What’s happening at Church?
Our in-person Sunday Worship Service is at 10:30AM in our sanctuary, and the video-recording will be posted here each Sunday. Other church programs and ministries are conducted in-person, online, or hybrid.
We welcome everyone. All our services are conducted only in English.
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Announcements - March 11, 2025
1. This Sunday, Pastor Mark preaches “What can I expect from others?” with Colossians 3:18 - 4:1 as Scripture.
2. CCC Congregation Meeting re: Sanctuary Upgrades – this Sunday. A committee consisting of Tom Fong, John Yu, Matt Fong, Merrily Wong, Adele Din, Randy Fong, and Dan Fong has been collaborating with interior designer Bernadette Chiang and architect Darryl Chinn on concepts for multiple upgrades to the CCC sanctuary. After several meetings and drafts, they would like to present their recommendations and are seeking input from the church family at a presentation after refreshments this Sunday, March 16, 2025. We hope to see you this Sunday at this Congregation Meeting.
3. The 2024-2025 CCC Basketball Program has come to a close! The 3rd-10th Graders participated in the Sacramento Buddhist Church (SBC) Tournament, March 1st and 2nd. The CCC Instructional K-2nd hosted a Jamboree on February 22nd at CCC with some of the teams playing 3-4 games that day vs SBC and SJUMC (Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church). Last Sunday, March 9th, Eddie with the help of Kristine Okino, Jon Conover, Steve Chan and Joey Lee cooked a delicious meal for our Fabulous Coaches and Team Parents.
Beginning June 16-20, CCC Basketball Program will run a Basketball Buddies Clinic for Coed K-4th Graders. The forms are on the CCC Website (cccsac.net). We’re working on the details for a Developmental Skills Clinic for Coed 5th-12th Graders that will be on Mondays in May and June.
We encourage regular attendance and participation of players and families in Sunday School, church service and fellowship throughout the year.
4. Next Sunday Family Fun Day is on March 23rd @9:30AM at church! Bring your cowboy hats and join in the Bible lesson, activities, games, and snacks.
5. We are pleased to announce that CCC is now in a partnership in prayer and financial support with Japanese Evangelical Missionary Society (JEMS). The goal of the program is to create recreational activities to share the Gospel, partner with local churches in reaching their communities for Jesus, and provide opportunities to serve others and fellowship with Christians from different churches. Scott Shimada, former Youth Pastor at the San Lorenzo Japanese Christian Church, shares his love of sports and love for Jesus as the new Sports and Outreach Director for this ministry.
6. We are happy to remind everyone of our new Lifesong Praise Fellowship, a music ministry to help spread the Gospel. We meet on the first and third Thursdays of each month, 7:00-9:00 PM, at church. For more info and to sign up, visit the Lifesong page on our church website HERE.
7. We are pleased to remind everyone of our church’s Wong Family Hope Fund, a resource that can be availed of by church family members and friends needing (limited) financial assistance. To learn more, visit our church website's Hope Fund page for an overview and to access the Guidelines and downloadable Application Form.
8. Reminder from Pastor Louis:
Super deals on Kings lower corner tickets!
Boston Celtics @ Kings, Monday 3/24, 7pm (total of 20 tickets left!) Lower corner section #110, rows N-Q
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(All ticket sales are final, no refunds or changes. Absolutely no resale on any online source such as eBay, Craigslist, Stubhub. All Kings tickets are transferred electronically only. You must have the free Kings app on your phone and have your ClickTix account joined with your Ticketmaster account.)
*Violation of this strict rule will cause me to lose any future opportunity to purchase group tickets for Kings games.
9. Re: Damaged monitor at church office. We would like to request everyone who accesses our church office to please handle our church equipment and devices with care the way we would ours at home.
Last week, we found our church office monitor damaged apparently as a result of undue pressure being applied on it (e.g. was perhaps leaned on). It had to be repaired. All damaged church equipment and property that have to be repaired or replaced can entail expenses taken out of our church funds which we try to manage the best we can especially since most of our income comes from offerings and donations.
Taking care of our church’s property is also consistent with the Christian value of responsible stewardship. Thank you for your help on this.
Our Weekly Church Programs
Sunday School: Grades Preschool (potty trained) - 12th: 9:30-10:30 AM
Children's Church: Grades Preschool (potty trained) - 6th: 10:30-11:45 AM
Men's Bible Study - Tuesday, 7:00PM. Email Pastor Mark at revmark1410@gmail.com for more information.
Women’s Bible Study – Wednesday, 7:00PM. Contact our sister Adele at adeledin@yahoo.com.
Pickleball Fellowship @ the Gym, Sundays, 1:30-3:30PM. Contact Patty Fong at pfongdds@gmail.com to sign up.
This week's Scripture –
"Whoever wishes to be My follower must deny his very self, take up the cross each day, and follow in My steps." – Luke 9:23, NIV
Ponder –
“The cross is not the suffering tied to natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Christians. The cross is never simply a matter of suffering, but a matter of suffering and rejection for the sake of Jesus Christ, not for the sake of some other arbitrary behavior or confession.”― Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)