 أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وضحا والليل إذا سجا ما ودعك ربك وما قالا ولا الآخرة خير لك من الأولى ولسوف يعطيك ربك فترضا ألم يجدك يتيما فآوى ووجدك ضل فهدا ووجدك عائلا فأغنى فأما اليتيما فلا تقهر وأما السائل فلا تنهر وأما بنعمت ربك فهدث صدق الله العظيم في نام الله المرسفة المرسفة من المرسفة ومن المرسفة ومن المرسفة when it covers with darkness your Lord has not taken leave of you أو محمد nor has he detested you and the hereafter is better for you than the first life and your Lord is going to give you and you will be satisfied did he not find you an orphan and give you refuge and he found you lost and guided you and he found you poor and made you self-sufficient so as for the orphan do not oppress him and as for the petitioner do not repel him but as for the favor of your Lord report it ساك لخير بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم نبدأ في نام الله ومن المرسفة ومن المرسفة أنا أخبرت أني أحتاج إلى أن أكون أكثر يجب أن يخبروني أني أحتاج إلى أن أكون أكثر أكثر لذا أريد أن أشكر جميع المساعدين الذين هنا اليوم في المساعدة ومن المرسفة وعنكًا، لذا أنتها تساعدة بسم الله أعتبرت لك أننا لقد لك أنتيا أتجد لك السبع جميع المستخدمين who are present في منطقة معطة أنا أخبرت ساما وأخبرت ذهي خان وأخبرت مجاهد سنكون هنا even after نجاح أو سؤال بعد شكرا لكم. وبعد أسلل خارج، الكثير من الأمرague لا يجب أن تشاهد أن تشهد أن هذه التكلمات الحصولة الكاملية سيديها يوما في أنتظرين بشكل كبير ورحمة ولكن شركة كما تسمعون و were very popular women's halakuh at Dr. Ania happening. We also have the voice其 are coming in on Friday night for their weekly meeting. There are a lot of other programming that is happening on Saturdays and Sundays, to allow the community to gather and learn through classes or learn from each other. The sisters weekly halakuhs ah with sister Khosai are back. هنا is the Sierra Club, the Book Club is back. To maintain all of that, we need your duos first and foremost. We also need your support to help fund the operations and the Zakat and the Sadaka. You will be hearing from Brother Manir and Sister Amina about all the programs that have continuously supported the community. Please do listen and also just generously donate towards these causes so these programs can continue onwards. On a very happy note, I would like to tell all of you that during this last quarter, we were able to hire a part-time support staff for the new Convert Care Group. Mashallah for the last few years, Sister Aisha and Brother Manir have been supporting the Convert Care Group tirelessly. But by the grace of Allah, that group is growing exponentially and we needed some extra support. So we have Sister Lizette, who has been part of the group. She is supporting on a few hours a week our Convert Care Group facilitating their meetings and questioning any of their answers. The biggest, I think, achievement I would say from the board with the grace of Allah SWT was that this quarter, we were able to find two young, enthusiastic youth leaders. And please keep them in your duos and support them. Come to their listening sessions with your high schoolers. They, Mashallah, have amazing insight into what the children need because they were both born and raised in locally, especially our young female youth leader is Pleasanton, born and raised, went through the high school system here. They are Zetuna graduates. You will learn more about them shortly from them. But keep them in your duos. Bring your boys starting next Friday to the boys' holocaup when we begin meeting with just the high schoolers. Pretty soon we will be adding other age groups. And with further ado, I would like to invite Sister Maryam Awal and Brother Zet Kanani, our new youth leaders to come and introduce themselves to all of you. السلام عليكم و رحمة الله. My name is Zet Kanani. My name is Maryam. سنراكم. سنراكم about a few points. A quick intro into our background. The both of us have a background in Islamic studies through Zetuna colleges, bachelors, and master's program. We are also studying with scholars overseas from Egypt and Syria. And through, that's kind of like our Islamic studies background. Ad an rain to that we both also have a background in counseling psychology with a master's in counseling psychology and marriage in family therapy that we got at the right institute in Berke sea California. So that's kind of who we are. Our goal here at MCC Insha Allah is to create a community based in knowledge service and love. ماذا نفعل about the past two weeks we have been having listening sessions Do you want to talk about the listening sessions? Sure, we have held three listening sessions so far with different populations in the community We have managed to meet with over fifty community members وقد نعلم منهم كثيرا عن ما يحتاجون وما يريدون أن يردون واستعمل في هذه الأشهر سوف تسمعنا أكثر مننا عندما نضع كل المعلومات ونقوم بشكل مدينة لنبدأ مع المتحدة. سنكون لدينا أشهر في موضوع وموضوع في الأشهر فلما قلت سيارة همارة، سنبدأ next week on Friday with the Boys' Halqa for high school students from 7 to 9 pm إن شاء الله. So we definitely encourage you to send your boys to that. And then also, in addition to that, we are planning other weekly and monthly activities that will hopefully engage the youth. They will be active, they will be fun. So إن شاء الله, please encourage all members to participate. Some topics that will be addressed moving forward. So in addition to the sports activities, the outdoor activities, things like that, the topics that we'll be addressing throughout the programming and throughout our educational series will be things dealing with family, family conflict, family resolution, gender and LGBTQ plus issues, and then different aspects of mental health. And of course, the fundamentals of Islamic knowledge, particularly the furthering sciences. Do you want to add? And then so lastly, okay. And then the last thing is just I mentioned that we've met with 50 members, but we'd obviously love to meet everyone. So we are holding office hours both in-person and online just based on people's availabilities. So our Calendly links are now on the screen. You can just go to either of these links and then there's time slots