Monday, March 2, 2009

2008 Easter Event Recap

Here are some records from 2008 Easter Event as a reference for future:
  • see attached summary email - over 300 people including 80 guests.
    • Kerching led the ET team for all invitation of new friends met at external events, plus community members brought friends/relatives (1區 組領1人), last year's objectives included both 非教友 and 疏遠教友
  • rsvp necessary for food preparation (free) - rsvp was complex as they came in from different sources with overlaps, and complexity for arranging 招待
    • Cris and Florence let the team for food preparation and distribution, and Wendar led the rsvp, sign-in, and pair up
  • Program, MC, Logistics (location, set up, AV, decoration, clean up) - Cris
  • Sharing, Faith/Mass intro, prayer - Po-Choo
  • 11 families each contributed $100 special funding for this event - I think only one request upstairs and one downstairs
  • Entire program from noon-5pm (see program attached) with Mass booklet - Maria
  • 9 consecutive weeks of Novena prayers for intentions of Guests - Angie
  • Child care (Teresa Lai), Easter Egg hunt (高愛華,Watermark)
  • Reporter: Wen-Lan & Natalie, see SJCCC Article, including all key task leaders and most contributors: http://www.sjccc.org/magazine/2008/200805/200805_3.htm
  • Photo Album: http://www.sjccc.org/photoalbum/photoAlbum2008.htm
God bless,
+Tony

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Dear Community Group Leaders and ET Team,
Alleluia!! Thank you all for your work for our risen Lord and for the community. We had a very joyful and successful Easter Event serving over 300 people including over 80 guests. It is amazing! EVERYONE received a piece of God's blessing through your work for Jesus and your prayers for them.

Please share the good news with your group, and thank everyone for the participation. Please don't forget, the next step is to continue inviting/bringing these guests to your gatherings. With prayer, this will happen and will bear fruits.

Thank you ET team for leading the evagelization efforts, making Chinese Catholics visible, meeting and bringing new friends to our family. Thank you Church is our Family team, including all community groups, for keeping God's family bonding together and growing.

Our deep thanks to the "core team" for the countless hours of planning and excellent execution. Thank you for your patience with these long conference calls, emails, and phone calls. Thank you for taking your responsibility seriously and do the work with your heart. Many of you got there before 9:30am and left after 6pm. Everyone did a great job! Thank you!!

Praise and thank God for touching 11 families to contribute $100 towards the event, the offering has entered SJCCC's Evengelization account which just about paid for the expenses for this Event.

May God be pleased with our Lent/Easter offering, may all the seeds bear fruits for Him 100 fold, and may God bless you with joy and peace every day.
+Tony & Wendar
PS, Dear James, would you please pass on our thanks to the community.

Tony Fu wrote: Dear Community Group Leaders & ET Team,
Good new! Thank you all for your hard work. Right now, we already have about 160 RSVPs for Sunday including about 50 guests. We have also confirmed that the newly baptized 新教友families will be special guests providing testimony sharing at the event. Praise and thank God!

Please email/call and remind your group a couple of tips abut this Sunday:

1. We are still missing RSVP from many groups, including servants and family. Since the lunch is free, we all can appreciate the challenge for the kitchen and child care team. Please be kind and courteous by helping us getting as accurate numbers as possible so we won't run out of food for our guests. Please have your group RSVP now (- removed -) to make this event a joyful and abundant experience for everyone. Wednesday is the deadline so we can finalize the plans.

2. Let's all be good hosts and plan to come earlier instead of coming later. :) Keep a big friendly smile, meet at least 1 new friend, write down their contact information, pray for their needs, and invite them to your group gathering.

3. Pray for this event and all the participants everyday.

We will have a quick program walk through telephone meeting Wednesday night, everyone is invited to join if you'd like:
Date: 3/19 Wednesday
Time: 8:30pm - 9pm Pacific
Conference Phone Number: - removed -
Conference Code: - removed -
Topics:
  • Current head count - Wendar
  • Program Walk Through - Martina & Simon (MCs)
    • Sharing, Faith/Mass intro, prayer - Po-Choo
  • AV set up - James, Eddie
  • Mass booklet - Maria
  • Food preparation - Florence
  • Host new friends & Follow up - AnPung, George and all
  • Any open issues - Cris & Tony
Thank you all, and thank God always!!

