Announcements for 05/04/2025

4/27 BAPTISMS

Praise God that eight brothers and sisters were baptized last week: Steven Wang, Alice Cheng, Xichen Wang, Ruijia Ma, Kallie Shi, Mimi Li, Jun Ling Yuan, and Leo Zou. May the Lord bless them and lead them to continue to grow in their spiritual lives.
 

5/23-5/26 SUMMER RETREAT

Our annual church-wide summer retreat will take place from 5/23-5/26 at Biola University! Registration is now closed. Please pray for the preparation and registration! To encourage brothers and sisters to attend retreat in-person, there will not be any in-person Sunday Service on Sunday, 5/25. Sunday School will also be canceled.
 

7/11-7/19 YSMP ARIZONA MISSION TRIP

Registration for the YSMP Arizona mission trip has begun. The deadline to sign up is TODAY, May 4. For more details, please contact Flora Jiang at [email protected] or Pastor Jonathan for more information.
 

SPECIAL OFFERINGS

In addition to the Christmas missionary offerings, our church has special offerings for love, missionary work, and church planting. If brothers and sisters are moved, they can designate an offering to one of these. The current balances of these three offerings are: $10,789.00; $288,824.42; $29,500.00. The church does not accept designated donations from other projects or individuals.
 

HEAVENLY GARDEN

The new issue of the journal “Direction of the Wind” will be published at the end of May, telling the story of the Holy Spirit’s guidance on the church and the lives of brothers and sisters. There are also new columns, “Entering the Fellowship” and “Exploring the Ministry”. Stay tuned!

General Announcements

HYBRID SUNDAY SERVICES

Praise God that after over a year of online services, our church has now reopened for a hybrid of online and in-person Sunday service and Sunday School! If it is your first time visiting in-person, please submit your contact information here so the church can contact you if anyone around you tests positive for COVID-19.

To attend our services live online, please tune-in to our 9 AM Sunday Worship Service live-stream at english.cbcwla.org/live.

Sunday School is at 11 AM in-person and on english.cbcwla.org/gather.

Wednesday Prayer Meetings are online at cbcwla.org/pray at 8 PM and in-person in Room 311.

Adult and youth fellowships are on Friday nights at 7:45 PM via Zoom at english.cbcwla.org/gather and also in-person in the Fellowship Hall.

College fellowship takes place at USC on Tuesday nights at 7 PM. Please talk to a member of EMT for more information.

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2025 CHURCH THEME

Our church theme for next year is “Living Together in Unity” from Psalm 133:1. We hope that brothers and sisters will pursue this in their lives and ministry, seeing the goodness of being unified in Christ.

2025 CHURCH CALENDAR

Our 2025 church calendar has been published on the church website here!

CHURCH PARKING

As more people return for in-person services, we kindly ask for brothers and sisters to take advantage of the free parking on the street. This way, we can save the church parking lot for guests, elderly, families with young children, or others who need easier access to the building.

DISPOSAL OF LUNCH BOXES

To follow government regulations for composting food waste, the church is implementing a waste reduction and classification system. In order to correctly classify waste, the church trash cans will no longer be for food waste (including beverage cups and cans). We kindly ask that you use reusable lunch boxes which you can take home to clean or, if you use disposable lunch boxes, to take those home and dispose of it yourself. Keeping the church clean requires everyone’s participation; please also kindly remind each other from time to time. Thank you so much for your cooperation!

OFFERING

Offering is collected online via Zelle, using the email address accounting@cbcwla.org as the recipient. More information can be found here. Please add “English Congregation or (“EC”) ” on your electronic or check offerings’ memo section. Donations via Zelle are tax-deductible, and the Accounting Office will include these gifts in a year-end receipt to the name registered on your Zelle-linked bank account.

LUNCH TICKETS

The church has decided to resume the lunch ticket sales system. Lunch tickets will be available for purchase at the entrance of the Fellowship Hall. Green tickets ($3) are for those who bring their own lunch boxes, red tickets ($4) are for those who need disposable lunch boxes, and yellow tickets ($1) are for children. For more details, please visit the church website.