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Campus Closed
November 24 - November 28
Our campus will be closed on Monday, November 24 through Friday, November 28, for Thanksgiving week.
We will resume normal hours on Monday, December 1.
May you and yours have a blessed Thanksgiving.
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Sanctuary Christmas Deco
November 29, 9:00 a.m. | The Sanctuary
This Saturday, from 9:00 a.m. until we finish!
We need your help fabricating and installing decorations in the church Sanctuary.
If you have any questions please contact
Mark Christensen
(626) 664-0010.
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All-Church Fellowship Hour
This Sunday
November 30, Sunday School Hour | The Courtyard
Please join us for the All-Church Fellowship Hour the Sunday after Thanksgiving! Grab a cup of coffee and a donut and spend some time in fellowship with your church family. What a wonderful way to kick off the holiday season.
Parents, please pick up your children before heading to the Courtyard. There will be no Children's Ministries Sunday School this Sunday.
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SGCC Women's Ministries
Women's Fellowship Lunch
December 2, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Stewart Lounge
Bring a lunch and enjoy fellowship with other women in the church.
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SGCS Christmas Market
December 6, 3:00 - 7:00 p.m. | The Courtyard
Everyone is invited to the Christmas Market extravaganza! Entry is free! Over 35 vendors selling a variety of handmade goods, Christmas gifts, food and more!
Free Christmas craft & card making hosted by Children’s Ministries! It’s Christmas fun for the whole family!
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All-Church Christmas Dinner
December 7, 5:00 p.m. | The Gym
Join us for our annual Christmas Dinner. All are welcome.
Tickets are available through Brushfire for $5, click the button below purchase yours! We hope to see you there!
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Thanksgiving Offering
This year our Thanksgiving offering will go toward a special Christmas gift for our missionaries. Receiving this offering at Thanksgiving enables us to send the gifts to our missionaries in time for Christmas. These gifts are above and beyond our usual monthly financial support. Please pray and prepare your offering as the Lord leads.
Special envelopes are available in the Sanctuary lobby. You may also mail checks to the church with “Thanksgiving Offering” noted on the memo line. For giving online, you can select “Thanksgiving Offering” from the drop-down menu.
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Christmas Cards for our Missionaries
This year, we would like to send Christmas greetings in the form of cards to all our missionaries along with the special offering we will be taking during the Thanksgiving season. Throughout the month of November, a list of all our missionaries along with Christmas cards are available in the Sunday school classes. If you would like to send one to a particular missionary that you feel connected with, that is appreciated! If you would like to send one to all of our missionaries, that’s great too. Please send cards to as many missionaries as you would like.
The deadline to return the cards is this Sunday, November 30.
- Genesis — George and Nancy
- Veritas — Lynn
- Horizons — Dave
- New Establishment — Fred
- Spanish Class — Todd
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Rush Hour Snacks
We love offering snacks at our weekly Wednesday night program, Rush Hour, that meets from 7:00 - 8:45 p.m. Our Jr. High and High School students enjoy a time of games, worship, and teaching with our Student Ministries staff.
Would you consider helping us provide snacks for our students?
(for Wednesdays and/or Sunday mornings, for 20-25 people)
What snacks can I drop off?
Student favorites include individually wrapped chips, crackers, cookies, and fruit snacks! It's extra helpful if they are individually wrapped bags, which keeps the unused snacks fresh, so we can use them anytime! See photo below for examples!
If you'd like to bake something homemade, just give us a heads up so we know when it's coming!
When can I drop off?
You can drop them off during the week in the office, or even leave them in the café on Sundays (clearly marked 'Student Ministries')
Contact:
Please email Jonathan (jbalentine@sangabrielcommunity.org) for more info. Thanks!
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Holiday Basket Gift Cards
Through December 14
Please pick up a blank Christmas card from either the Sanctuary Lobby or your Sunday School class and then return it with a $10-25 gift card, by Sunday December 14th. Gift cards will be given to San Gabriel teenagers who come from financially struggling families, in conjunction with the city’s Holiday Basket program. This generous donation blesses our community and is a tangible way to share the love of Christ this season. Questions? dacosta@sangabrielcommunity.org
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Free Advent Devotional Guide
If you're looking for an advent devotional guide, there are 150 copies of Everyday Gospel Christmas Devotional, by Paul David Tripp available for free in the church lobby. We have enough for one per family.
