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Welcome David John Perez

Service & Ministry

Saturday Ministry Coordinator

We are thrilled to welcome David John Perez and his family to the CUMC family. David will be serving as the Saturday Ministry Coordinator, working to launch new worship experiences at our church.

David loves Jesus, his family, DJing, and music! He is an 8-year Navy Veteran, with a background in Mental Health, and recently served as the Director of Youth Ministry for 10 years at a United Methodist Church in the suburbs of Chicago, IL. It’s a joy for his wife Sal and their family to be back in Southern California and to introduce SoCal living to their daughter, Hannah, and their son, Aiden. Using music and creative arts to help others experience the goodness of our Creator is one of his passions, and we are all excited to see what God does through our Saturday Worship.

Fall Wednesday Night Study

Adult, Events, Learning & Fellowship, Service & Ministry

Join us as Brenda Weikel leads a class on The Gospel of Mark: A Beginner’s Guide to the Good News by Amy Jill Levine.

Walk through the Bible’s earliest source for the life of Jesus with scholar Amy-Jill Levine as she examines John the Baptizer, the Little Apocalypse, the Transfiguration, and several of Jesus’s most notable stories and parables. The Good News of the gospel message comes alive in this book as readers see Jesus as divine and human, powerful and weak, approachable yet mysterious. The book features an in-depth study of select passages and illuminates the Gospel in its historical context and as a source for the other gospels.

This class will have a video component featuring the author. The book is available on Amazon are wherever you buy your books.

This is study is both in person and online. Subscribe to CUMC HB emails to receive the online login information.

Thank you from OC TIYYA

Children, gratitude, Service & Ministry

Thank you from the OC TIYYA Refugee Foundation for your recent donations of school supplies and backpacks!

Together, we were able to supply 23 backpacks to this wonderful organization that supports refugees in Orange County, many of whom arrived in the US with no more than one suitcase per family. Thank you for taking part in this mission to further God’s kingdom on earth.

³⁵For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, ³⁶I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ Matthew 25:36-36

Backpack and School Supply Collection

Service & Ministry

We’ll be collecting school supplies and backpacks to benefit Colette’s Children’s Home August 5-19. You can bring your gifts to the “Giving Tree” in the church Narthex or to the church office.

Colette’s Children’s Home supports homeless single women and their children while they work toward self-sufficiency. We support this organization throughout the year with blankets and toiletry items. As children prepare to go back to school and back to school sales are in full swing, it’s time to support with school supplies.

We will graciously accept all gifts, however some of the most popular items from area school supply lists are :

Pointed Children’s Scissors
16 to 24-pack crayons
White Glue Sticks
Backpacks
Folders with Pockets
#2 Pencils (Dixon Ticonderoga have the best erasers)
Pink Pearl Erasers
Small Pencil Boxes
Colored Pencils
Markers
Spiral Notebooks

OC Tiyya Refugee and Immigrant Foundation Backpack Collection

Adult, Children, Service & Ministry, Youth

God calls us to minster to the refugee and the immigrant, but we often wonder what is the best way to help.

Here is one way. We are collecting backpacks with school items for OC Tiyya. Tiyya’s mission is to provide community support and educational opportunities for families of refugees, immigrants, and displaced Americans.

We will collect the backpacks and school supplies July 1—July 15.

Young children’s backpacks should include pens, pencils, erasers, notebooks, crayons & markers.

Older children’s backpacks should include pens, pencils, erasers, notebooks and calculators.

Please bring the backpacks to Suzanne’s office.

You can learn more about Tiyya and the wonderful work they do helping refuges and immigrants at Tiyya.org.