BEGINNING MAY 27: EVENSONG GATHERINGS AT GRATEFUL GARDENS

🗓️ Next Event: May 27

📍 Grateful Gardens (San Jose)

⏰ 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. PT

🔁 2nd/4th Tuesdays each month through Sept. 10

Come for a peaceful ending to your day and a place for spiritual connection and rejuvenation featuring music, readings, and poetry. All are welcome. Invite your friends and neighbors!

APPLY BEFORE MAY 31: ROBINSON ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP

Submit your application before the May 31 deadline for the Betty and Dorwin Robinson Endowed Memorial Scholarship! This unique and generous program is available to current members of the Community of Christ Sierra Pacific USA Mission Center or the child of a current member. Applicants must be enrolled as full-time students in a college, university, or trade school and maintain a minimum GPA of 2.0.

Questions? Contact Sue Thomas, Endowment Board Committee Chair, if you have any questions: natsue@ratsco.com.

REGISTER BY JUNE 2 FOR JUNE REUNION AT HAPPY VALLEY

🗓️ June 13 – 18, 2025

📍 Happy Valley Conference Center

🤸 All ages

🧑 Minister: Emily Allen Nilsen  

Lodging full – Tent Space ONLY

Members and friends of all ages are invited to join us for the Sierra Pacific Mission Center June Reunion at Happy Valley Conference Center in Santa Cruz.

Invite your friends and family to this wonderful community experience. 

We need your help! We need teachers and teacher helpers for the 3 yr. – Kindergarten class and for our 1st through 5th grade class.

Questions or interested in volunteering? Please contact Shirley Stevenson at svenranch@gmail.com.

JUNETEENTH BBQ POTLUCK AT SAN JOSE CONGREGATION

🗓️ June 19

📍 San Jose Congregation

🤸 All ages

All are welcome to gather at the San Jose Congregation on June 19 from 6 – 8 p.m. for a Juneteenth BBQ Potluck. Enjoy some delicious food and fellowship as we celebrate Juneteenth. Learn more about Juneteenth here, and make plans to join us!

REGISTER FOR CHILDREN’S CAMP |  JUNE 19 – 23

Who: Youth completing grades 3-5

Cost: $250

Where: Happy Valley Conference Center

Camp Director: Shannon Hrobowski | shannonily@gmail.com

REGISTER FOR HIGH SCHOOL CAMP | JUNE 24 – 30

Who: Youth completing grades 9-12

Cost: $400

Where: Happy Valley Conference Center

Camp Director: Jessica Jones | sayhitojjones@gmail.com

REGISTER FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMP | JULY 1 – 6

Who: Youth completing grades 6-8

Cost: $325

Where: Happy Valley Conference Center

Camp Directors: Clayton Troxell, Cathryn Cannavino, and Don Miller | lbolton@cofchrist-spmc.org

REGISTER FOR SPECTACULAR | JULY 12 – 19

Who: Youth completing grades 9-12

When: July 12-19 (with July 11 as a travel day)

Cost: $700

Where: Graceland University | Lamoni, IA

Delegation leader: Jessica Hudson | jl.judson@yahoo.com

SPEC is a two-part registration.

JOIN US TONIGHT FOR ‘THRIVE’ AS WE BEGIN OUR NEW BOOK

🗓️ Next Event: TONIGHT, May 19
📍 Zoom
⏰ 7:30 p.m. PT
🔁 1st – 4th Mondays (don’t meet 5th)

Join us tonight, May 19 as we begin our new book Accidental Saints (Finding God in All the Wrong People) by Nadia Bolz-Weber.

In a time when many have rightly become dis­illusioned with Christianity, Accidental Saints dem­onstrates what happens when ordinary people share bread and wine, struggle with scripture together, and tell each other the truth about their real lives. This unforgettable account of their faltering steps toward wholeness will ring true for believer and skeptic alike.

Learn more and join us at the link below!

JOIN US FOR DISCIPLINES DIALOGUE TOMORROW

🗓️ Next Event: May 20

📍 Zoom

⏰ 10:00 a.m. PT

🔁 Tuesdays, weekly

Each week, we discover the scriptures anew together following along with Disciplines 2025, a book of devotions.

Click the link below to learn more and join via Zoom.

LOVE OUT LOUD ON HOLD: SEE YOU AUGUST 7!

Love Out Loud gatherings are on pause for June and July.

Meetings will resume on August 7 to discuss these two books.

PEACE AND JUSTICE SUMMER READING LIST

Enjoy our summer reading list:  “White Poverty” by Reverend William Barber and “Poverty by America” by Matthew Desmond.

Join us as we prepare for the Redwoods Peace Colloquy with our

Summer Reading List and Fall Discussion Series! We’ll read over

the summer and gather to discuss

them in the fall.

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS ONLINE WORSHIPS: SPONSORED BY GPNW

🗓️ Next Event: May 25

📍 Zoom

⏰ 6:30 p.m. PT

🔁 2nd and 4th Mondays

Community Connections invites the five mission centers of the Western Field to join in worship and exploration together. Worship begins at 6:30 p.m. Pacific on the Second and Fourth Sundays of the month. The same Zoom link is used for every Sunday online worship.

Meeting ID: 841 448 115

Passcode: 043423

WATCH THE RECORDINGS: LEGISLATIVE EXPLORATION SESSION SUMMARIES

Early this year, the church was invited to participate in online Exploration Sessions to discuss World Conference legislative proposals. Summary videos of the sessions are available for review and include comments, concerns, and questions arising from the discussions. These recordings are in English, with closed captions available in additional languages, including Spanish and French.

PREPARE FOR WORLD CONFERENCE 2025 – LEARN, PLAN, AND GET EXCITED

World Conference 2025 is just around the corner (May 30 – June 6). You can find all proposed legislation, event details, and worship plans on cofchrist.org.

FIRST PRESIDENCY RELEASES UPDATED STATEMENT ON NONVIOLENCE AHEAD OF WORLD CONFERENCE 2025

The First Presidency shares the proposed Statement on Nonviolence that will be considered by 2025 World Conference delegates. The proposed statement was developed with extensive feedback from the church. If adopted by World Conference delegates, this statement will serve as a guiding document for Community of Christ.