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2026 Offering Envelopes
Offering envelopes for 2026 will be available in the Sanctuary Lobby through December 7.
If you are not signed up for offering envelopes, but would like to be, please contact Katelyn Parsons at: kparsons@sangabrielcommunity.org
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Evangelism Resources Available
In the Church Library there is a special display case with pastor approved evangelism materials.
Please help yourself and share the good news!
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Thursday Mornings, December 4 - 18 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. | S-13
Mom's stay and play program for babies - preschool.
- Bible Stories
- Singing
- Crafts
- New Friends!
We hope you'll join us!
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SGCC Children's Ministries
Book of the Week
The Biggest Story Advent: 25 Lift-the-Flap Devotions for Families
Kevin DeYoung & Don Clark
Ages 6-12
Kids love the anticipation of the Christmas season, opening advent calendars and counting down to December 25th. How can parents build on that excitement and teach kids that Jesus’s birth isn’t just one story of the Bible but is a central piece of God’s glorious plan to redeem his people?
Kevin DeYoung, pastor and author of the popular Biggest Story Bible Storybook, has written 25 brand new advent devotions for kids that start from the beginning of Scripture and feature a daily surprise. Each reading opens with a fun lift-the-flap page, which kids open to reveal a Bible passage and colorful illustration. On the opposite page, DeYoung retells a related Bible story or prophecy that foretold Jesus’s coming, and shares a simple prayer to recite. Helping kids understand God’s redemption story from Genesis to Jesus’s birth, this devotional is a fun, interactive way to center your holiday traditions on Christ and to see how he is the fulfillment of promises God made throughout Scripture.
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Assistive Listening System Available in Sanctuary
We offer an Assistive Listening System in the Sanctuary for those that have mild to moderate hearing loss. These small devices will provide direct audio during the entire worship service and will allow you to adjust the volume to meet your individual needs. You must sit in the main center section of the sanctuary to use the system. The system is not available in the North or South chapels.
If you would like to take advantage of this new system, please stop by the sound booth.
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Garrett & Lia Trainor
Serenissima Ministries
We Made it!
It was a sad goodbye, particularly to Lia's parents who graciously hosted us for two and a half months in their home, and difficult journey, but we are now in Italy! Many thanks to everyone who prayed for us as we went. While it was more eventful than we had hoped with overtired children, a migraine, and Levi vomiting on Lia, we found ourselves resting in God's provision and mercy that flighs were on time and didn't take any longer than they did.
Needless to say, we are very tired. Our Italian friends have so sweetly taken care of us by managing transportation and providing delicious meals.
Our immediate next steps are to find an apartment so Garrett can establish residency and to find a car. He also has to stop by the Questura (the police station where immigrants go to announce their presence). Please pray these happen quickly so we can work on other goals that are time-sensitive. Pray for wisdom and for our reintegration into Italian culture and ministry. Pray for Daniel in his ability to learn Italian and to feel at home here.
We thank God for caring for all our needs and for being more than worthy of all sacrifice.
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Bob & Maria Hill
GEM Greece
Prayer and Praise
The semester at the Greek Bible College is well under way—nearing the end, and I continue to enjoy teaching. And our hands are full with responsibilities at the local church plant we are leading here in our community of Agia Paraskevi. We have a significant project going at the Greek Bible College. The “front” landscaping has long been completed—with continuing care—but there wasn’t money available to properly do the back area. Our grounds manager has great ideas for making a fire pit and outdoor assembly area in that space, and during the last couple of months has really been moving ahead. This month we had a volunteer who came from a church in Texas, and did some fantastic work with decking, plumbing and landscaping. It’s exciting to see the improvements on the grounds. Our campus has always been a refreshing paradise in a busy cosmopolitan center!
For a couple of “senior citizens,” we are remarkably healthy and active and are grateful to God for the energy to keep active. We just obtained a hundred “Christian Calendars” to give out during this season of the year. These are little silent evangelists, with a rip-off page for each day of the year, with a little Gospel message. Recently, Maria has also given out many New Testaments to various contacts she makes. We appreciate your prayers for these.
One of the hardest parts of serving here is being away from our children and grandchildren. We do keep good communication with them—thanks to modern technologies! Now each of our children has children who are becoming autonomous and beginning to leave the home.
