2023-06-15 Good News

Dear Wesley UMC Family,I was honored to participate in the Oak Hill Cemetery Memorial Day Service on May 29.As we gathered at the Oak Hill Cemetery on Memorial Day, I was reminded of the brave men and women who had laid down their lives in service to our nation. Their selflessness and sacrifice embody the very essence of love, echoing the words of Jesus when He said, 'Greater love has no one than ...

Wesley has white canopies (10 x 10) that are available for committees to use at on site events. Some of the canopies have our church name on the front. If your committee would like to use these canopies, you need to complete the check out form with Anh, in the office. Each canopy is numbered on the outside cover as well as on the canopy legs. Please make sure you put the correct cover on the match...

The Bill Wilson Center celebrated its 50th year of saving lives at a gala fundraising event on May 19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The audience witnessed testimonials from several young women and men who maybe 6-8 years earlier were living on the streets without a home, suffering from addiction or depression, or maybe pregnant without a family or friends to help.BWC was recognized for its...

This past Sunday, Wesley UMC had the honor of formally congratulating our High School seniors and College graduates. We are proud and pleased at how our young people have grown and developed into such responsible, thoughtful, and caring individuals. Each are beautiful gifts from God and their presence in our church has enhanced and highlighted the best in our church.Accolades to our college gradua...

Please join the Compassion Team. We meet on the 4th Monday of each month at 6:30pm by zoom. We welcome your energy and ideas about how we can serve the less fortunate in our neighborhood. Let Mark Teagle know you’d like the zoom link and join our meeting for a visit.You’re also invited to help unload the fresh food we receive from Second Harvest on Friday mornings. You will directly impact the liv...

We have been and continue to pray for Joanne Miyahara who underwent a successful kidney transplant surgery at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She was in intensive care for several days and is now at home resting comfortably. Our prayers go out to the family and to the donor Monica Sakamoto and her family.. Their surgery was recorded in an updated CPMC poster.......

Recently Nathan Stowe (right) gifted us with his beautiful baritone voice when he paid us a visit from San Diego. He and Dave Land filled the sanctuary with a duet from the musical “Doors Open” and we were uplifted.......

Summer Singers, unite! Show up ready to sing with a great group of motivated singers every Sunday in July. Come to the Sanctuary, learn an easy piece of music, then be part of something bigger than yourself. Five opportunities to try it out: July 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30. Work with Choir Director Mark Teagle and guest conductor Denise Rawinson (July 30) for this great experience. We're also always loo...

Our Praise Band is coming up in the world! To make them easier to see and follow when leading music in worship, stage risers will be installed soon to give our Praise Band two tiers to stand on 12" and 18" high. These risers are being built by QuikStage of Blaine, Minnesota and being installed by a team of Wesley volunteers including Byran Longmire and Dave Brown working with staff member Mark Tea...

After a four-year absence and month and months of planning, and weeks and weeks of preparation, followed by three solid days of collecting peoples used and abused goods, the United Women of Faith put together their fundraising RUMMAGE SALE on June 10. Yay! Hip-hip-hooray!  And was it ever a welcomed community event.The people poured into our filled parking lot like an ever-flowing river and scoope...

From Terri Koike, Bev Acuna, and the Wesley UWF Our beloved Wesley Rummage Sale returned with a force on June 10th, 2023.  It was like a cyclone that hit and when it was over and cleaned up, you would have never known it happened.There are so many thank you’s that need to go out, it is difficult to know where to begin.Special thanks to:Amy Kaneshiro for offering her garage to multiple friends and ...

The Wesley Ukulele Band led by Tina Urata has had a busy month of May performing before audiences in the Japantown Communities of San Francisco, Cupertino and San Jose as they celebrated with festivals and honored Asian American and Pacific Islander Month. The band and hula dancers performed at Nikkei Matsuri in San Jose and followed that with the Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival seen above and a...

Walk! Walk! Walk! CROP WALK! We walk to end hunger, NOW! On May 21 members of Wesley UMC met with a number of South Bay churches at Almaden Hills UMC in a joint fundraising effort to support Church World Services whose goal is to end the plague of hunger around the world. No one should go hungry here or anywhere else and this was our opportunity to lend a hand by making a financial contribution an...

5月28日はペンテコステ（聖霊降臨日）、共に祈る使徒たちの元に聖霊が下り、キリスト教の教会が生まれた日とされています。この日は私たちの日語礼拝の日でもあり、同時に桑湾日語メソジスト会の例年の行事として、合同礼拝と集会をウェスレー教会で守りました。お説教は大森照輝先生が担ってくださり、遠くエル・セリトからはシカモア教会、アラメダからはブエナビスタ教会、そしてサンフランシスコからはパイン教会の方々をお迎えして礼拝を守り、桑湾日語の現状を話し合い、食事とフェローシップの時間を共にして、恵まれた一日となりました。私たちの教会がこうして神様の元に集められ、夫々が小さな群れであっても共に歩んでいけることを心から感謝します。今回、参加された中里麻希さんが感想を記してくださいましたので掲載いたします。５月２３日のペンテコステ礼拝と集会を振り返ると、いろいろな不安があるなかしっかりとした希望を感じます。大森...