Weekly Announcement
Updated on 5/2/2025
1. Cambodia Short Term Mission: A short-term missions team of 20 people from the church will visit the "Fullness in Christ Fellowship " in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, from June 6 to 16 to get to know and serve local girls and women. We now invite you to join us, pray for the short-term mission trip, and make a contribution to the team members’ travel expenses. The donation will be used for the team’s food and accommodation and to support the travel expenses of team members in need.
2. Mission Trip Material Collection: The team is collecting the donations of children's English story books and youth clothing (boys and girls) . Please place your donations in room 102. Collection deadline: May 25th.
3. Craft sale: Thank you all for your enthusiastic support in the last car wash fundraiser. A second fundraiser will be held after worship on May 4th. The short-term missions team will sell handmade crafts of different sizes in the Cafe. Please go there and take a look and support them!
4. Bylaws review: Arise Church is in the process of revisiting our bylaws. Our new Bylaws has been initially supplemented and revised by church leaders to meet the current needs of church development. At this stage we open the documents to church members for discussion and review and to collect everyone’s views. Please refer to the instructions in the email to members and submit written comments before 5/11. A small number of physical copies are available upon registration outside the sanctuary.
5. Family Meeting: Scheduled to be held on May 18th. All church members are invited. We will discuss the new by-laws.
6. Welcome Lunch: On May 18 we will have a Welcome Lunch in the MPR. Everyone is welcomed to join us for lunch.
7. Sharing and Prayer Meeting: FiCF will hold a "We Love Cambodia Sharing and Prayer Meeting" for our retired missionary Debbie Choy at Arise. You are all invited to join the event. The time is Sunday, June 8 from 3:30-5:30 pm. Please sign up here. The deadline for sign-up is June 6.