Announcements for 12/22/2024

 

CHRISTMAS OFFERING

Praise God, so far we have received $41,958 for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and $33,250 for the UVM offering, surpassing both goals of $30,000! Both Christmas offerings will continue to be open until next Sunday, 12/29. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goes to overseas missionaries from the Southern Baptist Convention, and the offering to Union Vision Mission (UVM) supports rural church building ministry in Uganda. The offering is collected online via Zelle using the email address, accounting@cbcwla.org, as the recipient. Please indicate “Lottie Moon” or “UVM” in the notes so that we know which offering to allocate it to!

 

CHRISTMAS EVE JOINT SERVICE

We have our annual Christmas Eve Joint Service coming up this Tuesday, 12/24 at 7:30 pm. Our theme this year is “The Word Became Flesh and Made His Dwelling Among Us”. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to invite friends and family to join us as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus, together!

 

BAPTISMS

Our next baptisms will take place on 1/26! If you are interested in getting baptized, please speak to Pastor Jon; the deadline to apply for baptisms is 1/5.

 

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.

 

ACCOUNTING OFFICE UPDATES

The accounting office will be sending out electronic receipts for the 2024 church offerings in January of next year. Members already have their email information on file, but if you are not a member and would like to receive your electronic receipt, please notify the accounting office at [email protected].

Offering is recorded based on the bank deposit date. To ensure inclusion of your offering in this year’s statistics, stock offering must be received by 12/20, checks must be mailed before 12/27, and Zelle transfers and in-person offering should be received by 12/29. For more information, please contact our Treasurer, Sister Shen Qing.

 

2025 CHURCH CALENDAR

Our 2025 church calendar has been published on the church website here. You can also pick up a physical copy, either a wall calendar or a desk calendar, from the ushers at the entrances (one per household)!

 

NO PRAYER MEETING (12/25 and 1/1)

Due to the holidays, we will not be having our weekly prayer meeting on 12/25 and 1/1. We hope everyone has a blessed holiday, and we will see you on 1/8!

 

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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2024 CHURCH THEME

The theme of 2024 is “Missional Church. Missional Disciple”. This reminds brothers and sisters to think more about what we, as a church, should do regarding missions and how disciples who care about missions should get involved.

 

2024 CHURCH CALENDAR

Our 2024 church calendar can be found 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.