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Charge Conference
Home Events Growing in Faith Charge Conference

Charge Conference

  • November 23, 2024
  • 10:30 am – 11:30 am
  • Online Via Zoom
  • Growing in Faith, Reaching in Love, Rooted in Grace

Agenda for Annual Charge Conference 

10:30am Saturday, November 23 via Zoom. Zoom Link (Meeting ID: 872 1310 1450 | Password: Table)

  • Welcome & Introductions – Melissa Jacobs, Admin Board Chair
  • Opening Prayer – District Superintendent Davie Niu, Presiding Elder
  • Looking Back at 2024 & Looking Ahead to 2025 – Melissa Jacobs
    • Motion for Election of Single Administrative Board for 2025 – Melissa Jacobs
    • Motion for Approval of Membership Report – Matt Smith
  • 2025 Budget Overview – Debbie Edgar, Finance Chair
    • Update on Deep Commitments for 2025
    • Overview of Ministry Budget for 2025
  • Approval of 2025 Clergy Compensation – Bob Loessberg-Zahl, Staff Parish Relations Chair
    • Rev. Linda Dew-Hiersoux
    • Rev. Matthew Smith
  • Motion for Renewal of Candidates for Ministry – Bob Loessberg-Zahl, Staff Parish Relations Chair
    • Mary Cheng, PhD
    • Debbie Edgar
    • Sarnit Prasad
    • Spenser Ross
    • Kara Tupy
  • Reports from Retired Clergy and Affiliated Deacons & Elders – Linda Dew-Hiersoux
    • Rev. Penny Adams, Retired Elder
    • Rev. Greg Bergquist, Retired Elder
    • Rev. Motoe Yamada Foor, Director of Adult Discipleship at Discipleship Ministries
    • Rev. Mike Harrell, Associate Campus Minister Pacific School of Religion
    • Rev. Linda Loessberg-Zahl, Retired Elder
    • Rev. Mallory Naake, Chaplain with Dignity Health
    • Rev. David Schlager, Retired Elder
  • Benediction – District Superintendent Davie Niu
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Sermons

Resist Kingdom

  • June 14, 2026
  • Theology for Troublemakers
Contrast the domination system against the kingdom of God: our faith gives us a vision of the world organized around love and justice rather than power and domination — a vision…

Love Your Enemy

  • June 7, 2026
  • Theology for Troublemakers
One of the highest challenges to Christians. What does this mean, and ask of us, in relation to real-life “enemies”? Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI…

Honor Human Dignity

  • May 31, 2026
If every human being bears the divine image (which scripture says we do), then we must affirm a fundamental human dignity/sacred worth that obligates us to oppose systems that…

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"Messianic Secret"
FROM THE ARTIST:
“Messianic Secret”
Inspired by John 2:1-11
14″x18″ Acrylic on canvas

The Wedding at Cana is my favorite text because there is a lot of humor in it. There’s humor in a mother approaching her son and telling him to do something without ever actually telling him to do it. There’s his pouty resistance to his mother’s non-demand while she completely ignores him and paints him in a corner. There is humor in a raucous wedding reception where the people are so “lit” that the wine has run out. And, for me, it’s particularly humorous that there’s this huge, beautiful secret of which only a few people are aware.

Those people include Jesus’ mother and the select servants who help him pull off the miracle that inaugurates his ministry. Servants are normally meant to be inconspicuous, so I wanted to focus on the servant who goes to the chief steward with a cup full of what, as far as he’s concerned, is water.

If Jesus—whose ministry has not started, so there haven’t been any wonders associated with him yet—tells you to fill jars with water and draw from the jar to give to the chief steward, what is going through your mind at that moment? I invite the viewer to focus on this servant and all his curiosity and expectation, and think of a time when you were surprised by something God did. What actions preceded the miracle? Did it make sense? What did you know, and what was hidden from you? What “secrets” might God be keeping from you now as God works clandestinely on your behalf?

—Rev. T. Denise Anderson