Ladera Community Church

Haumalu 'o Langi Worship Service
2025-02-23 12:30 - 15:00, 2025-02-16 12:30 - 15:00, 2025-02-09 12:30 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

Worship Service
2025-02-23 09:30 - 10:30, 2025-02-16 09:30 - 10:30, 2025-02-09 09:30 - 10:30, 2025-02-02 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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LCC Choir Rehearsal
2025-02-20 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-13 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-06 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-01-30 19:30 - 21:00 | LCC: Sanctuary, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Ladera Community Church weekly choir rehearsal.

Council Meeting
2025-02-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Online – Zoom

AA
2025-02-17 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-02-10 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-02-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-01-27 19:00 - 21:00 | LCC: Peabody Hall, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028

Stanford Quads
2025-02-16 18:00 - 21:30, 2025-02-09 18:00 - 21:30, 2025-02-02 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.

Valentine's Day Cookie Exchange
2025-02-16 10:30 - 11:30 | Ladera Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Sunday, February 16 after service

Spread the love with our first LCC Cookie Exchange! It’s the perfect opportunity to exchange delicious treats just in time for Valentine’s Day! Everyone is welcome to participate! If you would like to exchange, please bring 1-2 dozen HOMEMADE cookies and plan to go home with one dozen or more! Cookie boxes will be provided or you can bring your own to transport your goodies back home. Please, NO store bought cookies. To ensure a successful event, please sign-up here or on the sign-up sheet during coffee hour.
Let’s make this Valentine’s Day extra special together!

Al's Birthday Celebration
2025-02-16 10:30 - 11:30 | LCC: Peabody Hall, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028
In celebration of Al Knickerbocker’s birthday, the Jewel Tones will perform in the sanctuary during the worship service. Afterward, join us in Peabody Hall for cake and refreshments! More details to come.

Social Justice Team Presents: Democracy & Disagreement
2025-02-15 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-02-12 19:30 - 20:30 | LCC: Peabody Hall, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028
Open to all. More details to come.

Peninsula Threshold Choir
2025-02-12 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.

Navigation Center Lunch Serving
2025-02-09 11:30 - 13:00 | Ladera Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
LCC has a long-standing connection with LifeMoves, especially through its monthly lunch service at the Redwood City Navigation Center. Each monthly visit is a chance to share food, fellowship, and compassion with those navigating challenging transitions. We’re assembling a team of 6-10 people to prepare and serve lunch at the new center, which boasts a full commercial kitchen. We’ll meet at the Navigation Center at 11:30 a.m. You will find this hands-on activity rewarding! Please RSVP to amy@ladera.org to join us.
To learn more about the Navigation Center and its mission, click here.
Navigation Center: 275 Blomquist St, Redwood City

Second Hour: Mary’s Immigration Story and Other Personal Perspectives on Migration
2025-02-09 10:45 - 11:45 | LCC: Fireside Room, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
When: February 9, 2015 at 10:45 am
Where: Fireside Room, Ladera Community Church
What:
Mary Antin’s 1899 story of her immigration journey was the first of its kind – an account by a child of migrating to the United States (Mary’s Immigration Story, 2024). Written so long ago, yet it is set in a broad historical context that is mirrored in today’s world. Her Jewish family was escaping tyranny and oppression. The family was torn apart, with the father leaving three years earlier to prepare for their arrival. When Mary follows with her mother and siblings, they are met with suspicion for the cholera that is raging in their homeland. A setback at the German border when they discover they don’t have the right documents leaves them “homeless, houseless, friendless in a strange place.” A harsh Atlantic crossing tests their endurance. Yet through it all, Mary displays humor, insight and a delight in all things new.
Come hear sippets of Mary’s story that Colleen Crangle will share with us. Immigration is a complex issue in today’s reality of worldwide migration. Stories help us understand it.
What is your family’s migration story? Come share it with us in the second half of the Second Hour.

Share Your Joy Team Meeting
2025-02-07 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.

Affordable Housing Task Force
2025-02-05 19:30 - 20:30 | Online – Zoom
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Spiritual Insights from Speculative Fiction
2025-02-02 11:00 - 12:00 | LCC: Fireside Room, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
Speculative fiction is an umbrella term that includes science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and other genres that depart from realism. Join us for the second of a two-part series in which we read excerpts from works of speculative fiction and talk about spiritual insights we can gain from them. In this session, led by Martha Luemers, we’ll read excerpts from the nineteenth century novella Flatland by Edward Abbott that imagine a two dimensional being’s encounters with one-dimensional and three-dimensional beings.
You don’t have to sign up in advance, but if you let us know you’re coming by emailing Amy Boward at amy@ladera.com, we’ll send you a digital copy of the excerpts. Hard copies will also be available at the session.

2025 Backpack Drive
2025-02-01 - 2025-02-24 | Ladera Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
From Feb 1 – Feb 24, Ladera Community Church is partnering with the Menlo Atherton High School Service Club (The Care Bears) to collect backpacks for students experiencing poverty on the Mexicali border. In mid-March, students will travel to Calexico and partner with a local food bank to distribute necessary food items and the collected backpacks.

The greatest need is for backpacks for high school students (20-30L size), but NEW backpacks of all sizes are accepted.

Backpacks can be placed in the blue barrels outside the church office or if you would prefer, you can write a check to LCC with “Backpacks” in the subject line and the Care Bears will purchase backpacks with our donations.

Any questions, please reach out to Sandie Timm at sandieptimm@gmail.com
