Good Friday • April 2 • 7 p.m. • Live stream on Facebook or website

7 a.m. • Sunrise Meditation with Pastor Hardy • Live stream on Facebook only

  11 a.m. • Easter service • Live stream on Facebook or website

The City of Sunnyvale is hosting a Unity event with the goal to uplift the voices and concerns of our Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Pastor Hardy Kim will be one of the featured speakers, along with Richard Konda, Asian Americans Advancing Justice/Asian Law Alliance, Sarita Kohli, Asian Americans for Community Involvement, Otto Lee, Santa Clara County Supervisor, Jeff Rosen, Santa Clara County District Attorney, and Phan Ngo, Sunnyvale’s Chief of Public Safety.

There has been an alarming increase in anti-Asian hate incidents across the country since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent high-profile hate crime cases in the Bay Area and mass shooting in Atlanta have heightened fears in our AAPI community.

Sunnyvale takes pride in the incredible diversity of people who form the rich fabric of our city and we condemn these racist attacks.

Sadly, the issue of bigotry and hatred is not new. In 2019, we came together to acknowledge that hate and fear exist in our community and to heal after a horrific hate crime in Sunnyvale. Last year, we held a series of listening sessions to discuss systemic racism disproportionately impacting the Black community. Now, it is time for us to stand in solidarity with our Asian American community members. We must pull together again to acknowledge and discuss ways to address hate and bigotry. We invite you to share your thoughts and stories.

Please join and partner with us as we foster a culture of belonging where all members of our diverse community feel included, heard and respected.

Personnel ministry and Worship ministry recommended to session that employees be given time for rest and session approved a plan at their March 16 session meeting.

Wednesday, April 21 • 11:30 a.m. • Zoom

Presbyterian Women (PW) invites you to enjoy a Reader’s Theater presentation related to the work of Suffragists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and the views of women living at the time of the struggle for women’s right to vote in the United States. If you are reading this, you are invited to attend and to ask your friends to join you.

You’re invited to the Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church Spring Choir Concert Watch Party! Since we’re not able to be together in person this spring, let’s gather online to watch our first Collaboration Concert, recorded on March 8 and 9, 2019, with over 300 musicians—SVPC’s Chancel Choir, the Cupertino High School choirs, orchestra, soloists, and organ. The concert features Dan Forrest’s powerful “Requiem for the Living” (2013), a five-movement prayer for rest based on the Biblical texts of Ecclesiastes and Job, and traditional Requiem texts. The concert also includes several spirituals with tenor soloist Trente Morant, a harp solo, a piano solo, and two organ solos.

As we watch together, conductor Andrew Aron and organist Valerie Sterk will be in the chat window, answering questions and providing running commentary about the concert. Check the church website for the concert program PDF and link to join the watch party.

Sunday, April 25 • Noon–1:15 p.m. • Zoom • Register by April 16

Join us right after worship for an online celebration for the entire Sunnyvale Presbyterian Community—church, The Music School and PELC. We will eat lunch together, meet new people, and celebrate our confirmation students. A virtual choir made up of students from The Music School and other singers will entertain us too! We’ll end with a game of “This or That,” and a scavenger hunt. Register by April 16 so that we can send you a packet filled with some goodies.

Wednesday, April 28 • 7–8:30 p.m. • Zoom

Have questions about the Covid-19 vaccines? Feeling hesitant about getting it or know someone who is? Dr. Morishima, a member of SVPC and a Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) doctor, will be presenting on the facts about the vaccines via a presentation developed by PAMF to dispel myths and inform people about the vaccines. There will be time for Q & A following.

10:30–11:15 a.m. • Zoom

SVPC Seniors in their 80s and 90s are invited to a virtual tea with Pastor Karin and members of the Caring Ministry Team. Questions? Contact Judy Beggs at [email protected] or 650-305-0810.

Save the date! If you’ve been attending worship and wonder what the next step in connecting is, come and explore membership with us at our next New Member Class. For information please contact Jean Ranck.

To learn more about virtual events, videos and at-home activities for children and youth subscribe to their e-newsletters. Also, check out the Children’s ministry Facebook page or Youth ministry’s microsite and Instagram, or text ‘FLASH’ (Middle School) or ‘CLUE’ (High School) to 51400 for live updates.

Resource: These Days

You may download the April These Days devotional from the PC(USA) Store here.

Please apply for a matching employer donation if your workplace offers this option. If you’ve tried unsuccessfully in the past, please try again because recent changes have made SVPC an eligible charity for more employers.

In place of the blue prayer cards you filled out on Sundays, please send your prayer requests anytime to [email protected]. Be sure to include whether your request should/can be:

Watch the live stream broadcast of our weekly worship service. No Facebook account is required to watch on SVPC’s public Facebook page. Or you can watch on the SVPC website.