Dear Grace Fellowship Community Church Family,
These announcements and prayer requests are being sent out every Thursday to inform us of what is happening in and the needs of our church. Please send any announcements or prayer requests to office@gfccsf.org by Tuesday evening.
Announcements for the Week of 04/20/26
Join Us for Sunday Worship, April 26 at 10:00 AM
We welcome Rev. Dana Cunliffe to our Pulpit. She will be preaching from Revelation 21:1-10, 22-27; 22:1-7 “Finally, Some Good News!"
Dana Cunliffe Bio
Stay for Refreshment Time after our Service and Have An Informal Conversation with Dana Cunliffe
Last week, Al Preached on “The Spoils of Victory: Jesus, the Defeat of Death, and the Book of Life”
You can rehear the sermon using this link.
Daily Prayer at 12PM by the People of Grace Fellowship Community Church
This week’s daily prayer for April 24 to April 30 is from Alejandro Juarez.
Our Father,
We are surrounded by every kind of violence, cruelty, destruction, and death.
Increase within us the hope for a world of peace, mercy, and life.
Use us to serve and love our neighbors as You have served and loved us.
In the name of Christ Jesus.
Amen.
We Welcome RTI (Research Triangle Institute) Back to our Building
For the 3rd year, RTI will be renting the courtyard and multipurpose room for the next 5 weeks for their “Moon Study.” People from our Mission district community will be participating in this study about the community health resources in the Mission district.
May Love Feast and Family Meeting, May 3
Joint Worship Service with Redeemer Community Church, May 10
On that day, we will be welcoming Jonathan Walton to the pulpit. He is an Area Director for InterVarsity NY/NJ focusing on Spiritual Formation and Experiential Discipleship.
Jonathan Walton Bio
Help Needed to Bring Refreshments for our Joint Worship Service with Redeemer Community Church
If you can help by baking, cooking, bringing or buying food for our joint service on May 11, please let the church office know.
New College Berkeley: Beauty & Resistance: Following Christ in this Political Movement, Monday, May 11, 7:00 - 9:00
Jonathan Walton will be speaking at this event at our church.
Register here for the event.
Grant Yee’s Summer Mission Trip
Grant Yee's letter to the congregation.
The Session has agreed to support Grant on his summer mission trip with $500.00 from the church surplus. If you wish to individually support Grant, here is the information.
Scripture Readers Needed (There are Many Open Slots)
Please sign up using this link.
Scripture Reading Sign Up
Loops of Love is Collecting Blankets and Stuffed Animals
"Loops of Love" is getting ready to visit and offer gifts to the residents at Laguna Honda Hospital. We are collecting blankets and stuffed animals to bring some warmth and comfort to these beloved ones. For safety reasons, please do not have any ribbons or embellishments on the blankets and stuffed animals. A basket next to the offering box will be available for your gifts.
Contact Linda Kay or Jennifer Yee if you have any questions.
Food Pantry Volunteers
The weekly Saturday food pantry is always in need of volunteers. If you are available to help from 12:30 to 2:30, please sign up.
Food Pantry Sign-Up
Deeper Dive Link - Reflecting on the Sunday Experience
Every Tuesday, we will offer “A Deeper Dive,” a time to revisit the previous Sunday’s worship experience.
This space will be on Zoom every Tuesday evening, 7:00-8:30pm. Below is the zoom link which you can use every week:
Deeper Dive Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 825 9666 9506
Passcode: 728637
Questions to Consider for the Deeper Dive
1. How were you made aware of God’s presence this past Sunday—perhaps through a song, the sermon, communion, a conversation with someone at coffee hour, etc.?
2. What in the sermon particularly inspired, encouraged, or challenged you?
3. Beyond Sundays, in what ways has your worship experience been impacting your relationship with God, neighbor (near and far), and/or yourself?
Contact Pastor Al or Randy Chang if you have any questions.
Ministry Partners
ISACC (Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture)
PATMOS: A Foolish, Unjust, and Immoral War
The world is now teetering on the brink of a nuclear war after the United States and Israel launched joint missile strikes against Iran, provoking retaliation from the latter that has resulted in tens of thousands killed and injured.
To date, air travel is crippled, prices of oil products are soaring and plans for a massive repatriation of overseas workers in the Middle East is underway, amid fears of an economic and political debacle of global proportions.
Among those killed as a result of the war were Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family; at least 47 top Iranian leaders; 13 US servicemen, including a Filipino-American soldier; a Filipino caregiver; and 180 Iranians, mostly pupils and teachers, at an elementary school for girls.
Continue reading the article here.
Jubilee Immigration Advocates April Newsletter
“I had a moment last month when I broke down. I learned that the Guatemalan mother and young daughter who were snatched by ICE at SFO and promptly deported, were part of a Spanish-speaking congregation I had visited…”
Read the rest of the newsletter here.
Penuel School of Theology (Recipient of Year-End Alternative Gifts)
“It starts with walking. Not heroic walking. Just the kind you do after something ends and nobody bothers to explain what comes after….”
Read the continuation of this weekly reflection.
Community Event
Hanami Hope Event, Sunday May 3, 2:00 - 4:00
See Laurie Shigekuni if you have any questions.
Solidarity for Sanctuary Party, Saturday, May 16 (Sponsored by Faith In Action’s Immigrant Families Committee
The aim of this Solidarity for Sanctuary Party and Fundraiser is to launch two funds: a Sanctuary Legal Defense Fund and an Emergency Fund Supporting Homeless Families.
The Sanctuary Legal Defense Fund addresses the critical problem that, overwhelming, the newcomer families and Leaders in Faith in Action face: how to pay for legal representation.
The Emergency Fund Supporting Homeless Families addresses the absence of basic funds for living expenses from which so many newcomer families suffer.
You can RSVP on this link: Solidarity for Sanctuary Party or scan the QR Code below.
Annual Garage Sale by Mario Nunez on Saturday, May 16
Our friend of the congregation, Mario, will be holding his annual garage sale on Saturday, May 16. Mario will begin collecting items on April 27. Feel free to donate clothes (men, women and children), small household items, kitchenware, small tools and electronics, cd’s dvd’s… but no big items.
Mario will donate the proceeds from the garage sale to Jubilee Immigration Advocates.
Contact Mario at (415) 710-0437 to arrange the drop off of items. See Jennifer or Paul Yee with any questions.