October Events, Married Women's Night + Thread Update
What's Happening at VCOC - October 2025
✨In this Newsletter:
- VCOC Church Events for October 2025
- Married Women’s Hangout: Sept 27
- Thriving Through the Transition - Understanding Menopause: Sept 28
- Seattle Women’s Retreat: Oct 10-12
- Thread Update - Season 2 - All about Jesus!
- Community Announcements - Blood Drive
- Prayer Requests
Join us this Sunday - September 28th
This Sunday, September 28th, we'll be meeting at Burnaby South Secondary at 10:00am for a worship service. Come join us! Mike Morettin will be preaching (Men's Retreat will be wrapping up)
VCOC Worship October 2025
- October 5th - 10:00AM at Burnaby South Secondary Cafeteria
- October 12th - 10:00AM at Burnaby South Secondary Cafeteria
- October 19th - House Church Services
- October 26th - 10:00AM at Burnaby South Secondary Cafeteria
Save the Date: December 14th - Christmas Banquet! - more details to follow
-> To view our full calendar for the next few months, please see our
Gatherings page on the VCOC website.
Married Women’s Connection Night
Date: Saturday September 27, 2025
Time: 5:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Ruth Kang’s home at 7042 Ramsay Ave in Burnaby
Info: Please RSVP to your house church leader and bring a dish to share for the potluck dinner
Zoom Meeting - Thriving Through the Transition: Understanding Menopause
Date: September 28th from 3:00PM - 4:30PM
Location: Online
Topic: Let’s learn, let’s engage, and support open dialogue on a shared experience in an online presentation and discussion. Our presenter is Dr. Chinyem Dzawanda. She is a disciple in the Calgary Church who is a family physician and a menopause society certified practitioner.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81279507414?pwd=xixdyQbyoGOBAmwWsaQMQY2cFRybRg.1
Cost:
Free!
Seattle Women’s Retreat - “Still Waters”
The Seattle Church of Christ is hosting a Women’s Retreat this October and the VCOC sisters are invited! This retreat will be an opportunity to slow down and follow Jesus into a quieter, more peaceful space. Life can feel so full—busy schedules, constant noise, and the pressure to keep going. But Jesus gently invites us to lay all of that down and come be with Him.
The SCOC has kindly offered the Vancouver sisters a discount as they understand the US$ can present financial challenges. $175US includes 2 nights lodging, activities, and all meals.
Dates: October 10-12, 2025
Location: Lake Retreat Camp, 27850 Retreat-Kanaskat Rd #101, Ravensdale, WA
Registration/Info: https://www.seattlechurchofchrist.org/events/womens-retreat/2025-10-10
Registration cost: $175 USD (with discount code “Canadian Registration”)
Registration: THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER IS THIS SUNDAY SEPT 28
Thread Series - Season 2 - All about Jesus!
After 46 episodes in the Old Testament, Season 2 of the Thread Series is now out, and it's all about Jesus! Here's a snippet from Episode 48 - Jewish Jesus:
In the first episode of Season Two: Jesus and the People, hosts Hannah De Souza and Dr. David Pocta dive into Matthew’s Gospel, focusing on its Jewish roots and the relationship between Jesus and the Old Testament. They discuss the concept of encountering the divine, the unique spiritual vision of each of the four gospels, and how Matthew emphasizes the ongoing presence of God. They examine the genealogy and birth of Jesus, the role of John the Baptist, and the beginning of Jesus’s public ministry. The episode also highlights key themes of judgment and action in Matthew’s Gospel, exploring how these concepts underpin the transformation that Jesus brings.
Find out more and access the quiet times here: https://app.threadpodcast.org/series/272/resource/959
Community Annoucements
Blood Drive
Tim is organizing another Blood Drive for the VCOC on Saturday Oct 25th. 10 slots are available between 9:30 & 11am. Please contact Tim for more information - 604-908-6266. Current location is Blood clinic at Guilford Surrey.
Prayer Requests
- Please continue to pray for Dave Zayonc and his family as he battles the effects of his tumor
- Continued prayers for Sherrill as she goes through chemo
- Please continue to pray for Saman, Soudabeh’s brother, who is still being held in Yalova, Turkiye as an Iranian refugee.
- Prayer Request from Xotchil: “My cousin Miriam was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and she is in shock and upset, please pray for her faith in God in this stage and that she can feel hope. Also for my niece Sofia who is 15 yrs old - her leukemia has led to brain cancer, pray for the family especially her parents, my cousins. Also please pray for Bety my friend to receive good news about her recently completed chemotherapy. Thank you”
- Pray for the building search team to find a new facility for our church services
