces, no Coast Kids class this weekend, hand sanitizer available, and a temporal scan thermometer check (masks are not required but feel free to wear them if you feel to). 

-if you, or anyone in your household has, or recently had a fever, of flu-like symptoms, please participate online only at this time. 

-please practice safety by giving as much space as possible to everyone, including giving others a “wave” instead of handshakes or fist-bumps. 

-we understand that many churches are not having “in-person” gatherings yet (although many have not stopped) and we do not want this to be a point of contention with others, we simply believe this is the time for us (in our city/county/context) to move forward. 

SCRIPTURES TO PRAY WHEN YOU HAVE FEAR or ANXIETY

FEAR starts with a dose of bad news or a feeling that peaks your emotions, it spirals into ANXIETY. When anxiety is not dealt with, it can quickly spiral deeper and turn into DESPAIR which (when unfulfilled) leads to DEPRESSION. We believe the Scripture gives us victory over every fear. We believe that the victory on the cross is Jesus’ way of crushing the fear of death! That is the good news, the Gospel. So let’s pray the Scripture over our fear.

-We should declare these 5 things over our spirit, over our homes, and over our world. 

1. God is in Control: Colossians 1:16-17 - for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see—such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.

2. We will see PEACE: 1 Corinthians 14:33 - For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

3. We will have no FEAR: Psalm 27:1 - The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid.

4. God has a WILL for us to accomplish - ACTS 13:36 (NLT) - …for after David had done the will of God in his own generation, he died and was buried with his ancestors…

5. God can reveal PURPOSE in the PANDEMIC - ECCLESIASTES 3:1 (NLT) - There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

ONLINE CHURCH ONLY - COVID19 UPDATE

We believe that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever…He’s also the same when we gather in our church building, in cafes, and in our homes. We’re expecting God to do the miraculous as we “shelter in place” in honor of the Ventura County (and state of California) requests for residents to stem the tide of the Corona Virus.

We’ll be streaming our Sunday Gathering LIVE on Facebook and YouTube at 10:00am PST. Also, make sure to subscribe to our channel and follow along on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook for some videos of testimonies from some of our Coast family.

LINKS: FACEBOOK PAGE - YOUTUBE PAGE - INSTAGRAM PAGE - TIKTOK