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Sunday School Teachers Needed for Fall

Cathy Paniagua still needs teachers for the Pre-Kindergarten/Kindergarten (full year) and 1st/2nd grade classes (second half of year). She can also use help during the special blocks, which is an even shorter time commitment (1-6 weeks). Email Cathy or call her at 650-851-8282 x.110 for more details.

Global Leaders for Justice

Celebration of African Leaders Pot Luck BBQ Dinner

You are invited to join Gideon and Celine Ticha's friends from the Bay Area African community and Bonita Banducci and the Global Women's Leadership Network in a celebration for Rose and the other African leaders graduating from this years program called Global Leaders for Justice. Come for food, fun, and meaning! - Saturday, August 7 from 5-8 pm at Santa Clara University. Click to RSVP.

This summer Santa Clara University Law School is partnering with the Global Women's Leadership Network to put on a special Leadership Training for women in the law and/or working to shape/change public policy--globally. Gideon nominated Justice Rose Mbah Acha of Cameroon, and she was accepted! Rose will be in worship and will present the Adult Education Class on Sunday, August 8.

Maple Street Shelter - Sunday, August 15 - 4 pm

Volunteer to donate food for the summer barbecue dinner or join us at Maple Street to cook and serve the meal. We're cooking hamburgers with all the fixings!  Contact Trish McBride if you can help.

Are you 'In the Mood... for Music'?

Then join us for a benefit to support the VPC Music Program on Saturday, September 11 from 7-10 pm at the home of Jim & Brenda Herrington.  There will be dancing, dessert and wine, plus free childcare available at the church upon request.

Tickets are $100 per person before 8/29;  $125 after. Make check to VPC with Music Night in the memo. One hundred percent of your donation will go to the music program, as all event costs will be donated. Sign up in the church office, or by emailing Karen, then send your check to the church.

Help us make this event a success:  Sign up early and spread the word to your friends.  Help us sell out!

Soul Work, beginning September 22

Do you long for serenity in your life, inner nourishment, and repose? Do you need to find a better balance between work, family, community, and your own need for replenishment?

Soul Work restores you to greater awareness and helps you discern both meaning and direction for your life. Open to all those who seek what is most authentic in themselves, these small groups include instruction in meditation, a writing practice, wise discernment, and a chance to develop deep bonds with others.

Join the group for ten two-hour meetings every other week beginning September 22 in a safe, supportive environment, in the beautiful surroundings of Valley Presbyterian Church.  If you are even tentatively interested in participating, please email or call (650-854-2947) Anne Hillman soon, for the group’s size is limited and there are very few places left this year. There is a donation (on a sliding scale).  

Click here to read comments from recent participants.

Living a Surrendered Life, beginning September 21

This bimonthly group is for those who long to live a more surrendered life—to trust, to let go, to love what is, and to serve from that orientation. Real freedom, genuine forgiveness, and healing are the gifts of ‘putting our minds in another room,’ not only in meditation, but in our daily lives, moment, by moment. The church calls it aligning with the will of God. The intent of Living a Surrendered Life is to support this kind of ongoing alignment; to live our lives as a prayer. It will provide a set of very specific skills to help you identify the things that keep you outside ‘the other room,’ how to let them go; and how to anchor against being reactive or living on “automatic pilot.”

Living a Surrendered Life is open to a limited number of participants from any previous gathering during this 11-year series. It will be an experiential and interactive group, and meet for two hours every other week for 10 meetings, beginning September 21. If you are interested, please email or call (650-854-2947) Anne Hillman soon, since it is already heavily subscribed. There is a donation (on a sliding scale).

Click here to read a comment from a recent participant.

Announcing our INTERGENERATIONAL MUSICAL....  (drum roll, please! )

THE WIZARD OF OZ

March 18-20, 25-27, 2011

Auditions will be held in November and rehearsals begin in January.

2010 Annual Report

From the meeting on Sunday, February 28. The report text (21 pages) can be downloaded by clicking here. The financial reports can be requested by emailing Raf Ornes.

2010 Per Capita Tax

We appreciate payment of the Per Capita tax separately from your yearly pledge payment(s). This amount is $30 for every person who is a member.  Please write your check to VPC with "per capita" in the memo.