2024-11-21 Good News

By Barbara HiuraThank you!!! Thank you! Thank you to all the volunteers for donating their precious time and energy to support Compassion Ministry programs, from Food Distribution to the St James Park hot meals, Grant family grocery bags, neighborhood food pantry, and Grant school tutoring program and of course all the many donors to this ministry…Thank you. A dinner to thank all volunteers and do...

The adage, "It Takes All Kinds" proved to be true under the light of compassion.On Saturday, November 9 approximately sixty-five faithful volunteers packed 10,100 meals destined for areas of starvation and suffering. Doing good made the day seem special. Jesus said doing good with others made it blessed.Rise Against Hunger is a nondenominational world-wide hunger relief agency that relies solely o...

Pictured with me are Eric & Jo Ann Misner.  Jo Ann, a nurse at Stanford Hospital, over the past 25 plus years, has been instrumental in collecting socks, washing and drying hundred of socks each month for distribution to the homeless.One of the current distribution points is at  St James Park where each week by Mark Teagle and  Kelli Martines. The source of the socks is long and faithful services ...

During our recent Primetimer's Meeting, Ernie and Marilyn Murata shared their extended visit and stay in Tanzania, on the eastern coast of Southern Africa. Their stay was just short of camping in the wild.Their photo presentation of their recent trip to Tanzania is an encounter many of us might just think about but may never have the opportunity to make such a trip. It is more like a camping trip ...

To Whom Much is Given: an Update on our Work Following the Retreat In February, we held our Winter Retreat, A Time to Reflect & Reimagine, in a cozy cabin-like setting at beautiful Willow Glen UMC. Before the year comes to an end, we want to follow up and let everyone know how we have responded to all of the ideas that were lifted up. For the retreat, we used feedback and suggestions to guide the ...

United Women in Faith Cookbook SALEBuy one Get one FREE Soup to Sushi $15 Checks made payable to “Wesley UM Women”Contact Bobbie U. through the church office to order.......

To submit your Prayer Requests:For the United Women in Faith Prayer Chain: contact Mary Chaffey through the church office (office@wesleysj.net)For Pastoral Staff: contact Rev. John Oda at (revjohnoda@yahoo.com) Philippians 4:6-7: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends...