Wednesdays at Noon ($10)
Grand Lake Gardens, 401 Santa Clara Ave., Oakland
Reservations by Monday
Fill out the online form or call 510-483-6836
Download a pdf version: PCBA NOTES, Fall 2016
Continuing the work of rebuilding in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward ravished in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina, forty-two Bay Area American Baptist young people and adults journeyed there to participate in a project of the denomination’s Home Mission Society.
Important projects undertaken by the mission team included working on the home of a woman who had paid a contractor unsuccessfully to repair her home, helping ready a charter school serving kindergarten through 8th grade students, painting picnic tables and picking up trash at a small local store serving an overlooked neighborhood, and working to transform an abandoned building into an Internet café for youth near a new high school. Continue reading
“BLT” Program (“Baptists Lunching Together”)
Grand Lake Gardens
401 Santa Clara Ave., Oakland
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Don Ng, Past Pres. ABC-USA
Meal Reservations by the Monday preceeding.
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Phone: Joan Thatcher, 510.350.7008
“BLT” Program (“Baptists Lunching Together”)
Grand Lake Gardens
401 Santa Clara Ave., Oakland
September 16 – ABC Mission Summit; Highlights of the Biennial
Presentations by Delegates, Led by Jim Hopkins
“BLT” Program (“Baptists Lunching Together”)
Grand Lake Gardens
401 Santa Clara Ave., Oakland
May 20 – 12:00 Noon
Deborah Lee
Director, Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights
What to do with 253 Refugee Children in Oakland Schools Continue reading
“BLT” Reminder (“Baptists Lunching Together”)
Grand Lake Gardens
401 Santa Clara Ave., Oakland
April 15 – 12:00 Noon
Jewelle Taylor Gibbs
Destiny’s Child: Memoir of a Preacher’s Daughter