Sunday, June 10, 2012

English Ministry News and Notes for 6-10-12

*Annual Conference Special Offering Today! - The UMC has an ambitious goal: to end unnecessary suffering and death from malaria in  Africa by 2015. The Cal-Nev Annual Conf is committed to this goal and therefore has designed the 2012 Annual Conference Offering to go to Imagine No Malaria.

*Homework Club Summer Program Family Orientation...Today! All are invited to meet and greet, to welcome and connect with this summer's students and their families. The orientation will begin at 2:30 p.m. You can also pitch in by helping to set up and clean up!

*Small Groups Completes Another Season - This upcoming week is the final week of small group ministries for the 2011-2012 season. We celebrate each person who participated - once or weekly! We pray that God was made real to you in ever more transformative ways and that your discipleship was strengthened and deepened. Small Groups will "rest" during the summer and kick-off again in September. Let us affirm and celebrate our faithful and committed lead facilitators: Burt & Jane, Becky, Charlie & Steve.

*More Celebrations - We want to recognize and celebrate the graduates amongst our community:
 
-From 5th grade: Emma Yin
-From 8th grade: Cyrus Ng and Jeffrey Lu
-From 12th grade: Crystal Lee 
-From university: Jenny Chio and Elaine Yu
 
We will recognize these special accomplishments in worship next Sunday.  Let us lift our young people in prayer!

*Save the Date...for Fun & Fellowship! Our young folks are organizing an evening of fellowship to kick off the summer involving nachos and Bunko on Friday, June 29th, at 6:30 p.m. More information to follow.

*Sharing Hospitality - Each Sunday, people provide simple refreshments that invite the community to linger and fellowship.  This is one way we extend hospitality.  You are invited to sign up to provide refreshments during the 2nd half of the year: July—December.  Consider inviting a new friend or an old buddy to partner up and work together.  Thank you!