BOTH JR HIGH & SR HIGH FORMS ARE HERE!!!

The Sr High winter retreat information and registration form are now available here. Printed copies are also available at our Welcome Desk (in main lobby) and Forms Kiosk (in Jr Chapel). Please print, complete and return your Sr High registration with your check to Pastor Sandy.

Obtain the Jr High winter retreat information and registration form here. Submit your completed Jr High forms to Pastor Rocky.

Also, the new January-February calendar is available.

Have a wonderful and safe Christmas vacation and a Happy New Year!!!

Much love, Pastor Sandy

12/22 ALIVE - Our annual Christmas celebration led by Creative Arts and Website & Media team. Come sing carols and bring food:

• Freshman- fruit
• Sophomores- cookies/brownies
• Juniors- drinks (cider, juice, milk, soft drinks)
• Seniors- cheese & crackers

12/24 Joint Christmas Worship at 9:30 am

Christmas Eve Service at 7:30 pm ?about 1 hour, followed by some informal fellowship)

Remember the true meaning of Christmas this year by

• -uninhibited worship at all places, all times
• -cheerful, encouraging fellowship at ALIVE
• -sacrificial and generous faith-giving
• -have an unrushed meal with a good friend you haven’t cared for in a long while
• -serving God by helping others
• -fearless declaration through baptism
• -prayer & solitude despite the shopping madness
• -surprise someone with an act of courage that expects nothing in return

This weekend’s line-up:

• -ALIVE on Fri, Dec 15
• -Baptism on Sun, Dec 17 at 1:30pm (Jeffrey Hwang, Andrew Lai, Bryant Wang)

You will not want to miss ALIVE tonight! We have a special speaker named Jonathan Chen, who will share some important lessons he learned from making choices and how God brought him to a place of brokenness. It’s a great opportunity to bring a friend. Despite the cold weather, you will find this ALIVE is worth any inconvenience.

Also, in recent years, particularly our millenial generation Chinese-American youths are exhibiting emotional stress and despair related to academic pressures, driven perfectionism, changing family dynamics and usual growing pains. More than ever, parents and our youth ministry are working together to help our youth cope with stress and conquer depression. Our parents and teens are invited to participate in an Asian American Mental Health Research Project on the following 2 dates:

We will NOT be holding a session on Sunday Dec 10 as originally indicated, due to busyness before holiday and NO church lunch being served this Sunday.

This is a timely collaboration with three Asian-American mental health professionals and educators. I encourage you to consider participating as you may discover something beneficial to your family. Please pick up a consent form, and reply to pastorsandy@gmail.com to indicate which date your family will come.