there. You can sign up for them. Or if those times don't work that are online, you can also just reach out by email or phone. We have business cards for those of you here if you want them. And feel free to reach out and we can schedule another time that works. إن شاء الله. We just wanted to thank the MCC community. And جزاكم الوخير. And thank you for having us. And keep us in your duaz, please. Mashallah, what inspiring youth leaders we have. And we look forward to what they will be bringing in their programming in the next few weeks and months to come. Please continue to keep them in your duaz. And also do bring your high schoolers starting next week. The next week's session is sort of introducing themselves and what they have in plans. These are just for youth, please. So do remember, once their regular session start, do keep in mind that they will be needing help from the parents in supporting the group with their different needs. And more to come on that. I would now pass the mic onto Sister Amina who will be updating the community on the various زاكات, بانتري, and refugee events and updates. زاكة الله, Sister Amina. سلام عليكم, everyone. Welcome. I just want to go over our community outreach program. It's made primarily of three components. We have a rental assistance program, our food pantry, and a car donation program. Our زاكات program. Well, first let me say there's five main groups of community members that are benefiting from these programs. We have single sisters, single mothers, domestic violence victims, families with young children, and our refugee community. So our rental assistance program, our primary goal with this program is to keep families housed. When they lose their jobs, the biggest risk that they face, the biggest fear that they have is eviction. So this is the goal with the rental assistance program. And currently we are still processed about 15 to 20 applications per week. With the food pantry program, that has two components. We have the bi-weekly Saturday program, which reaches primarily community members. And then we have our weekly Tuesday-Thursday drive-through that started during COVID and still exists. And this benefits primarily our community, our neighbors in our community. We partner with the Alameda County Food Bank, and through them we are able to distribute about 30,000 pounds of food to community members and neighbors on a monthly basis. We also partner with Help a Mother Out, which gives us practically free diapers that we're able to pass along to community members and neighbors as well. And then on Thursdays, Open Heart Kitchen utilizes the MCC parking lot and also does a food distribution program. The Saturday bi-weekly program reaches about 350 community members all throughout the East Bay. It is still a delivery program primarily, and we have partnered with DoorDash. And the way that works is that we partner with different massages in the area and we utilize their parking space. Community members fill up their vans, we use the MCC's cargo van, and we take food to that location and then DoorDash drivers come. They pick up the food and they deliver the food to the families for us. And all of this is free to MCC. Our car program, last year we were able to give out cars to over 50 families. Last week alone, we gave out cars to two families the week before to four families. So, Alhamdulillah, we had kind of a lull there where we were not getting many donations from the community and the used car market has not been very good since COVID. But recently, Alhamdulillah, we're getting donations from the community members. We're able to purchase quality used vehicles for the family members and now we're able to give cars to those families that do not have a car. But just to kind of share a story with you, last week there was a single mom that needed a car. Alhamdulillah, we were able to find one for her. She's been on the wait list for several months, which means she was taking the bus with her two kids to work, dropping them off to daycare, doing the same thing every night, five days a week. And when I called her to tell her that we had a car available for her, she was in disbelief. And her first reaction was when do I have to return it? And I was just really shocked. She could not believe that we were giving her a car, that she didn't have to return. And then when she saw the car, she was just amazed and in tears. She couldn't believe that a community member would donate such a nice car to give it to someone that was in need. So just please keep those in our community that are in need in your duos. Continue to give to the programs and services that we offer because you are making a huge impact on those community members that are in need. The refugee program is another component that we have. We partner with service and ICZ. We offer bazaars, monthly bazaars to the community members or to the refugees. And those include clothing, shoes, household items, food. And they come and they pretty much shop and they're able to pick up the items that they need, things that they don't have in their homes. We also do monthly setups, apartment setups for the refugee families. We do about two to three of those per week and those include basic kitchen, bathroom and bedding items. We give them brand new mattresses, brand new bed frames, brand new bedding, all of that to kind of help them get started in their new apartments. And let's see. The food pantry, we moved the food pantry offsite once we reopened after COVID. So we now have a warehouse where we operate our food distribution out of and where we maintain our refugee items and our bazaar items. Part of the refugee program includes a car and bike program. And through this program, so far, we've given over 100 bikes to refugee brothers so that they're able to get to work and take care of their families. I think that pretty much sums it up. Again, I just asked that you keep the community in your duos that we're able to maintain the work that we do to serve those in need and continue to contribute with volunteering our food pantry program on any given Saturday where we operate we have 30 volunteers at