Welcome!

* Quick link to the Sunday Program here 

* Quick link to the Sunday Program here

Tithing Declaration with Bishop Berry will be held September 17 through December 14.

Every member is invited to meet with Bishop Berry, make their tithing declaration, and share a short spiritual visit together.

➡️ Please use the link below to sign up for a time that works best for you.  

Sign Up for a Time Here

All members are sincerely and warmly encouraged to meet with Bishop Berry whether or not you’ve paid a full tithe, a partial tithe, or have not been able to pay tithing at all this year. These visits are about love, support, and the opportunity to feel the Spirit as you counsel together. Bishop Berry looks forward to seeing each member of the ward.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact Matt Batmale.

Need a good read? Our ward Magazine Representative, Cynthia Stott, can help! Reach out to her to receive physical copies of the Church magazines delivered to your home.

General Conference - Our Stake has a handful of tickets to the General Conference (Oct 4th and 5th) for Sunset Ward members.  Please contact a member of the Bishopric if you are interested.

Ward Sports Night - Every Thursday, 7pm at the church.  Sports night is for everyone! Bring your friends. This is a chance to build new friendships and strengthen old ones. There will be volleyball, basketball as well as board games.

Share Your Talents - Our ward is full of amazing skills and hobbies. We’d love to know about yours! Please take 2-3 minutes to fill out the Ward Talents & Interests Survey and let us know what you enjoy doing. Take the Survey Here

Church Film Productions - The Church is looking for a worthy brother to play the role of Jesus in upcoming church film productions.  Other roles are available too.  If you are interested in auditioning, please contact bishop for more details.

Temple Names - Our Ward Temple and Family History Consultant, Brother Don Hammon has created a special group and link for The Sunset Ward.  This will allow those who have too many names or can't go to the temple and do the work themselves for whatever reason, the opportunity to add those names to this LINK so their temple work can be completed.  Ward members can also use any of the names listed as well. 

Primary Program - Our Ward Primary Program will be on Sunday, November 16th.

Ward Temple Trip - Saturday, December 6th at 12.00pm.

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). 

Temple Recommend Interviews - If you would like to meet with a member of the bishopric for a temple recommend interview, please contact Matt Batmale.

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.

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.