Much love from both of us,
Bob and Maria Hill
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Pray for our church family...
Lily Espadas - Muscular Dystrophy
Sheila Hyatt - Ongoing multiple health issues
Marilyn Johnson (Maynard Johnson’s mother) - health complications due to Alzheimer’s
Maynard Johnson - Health issues
Delcia Phillips - In hospice care, please pray for Delcia and the family
Diana Sapetto - Health issues
Bill White - Multiple Sclerosis
Pray for those in the armed forces...
Jacob Haas (Mike & Rochelle Haas’ son) - National Guard
Justin Harvey (Linda Ghabril’s nephew) - National Guard
Michael Iosyfovych (Diane & Markus Acosta’s nephew) - Army Reserve
Robert McGlohin (Conor & Geoff’s step-brother) - Virginia, Navy
Ezekiel and Elias Rodriguez (Fidel & Trace Paniagua’s nephews) - Army
Ethan Sorrell (Todd and Celia Sorrell's son) - Army
Anthony Webb (Greg and Suzanne Golden’s son-in-law) - North Carolina, Army
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Online Giving
Text the word GIVE to 626-499-5600 or click here to give online. Contact our Financial Specialist for any questions (kparsons@sangabrielcommunity.org)
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Growing in Grace
Growing in Grace is the radio ministry of San Gabriel Community Church to the greater Los Angeles area, featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Steve Balentine. You can find Growing in Grace on KKLA 99.5 at 5:00 p.m. on Sundays
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Find a Bible Study
Get plugged in to a small group at SGCC. Check out the list of current Bible studies and fellowship groups that meet throughout the week. For any questions, contact the church office (info@sangabrielcommunity.org)
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Worship Service Video Archive
Our Worship Services are recorded and available online via Vimeo.
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Better is One Day
Matt Redman
Sing
Nathan Stiff, David Zimmer
How Majestic
Zach Bolen, Brian Eichelberger, Spencer Abbott, Nathan Furtado, Adam Skatula
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Agnus Dei
Michael W. Smith
Revelation Song
Jenny Lee Riddle
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Church Family Birthdays
Check out who's celebrating a birthday this month!
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Nathaniel Haas – 11/1
Geoff Smith – 11/2
Nikki Shifter – 11/4
Lanz Lipana – 11/8
Linda Ordaz – 11/9
Mark Rheinhardt – 11/9
Kevin Erlandson – 11/10
Penny Lohgren – 11/10
Rosie DeBoer – 11/10
Suzanne Bailey – 11/11
Matthew Medina – 11/11
Mikaela Beckler – 11/13
Isabella Angulo – 11/14
Jordan Cox – 11/17
Churairat Mittongtare – 11/17
Kristen Young – 11/17
Spring Tenney – 11/18
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Greg Golden – 11/19
Glenn Taylorson – 11/19
Irene Bialon – 11/20
Emily Haas – 11/21
Terra Reimers – 11/21
Tim Reimers – 11/21
Bruce Wataru – 11/21
Gina Estrada – 11/22
Carissa Lysne – 11/22
Beth Smith – 11/23
Nick Chavez – 11/25
Greg Parsons – 11/28
Jacob Haas – 11/29
Ken Peterson – 11/29
Christine Pujayana – 11/29
Rudy Delgado – 11/30
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Bob Oberlander – 12/1
Peter Otoshi – 12/3
Rowan Halverson – 12/5
Javier Ordaz – 12/7
Connie Alvarez – 12/8
Kathryn Barkley – 12/8
Mia Rysdon – 12/8
Kathleen Parsons – 12/10
Macy Pulos – 12/10
Renee Smith – 12/10
Jon Bialon – 12/11
Fidel Paniagua – 12/12
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Carolyn Oberlander – 12/14
Gilbert Oberlander – 12/14
Eve Young – 12/16
Nancy DeBoer – 12/18
Lisa Rowe – 12/20
Deacon Hoover – 12/22
Anna Young – 12/23
Jack Alm – 12/24
Karla Perez – 12/25
Gerald Baney – 12/28
Tracy Garcia – 12/29
Vickie Tremper – 12/31
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Reply to this email, email info@sangabrielcommunity.org or
call the church offices at 626-656-1000 for any questions.
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