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SUMMARY:Monthly Sisterhood Hike | Sisters in the Outdoors
DESCRIPTION:Join us from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Saturday\, Dec. 2\, for a Saturday morning hike at Lafayette Reservoir Recreation Area in Lafayette to get to know other sisters in the community and enjoy the great outdoors. No children\, please (female teens\, okay). Let us know you are coming: https://mcceastbay.org/rsvp \n\n\n\nAlso\, after the hike\, we plan to have a potluck breakfast so join us! \n\n\n\nIf sisters want to walk around more\, they can do it depending on their interest/time. The hike will be cancelled if there are not enough RSVPs depending on the weather. \n\n\n\n\n– When: Saturday\, Dec. 2\, 2023\n\n\n\n– Time: 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. – Please arrive a little early to park and find the group. The group can wait till 7:40 a.m. and will start the hike. Please be on time since we cannot hold the group.\n\n\n\n– Carpool: We highly recommend carpooling. No carpool from MCC is available for this hike. Carpool encouraged others on this hike.\n\n\n\n– Parking: \n\n\n\n– Location: Lafayette Reservoir Loop\n\n\n\n– Distance: 3 miles\n\n\n\n– All Trails:  https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/us/california/lafayette-reservoir-loop\n\n\n\n– Difficulty: Easy\n\n\n\n– Misc: Wear hiking shoes if possible. There will be a small water crossing\, and your shoes might get wet. Bring a small breakfast/ Lunch sandwich or something to eat. Carry enough water\, a hat\, and a light jacket. Please download All Trails map (free version) in case you decide to return in the middle of the hike. This will be very helpful in navigating back to the parking lot.\n\n\n\n– RSVP: By Friday\, Dec. 1\, please let us know you are coming for this hike: https://mcceastbay.org/rsvp\n\n\n\n\nSr. Aparna Khan and Sr. Sohaila will be leading this hike. If you have trouble finding the group on the day of the hike\, please call or text Sr. Aparna at (408) 480-6584 or Sr. Sohaila at (925) 786-7698. Please remember that we cannot hold all the group\, so we request you to please be on time. \n\n\n\nFor future hikes\, please subscribe to the MCC newsletter and/or add your phone number to the Women’s Hiking WhatsUp group. \n\n\n\nPlease wear comfortable walking/hiking shoes\, carry a water bottle\, a small snack\, a hat\, sunglasses\, and hiking poles if you have one.  \n\n\n\nQuestions? hiking@mcceastbay.org \n\n\n\nAbout this trail: \n\n\n\nDiscover this 3.0-mile loop trail near Lafayette\, California. Generally considered an easy route\, it takes an average of 1 h 2 min to complete. This is a very popular area for birding\, fishing\, and road biking\, so you’ll likely encounter other people while exploring. The trail is open year-round and is beautiful to visit anytime.
