Bulletin for June 10, 2018

Monthly English prayer meeting will be held today in the observation room at 1pm. We encourage you to come and pray with us.
Local Short Term Mission: Our church will go to Toronto Alliance Church in downtown Toronto this Sat (June 16), to provide dinner to low income or homeless people. Those who are interested, please go to tac.ccac.church to register. This time we need to make 10 pots of soup (chicken noodle, vegetable or Chili etc). If you can help to provide it, please contact Thomas Chang or Adi Lau.
Do you want to invite your friends and family to our church but don’t know how? Know anyone who would be interested in participating in a community garage sale? This year we are opening up to invite others to come and participate as a vendor at our garage sale. Everyone who is a church member will have this great opportunity to be a sponsor. What is a sponsor? Check out the bulletin insert! (p.s. We are not collecting donations this year!)
Does God exist? How can anyone believe in religion when science has neither a need nor a place for God? Is evolution happening today? If God is a God of love, why do we suffer and die? Creation Ministries Internationalis coming on July 8, Sunday at 11:15am with answers to these important questions. Come and hear Thomas Bailey expose the bankruptcy of the evolutionary myth. You’ll be amazed to see how weak the scientific evidence for evolution is. This is an issue that affects everyone. Evolution teaches us there is no need for God, there is no spiritual realm, and there is no afterlife. According to the theory, spirituality is just an evolutionary trick of the mind! The Bible gives a very different picture about the nature of these things. At this presentation, you will learn how the scientific evidence, when properly understood, confirms the details of the biblical account. At the same time, we will answer many of the Big Questions.
Elder Board Resolution in May: i) It is resolved to offer $3000.00 to C&MA from the Mission Fund. ii) It is resolved to pay down the church’s mortgage by $100,000.00 from the General Fund. iii) It is resolved to accept Miranda Chan, Hallie Wong & Isaac Lee for the Summer Intern position. iv) It is resolved to approve the Garage Sale be run in a new format: “External Vendors by Internal Sponsorship”.v) It is resolved to replace the blower of the air conditioner for a cost not exceeding $1,500.00.
2019 Elders Nomination Committee for 2 representatives from members. Nomination period: June 3 – June 24 (Sun).
Administrative Assistant Karen Fung will take a day off this Wed, Jun 13.
Offering for Mexico STM. When it comes to missions, another way that the church can participate is through the act of sending. From August 19 – 26, we will be sending a team of youths to Tijuana, Mexico to build homes for the needy in partnership with Mexico Caravan Ministries. In addition to the Offering Wall outside the gym, we are also fundraising through cards, t-shirts, and buttons our team has designed. We have an online order form at mexico.ccac.church. The deadline to submit purchase order forms is Sunday, June 17th. If you have any questions, please ask Pastor Darren, Cecilia, or Thomas.
We are now fund raising for Anne Louie’s Mexico mission trip. She needs a one-time car purchase of $3,000, and her annual work fund of $3,000. Please designate your offering as “Rev. Anne Louie mission fund” on the offering envelope.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary this year, a collage of pictures will be created; Therefore, pictures of Family/individuals picture will be taken on consecutive Sundays from June 3-17 after Chinese Sunday Service at Sanctuary from 1-2pm. Also church group picture will be taken a week after on June 24 after Chinese Service. It won’t take long, please reserve your time. Moreover, a thanksgiving banquet will be held in the evening on October 7th (Sunday). Registration will start today after service at the reception desk; A special commemorative anniversary publication will be distributed also. We invite brothers and sisters to submit articles (MS Word format or handwriting to Andrew Ching) and historical photos related to our church to ccac30@ccac.church by June 24. If you need more information, please check the bulletin board for the 30^th anniversary downstairs.