Welcome!

* Quick link to the Sunday Program here

General Conference is April 5th and 6th.  Tickets are now available, please contact Bishop Berry if you would like to attend the conference in Salt Lake City.

Choir practice – Choir rehearsals are on Sundays at 9.00 a.m.  We meet upstairs in the Relief Society room. Please contact Paul Mann for additional information.

Institute classes are Thursdays, beginning January 9th, 2025 at 7:30 pm.  Classes will be at the 1900 Pacific Avenue building for all young adults, married and single. Weekly refreshments will be served at 8:30 pm. The teacher will be Brother Hawks (Palo Alto Institute Director). 

The Temple Schedule:  The Oakland California Temple Schedule for 2025, can be found here. You can find more information about the temple, on the Church website .  To schedule an appointment or submit names to the temple prayer roll on your mobile device, you can use the "Tools" app, under the "My Temples" tab.

Do you like playing basketball?  Steve Clayton organizes Saturday morning basketball games at the church. Please contact him for more details. 

Initiative - Women and Children Initiative: The General Relief Society Presidency has launched an initiative to support projects to help in the development of 12 million children ages 5 and younger and 2.7 million expectant and new mothers in 12 countries. As part of this initiative, they have published 25 Ways that members in congregations around the world can support mothers and children. 

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Adult Sunday School now meets in 2 classes - If your last name begins with the letters A-M meet in the Priesthood room (largest classroom downstairs) and last names N-Z meet in the Chinese Branch RS room. 

Ongoing Events, Classes, and other Announcements

Temple Hill - The Oakland temple often hosts cultural and other worshipful events. Please click here for a list of events. 

Background checks - California state law requires background checks for anyone who works with children or youth more than 32 hours a year. Details on how to do this are in an email from the stake. If you haven't received it, a member of the bishopric can forward it to you. 

Building cleaning: Our ward is responsible for building cleaning in January, February, April, May, July, August, October, and November (the Chinese branch will clean the other months). We clean on Saturday mornings at 8:45 am and finish by 9:45 am. Brother Cary Young has made assignments. If you haven't received an assignment, please contact Brother Young, or show up on a Saturday morning and introduce yourself to Brother Young.

Widespread use of zoom for Sacrament meeting concluded in February 2022: If you believe you should maintain access to sacrament meeting via Zoom (we understand there are various valid reasons), kindly let the bishop know.