least. So there's so many people that are coming and giving over their time, giving over their donations. And we thank you all and please know that you are impacting so many people with all that you do. Thank you. Assalamu alaykum. Alright. So when you're most of you know me and hopefully you know me. So I'll just talk a little bit about what we have in store for you as far as programs go. I really will be the most probably the most brief of everyone because I think Brother Pervez is going to be talking about our survey and the results we've got back from the community. The best indicator for a community in my opinion are two things. One, how much we're growing. So the staff that we're bringing on board how much we're growing and able to leverage that growth in a positive way. And the second is what the community thinks about the programming. So as far as the the first point that how much we're growing. You heard from Sister Hamera that we have now a Convert Care Coordinator. We were running this because I've been here six years now. We were running this operation like a start-up very lean at the beginning. There's a lot of volunteer work. Everybody wore many different hats and as we keep growing as a community we're growing as a staff as well. So now the different hats that Strahm and I were aware were able to give that to somebody else. So you heard that the new Muslim program that we have now Sister Liz that Sister Edlin and I were able to now focus on some other new aspects and this makes us a lot more productive in the other routes we have. We have some things in the pipeline that we're kind of incubating you might say and then those could potentially be the next new Muslim program so we're doing a lot with the prisons right now and that could be the next big project. So the incubation point will take points where you're not really hearing a lot from us because we're kind of talking about what the community thinks about and then once that gets to the point where staff can come on board and then the community can help more that's that's something we talk about then what the community thinks about is this very important the best part of the community is the people we're privileged to serve and we really want to hear what they have to say but really quickly let me talk a little bit about the growth I think we'll be hitting about 100,000 subscribers on YouTube alone by the end of this year we're at 80,000 some right now and we've already started monetizing that channel so we're moving away from this model of just putting the information out there but also now we're able to leverage it in a positive way we get feedback often so for example Sir Sahar Javed she does a program here about story time she reads an Islamic book for the kids there are people in India watching that saying this is an opportunity for us to teach our kids about Islam but also learn English well so it's being used in ways that we can't even imagine as a community we are still a regional local measure we're here to serve this population but there's a digital footprint that goes out there that we're not even aware of but it brings the Baraka back to this community so that's to our credit and something that we can be proud of a point of pride for all of us that we're able to have that impact by you supporting a local measure it's having an impact on people around the world the hybrid options continue to happen when we think about our program we're thinking about how we can continue to have that online presence Dr. Rania for example has her Friday night Halakas here and when she came back we were very adamant that we were going to continue the online following there was about 2,000 sisters that they collected during being online so she just yesterday was telling me that she was in Australia and while there she said there were two sisters that came to her different time zones like right now it's Sunday they're a completely different time zone and they said we're part of your Friday night Halakas Masha'Allah in there so do I have in this equipment which Masha'Allah the board was able to approve all this equipment before the pandemic came and we've really been able to leverage that well and we're going to continue to keep growing with this equipment so Hamdallah we'll probably the first Majid in the state of California and probably on the west coast that will have 100,000 subscribers on YouTube and all so these are little points like on I just keep on going on Tik Tok for example we just joined Tik Tok this summer and this is where some of our youth were telling us this is where the youth are so we joined Tik Tok and Hamdallah we have 30,000 subscribers in 3 or 4 months and it's because of the content it's nothing else because of the content that we're able to put out and we had our first Shahada 2 weeks ago sister Lorraine she found us on Tik Tok she was in Daily City she came down here with Dr. Ronyan took her Shahada and he says I was looking online on Tik Tok to try to find about like what Majid to go to and then she saw saw the money I'm reading Quran here somebody had posted a video up on Tik Tok and then she found the table cloth and she googled MCC East Bay and got a hold of sister Liz and came here and took her Shahada so it's that kind of barakah that we're going to continue to by having this of course it increases the positive response after community it increases the visibility and support so that's that let me just change my slide here that's the last slide thank you all right so now we'll talk about some of the programming priorities that we have so I'll be I'll try to be very quick on this so for the women and men we heard about the Halakas on Friday nights coming back so the women's Halakas going strong the numbers vary about 100 to 140 sisters every Friday night and that's live streams now we're having a lot more numbers than we did pre-pandemic that we're seeing online usually like the first session I think we had 200 sisters watching online we have conferences we'll be having we had three so far they're very well received and we have different scholars Dr. Haifa Yunus that usually headlines this