Mission San Jose Community
Bulletin for March 2004
Community Prayer Meetings at Holy Family Parish in San Jose: Our weekly prayer and praise meetings will be every Sunday from 4 to 5:30pm at Holy Family Catholic Parish in San Jose ( 4848 Pearl Avenue ) in the Community Center. As always, these prayer meetings are open to anyone who would like to join us in praising GOD and learning more about MSJC. Check us out on the web at http://www.msjc.org
MSJC Community Meeting: MSJC has quarterly meeting in which the life and future plans of the community are discussed. All are welcome to attend. There will be a meeting on Sat. March 27th at the Colon's clubhouse in Hayward from 6:30 p.m. until 9 pm. Please RSVP and get directions from John or Michele Colon at 510-583-7521.
MSJC Day of Recollection: MSJC will be hosting a day of recollection in Santa Cruz right off the ocean at the Shrine of St. Joseph the Guardian of the Redeemer on Sat. April 24th from 9 am. to 2 pm. All are welcome to attend. We will have a talk in the morning from one of the priests at the Shrine and then Mass and lunch is included. Cost will be $10 a person. Space is limited to 40 people. We will need RSVPs by April 5th so they can have a lunch count. There will be a signup sheet at the prayer meetings soon or you can call Judy Bateman at 978-7796.
MSJC Prayer Meeting in the Youth Hall on March 21st: Due to a conflict with the Holy Family Community Center, MSJC Prayer meeting on Sun. March 21st will be in the Holy Family Youth Hall instead. Same time - 4 pm to 5:30 pm. and there will be Children's ministry.
MSJC Ministry Schedule: Below is the Ministry Schedule for the following weeks:
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Children's Ministry: MSJC offers our children a time to learn about the Lord under our Children's Ministry for Toddlers
(ages 6 mos to 4 years) and School Age Children (5 yrs to 12 yrs). The toddlers will be in the Parish Nursery Room, while the School Age Children will be next door to them in the Conference Room. For info on this ministry, please pick up a Parent info sheet and Conduct Guidelines in the Children Ministry rooms. If you have any questions or comments, please call Susan Kingsley at (408) 377-6602. We use the Catholic Kids Net program for School Age children. MSJC has both parent volunteers and baby sitters for the Toddler Ministry - parents sign up as toddler assistants to help out baby sitters when needed. The School Age Ministry has parent volunteers. All Children Ministry volunteers must be fingerprinted due to a requirement of the Diocese of San Jose. Please contact Colleen Murphy at Holy Family (408-265-3181) to set up an appointment to do that.
Share Groups: We encourage everyone who regularly attends the prayer meetings to be in a Men's or Women's Share Group in which time is spent discussing current MSJC teachings, Bible Studies and your personal spiritual faith journey, as well as intercessory prayers. Everything discussed during the meeting is confidential and is not to be shared with anyone - not even your spouse. Share groups are for those who make the commitment to attend the meetings from now until July 2004 and are not for those who can only drop in every once in a while. Share groups meet twice a month; the Women's Group is every 1st and 3rd Tuesday and the Men's Group is every 2nd and 4th Tuesday. Please contact Mary Herbst at 227-7141 for San Jose Women's Share Group and Eric Bateman at 978-7796 for San Jose Men's Share Group. The meeting day is flexible but has to be okay for everyone in the group. If there is enough interest, more share groups can be formed as 6-7 people is usually the maximum number for a single group. The groups usually meet from 8:30 p.m. until 10 p.m. at someone's home.
Mark your calendars: Our annual Summer picnic will be at Emma Prusch Farm Park again on Saturday, August 28th from 10 am. - 5 pm.
Prayers/Prayer Line Info: Anne Hashimoto is our volunteer for the Prayer Line Ministry. Please send her your prayer request by email at ahashimo@juno.com . To be part of the Email Prayer Line, please tell her or send her your email address and she will add you to our Prayer Line email list.
MSJC Council Meetings: The MSJC Council meets the first Monday of every month to discuss MSJC activities and other business items. The current council members, who have just recently been re-elected, are John Colon, Dan Franke and Gary Herbst. Please contact one of the council members for more information on meetings or location.
Supporting MSJC: Mission San Jose Community has tax-exempt status with both the Federal and State governments. You can help support MSJC with your tax-deductible contributions which can be given to Chris or Susan Kingsley. A financial report is available to anyone who requests one from Chris Kingsley for review of the finances for MSJC.