This Sunday
July 27, 2025
Greetings Friends,
As July comes to an end, we journey further into the second half of this year which felt like it just started not long ago. The second half of the year is made even more evident with the start of school in our Castro Valley School District on August 6. That is why next Sunday, August 3, we are going to celebrate the start of Sunday School classes during the 10:00 morning worship service as part of honoring our Rally Day traditions by commissioning and blessing those that will be teaching Sunday School. In addition, we will also bless our students’ backpacks (for students of all ages!). Please remind your students to come to church next Sunday and bring their backpacks.
Also, beginning August 10, we will be honoring Women’s Equality Month with special speakers focusing on women in the Bible and women in their lives that influenced their faith over three Sundays (8/10, 8/17 & 8/24). I will wrap up on the last Sunday on 8/31. Please come and support our speakers as we give God thanks for our speakers' courage and the faithfulness, giftedness, and service of women in the Bible, women in our lives, and other women around us who inspire us and others by living out God’s call on their lives. Come and experience another dimension of thriving in community from each other's perspective.
In these challenging times where the journey can be overwhelming, frightening, and daunting, I invite you to join me Sunday where my message titled, “In Christ: The Source of Our Strength” which is rooted in Colossians 2:6-10. While most of us continue to try to do it by ourselves and likely get tired, scared, frustrated or angry, we do not have to do this thing called life alone. Try it Jesus’ way!
Peace & Blessings,
Akesa