Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Fifth Sundays Turn Into Service Days at at West Valley Presbyterian Church and other churches.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Anne Ernst
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Wednesday, January 18
There’s no need to go to church every Sunday; permission to skip granted courtesy Kim Engelmann, senior pastor at West Valley Presbyterian Church. Yes, there’s a catch but it’s a feel-good catch that has lured in new members who have told Engelmann they joined the church just because of WVPC’s Service Worship Sundays. For every month with five Sundays WVPC turns that fifth Sunday into a Service Worship day and turns loose the congregation into the community to do good deeds. “From a theological perspective we are worshiping by serving,” Engelmann says. But you don’t have to be a member of the church to join them, Engelmann says. Anyone can help out then stick around for the potluck dinner back at the church at the end of the day. …
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
A life-sized game of Monopoly, to take place on Black Friday, will help build real-life Habitat for Humanity homes.
While many Americans will hit the stores in a shopping frenzy come Black Friday, at least one group will be saving instead of spending—and in a big way. The Good Samaritan United Methodist Church is hosting a chance opportunity to play a life-size game of Monopoly that will benefit Habitat for Humanity Silicon Valley's construction project in Cupertino. Eight teams of middle and high school students from Cupertino, Milpitas, and San Jose will begin the game at 9 a.m., and are continuing to seek sponsors from local companies until then. So far, businesses from Cupertino, Sunnyvale, San Jose, and Palo Alto businesses have signed up. "We're very committed to the Habitat for Humanity project that's starting up in January," said spokesman Mark …
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Monday, October 10, 2011
Good Samaritan United Methodist Church held a candlelight vigil Sunday on Homestead Road.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Anne Ernst
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Monday, October 10, 2011
As they strolled Homestead Road Sunday night during Good Samaritan United Methodist Church’s candlelight vigil people sang songs and reflected on the Wednesday shootings that began at Lehigh Cement plant, the church said. “People just sort of soaked it in,” said Mark Teagle, director of music at the church. More than 50 people, many youth members, walked from the church on Homestead Road to the Hewlett-Packard driveway where Shareef Allman—the alleged gunman in the shootings—shot a woman as he attempted to carjack her car. “We wanted to send a message that there is something stronger than fear, and that’s love,” Teagle said. The church membership includes a “handful of Hewlett-Packard” employees and a few families who live in the …
randy albin
2:44 pm on Wednesday, January 18, 2012
everybody wants me or anyone to be a volunteer. what about meeting the high costs of being in this kind of an area? more ›