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Central Peninsula Church 20's magazine, issue 2

I really love how my church, Central Peninsula Church in Foster City, CA, loves, supports and engages the Bay Area. Our upcoming churchwide service project, Love Works, will use one Sunday this month to send the entire congregation out to local homeless shelters, soup kitchens, elementary schools, community centers and public recreation areas to serve our community. I’m so excited for the opportunity to do real good among our neighbors (think about it, what if this were one Sunday a month?!).

Another project that specifically my 20s group is involved with is the brainchild of our pastor, Justin Buzzard – a quarterly magazine where Bay Area twentysomethings can write and reflect on current events, stories of heartbreak and redemption, and faithful living in a place where few voices are regularly heard worshipping God even as we interact with the world.

Guess who got to reflect on the importance of community in this next issue, debuting Thursday? …

this weekend - epic movement student conferences!

This weekend is indeed where we’ll celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but it’s also one of my favorite weekends all year… our ministry’s student conferences! Some 500+ students will descend on San Francisco, CA (known as Epic West) and Philadelphia, PA (East) for our annual missions and vision conferences. (Epic Central, in Dallas, TX will be the first weekend of February.)

This year, themed “Hero,” and probably more like the dying NBC show than the Enrique Iglesias ballad, will be my seventh conference, which consists of talks, seminars and a day of outreach, and each year God has spoken another piece of His calling for me into my life. It’s a weekend where Asian American ministry is defined and refined within our college scope and sending opportunities via summer trips and year-long internships will be presented. …