Weekly Church Update
Week of June 21st, 2026
- Worship Services 9:00 - 10:10AM
- IBF and transition between services 10:10 – 10:30AM
- All Sunday School classes (adult & children) 10:30 – 11:40AM
- Sunday School classes 9:15 – 10:15AM
- Worship Services 10:30 – 11:40
- Children’s Worship 9:00 – 10:20AM
- Children’s Sunday School 10:20 – 11:40AM
For those CIBC parents who have registered their children for either the Middle School or Senior High School CBM camp, please remember to sign them up for the CIBC chartered bus to and from camp. Here is the link to sign up. Please note, rides are not confirmed until both sign up and payment are received: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSclec5nJXWwo3RKiQugs89-2DSyKwMA4EwDDUYPzVvnqVQsQ/viewform?usp=header
Praise the Lord that we now are able to use the alternate parking lot at 7th & Harrison Street on Sundays for the church family to park their cars there. You may park there on Sundays, but we ask that you leave or move your car by 2pm so that we can lock the gate properly.
Next Sunday, June 28th, we will have a GCM in the Sanctuary right after Chinese services. *NO lunch provided. The agenda will include a vote on new church member candidates from the English congregation. They are Amberly Tam, Katrina Figueroa, Jason Ly, Pastor Gilbert Figueroa, Michael Chung, Shirley Chung and Dylan Fong and hear a financial report.
The 2026 All Church Camp will be held at the Redwood Christian Park Camp near Santa Cruz over the Labor Day weekend, from Friday, September 4th to Monday, September 7th. Registration will start next Sunday, June 28th, during English IBF time in the Social Hall, after the Cantonese service in Room 101 and after the Mandarin service in the Fellowship Hall. Online registration will also be available on the church website. Our camp speakers are Rev. Toby Yuen – English Adult & Youth; Rev. Alexis Yu– Cantonese; Rev. Luke Tsai – Mandarin. This year’s theme will be “Following Christ Together”, bible verse is Ephesians 4:15-16. Please mark your calendars.
Lincoln Summer Nights: Please come volunteer and help us with crafts, balloon making, and passing out flyers on every 2nd Thursday, July 9th , August 13th , September 10th , and October 8th, at Lincoln Square Park. Sign up for a shift online (4:30pm – 6:30pm; 6:30pm – 8:30pm) at: https://docs.google.com/
We are in the process of planning for the 2026 Nepal Medical STM. The dates are November 4 to 20. Anyone, not just medical or dental professionals, are welcome to apply. If you are interested, please email Shirley Lau at The application will be out end of May.
The Community Fun Day (Church Open House) will be on Saturday, 8/22, from 10am to 4pm during the Oakland Chinatown Streetfest. Please save the date and invite family and friends to join. There will be various arts and craft programs, a planting workshop and photo booth, cotton candy making and a health station. *FREE snacks and drinks will be available.
We want to provide a church wide calendar of upcoming activities that can be found on the church website. In order to create such a calendar, we are asking each fellowship or group to provide upcoming calendar items. We are looking for church wide events like SEC, All Church Camp, baptisms, etc... as well as some fellowship events like retreats, outreach events and special socials. Please send such items to our administrative assistants at Please include the name of the event, dates, times and any relevant details.
The 2026 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.
The Nursery and Toddler room (3 months infants to 3 years old) is looking for helpers to serve at both 9:00am and 10:20am on Sundays. If you are interested in volunteering or to learn more about it, please contact Jenny Bang at A Sign-up form is also posted on the bulletin board outside of the Sanctuary.
Children’s Church (1st - 5th grades) 9am - 10:20am, Sanctuary then Room 313
Note: The Children will participate with the whole Congregation in the Sanctuary from 9am to 9:20am, then transition to Room 313. Between 10:20am and 10:30am, 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 10:30am.
Children’s Sunday School (1st - 5th grades) 10:30am - 11:40am
1st grade & 2nd grade: Room 312
3rd grade: Room 314
4th - 5th grades: Room 311
Parents: Please be sure to pick up your children promptly at 11:40 AM.
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.
We will be learning a new song, called "Glorious Church". This song was written by our English Worship Director, Eric Arnason, to complement this year's church theme of "Following Christ Together". This is a confessional (or creedal) song, declaring who we, as the church, are called to be and to become. You can listen to it here. We hope this resource will be an encouragement to your faith!