Ladera Community Church

Mother's Day Worship Service
2025-05-11 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Ladera Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Bring your mother to church Sunday at 9:30 a.m.! Mothers will receive a special blessing during the service.
“If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.”
‒ Booker T. Washington
Join us on Zoom (or Facebook).
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PASCM Student Violin Recital (Claudia Bloom)
2025-05-10 13:00 - 17:00 | LCC: Sanctuary, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Palo Alto School of Chamber Music’s end-of-year student violin recital. The recital begins at 2:00 pm in the sanctuary, followed by a reception in Peabody Hall.

David Ng-Quinn's Student Piano Rehearsals
2025-05-09 18:30 - 21:00 | Ladera Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Private student rehearsals before their piano recital on Saturday, May 17th.

LCC Choir Rehearsal
2025-05-08 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-05-01 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-04-24 19:30 - 21:00 | LCC: Sanctuary, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Ladera Community Church weekly choir rehearsal.

Affordable Housing Task Force
2025-05-07 19:30 - 20:30 | Online – Zoom
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Community Support Program
2025-05-07 12:30 - 13:00 | LCC: Fireside Room, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Community Support Program
Wednesday, May 7, 12:30 p.m. (Alternating Wednesdays)
Sanctuary
Starting Wednesday, May 7, at 12:30 p.m. in the sanctuary, we will start a community
support program, “Reflections for These Times.” It will feature a Tai Chi prayer to open, time to catch up, lighting a candle for our concerns and hopes, and then silent meditation. We will leave in silence. This community support program will take place twice a month, on alternating Wednesdays.
Questions call Ketzal 9am -3pm Monday – Friday. 650-854-5481

AA
2025-05-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 | LCC: Peabody Hall, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028

Stanford Quads
2025-05-04 18:00 - 21:30, 2025-04-27 18:00 - 21:30, 2025-04-20 18:00 - 21:30 | LCC: Peabody Hall, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028
Modern square dancing is a recreation enjoyed by people of all ages in the United States and around the world. We dance the Plus program utilizing All Position Dancing. We often have an A2 or C1 star tip at the end of the evening. All Plus dancers are welcome to join us for an evening of dancing. Square dance attire is not needed. Masks are optional.

The weekly schedule is:
Review: 6:00-6:30 pm

Class: 6:30-8:30 pm

Plus: 8:30-9:00 pm

Star tips: 9:00-9:30 pm

The cost is $10 per session.
We start a beginner’s class every fall in October.

Haumalu 'o Langi Fellowship
2025-05-04 13:30 - 15:30 | LCC: Peabody Hall, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028

Haumalu 'o Langi Worship Service
2025-05-04 12:30 - 13:30 | LCC: Sanctuary, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Haumalu ‘o Langi’s Tongan weekly Sunday service.

Pastoral Relations Committee Meeting
2025-05-04 11:00 - 12:00 | LCC: Room 6, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Pastoral Relations Committee Meeting occur the first Sunday of each month in room 6.

Site Plan Congregational Meeting & Vote
2025-05-04 10:45 - 12:00 | LCC: Sanctuary, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Join us on May 4 for a Site Plan congregational meeting to vote on moving forward with the design phase of the proposed improvements at LCC. Your participation is important as we take the next steps in this process. We hope to see you there!

Church World Service Blanket Drive
2025-05-04 - 2025-05-18 | Ladera Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
CWS is there in times of need with blankets and toiletry kits, whether it is during a disaster or a daily need for the homeless. Let’s support their efforts with our funds! Drop a check in the collection plate made out to LCC with CWS in the memo line, send a check to LCC, or give online: ladera.org.

