Church in Irvine, CA – Pacific Church of Irvine

REFRESH! “Love Focused” Saturday, July 11, 2026, 9-10:30 a.m.

Carol Brown — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:12:28 +0000

REFRESH! “Love Focused”

Saturday, July 11, 2026, 9-10:30 a.m.,

at the home of Laura McFarland

Chapters 7 & 8: “Control & Alarms”

Join us as we continue our 2026 REFRESH! book study of “Love Focused: Living Life to the Fullest,” by Bob and Judy Hughes.

Invite a friend and join us for a wonderful, refreshing time of fellowship, encouragement, spiritual growth, and prayer!

Although we will follow a book club format, please feel free to attend even if you have not read the chapter – you will still learn from the material presented!

Please sign up HERE for the potluck. (Please bring your food heated, plated, and ready to serve. Please come whether or not you are able to bring something!)

Please RSVP HERE by July 8th. (Address provided upon registration.)

Allow God to REFRESH your soul!

Contact carol@pacificchurch.com for more info.

Refuge

Seth Gatchell — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:43:31 +0000

High, atop a mountain, a place of comfort, there.

A beautiful blue sky, puffed clouds, crystal clear air.

Aspen leaves fluttering, a mountainside of red,

I hear a rushing stream, grass and leaves for a bed.

Away from grizzly bears, far from timber crashes,

Away from hellish winds, far from lightning flashes.

My place of rest is here, this, my sanctuary.

My neighbors in the tree? Eagles in their aerie.

Oh, where is this retreat? Aspen, Colorado?

This refuge? In my heart! Comforts in God’s shadow!

Grazing in green pasture, sheltered in the Most High,

Resting by still waters, His wells that won’t run dry.

This haven lies within, where God then made His home.

A soul once lost restored, that once could only roam.

Lithe mountain deer now tread on heights above the fray

And eagles soar on wings while eaglets nest and play.

Connecting

Seth Gatchell — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:38:34 +0000

Magnets connect each time,

Easy as when words rhyme.

But people connecting?

Difficult effecting!

Detecting. Objecting?

Respecting. Reflecting?

Directing. Correcting?

Expecting. Injecting?

Disheartening,

And heartbreaking,

Demoralizing,

And frustrating,

Disappointing

And sobering.

Learning, humbling,

Praying, stumbling.

Enjoying. Stumbling.

Delighting. Fumbling.

Giving. Bumbling.

Grateful. Humbling.

Psalm 139

Allie Adams — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:40:16 +0000

I am in the process of memorizing Psalm 139 and am amazed at how much deeper these words go when we really meditate on them instead of just reading them. How can we ever feel alone when we have this personal, intimate love letter from the Creator of the universe.

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

1 You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.

19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Abraham – Pt. 1

Lance Brown — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:28:27 +0000

God called Abraham to leave without telling him where he was going is, personally, that would be a problem for me. No map. No itinerary. No destination. Just: go. I’ll show you when you get there. This message is the first in a series on the life of Abraham — the man the New Testament calls the father of faith. We start at the very beginning. Before the great moments, before the tests, before the legacy. We start with an ordinary idolator in a moon-worshipping city, and a God who decided to take the initiative anyway.

Women of the Bible: Priscilla

Lance Brown — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:08:18 +0000

Priscilla is what faithfulness looks like when nobody is watching. She didn’t build a platform. She built a life. And her life became the ministry. This message closes out our series “Women of the Bible” and it’s for anyone who has been wondering whether the ordinary season they’re in counts for anything. It does.

Day of Service at OC Rescue Mission, June 6, 2026, 2-4 p.m.

Carol Brown — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:13:46 +0000

Day of Service at OC Rescue Mission*

June 6, 2026, 2-4 p.m.

Village of Hope, 1 Hope Drive, Tustin, CA 92782

Join us as we serve OC Rescue Mission by working in the warehouse or performing cleaning duties. This co-ed opportunity is open for ages 10 and up. Volunteers under the age of 18 must have parent or guardian present. We can accommodate up to 20 volunteers.

Please sign up HERE by 5/31.

*Orange County Rescue Mission is a faith-based, life-transformation program that provides on-campus housing, basic needs, and comprehensive services for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. We minister the love of Jesus Christ to the Least, the Last, and the Lost in Orange County.

VBS Rainforest Falls 2026

Sarah Cristiano — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:10:21 +0000

Our favorite week of the summer is coming! Step through the mist into Rainforest Falls, overflowing with wild waterfalls, towering trees, and colorful creatures. Beneath a canopy of chattering birds and howling monkeys, kids plunge into a lifelong adventure of discovering the nature of God. They’ll explore what it means to be rooted in relationship with God, their creator, a safe place in life’s storms.

We hope your child can join us!

June 22-26, 9am-12pm, $50 per child

The Church: 40th Anniversary

Lance Brown — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:01:19 +0000

God’s strategic ways to redeem fallen humanity from Satan’s rule is patently unintuitive to us. The cross??? The church??? You mean to tell me these are the central components to saving a rebellious human race? How?

Women of the Bible: Mary & Martha

Lance Brown — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:56:55 +0000

Most of us don’t struggle with laziness. We are busy, productive, optimized and somewhere in all of that activity, the most important relationship we have quietly grows thin. We keep doing things for God while spending less and less time with him. And we don’t notice the switch has happened until something breaks. That’s Martha’s story. She opened her home to Jesus. She served him faithfully. She did everything right. And she was coming apart at the seams.