Announcements - December 7, 2014

• Church prayer meetings are held every Sunday at 10:30am at the office. All are encouraged and welcome to attend. 
• Worship duties list is posted on the church website. Please contact Deacon Peter, Deacon Justin or the church secretary if you are not available for the duties. 
• Operation Christmas Child national collection week has received 3289 shoe box gifts. Thank you brothers and sisters who helped to packed the cartons and loaded them into the trailer. 
• WBC is again hosting a charity clothing drive this year and the collection period will be from December 7-December 14. For each bag (filled up 26” x 36” garbage bag) of clothing donated we will receive $2.5 from Big Brother. Net proceeds will be equally donated to Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society and Union Gospel Mission. Please bring your clothing donations to Room G before or after worship service. Empty garbage bags are available at the back of the hall. 
• Tickets for the December 14 Christmas Charity Dinner are available with small groups leaders or Deacon Justin Chen. The prices are $13 per adult, $7 per child age 4-10, free for child of age 3 or below. Today is the last day for selling tickets. 
• DONATIONS WANTED! Gifts to be sold at the Christmas Charity Auction are now being collected. We are accepting: new items of value; unique and valuable vintage items; and unused and non-expired gift certificates, gift cards, or gift vouchers (e.g. Groupons). Items should be new or in excellent condition. Please contact Pastor Alan for details by today. Please note that the Church reserves the right to refuse any donations, and unsold gifts will be returned to donors. Thank you for your support! 
• Christmas gathering will be held on December 19 at 7:00pm in the main hall. Please invite friends and family to attend this outreach event. $10 per ticket. 
• WBC201 is a spiritual maturity course for those who have been baptized and transferred to Westside which will be held in January 2015. Please contact Pastor Gladys if you would like to attend. 
• Please wash the utensils inside the kitchen before and after using them. Also, please do not leave food uncovered and remember to keep the church clean. 
• Please send your new contact info to the church if it has been updated within the past two years. 
• The church will set up a paper recycle box in Room A, and would like to ask brothers and sisters to bring home some papers for recycling so that we can help reduce the cost for recycling. 
• Please pick up lost and found items in the kitchen the latest by December 14. Otherwise, the items on the lost and found shelves will be cleared.