May God bless and lead this event to glorify His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ!
+Tony
(Please be advised that there might not be food for members come without RSVP.)


James Hua wrote:

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I bet you've heard some nagging from many Catholics either among ourselves or other communities that -

"we are not proactive as Protestants in approaching people, tagging people around and relaying people with Good News..." –or-

"we should stand up and act instead of complain and sigh…"

Well, this is everyone's chance! Tony and E.T. Committee (Evangelization Team, not Extra-Terrestrial from Steven Spielberg’s movie) had put up tons of effort to hold another action packed event for the benefit of everyone – bay area friends to be evangelized and us to be energized! It’s like hitting two birds with one stone. Isn’t that great?!

Please note this invitation excludes no one – all are expected to chip in some efforts. Please try your best to influence your dear brothers and sisters so they don’t feel left out. Please reply to ALL, Tony and me so we all know which action items are covered. We have Florence, George, Kerching, An-Pung, Cris helping you out. They are all ears too.

Here are all the details from Tony and E.T.

親愛的區組長,

謝謝您為主耶穌帶領他的羊群！我們感謝您的辛勞及您的心血，我們相信天主了解您的心意，祂也必祝福您為主耶穌所有的付出。

在復活節當天, SJCCC將邀請去年我們在華人大型活動中接觸到的五十多位「新朋友」參加一個特別的茶會。我們希望所有的區組都能參與這項活動：

1. 每一個區組都能以主人身份招待2位「新朋友」。不但是在活動當時招待他們，活動以後也保持接觸，繼續邀清他們參與區組及團體活動。
2. 每一個區組都能用1領1(1區組領1人)的方式邀請疏遠的「老朋友」，在復活節回來我們的團體。在復活節以後也繼續邀清他們參與區組及團體活動。
3. 每一個區組都能參與這活動的一部分工作(請代表您的區組認領貴組能夠承擔的部分) 。我們都知道，在一起工作中，區組才能真正的凝聚和成長。

復活節茶會

時間：3/23星期天

地點：St. Clare’s Parish Hall

節目：

12:00 - 01:00 PM 精美點心招待

01:00 - 02:30 PM 以見證分享為主題，詳情未定(最好能有中英粵語，以及輕鬆喜樂的氣氛) 兒童Easter Arts & Crafts

01:30 - 02:30 PM 粵語彌撒

03:00 - 04:00 PM 國語彌撒

04:00 - 05:00 PM 兒童Easter Egg Hunt 及慕道班活動

Tasks:

1 Programming (Sacred Heart Children Choir has agreed to support), including MCs

2 Food preparation

3 Food serving

4 Set up, decoration, & clean up

5 Childcare/crafts

6 Easter Egg hunt

7 Audio/visual

8 New friends invitation - phone, email, and snail mail

9 The 1-0-1 pilot planning & execution - including post-event follow up

10 Community communication - both for hosting and 1-0-1 pilot (written, verbal)

11 Welcome/sign in

12 Overall project coordination

13 Cantonese group coordination

Dear group leaders,

Thank you for leading Lord Jesus’ flock! We sincerely thank you for your thoughtfulness and hard work. We know that God see and appreciate your contributions, and will bless all of your efforts for Christ.

We are happy to share with you that on Easter Sunday, SJCCC will invite those 50 “new friends” we met at the major Chinese events back to the community for a Tea Party. We would like every community group to participate in this activity:
1. Every group will be the host to 2 “new friends” during the event and continue to be in touch after the event to invite them to group and community activities.
2. Every group will have the spirit of 1-Lead-1 (each group lead/adopt one), and bring a distant Catholic back to the community on Easter. The group will continue to invite them to be involved with group and community activities after the event.
3. Every group will take part in some of the tasks of this event. We all know that it’s in working together; the group grows and jells together.

Easter Tea Party
Time: Sunday 3/23
Location: St. Clare’s Parish Hall
Program:
Noon-1pm Snacks
1-2:30pm Sharing/Testimonies to be determined (Mandarin, English, and Cantonese preferred, joyful and not too heavy) Children - Easter Arts & Crafts
1:30-2:30 Cantonese Mass
3:00-4:00 Mandarin Mass
4:00-5:00 Children Easter Egg Hunt and RCIA Activity
May God bless you and this event!
James Hua
Posted by +Tony at 12:16 AM
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