Sunday, February 27, 2011

Joyful CNY & Watermark Pictures

Dear brothers and sisters,
This week, we are happy to present to you two sets of joyful pictures from the Chinese New Year celebration, Watermark Retreat and Watermark 2011 Tijuana Mission preparation! If you have pictures to share, please contact us at webteam@sjccc.org. Here are the highlights of this week at http://www.sjccc.org:

See SJCCC.org website for other news including:
If you have community pictures to share, or you would like to help, please send email to webteam @ sjccc.org, thank you!

May God bless you and your family with a peaceful week,
San Jose Chinese Catholic Community

Thursday, February 24, 2011

TJ2011: st all hands meeting - Reminder

Final reminding of the meeting Saturday morning at 10:00AM.
See you all there,
Vincent
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Vincent Lau <vin120856@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all TJ2011 participants,
As of today, we have a total of 30 people (including 2 from LA) will join the trip.  This June, instead of building a house, we will have 2 extension projects which will be very challenging, and since we have quite a few participants went last year, I am very confident that we can finish the projects within 5 days.  Since not everybody knows who's who, let's have our 1st all hands meeting in order to meet face to face and start out group bonding.
Time:  Saturday 2/26/11 from 10:00 to noon
Place:  St Clare room 3 (Fr. O, please open the door for us on that day)
Agenda:  1.  Project sharing - Vincent
              2.  Fund raising activity as a group (individual fund raising still encouraged) - John M.
              3.  Hands on training schedule - Vincent
              4.  Safety - Stephen W.
              5.  Q & A - All
We are all "TEAM PLAYERS", so mark your calendar and please try your best to be there in person since lots of information will be shared, and don't want to see anybody being left behind.
Note:  Again, if you haven't pay yet (no exception except Fr. O), please bring the check with you (pay to SJCCC), otherwise, your name will be removed from the list.
Vincent Lau

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Upcoming Seminar; Photos from Marynoll Party & Fr. Aldrich's Seminar

Dear brothers and sisters,

Praise and thank God for a very blessed completion of the Watermark Youth Group and Young Adults Retreat, especially for the Confirmation class! If you were touched by the Lord, please share your experience in our Holy City like Henry Shu have done. you have pictures to share, please contact us at webteam@sjccc.org.
Here are the highlights of this week at http://www.sjccc.org:

See SJCCC.org website for other news including:

If you have community pictures to share, or you would like to help, please send email to webteam @ sjccc.org, thank you!



May God bless you and your family with a joyful week and a very blessed year,

San Jose Chinese Catholic Community

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Web: Joomla "Prev/Next" Navigation setting

We have the "Navigation" turned on in Joomla by default, which means at the bottom of the article, Joomla automatically provides <Prev> and <Prev> (or in Chinese <前一個> and <下一個>).  This is a very useful feature for the users to navigate to another article after reading the current one.  This is also useful to automatically provide internal links for search engine.
This is done by setting the Navigation in Article Manager->Parameters to Show, and by setting the Navigation in all the menu items to Use Global.

Question:

Sometime, this automatic navigation in Joomla does not make sense. For example, this page: http://sjccc.org/index.php/finance.html should point to earlier finance report instead of next community announcement.  What do you suggest?

Answer:
This "<Prev> and <Prev>" feature basically go to the prev/next article in a Category, so if you group all the financial articles into a category, then it would behave like what you'd like.

If you would like to turn this particular one off, since it's a menu item, you can select "Menus" on the top, and pick "團體". edit the article '財務 Finance', on the right rail, click "Parameters (Component)", and change "Show Navigation" from "Use Global" to "Hide", and Save.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Holy City Jan/Feb Web Edition

Dear brothers and sisters,
Thank you all for a very beautiful and blessed tri-lingual celebration today with 7 priests and a deacon! What a blessed new year for this Chinese Catholic community! If you have pictures from the Mass, culture activities and receptions to share, please contact us at webteam@sjccc.org. Here are the highlights of this week at http://www.sjccc.org:

See SJCCC.org website for other news including:
If you have community pictures to share, or you would like to help, please send email to webteam @ sjccc.org, thank you!

May God bless you and your family with a joyful week and a very blessed year,
San Jose Chinese Catholic Community

Thursday, February 10, 2011

TJ2011: Fremont BART Construction Site tour for 2011 TJ Mission participants

Vincent:

I have set up a construction site tour at the BART subway project at Fremont Central Park (part of the Warn Springs Extension) with BART's Community Outreach Program.  I told them we have a total of around 20 people interested seeing the construction. My company is working on the excavation steel shoring system installation and removal on this project.

Date : Feb 21, 2011 (Presidents' Day, a school holiday )
Time: 10:00 am
Location : 1320 Stevenson Blvd, Fremont

Hardhat Tour (that can walk inside the actual fenced-in construction site) for 16 years or older in age
12 spaces available
 Fence Line Tour (that can see the site but not actually walk inside) for kids younger than 16 years of age.
 8 spaces or so available. 

There will be an overview project orientation for both tours at the site trailer.
Both tours will start at the same time and finish at about the same time 
The whole thing will take about 1 to 1-1/2 hour.

