Weekly Church Update
Week of November 3rd, 2024
2024 Shoebox Ministry: Seize this exciting opportunity to share Christ with a needy child using a simple shoebox! Other than hygiene items and school supplies, try to include a “WOW” gift in each of the shoeboxes! Maybe a medium-sized backpack, a soccer ball with a pump, or a good quality cute stuffed animal? Share a personal note, and pray for the recipients of your shoeboxes as well! The boys and girls are waiting!! A friendly reminder that in addition to candies and toothpaste, soap is also not allowed inside the shoeboxes. Please bring your shoeboxes to church along with $10 shipping cost each. The Shoebox Booth will be open every Sunday 10:30am-11am and 12:15pm-12:45pm. Shoebox Send-off will be on Sunday, November 24th. If you have any questions and suggestions, please contact Lannie Mok and Cynthia Lim at
Daylight Saving Ends on 11/3: Please remember to set your clocks back one hour to standard time this Sunday, November 3rd when daylight saving time ends.
November Love Offering for our Missionaries: During the month of November, we will be taking a special love offering for our supported missionaries. For Online Giving, please select the Fund Designation “Benevolent Fund”. For all other donations, please indicate on the check or donation envelope, it is for “Love – Missionaries”.
2025 CIBC Calendars will be available next Sunday, 11/10. It is $3.25/each, and we have limited supplies. We will be selling it during English IBF time, after the Cantonese Sunday service in Room 101 and after the Mandarin Sunday service in the Fellowship Hall.
Please note that if you have lost anything at church, please check the “Lost and Found” cabinet in the Social Hall ASAP. Everything will be cleaned out after Thanksgiving.
There will be a General Congregational Meeting (GCM) on Sunday, 11/17, beginning at 12:30pm in the Social Hall. Agenda items include: 2025 Council voting and 2025 Budget approval. Lunch will be provided at a nominal cost.
2024 Nepal Medical STM: The dates of the trip are November 4 to 21, and there are 6 members on the team: Bruce (dentist) and Shirley Lau (physician & team leader), Arden Kwan (physician) and wife Mei Chow-Kwan (physician), Steve Tan (reading glasses & logistics), Jessica Yu (physician assistant). Please pray for the team and its members as they make final preparations to depart in a few days. Pray for safe travels, especially on the roads in Nepal.
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- Limit of one order per residential address.
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- Orders will ship free, starting September 30, 2024
We are looking to recruit a pool of drivers to help drive some of the elderly Cantonese and Mandarin members to and from church. Please prayerfully consider this ministry that may shine light to those eager to come to worship God with the church body on Sundays. If you are interested in joining this ministry, please contact Lawrence Mue , Transportation Chair, at (925) 980-6713, or email at Thank you!
Here are some updates for English Children’s Church and Children’s Sunday School:
Children’s Church (1st - 5th grades) 9:15am - 11:00pm, Room 313
Note: The Children will participate with the Congregation in the Sanctuary from 9:15am to 9:35am. Between 10:45am and 11:00am, the children will be provided with snacks and have supervised free time. They can be picked up by their parents during this time, or they can remain in the room until their teachers escort them to their Sunday school classrooms at 11:00am.
Children’s Sunday School (1st - 5th grades) 11:00am - 12:15am
1st grade: Room 316
2nd grade: Room 315
3rd grade: Room 312
4th - 5th grades: Room 311
Parents: Please be sure to pick up your children promptly at 12:15 PM.
Praise the Lord, the Nepal Medical STM Team has been formed. The dates of the trip are November 4 to 21, 2024 and there are 6 members on the team: Bruce (dentist) and Shirley (physician) Lau, Arden Kwan (physician) and wife Mei Chow-Kwan (physician), Steve Tan, Jessica Yu (physician assistant). If you want to support them financially, please send checks to CIBC with a sticky note "Nepal Fund 2024". Direct questions to Team Leader, Shirley Lau at
The 2024 FLOWER CALENDAR is available for signup. It is posted on the Church Ministry and Church News bulletin board on the hallway. If you wish to sign up, please use the flower envelopes placed on the wall next to the flower calendar, and designate your date(s) to commemorate someone or something.
If you need to park in the parking lot right next to our church on 8th St and block other people's cars on Sundays, please remember to give your car key to the parking lot usher or people in charge in Room 101, and provide your name and contact number as well. In addition, please pick up your car key in the parking lot after the Sunday services as soon as possible. If you come late, please find your key in a black box on the wall of Room 101.
If anyone is in need of a ride to CIBC for Sunday Service, please contact Transportation Chairman Lawrence Mue at (925) 980-6713, or email him at
Please note that this Sunday, 11/3, will be communion Sunday, so please prepare accordingly.