we saw Dr. Rani Awad we saw the Jose our own and so we have these retreats and they've been going really well so we're working to try to get another retreat hopefully next year before Ramadan we're hopeful about that but the growth of that has come from MCC largely because we saw the Fadwa telling me now they're hearing from sisters in Baltimore sisters in Texas and saying can you come do that there because they're able to watch our retreats that we're able to host here so Alhamdulillah for that we can retreats we're making a comeback slowly but surely surely we'll be hosting Chef Salmer in January insha'Allah we've had Chef here here from what's the group called? Alma Qasid Alma Qasid in Pennsylvania so we'll be working with a lot of different other groups to make sure that we start bringing our retreats back to the level hopefully we had pre-pandemic when the youth size go Alhamdulillah that's one thing that we were working very ad hoc during the pandemic we were with Sheikh Rami leaving us that the youth probably one of the worst times for the youth as far as I think I saw with a lot of youth suffering depression and loneliness and now it's going to be going back to those youth hopefully with the youth leaders as they get accustomed and making sure that they're okay the ones that reached out to us so there's a lot of work to be done there and they'll be taking the four and it's make lots of law for them because the youth are suffering a lot these days the Friday nights and the youth support the Friday nights as you heard Hafiz Zaid will be starting his first session this will be not navigators but a version that Hafiz Zaid will be working on I know a lot of parents have been asking about the younger kids middle schoolers and high schoolers be patient with us because starting a program in a well executed way takes time and so you want to be more encouraged than how much you bring out so if we start all what what the navigators was before we have a chance that it would be overwhelming overwhelming us we won't be able to get to the level that we were pre-pandemic right away but it will take us time to get similar to what we had for navigators the girls program has been going well because largely that's Rahmah Run and we're hosting it the Quran programs the his programs the Arabic programs the Urdu programs these are all going really well and volunteers to get this one thing that we're noticing more and more with the Afghan refugees coming is that they are asking us for Farsi classes for their children to know their language Farsi and also know their culture and their religion so that's one thing that there's a few sisters that have approached MCC we'll be talking about that as we go forward here similar to the Urdu program having a Farsi component the special cohorts at MCC and we always think about the groups that are in the community that are typically haven't been haven't been haven't been haven't been served the best way so sisters have been the community that I feel have largely been underserved over the years this Masjid we hear from the brothers where's the program for the brothers Hamdulillah that we're getting to the point where the sisters are getting a lot more programming than the brothers and it's getting to the point where Hamdulillah new Muslims are one group that Hamdulillah sisters will be doing a lot more we want to have Shahada adversaries we can start having follow-up with the new Muslims when we say new Muslims at the MCC group we're talking about 125 new Muslims we had four Shahadas last month so the numbers keep growing like Hamza says before it was a trickle and now the floodgates have opened and people are coming to this faith and it's not we actually call it after Mashallah after the Shahada group because after you say all the Mashallah then the real work begins because Shaytan comes hard on them they have doubts they have a family that's not being supportive to them that's the real meat of it and that's matching them with the mentor making sure we follow up with them getting the resources and the books that they need to kind of survive single Muslims another point of pride for us as a community Hamdulillah with our partnership Half Ardeen they've been doing great work just yesterday in this room it was all decked out we had 35 sisters and 35 brothers and MCC Hamdulillah according to the numbers that Half Ardeen gave us yesterday they said that they're getting positive rates of up to 80% from our community the highest they ever saw were 40% 50% in Canada when they did events they've been doing events for 10 years so there's something special going on here brothers and sisters they're getting positive it's not necessarily that they're getting married after the event they're able to kind of connect with other people that are attending the event and then through the app through the platform they're able to kind of continue the conversation so we also have the fudger socials a lot of more social activities that we're hopefully planning to do the counseling hopefully will be something that we can talk about a little more hopefully by has it's kind of incorporated in the bay area here and Maristan will be hopefully have offices in around MCC so we'll have more information about that but for now if you go on our MCC on the MCC page MCC East Bay.org slash counseling you could find out how you can make an appointment through Maristan at their union city office or online I think that's all I had my brother is over to talk about the community survey which was very the community responded in such a nice way and filled out the survey and a lot of the construction to talk about it about the most Marie Marie Manzade forgot the most important thing they're married they're newly married just in case you don't know that it's like an important point to make especially when you were so closely cuddled together Masha'Allah بس الله بس الله بس الله بس الله بس الله ف الت課 breathing it's you could not just talk about limbs organs and you know bones and that's what I'm gonna talk about the reality is what we want to talk about how do we enable I'll use a word platform to be able to do a lot more stuff that you saw here but take it to the next double right how do you enable The physical facilities يمكنك أن تفعل أكثر من أكثر لأنه كما تعلمون مثل أولئك كما اتكلم كنت يجب أن يقوموا باأنها 35 يوم هنا وكما يمكنك يتكلمهم في تلك الضرور فلن نتكلم أكثر من ذلك ونحن لا تكون ذلك فقط لأن الأسئل المعلمة وكذلك ويوجد أشخاص أيضاً فأن سأصدق بها أخبركم عن كل ما يحدث في المشاركات في المادة أعتقد أنه سوف يأخذنا إن شاء الله. هل تذهب إلى أول طريقة؟ أعتقد أن بعضكم أردتها. إذا لم أردتها، سأذهب بها قريباً. This is sort of a color graphic of what the facility is going to look like in TimeX. I'd like to ask the question when TimeX is. This came out of a survey we did probably seven or eight years ago where we asked everybody what the needs are and prioritized them. And we said, okay, this is how much facility we have. What can we do? And I won't go through this. Well, you can read most of it. I think the biggest thing I would say is there is a dining hall that is going to be for large group meetings. None of this type. This is the right place for this type. But for example, the meeting we had yesterday would be a wonderful place for the meeting. And we had a match baroni. Is it really a match baroni? Okay. A young dating meeting or something. That would be a great place for that meeting. There are many other meetings we can have where dinner is involved, lunch is involved, food is involved and we just do it on that site of the area. We do plan to have youth lounges. We don't know what a youth lounge is. But we're actually counting on both Mario and Zade to help us. What is the definition of a youth lounge? It's just an open area. You can hang around with nothing there. Is it a bunch of electronics? What do they really want there? So there is the idea of having both a men's and a women's youth lounge a multi-purpose room that will do many, many different things. It could be a gym in Ramadan and be a parent-child area. Yeah. So there are a lot of things you can do over there. A seniors lounge will also be a library. And the lobby will be one of the when you come into the lobby which is a school section right now that will actually be our main entrance. And it will be decked out to be really quite nice. And on one side you will see the library with glass and stuff there with a lot of wood and glass. And on the other side you'll see the Sunday school area the youth lounge and the multi-purpose room. The Sunday school classrooms are all going to get redone. And then parts of the prayer hall and the dining area are also going to be reconfigured every Sunday to be Sunday school. Because we just don't have enough space to do that. So it's some dedicated Sunday school classes like today but some also configured every Sunday. So that's sort of the master plan and when we did this back seven years ago and we always get input from everybody we didn't really have an outside plan. So let's go to the next slide. This is sort of the outside plan so this is the area right on this side. So if you're coming into the men's section in the mushroom you have that grassy area that really don't use except for the slight small barbecue picnic area. We will have a basketball court that can for the older folks here that can or younger folks can also be a pickle ball as that was called or badminton or volleyball or half basketball and then also an area for just a play field that will be proper grass where kids will be flattened so it's flat kids can just run around right over a certain age. And then the picnic area with proper barbecue and all that I think if I remember right it's either 100 or 150 people to be able to have a picnic barbecue and then an outside with the area also over there so people can do with the outside before they come in and then drinking fountain and all that plus a little trap all around it with bars and stuff so you just want to walk around and do little exercise things you can do that too. That's the plan we have to submit this to the city we're right now doing a survey a very detailed survey of the land itself that's part one part two is give them a very detailed plan they're going to ask for and then we see if they're willing to give us do a basketball court or not because there will be a concern about noise that travels across concrete to the to where the houses are on the other side. Let's keep going. So we did ask this was one of the survey questions what's important on the outside and you can tell if you it's a little hard to read the right hand side all the right hand side basketball court the most important thing open field very closely next to it playground area so these are in order of priority just from the community that responded and we did the survey back in about two months ago about two months ago and we got as you can see 221 responses it was pretty good for the community itself next slide there was a lot of discussion because in Ramadan we talked about the basketball court as being a full court and then we got some feedback from people saying if you do a full court there's no other space there right so this is the result of the survey we asked people do you want a full court or a half court with a open green area and as you can tell 64% of the people recommended a half size court along with an open grass court so that's what we're doing and then a whole bunch of people at the bottom I think 16% said really don't do either one we don't care so that's the basis of saying we're going to do the half court not the full court next slide you can skip this slide okay just status I think Saeed Mahi showed this last time the greens are done what's new from last time which was three months ago okay are the check marks and the greens the green with the check mark so HVAC units have been done for Sunday school you would think that would be relatively easy to do it was actually incredibly difficult because we have two units that are the size of a shipping container what a truck carries and when we were looking to replace them with smaller units the wait time was 22 months 24 months right and this is in January and we're trying to get this done before school starts right