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Sunday Morning Building Access

In an effort to enhance the safety of our Church community, beginning Sunday, September 29th, access to our Church building will be curtailed. The Lakeshore doors will be unlocked at about 9:30 a.m. and will be locked after Worship ends. The parking lot doors will also be opened at about 9:30, but they will be closed when Worship begins at about 10:15. If you arrive when the Parking lot doors are closed, please use your assigned lock code to enter. Guests will be directed via a sign to go to the Lakeshore side of the building to enter. Please contact our Church Administrator if you need a lock code.


“Where Olive Trees Weep” Screening

12:30pm Sunday, Sept 29

Please join LMUMC’s Peace in Palestine – Friends of Wadi Foquin small group for a film screening and Q&A in our sanctuary on Sunday, September 29 starting around 12:30–after fellowship hour, which will feature Palestinian food that day.

Where Olive Trees Weep is a new documentary that chronicles life in the West Bank under Israeli occupation and paints a vivid picture of what life is like for our siblings living there. We have also invited Rev. Emily Lin from Friends of Wadi Foquin to give updates on the current situation in the village of Wadi Foquin and how we can help.


Sierra Leone School Project Jollof Rice Dinner

6:30-8:30pm Saturday, Oct 5 in Stark Rm

The Koroma family and friends at Lake Merritt UMC invite you to come and enjoy typical Sierra Leonean cuisine and support fundraising efforts for the Sierra Leone School Project.

Only about half of the population of Sierra Leone (in Africa) can read and write. The vision of the Sierra Leone School Project is to start a primary school in the town of Lungi in Northwest Sierra Leone to help address the low illiteracy in the country. Funds raised will go towards paying teachers, buying school materials, building additional classrooms, and providing other necessary support for the school.

Please make donations to Lake Merritt UMC and write “Sierra Leone Project” in the memo line (if paying by check) or note section of our online giving platform.  May God richly bless your donation. Visit Sierra Leone School Project website for more information: safieko.com


Bay Area Rainbow Symphony Concert

7:30pm Saturday, October 5

Tickets are now on sale for the next Bay Area Rainbow Symphony concert on Saturday, October 5, 7:30pm at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (visit bars-sf.org). Future concerts this season will be on Nov 23, Mar 29, and Jun 14, with tickets going on sale on the website about a month beforehand.


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