Come join us for our monthly All Fellowship Church Service in the East Bay!

We will meet at 10:30 AM at Cal State East Bay in the Valley Business and Technology Center. Click on the button below for a map of the campus with circles around the parking lots to park in and where the building is located on campus. Parking is free on Sundays.

Our guest speakers will be Rhys and Grace Kia’aina became Christians in Honolulu, Hawaii over 31 years ago. They been married for 29 years and have 3 children. They have served in the ministry in Alaska, San Francisco, and Hawaii (Oceania Family of Churches: Oahu, Hilo, Maui, Guam, and Saipan) from 1996-2012. They currently now serve in the Metro LA Region of LA Church of Christ since 2012-present. 

Rhys recently received a Masters of Religious Education from Rochester University. Grace began her Master’s program this summer. 

We can't wait to all be together again and hope you can make it to worship and fellowship with us!

Hope to see you there!

I had the opportunity to go to Bolivia this summer with HOPE worldwide's (HWW) Volunteer Corps Program. The Volunteer Corps Program is an opportunity to be stretched beyond your comfort zone, and God will meet you there. 

Bolivia remains the most materially poor country in South America. Although there have been some improvements in the vital areas of health and education, the statistics about Bolivia’s material poverty and its crippling effect on its people are still very sobering.

During the HWW Volunteer Corps, we engaged together in a variety of initiatives that provided support and empowered vulnerable children and families. We participated in helping with existing sustainable community outreach programs, such as creating and providing reading activities for materially disadvantaged children within inner-city preschools, and hosted a monthly Park Day for families and orphans. This year we had a garden project refurbishing the greenhouse for crop production for the local school program. 

When you have little resources, little time, and need to rebuild something, it can be challenging. There's nothing like the heart of a HWW Volunteer that is willing to go and simply be available to provide a presence for the kids and do whatever task is needed. The good news is there are ways you can take your resources and make them work. We had the heart and the trust that we could get done what was in our control and believed God would be pleased. 

I learned in my time in Bolivia that it's about being a learner of the people and their culture. I was not there to fix or rescue anyone but to love and be loved. 

- John, Peninsula Fellowship Group

For one more week, the SF Bay Fellowship will be collecting donations to send to our sister church in Maui, Hawaii, the Maui Christian Church.

If you want to donate to the Maui Christian Church, please click on the button below. The button below will take you to the "Give" page on our website, and when donating, select the "Missions" account and make the donation there. We will give all funds collected directly to our sister church in Maui for them to distribute as needed. 

We also know that Tatiana, a member of the Maui Christian Church and our sister in Christ, who was born and raised in Maui, lost her family home and most of her belongings. If you would like to donate to her and her family specifically, please donate to their GoFundMe account, which you can go to by clicking HERE.

Finally, if you would like to read the letter from our sister church in Maui that they emailed out last week and that we posted in last week's newsletter, please click HERE.

We appreciate any and all donations. 

Our Sister Church, Santa Clarita Valley Church of Christ has invited the married couple in our fellowship to go to their marriage retreat called Lift Us Up on November 4-5 in Oxnard, CA.

Brock and Anne of our fellowship will be their guest speakers for the marriage retreat!

The cost to register for the retreat is $60 per couple through October 20, 2023, and then the price will increase to $75 per couple if space is still available.Lift 

They have negotiated a special group rate of $179 per night for hotel rooms on Friday and Sunday night at this rate, first come first served. 

Their site is now live to register for the conference and to book the hotel at The Residence Inn in Oxnard, Southern California.

We wanted to thank all of you who generously gave to our fellowship to help us advance the gospel in the Bay Area. In July, our average weekly donation was $3396.

We continue to pray that God will move tremendously and use these funds to help many have a relationship with God. 

If you want to donate or tithe to our fellowship, click the button below. 

We appreciate any and all donations and hope God converts them into souls who have decided to follow Jesus.

2 Corinthians 9:6-8 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work in Jesus Christ.