and then we were able to find somebody actually within the community was able to get it quickly earlier but then we couldn't find anybody to actually do the work on them and the people that actually deliver are the people that actually want to install because they both want to make money combined so it was actually quite hard to figure out how to do that but Alhamdulillah we were able to do that it was a crane the thing that was taken apart in pieces and then a crane took each piece down and that was done I think over three or four day period right before school started just absolutely last minute Alhamdulillah we were able to do that then the other thing we did it says we if you go to the next slide I believe yeah it says we replaced the existing roof we didn't actually take take the old roof off we actually put a I'm not quite sure what it is a thick layer of gluey gluey stuff let me just use non-technical terms gluey stuff that is covering the entire roof okay the reason I say that's important is that we've had leaks here for many many years that have been underneath the old H vacuents so now we have the entire area it's got a nice rubbery whatever texture and we should we should not have any leaks right by the way each of these things are 100,000 plus these are not inexpensive projects just the roof thing is in the probably a little less 100,000 and so forth so these are pretty inexpensive projects I think next okay this is a a little hard to read so this I'll just give you the key points so this is a survey we did and we were asking people what is your satisfaction level a whole bunch of dimensions right so the top is your satisfaction level with MCC communications with overall with MCC with Ramadan programs on social services our staff the Quran hefs program religious classes and the bottom girls and boys activities and programs okay and then the middle column just read this is good to great I just added up anybody that said it's excellent or it's very good or good so combine all those and the other second column the second red column is poor or okay right just a quick way to analyze this and I mean if you look at the numbers I mean 87% of our people are very very happy with the communications we're doing right I don't think to talk about town halls I think it was that we just started but Alhamdulillah we'll get even higher points with town halls but I think this has to do with the communication letters this has to do with announcements this has to do with announcements this has to do with Ramadan announcements all those sorts of things and that's what we're doing overall the satisfaction of MCC 90% now 7% did say okay to poor right 6% okay 1% poor 1% by the way 200 is 4 people 2 people 1% of 200 is 2 people 2 people 2 people think about these I have to think before I get up here is 2 people so 2 people that are satisfied with us out of 200 we should try to get that better the points I wanted to make are the circles you may say oh my god the Quran hips program only 43% of people are happy with it well that's not quite the case because if you look at that 53% Quran hips program don't know which is normal because if you don't have a kid going to the Quran hips program you probably don't know about that program okay so we have to be careful we just sort by one column and don't look at the other column to see what's going on you know Sunday school if you don't have a kid going to Sunday school it's got 49% right but 44% people don't know so you have to sort of adjust that by people that know and the numbers go up I didn't do that here the one the problem areas I circled right because I didn't look at this part was I looked at the okay to poor and anytime it's like 10% okay to poor roughly 10% it's like okay we need to improve this right one was the board and the leadership into faith just hit the mark but into faith there are a lot of people that I don't know that's not the case of board leadership you have a lot of people that are happy about it some don't know but 10% you don't by the way I include both boards and leadership and everything it's all of us combined and then the two of the bottom it's pretty clear good to great in terms of girls programs and activities 35% half people so don't know but the ratio between people giving us good 35% and in the case of boys 30% good and 20% not good is not good yeah so that just tells you the survey helps us right and obviously I think some of this we knew beforehand but we hired both Zade and and Miriam is to you know emphasize that area more so than we have before and particularly post COVID and I could spend more and more time on this I won't suffice to say I think we got about 200 or 300 comments from about 84 people right there's just lots and lots of comments right that we I think all the board has all of this all the board both boards have all of this some comments are very enlightening some are just you know but there are a lot of good critical comments that help us that we can do better okay any questions how many people are online 50 15 15 okay any questions from anybody yeah well once if you look at the past 7, 8, 9 years you know if you've been here enough times people are just everywhere and they can almost go everywhere all the time and now you're going to have dedicated areas for certain functions right if you're doing this this is where you go if you're doing this this is where you go if you're doing this this is where you go this room will be closed if it's not being used you don't get to come here if it's not a function that's on the appointment list we're doing X, Y, Z right or something else will be closed so it's it's a lot more discipline almost like any other machine you go to you know it's like this is the area for this this is the area for this this is the area for this you don't just walk here because you want to because it's dedicated for something like the library it's dedicated for the library function or the senior lounge that's actually the biggest change that we have to adapt ourselves to because we're all used to it for the past 10 years you can just walk anywhere and it's okay right and I'm not