For the first time, our fellowship decided to collect a Missions Contribution for five sister churches around the world: our sister churches in Angola, Bangkok, Thailand, the Philippines, RevivEE (Eastern Europe), and Uruguay.

We appreciate all the donations that were given and are grateful for your faith and all of your prayers! 

The fellowship collected over $90,000 in Missions Contributions, and the SF Bay Fellowship gave 100% of all that was collected to the five sister churches!!  

Your giving was such a blessing and so faith-inspiring! We are humbled by your love and sacrifice to give to others. We are also grateful that God moved powerfully to make our 2024 contribution successful! The total amounts of donations that the fellowship collected were:

Angola $19,000

Bangkok $15,000

Philippines $17,000

RevivEE $28,000

Uruguay $12,000

We ask that you continue to join us in prayer for God to move powerfully with the money He has provided for these sister churches. We also pray that our brothers and sisters worldwide feel the love of God and the love of their families around the world, who have them in our prayers.

Thanks again so much for helping make this a great year of giving!

Four weeks ago, Anne and I joined with other Northern California International Church Of Christ (ICOC) church leaders for a two-day retreat in Stockton to pray about a future church-planting in that great city.

Along with Ken and Lina Chau (Sacramento), Gary and Chris Simmons (Fresno), John and Jan Oakes (Merced), and Rob and Pam Skinner (Tuscon), we had a great time of fellowship, friendship, Bible study, and prayer while we visited the campus of University of the Pacific (UOP), various parks and scenic areas, diverse neighborhoods, the Miracle Mile and the downtown area. Stockton is the 11th most populous city in California (322,000) and home to the oldest university in California (UOP).

There was an effort to plant a church there over twenty years ago, but it never materialized. There are a number of disciples who have hoped and prayed for years that a church would be planted there. While there are still no definite plans for a planting, it is our prayer that God would begin to put it on the hearts of faithful disciples who have been dreaming for this day.

If you, or someone you know, are interested in being part of a church planting in Stockton, please let us know!

Brock - SF Bay Fellowship Ministry Leader

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Join us for one of our Sunday church services around the Bay Area next weekend. We will have church services in Oakland/Alameda, Tri-Valley, South Bay, Peninsula, Palo Alto, and San Francisco.

We do not have any All Fellowship Midweek services scheduled this month but hope to start them up again in the fall. This month folks will continue to meet by fellowship groups for midweek fellowship.

We have our regional singles event in Los Angeles coming up soon, so if you are single and haven't signed up yet, please take a look and see ifyou can go. More information is on our events page.

We have many things happening at SF Bay Fellowship, and we hope you can join us soon!