Dear Grace Fellowship Community Church Family,
These announcements and prayer requests are being sent out every Thursday to inform us of what is happening in and the needs of our church. Please send any announcements or prayer requests to office@gfccsf.org by Tuesday evening.
Announcements for the Week of 04/06/26
Join Us for Sunday Worship, April 12 at 10:00 AM
This Sunday, Pastor Al will be preaching from Revelation 18:1-5, 11-13, 21-24; 19:1-8. “Celebrating Evil’s Demise: What Easter People Do”
Last week, Al Preached on “Stations of the Resurrection: Grief, Terror, Awe, Power”
You can rehear the sermon using this link.
Daily Prayer at 12PM by the People of Grace Fellowship Community Church
This week’s daily prayer for April 10 to April 16 is from Heidi McLaughlin.
God, Creator of life, have mercy on us.
Christ our Savior, grant us shalom.
Holy Spirit, shine your light and love in these dark times.
Empower us through resurrection faith, we pray.
Amen.
Maundy Thursday Event
It was a blessed and humbling time as we ate together, took the Lord’s supper together and washed each other’s feet.
Good Friday Service
Thank you Karen for your homily.
Easter Sunday
He is Risen, He is Risen indeed!
Easter Offering
This Easter, we would like to take a special offering for Esther Moses Badung’s (Sunday Agang’s daughter) TRASE (Trauma Resilience and Sustainable Empowerment) Project.
“TRASE is not just a poverty alleviation scheme: it is a holistic initiative that aims to empower individuals and families suffering from trauma, especially trauma resulting from the ongoing Fulani herdsmen kidnapping, attacks and killings, to rebuild their lives,
rediscover their God-given potential, and become agents of positive change.”
You can read more about this project here.
Next Sunday (April 19) will be the last opportunity to make your gift.
Longing and Lament in Anxious Times Workshop, Saturday April 11, 9AM-11AM
What can help us in the healing of the personal and collective grief that we may feel during this anxious moment in our lives and in the life of our church, nation and the world?
Come and learn about the ancient prayer of lament on Saturday, April 11, from 9-11 am in our church sanctuary. You will have the opportunity to practice writing your own psalm of lament to help express your longings and grief to the One who holds us all in His healing, wounded hands. We can pray in lament during Eastertide because our Risen Savior promises new life and hope in the midst of suffering.
Karen Seth facilitated this workshop for New College Berkeley in February 2026 and has agreed to offer it to us at GFCC. Coffee and light refreshments will be served.
Please sign up if you are interested by April 9.
May Love Feast and Family Meeting, May 3
Welcome to Pastor Javier Gaitan and the Gateway World Harvest Congregation
Beginning on Wednesday, April 8, the Gateway World Harvest congregation is renting the courtyard for their worship services on Wednesday and Friday nights (6:30pm - 9:30pm).
If you need to use the church building on Wednesday or Friday nights, please contact the church office so that we can coordinate.
Scripture Readers Needed (There are Many Open Slots)
Please sign up using this link.
Scripture Reading Sign Up
Loops of Love is Collecting Blankets and Stuffed Animals
"Loops of Love" is getting ready to visit and offer gifts to the residents at Laguna Honda Hospital. We are collecting blankets and stuffed animals to bring some warmth and comfort to these beloved ones. For safety reasons, please do not have any ribbons or embellishments on the blankets and stuffed animals. A basket next to the offering box will be available for your gifts.
Contact Linda Kay or Jennifer Yee if you have any questions.
Food Pantry Volunteers
The weekly Saturday food pantry is always in need of volunteers. If you are available to help from 12:30 to 2:30, please sign up.
Food Pantry Sign-Up
Deeper Dive Link - Reflecting on the Sunday Experience
Every Tuesday, we will offer “A Deeper Dive,” a time to revisit the previous Sunday’s worship experience.
This space will be on Zoom every Tuesday evening, 7:00-8:30pm. Below is the zoom link which you can use every week:
Deeper Dive Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 825 9666 9506
Passcode: 728637
Questions to Consider for the Deeper Dive
1. How were you made aware of God’s presence this past Sunday—perhaps through a song, the sermon, communion, a conversation with someone at coffee hour, etc.?
2. What in the sermon particularly inspired, encouraged, or challenged you?
3. Beyond Sundays, in what ways has your worship experience been impacting your relationship with God, neighbor (near and far), and/or yourself?
Contact Pastor Al or Randy Chang if you have any questions.
Community Event
Hanami Hope Event, Sunday May 3, 2:00 - 4:00
See Laurie Shigekune if you have any questions.
Annual Garage Sale by Mario Nunez on Saturday, May 16
Our friend of the congregation, Mario, will be holding his annual garage sale on Saturday, May 16. Mario will begin collecting items on April 27. Feel free to donate clothes (men, women and children), small household items, kitchenware, small tools and electronics, cd’s dvd’s… but no big items.
Mario will donate the proceeds from the garage sale to Jubilee Immigration Advocates.
Contact Mario at (415) 710-0437 to arrange the drop off of items. See Jennifer or Paul Yee with any questions.
Comedy Night for Immigrant Rights, Thursday, April 30 at 7:30PM at the Herbst Theatre
This event is sponsored by IIBA (Immigration Institute of the Bay Area).
All event proceeds go directly towards providing high quality and affordable legal services for immigrant families at a time when the need is most urgent.
You can Purchase Tickets Here
Ministry Partners
INFEMIT
Click here to read the latest INFEMIT Community Newsletter that was released last week.