saying we're going to completely restrict it I'm just saying we're going to be a lot more disciplined I think in how we manage that maintenance of facilities is once inshallah we have all these and I forgot to mention the cafe by the way and the cafe is going to be where the where the outside garage used to be right straight here actually right straight here yeah the cupboard area used to play basketball next to the trash cans right we're going to extend the building out and that becomes the cafe and there's still a debate going on what type of cafe and we actually need to talk to the youth because the youth have talked to a very different idea what I think of a cafe versus what they think of a cafe so we just need to get that input and put that in our planning right so oh we can skip that it's just feedback on additional activities people want to see and no big surprise lots of onesie twosies the two big ones that stand out we know it's we want programs for the boys we want programs for the girls and we want food cafe right so and that those are both on the plan so they're a little shy but I'll give them my first the first question because some of the Sunday school parents asked me this today they were they kind of made me a messenger for this so they were asking they got an email from MCC or MCC Sunday school today saying you have to become a member to attend so there's a little confusion out there about what is a member at MCC is it a person that pays $50 a month or is it a person who gives a certain amount of money to does it got fun because there's one person saying I'm not giving $50 a month but I'm a big donor I give amounts to MCC how do I become a member or am I a member already so there's a little confusion there if you can address yeah just clarity clarity on that a member just somebody that gives X amount of dollars during the year per month that's about $50 and that's been the same amount we've had for many many for 10 years now and at some point I think we should raise that that's what a member is okay to be in the school you have to be a member right it's as simple as that we're not charging for school right but you have to be a member of the community and the member of the community is you pay so much and there's a there's a tighter definition in terms of where you live but that's how they're linked but there isn't a you have to pay for school you have to be a member and that's the paying part right there are members who don't go to school they don't have children go to school and there are members who don't have children go to school but in any case you have to be a member okay alright we have a question online what are we doing for the singles of the community other than the matchmaking the matchmaking sessions have we thought about implementing gatherings to build a community for singles that they can network build friendships and not feel so alone do you want to address that Mr. Mayor or should I so the question about the matrimonial and getting the singles together is we hear that a lot from the community and I wish it was a simple answer that's the reason we started it's quarterly event for the singles with half your dean which has been Marshal a very successful other than that at this time we feel MCC needs a very strong volunteer base to hold an event which is shepherd owned well which is well thought of which also contains an element of dean in bringing all the single brothers and sisters together in a way which is appropriate and yes it's productive for the community as well we do not have that volunteer base at this time if you are somebody who is passionate about this and can make a business plan and get approval from the board or the religious committee on how this looks like to you and how you will execute it Insha'Allah we are here to completely support you but the board or brother Manir really do not have the bandwidth at this time to facilitate the additional singles event because they do require a lot of background work I hope that helps I have a comment on this and also a comment on the previous question so on the comment on this I spoke to Mariam well from the listening sessions so what is the number one thing that came out and what she said was our youth want Muslim friends simple as that they want a place where they can get together and have friends because we live in a very distributed unless your parents are bringing people together you're making friends otherwise your friends are your school friends and what they're looking for and this came out in a question in a very nice way is they want to want to have friendships with Muslims and we have to figure out how to enable that and just having the space once we have the space Insha'Allah that will help and the other point I think you made is absolutely important is not everything has to come from the board or from the people here this is very easy to do for some of you to say I'm going to do it I'm going to help people get together once a month anybody can do it just have to get it going the other point I just want to get up here is the question about membership I forgot to answer the second part of it the Zakat doesn't count towards membership that's an obligation you have and that doesn't come to MCC that goes outside of MCC it goes to poor people in the Zakat eligible categories so outside of Zakat other donations not donations for a ticketed event you know there's an event here I pay $10 for it that goes towards my membership that doesn't count Zakat doesn't count it's pure donations that count towards membership just to just to be clear for the parent who asked me about this they're saying I'm a big donor to the operations fund what is the threshold that they have to hit to not pay the $50 a month as a member $600 $600 $50 $50 that number may change in the future but it has been $50 okay so Sunday school parents that are wondering what it is you'll have to just make sure that it's to the operations or the southern fund $600 and as long as you can show that to the MCC Sunday school that will satisfy the requirement of the monthly membership is that correct in the previous 12 calendar