Special Earth Day Worship Service
2025-05-04 09:30 - 10:30 | Ladera Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
What Would Jesus Say? Or Did Say?
Earth Sunday or Earth Week should be every day, so we are celebrating our connection to the Earth on Sunday, May 4th. Was Jesus ahead of his time? You bet! Let’s explore some of the messages Jesus gives in light of our 21st century dilemma of climate change. There are intriguing ideas and guidance if we just look at some of the parables with our 21st century lenses. Come on May 4th and put on new glasses to view our world.
Submitted by Green Team
Worship is the heart of our community life. Sunday worship begins at 9:30 a.m. in the sanctuary and online via Zoom and Facebook. All ages are invited. LCC worship is a joyful celebration of God’s presence among us. We find inspiration, renewal, and refreshment through song and silence, prayer, and reflection. We seek to integrate the arts – music, drama, and visual – to enrich the worship experience. Worship continues in the many ways we seek, serve, and grow in the world.

We serve communion on the first Sunday of every month. All are welcome to the table!

Share Your Joy Team Meeting
2025-05-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Ladera Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Do you have a favorite activity you’d like to share at LCC? The Share Your Joy team can help you spread joy through activities like going to the opera, playing table tennis, reading for spiritual insights, or cooking pancakes. To join the Share Your Joy team meeting or to submit an idea for an event, email amy@ladera.org.

Peninsula Threshold Choir
2025-04-30 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-04-23 19:00 - 20:30 | LCC: Peabody Hall, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028
Peninsula Threshold Choir brings comfort and kindness through song to the bedsides of those at the thresholds of living and dying. The choir rehearses on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month.

Game Night and Chocolate Fondue with LCC Members at the Sequoias
2025-04-29 19:00 - 21:30 | Ladera Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Chocolate Fondue with LCC Members at the Sequoias
Tuesday, April 29 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. at The Sequoias, 501 Portola Road, Portola Valley (Parlor 3)
Do you have a passion for all things sweet whether it is a dessert or spending fun times with fellow church members? Join in some dessert, socializing with others, sharing stories and playing games at the Sequoias! Another great fellowship event! Click here to sign up to bring a dessert to share! Please RSVP by sending an email to Amy Boward at amy@ladera.org.

Haumalu 'o Langi Worship Service
2025-04-27 12:30 - 15:00, 2025-04-20 12:30 - 15:00 | Ladera Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Haumalu ‘o Langi Tongan congregation’s weekly Sunday service and Sunday school for the children.

Second Hour Safari Show and Tell: A Recap with Diane Schiano and Rick Voreck
2025-04-27 11:00 - 12:00 | LCC: Sanctuary, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Diane and Rick will show some photos and share some information about their experiences on safari during the Great Migration (of the wildebeest, and many more animals) in Tanzania recently.

Worship Service
2025-04-27 09:30 - 10:30 | LCC: Sanctuary, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Worship is the heart of our community life. Sunday worship begins at 9:30 a.m. in the sanctuary and online via Zoom. All ages are invited. LCC worship is a joyful celebration of God’s presence among us. We find inspiration, renewal, and refreshment through song and silence, prayer, and reflection. We seek to integrate the arts – music, drama, and visual – to enrich the worship experience. Worship continues in the many ways we seek, serve, and grow in the world.

We serve communion on the first Sunday of every month. All are welcome to the table!

Join us on Zoom
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Sharmila Montessori Preschool Celebrates Parents & Grandparents
2025-04-26 08:00 - 13:00 | LCC: Peabody Hall, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028
Sharmila Montessori House of Children welcomes their families to campus for a celebration of parents and grandparents. There will be fun activities and brunch.

Poster Making for May Day Rally
2025-04-25 13:00 - 15:00 | Ladera Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Poster Making for May Day Rally
Friday, April 25, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Peabody Hall
If you would like to exercise your creative talents, please join the social Justice team to make posters. You can express your ideas on posterboards to carry yourself, post in your yard or give to someone else. Please meet us in Peabody Hall on Friday, April 25 from 1-3pm. Bring your art materials: poster boards or cardboard, large markers, informative catchy phrases. We will have some supplies in case you need them.
