June 22, 2025 Church News
- Welcome to our Sunday The sermons will be uploaded to our YouTube channel at 2:30pm.
- English & Youth Service: 10:00am @ Gym; JAM @B7; Junior JAM 10:15 am @A9
- Cantonese: 8:30 & 11:30am @Sanctuary; Mandarin: 10:00 am @Sanctuary
- In-Person English Sunday School 11:30am – 12:30pm
- Children’s Sunday School in B4-B7;
- Adult class in the Gym; Senior High School in A10; Junior High Sunday School in A13
- Thank you for attending the past Family Chat. The Deacon Board will follow up the suggestions and opinions. Contact the Deacon Board if you have something you’d like to share.
- 5.10 DB Meeting Excerpts is available online for review
- The update Organization Chart and Staff Weekly Working Schedule starting June are available online.
- To celebrate 20th Anniversary of Mandarin Ministry, we are in the process of collecting commemorative photos, text messages, audios, videos with blessings and encouragements. Ongoing collection from June to Sept, with deadline on each month end. Contact: Leon Li
- A team is clearing unwanted items from the church. Department and fellowship leaders – please check and clean your belongings before 7/30.
Church cleanup process:
1) Remove any unsafe equipment/objects
2) All rooms in the church will be processed one by one
3) Each room includes (pastoral and admin office)
Just take out the discarded items and put them in the box set up next to it (with instructions)
4) Any enquiries: Pastor Esmond, Joseph Wong, Ira Shum
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- Big congrats to all the elementary, high school, and university grads this month! Wishing you God’s continued blessings in your future studies and career. Good job!
- New Sermon Series for 5/25 – 6/29
For the first part of this year we have been exploring the first two statements in the annual theme for our church: Reviving and Rebuilding. In the coming weeks, as we prepare to go on a missions trip to Casa de Luz in Mexico and run our Summer Soccer Camp, we will begin looking at what it means, and what it might look like in our personal lives as well as a church, to begin Reaching Out. The title of the series is People of the Open Door and we will be exploring the themes presented in a book by John Ortberg, All the Places to Go, both in our worship service as well as our adult Sunday School.
- 6/24 Joint Mission Prayer Meeting 7:30pm@ Zoom ID: 862 6579 1403 Passcode: 888026. A missionary from Wycliffe will share the Bible translation ministry
- In-Person English Ministries Prayer Time on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. to pray for the Ladies/Men’s Group, please come in through the gym entrance
- 8/11-15 (Mon-Fri. 9a-3p) Soccer Day Camp for ages 6-12. Please see the poster for details. Use the postcards to encourage children from non-believer families to join in. Online Registration has started. First come, first serve
We are recruiting coaches, first aiders, video and photographer, sign-in and welcome table, camp cook/snack team and miscellaneous helpers. To sign up as a volunteer, please contact Pastor Bill. Enquiry or 604-416-3261
- 7/5-12 17 members will join the Casa de Luz Missions Trip. Please pray for the preparation.
- The Mission Dpt decided to support our 17-28 year-olds students to join Urbana 25 on Dec 28 to Midnight NYE – a Christian student missions conference. Inquiry
- Lighthouse Ministry: next visit on 9/18(Thu) in English
- 7/19(Sat. 11am-3:30pm) Church Picnic is changed to be held in the church as Family BBQ Day due to the restrictions of the park. Please register to get the meal coupon from 6/15 to 7/13. Registration fee per person after subsidized by the church: free for age 4 and under; $5 for age 5-12, 70 and over; $10 for age 13-19; $15 for age 20-69. Free for church gatherings’ new comers of Jan. – July or new non-Christian friends with
- Fridge and Freezer cleaning for the BBQ Day: foods without Ministry Labeled will be disposed after 6/29. Please check your stuffs
- Please pray for the sick and the family.