Mandarin Community

WEEKLY Sunday Service

We welcome you to join our Sunday Mandarin worship service with amazing uplifting live music by our worship team and inspiring Saddleback Church messages videos imbedded with translated English-Chinese subtitles. After service, there will be a time of fellowship with refreshments and snacks. Once a month, we share a meal together celebrating monthly birthdays. We also celebrate special events including Chinese festivals.

Check out what our Sunday ministry offers and explore the many opportunities you may get involved with:

• Worship Team – A team of vocalists, musicians and technicians who love worshipping Jesus Christ through music during our Sunday services, nights of worship and special events. We welcome vocalists who can sing in Mandarin, and in English will be a plus. Our volunteering audio and video specialists, operate, maintain, support and seamlessly integrate the technologies of audio, lighting and video presentations.

• Set up & Parking Team – Set up for our Sunday services with outdoor welcome & directional signs. Set up tables as needed. Ensure safety by providing directions and parking at Sunday services and special events.

• Connection Center – Prepare and provide newcomer welcoming gift packs, fresh start packs, and collect, log and handle requests on connection cards. Provide members with information on our Mandarin Community & Saddleback Church resources such as ministries, small groups and events/activities.

• First Time Connectors – To provide new guests and families with a friendly and welcoming environment and begin to connect with them, establish a relationship through kindness and caring that creates a connection with our Mandarin Community family and ultimately with Jesus Christ!

• Ushers – Prepare a comfortable environment at our worship service and special events. We welcome everyone to our worship service with a smile, pass out bulletins, assist with seating, answer questions and collect offerings. We would love to have you join our team, serving as frequently as you like.

• Hospitality – We welcome volunteers who have a gift of hospitality and have a passion in the food service by setting up a welcoming area with our beverages and snacks bar after worship services, organize and serve our monthly meals, special events and Chinese festivities.

• Pics Ministry – Pics ministry is dedicated to capturing and telling the story of Saddleback Church one frame at a time. Whether you are new to the craft or an experienced photographer, there is room for you to grow, learn and share your talents with other team members.

• Security Team - We facilitate and uphold the safety and security for those attending our service and events. Our security volunteers are serving alongside the Security Team staff of Lake Forest campus. Volunteers are welcomed to serve.

• Lunar New Year & Mid-Autumn Celebration – These are the two most important festival celebrations for our Chinese Mandarin Community. Best outreach and time to invite families and friends to join our worship service and celebration with dinner, cultural programs, activities and fun.

CHINESE TRANSLATION

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork . . . There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.” Psalm 19:1-3 (NKJV)

The Mandarin Translation Ministry provides translation subtitles and production of our weekly Sunday message video. In addition, they provide translation for small group campaign video and booklet and numerous Saddleback Church small group materials. We also designated a dedicated team for daily devotional material translations. They are responsible for document layout with image and audio recording in Mandarin & English. There are many opportunities to serve on our teams with training provided. We welcome more volunteers in the following areas:

• Written translation: For Saddleback Church members possessing a bilingual proficiency of English and simplified Chinese. Spoken translation will be for those proficiency in English and Mandarin

• Volunteers may join to work remotely or at Lake Forest campus.

ADULT MINISTRIES

Mandarin Community Small Group

To build community with other members on a personal level.

Life is not meant to be lived alone. In fact, God hates loneliness. You were created to experience life with other people, and that’s why at Saddleback, we encourage you to get into a small group.

A small group is a group of three or more people who gather each week in a home, workplace, or online. In a group you’ll hang out, study the Word, and pray together. No matter where you are in life, we can help you find a group.

Discover Your Purpose Classes

Discovering Your Purpose classes are our spiritual growth and maturity classes, designed to give our congregation some stepping stones as they walk through life with Christ. They are an integral part of our foundation to teach people how to love Christ and how to love others.

Help others take their next steps in discovering their purpose by helping us prepare the rooms, welcome guests, and answer any questions.

Mandarin Community Ladies

Our community of sisters is here to help you draw near to the heart of God, share life with one another, and flourish where you are planted. Together we will ground ourselves in the Word of God and help each other live out our faith in the world by the power of the Holy Spirit.

CARE and SUPPORT

Celebrate Recovery Chinese

Celebrate Recovery is a biblical and balanced program that helps us overcome our hurts, hang-ups, and habits. We all have hurts and if we don’t walk through them authentically with Jesus, we can get hung-up and pursue destructive habits. Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to work through them. This Jesus-centered 12 step program is open to anyone looking for freedom. Online or in person program will be offered 1-2 times a year.

We provide Mandarin translation for the first Friday of every month CR large group at Lake Forest worship center and thereafter open share men and women groups in Mandarin. Volunteers are appreciated