I will be there and Need at least another 2 or 3 parents 
Spaces are limited so get back to me ASAP if you are interested in going.  
Give me your name and age
No tennis shoes !  Proper safety shoes are required ( we will need that for TJ mission trip anyway !)

Stephen
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Stephen,
Thank you very much to set this up, and we usually don't have this opportunity to visit this kind of construction site.  Quite a few of TJ2011 participants are living fairly close to the construction site, and since it's on Monday, I am not sure how many parents are getting that day off (at least I have to work). 
Hi all TJ participants,
Anybody interested in going?  This is a very rare opportunity, and do reply back to me ASAP, and again, we need another 2-3 adults.
Thanks,
Vincent Lau
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Hi all,
 
Just confirmed with Stephen that he will have an oral surgery on this Friday, and in order to make sure Stephen can have enough rest for speedy recovery, so we decided to cancel this construction site tour.  Have a wonderful long weekend.
 
Thanks,
 
Vincent

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

TJ2011: 1st all hands meeting - Mandatory

Hi all TJ2011 participants,
As of today, we have a total of 30 people (including 2 from LA) will join the trip.  This June, instead of building a house, we will have 2 extension projects which will be very challenging, and since we have quite a few participants went last year, I am very confident that we can finish the projects within 5 days.  Since not everybody knows who's who, let's have our 1st all hands meeting in order to meet face to face and start out group bonding.
Time:  Saturday 2/26/11 from 10:00 to noon
Place:  St Clare room 3 (Fr. O, please open the door for us on that day)
Agenda:  1.  Project sharing - Vincent
              2.  Fund raising activity as a group (individual fund raising still encouraged) - John M.
              3.  Hands on training schedule - Vincent
              4.  Safety - Stephen W.
              5.  Q & A - All
We are all "TEAM PLAYERS", so mark your calendar and please try your best to be there in person since lots of information will be shared, and don't want to see anybody being left behind.
Note:  Again, if you haven't pay yet (no exception except Fr. O), please bring the check with you (pay to SJCCC), otherwise, your name will be removed from the list.
Vincent Lau

February 2011 Council Meeting

Dear SJCCC Team Leaders and Members,

You are cordially invited to attend the February council meeting.
 
Date: Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Place: St. Clare’s Classroom #5

The agenda is as follows:

1. Prayer/Faith Sharing
2. Chinese New Year mass celebration with Monsignor Francis Cilia
3. St. Clare Festival Support
4. Mass intention registration update
5. Song Book update
6. Financial Report ( Therese Merrill )

In Christ,
Kam Chow
SJCCC Board

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Invite family/friends to Chinese New Year celebrations

Dear brothers and sisters,
Happy Chinese New Year!! Please remember to invite friends and family to our Chinese New Year celebrations with Sacred Heart School Culture Exhibition & Activity, Mass and 祭祖, reception, and dinner. Be the light of the world and invite a friend! Here are the highlights of this week at http://www.sjccc.org:

See SJCCC.org website for other news including:
If you have community pictures to share, or you would like to help, please send email to webteam @ sjccc.org, thank you!

May God bless you and your family with a joyful week and a very blessed year,
San Jose Chinese Catholic Community

Saturday, February 5, 2011

TJ2011: TJ trip 2011 Fund Raising - Lemonade

Dear SJCCC TJ 2011 participant families,
We just pulled 50+ lemons from our tree, and think it would be great if we can do a lemonade fund raising next week during the Chinese New Year festivities.

  • Need volunteers:
    • Make and bring 2-3 gallons of lemonade (we will give you the lemons tomorrow) - need as many as possible
    • Make a large banner saying: "Free Lemonade by SJCCC Tijuana 2011 - Donation Welcome" 
    • Make a large donation box
    • Bing Cups, ice
    • Set up and serve lemonade - before and after Mass
  • I will talk to the Hospitality group to make sure if we can do this.
Please respond and let us know what you can provide and we will bring the lemons tomorrow to pass out after Mass.

Regards,
+Tony & Wendar

Bcc: Kam, AnPung, Lisa, Simon, and Fr. O.

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Dear TJ 2011 families and Watermark leaders,
We have checked with the council and decided to move the fund raising to 2/27.  This will give us time to organize and promote the fund raising.  Since the TJ mission is a community event, we'd love to have all Watermark involvement whether if you are going to the trip or not.

Idea is to provide free lemonades (8-oz, sweetened, with ice) and ask for donations.  We will need volunteers (please reply to sign up for as many tasks as you/your group can do)

  • Make and bring 2-3 gallons of lemonade (we will provide lemons)
  • Make a large banner saying: "Free Lemonade by SJCCC Tijuana 2011 - Donation Welcome" 
  • Make a large donation box
  • Bring 8 oz-Cups (need 200)
  • Bring ice (4 bags)
  • Set up and serve lemonade after Mass (parents needed)
  • Announcements at Mass: Need 2 youth volunteers (upstairs/downstairs Mass)
God bless,
+Tony, Wendar, Brandon, Daniel

Copy: Lisa
Gdoc: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvmJzOFtiRlPdFlxM1FKc3FjNTJmSVJfNTdLQzZYX3c&hl=en