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/sisterhood-hike-3/
LOCATION:Lafayette Reservoir Loop\, Lafayette Reservoir Recreation Area\, Lafayette\, CA\, 3849 Mount Diablo Blvd\,\, Lafayette\, California\, 94549\, United States
CATEGORIES:Women's Activities
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SUMMARY:A Healing From the Heart Out | Sr. Rooya Ayubi
DESCRIPTION:Do you ever feel like you just don’t matter or that people don’t see you for who you truly are? \n\n\n\nDo you ever feel discouraged even when good things happen to you? \n\n\n\nThis sense of unworthiness often leads to self-suffering\, which\, in turn\, can cause us to project suffering onto others\, contributing to the pain and destruction in the world. Success and self-worth are closely intertwined. We are more likely to strive for success if we perceive ourselves worthy of that success. \n\n\n\nJoin Sr. Rooya Ayubi to gain insights on how to strengthen our connection with Allah(swt) and use that to overcome our feelings of unworthiness and fear of success to find ultimate success in this life and the hereafter. \n\n\n\nSaturday\, Dec. 2 | 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. | Conference Room | Join in person or watch live at mcceastbay.org/live \n\n\n\nAs Muslims\, we view our connection to Allah (swt) as the ultimate success. However\, how do we attempt to find it when we can’t see ourselves worthy of any success? This\, in turn\, leads to avoidance of that connection due to our unworthiness dilemma. Consequently\, many Muslims may either not practice their faith or\, if they do\, still grapple with a deep sense of disconnection\, ultimately preventing them from fulfilling what Allah (swt) truly created us to do\, to gain God-consciousness. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will use interactive storytelling\, contemplative breathing meditation\, and Zhikr\, which focuses on the heart to bring real change\, internal and external inshaAllah. \n\n\n\nRooya Ayubi is a storyteller\, life coach\, wife\, and mother. An immigrant woman who walked across the desert from Afghanistan to Pakistan when she was only 6 years old\, Rooya is a survivor of trauma. Because of this\, Rooya grew up with a deep sense of unworthiness\, which led to a decade of depression. \n\n\n\nAfter embarking on a major self-healing journey\, she emerged strong and healthy. Her dream and mission now is to guide women who have felt beaten down by the challenges in their lives to reawaken hope\, reclaim their power\, and begin to live a life of honor. Her work combines a vast array of diverse skills such as Powerful Non-Defensive Communication™\, Storytelling\, Way of Joy Qigong™\, contemplative breathing methods\, and Zhikr (remembrance) that focuses on the heart in order to help her clients make the shift necessary to embrace a life worth living.  \n\n\n\nShe is also an admin for the East Bay Muslim Homeschooling group for almost 9 years and frequently hosts workshops titled “Chasing The Dunya Effect” and other workshops on self-worth.  \n\n\n\nHere is a video of one of her storytelling sessions on her journey walking across the desert and eventually ending up here in California:
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/healing-from-heart/
CATEGORIES:Family Events
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SUMMARY:Private Event
DESCRIPTION:Prayer Hall & Banquet Hall
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SUMMARY:Fight for Your Why: How to Change Dunya Mentality Into Prophetic Intentionality | Ust. Adnan Wood-Smith
DESCRIPTION:Do you struggle with being inconsistent in your commitments you make to others\, to Allah\, and to yourself? Are there unhealthy habits in your life you can’t get rid of? Does the day-to-day grind of the Dunya leave you overwhelmed and exhausted?  \n\n\n\nJoin us on a Saturday afternoon with Ustadh Adnan Wood-Smith to hear his personal journey of discovering his “Why” and to learn the importance of clarifying your unique mission in life\, what internal and external forces are intent on taking you off that mission\, and what techniques you can use to fight back and live an inspiring life oriented around your unique purpose. \n\n\n\nSaturday\, Dec. 2 | 1 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. | MCC Conference Room | Free; Join in person or watch live at mcceastbay.org/live \n\n\n\nBy the end of this talk\, attendees will leave with practical strategies to regain passion and discipline in their lives\, find confidence in the face of uncertainty\, and live a life they are prouder of. \n\n\n\nAdnan Adrian Wood-Smith is an award-winning educator\, speaker\, and author on Qur’anic spirituality. 

After graduating from his Ivy League college as valedictorian\, he learnt the hard way that his desire for academic and career success must not override his true sense of mission in life. Since then\, he has been committed to helping others define and defend their purpose so that they can find true community with others who share their deep intentionality in the world.  \n\n\n\nHe has mentored hundreds as a denominational counselor at Harvard Divinity School\, Muslim Chaplain at Brown University\, and Student Life Coordinator at Zaytuna College\, as well as through various volunteer positions\, including his tenure as President of RICMA\, the umbrella organization for the Muslim community in Rhode Island. 

Adnan is nearing completion of his PhD in Religion at Harvard University and has received numerous traditional licenses (ijāzāt) to teach Islamic spiritual mentorship\, jurisprudence\, Qur’anic Arabic\, and other subjects from master teachers in West Africa\, Syria\, and California. \n\n\n\nMore Ustadh Adnan: https://mcceastbay.org/adnan \n\n\n\nQuestions? events@mcceastbay.org
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