Welcome!

* Quick link to the Sunday Program here 

* Quick link to the Sunday Program here

Stake Conference - Stake Conference is Saturday, January 24th, Adult Stake Conference, 7pm at 1900 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco and Sunday, January 25th, Family Stake Conference, 10am at 730 Sharp Park Road.

Temple Recommend Interviews - If you would like to meet with a member of the bishopric for a temple recommend interview, please click here or contact Matthew Batmale.

Bishopric Appointments - If you would like to meet with a member of the bishopric, contact Matthew Batmale.  

SF Interfaith Winter Shelter -  Our ward has volunteered to serve dinner for the SF Interfaith Winter Shelter on March 21, 2026, meeting at 5:30pm, at Quaker Meeting House. Please sign-up here if you would like to participate. We need someone to plan/execute the meal, several people to help serve the meal, and someone else to make dessert. 

Need a good read? Our ward Magazine Representative, Cynthia Stott, can help! Reach out to her to receive physical copies of the Church magazines delivered to your home.

Ward Pickleball Night - Every Friday, 7pm at the church.  Pickleball night is for everyone! Bring your friends. This is a chance to build new friendships and strengthen old ones. 

Share Your Talents - Our ward is full of amazing skills and hobbies. We’d love to know about yours! Please take 2-3 minutes to fill out the Ward Talents & Interests Survey and let us know what you enjoy doing. Take the Survey Here

Temple Names - Our Ward Temple and Family History Consultant, Brother Don Hammon has created a special group and link for The Sunset Ward.  This will allow those who have too many names or can't go to the temple and do the work themselves for whatever reason, the opportunity to add those names to this LINK so their temple work can be completed.  Ward members can also use any of the names listed as well. 

Choir Practice – There will be no choir practice in January, 2026.  (Choir rehearsals are on Sundays at 9.00 a.m.  We meet upstairs in the Relief Society room. Please contact Paul Mann for additional information.

The Temple Schedule:  The Oakland California Temple Schedule for 2025, can be found here. You can find more information about the temple, on the Church website .  To schedule an appointment or submit names to the temple prayer roll on your mobile device, you can use the "Tools" app, under the "My Temples" tab.

Initiative - Women and Children Initiative: The General Relief Society Presidency has launched an initiative to support projects to help in the development of 12 million children ages 5 and younger and 2.7 million expectant and new mothers in 12 countries. As part of this initiative, they have published 25 Ways that members in congregations around the world can support mothers and children. 

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Adult Sunday School now meets in 2 classes - If your last name begins with the letters A-M meet in the Priesthood room (largest classroom downstairs) and last names N-Z meet in the Chinese Branch RS room. 

Ongoing Events, Classes, and other Announcements

Temple Hill - The Oakland temple often hosts cultural and other worshipful events. Please click here for a list of events. 

Background checks - California state law requires background checks for anyone who works with children or youth more than 32 hours a year. Details on how to do this are in an email from the stake. If you haven't received it, a member of the bishopric can forward it to you. 

Building cleaning: Our ward is responsible for building cleaning in January, February, April, May, July, August, October, and November (the Chinese branch will clean the other months). We clean on Saturday mornings at 8:45 am and finish by 9:45 am. Brother Cary Young has made assignments. If you haven't received an assignment, please contact Brother Young, or show up on a Saturday morning and introduce yourself to Brother Young.

Widespread use of zoom for Sacrament meeting concluded in February 2022: If you believe you should maintain access to sacrament meeting via Zoom (we understand there are various valid reasons), kindly let the bishop know.