months any other questions online yeah we have another question online here what activities can the board sponsor to bring the community together more can we bring together people as many people as we see on Friday prayers so social activities that we can bring the community together as much as we do on the Friday prayers let me just quickly mention when we have the fall fest every year here when we have and the volunteers all of us we're all with the mindset we have to be very careful because this maybe the only some of these people ever read so where to get to the point where we're seeing folks in the numbers that we see for Juma it usually takes a big event like that are we like the 27th night of Ramadan if you have our community of stars food is a big way to bring people together I think the social activities are one area that we heard in the survey that we could do better on unfortunately they are a very big manpower it takes a lot of effort to put on a social event rather than a religious event the kind of stage on stage he sits there or she sits there and gives a one hour lecture and it's a very low effort but it has a good impact to do a social event takes a lot more effort and might have a low impact or might have a high impact but it takes a lot more effort and that's where the community comes into play just like when we were talking about it takes the community to be a part of these events so I don't know if that's your question yeah so we've seen a big dip as far as what we see during our events because of the presence online and because we'd be consistent with live streams people don't necessarily have to scratch their heads and say oh well these MCs are going to live stream this they know for it's going to be happening and as a result we see this big number of people here in most of our events because there wasn't an online component but if you're able to see on your home screen in HD with good audio quality what's the use of coming to MCC sometimes is what the thought is then we miss community when we think like that we don't see people eyeball to eyeball we're behind these symmetry and these screens and that's that's when people have this misgiving where we need more social events when we do have events that will not really typified as a social event I don't know if that's a question okay we have a question in the back here so my question my question is when we're picking up the board members can we have them like agree with the certain hours to complete or is we don't see all of the board member here often we just see them once a year or once in a blue moon so can we have something like this where the board member could do some events they have to be on the certain events جزاكا لأ for your question I think that's something that we're striving towards being on the board requires attending board meetings which oftentimes are happening on Zoom I think as we get closer to Ramadan we'll probably have some in-person gatherings as well but we are striving towards a committee structure as well where if you're also on the committees so that can also mean that you get more hands-on experience and rather than just decision-making you're more involved in say planning an event or planning certain things and be present as well so that's my goal I mean you know we have a great volunteer staff we've got a wonderful full-time staff but I think the board and having a committee structure can help towards that Insha'Allah Insha'Allah Insha'Allah Insha'Allah Insha'Allah I also think I saw all the priorities and I did see we're doing a lot of good work Masha'Allah that's great for our community but we should also push our first-generation students to apply for colleges and there is a lot that happens the FAFSA application or support for essays and it takes quite a toll on our community especially if you are a first-generation I mean there is no background on what happens I feel that is needed in the community and we should be doing something about it for at least of our junior or senior years so that they know one year in advance rather than in the senior year especially high schools juniors so I would love to see that program on it so we're doing great work but I wanted to add to it just a suggestion Yeah I'll answer that let me just dovetail the question online that kind of dovetails on your question brother is there any initiatives to the board is there any initiatives to up-level professional skill sets through mentorship events to improve networking like how we can spin off start-ups and learn new skills or crack job interviews Bismillah that was a really great question I totally vouch for that because I have a senior applying for colleges and I can tell you that majority of the day ends with myself like what happened today which college application got done or which essay did not get done and it really does create tension in the house and I'm trying to be very positive it's my third child so I need to stay like on top of it and but I totally understand where you're coming from Alhamdulillah we had an event today for for the seniors college application the Berkeley students two of the Berkeley students came it's a very valid point for next year Insha'Allah we should start thinking about planning it in August when the school starts so the students have a little bit of guidance at the start of the application process and not two weeks before the UC applications are ending so we will make that a point to start those and hopefully we can get also our seniors and our college students who are from the community that can do those workshop and say what were their struggle and how did they overcome those struggles and what really helped them get through the application process because I understand students are crying and they're staying up all night not my child but other people's good students are doing that so Insha'Allah will try to keep that in in mind for sure for next year because this year I think we sort of between starting up the programming slowly we did not plan so far ahead and did not do a good job of it the second question was the networking that also is a great suggestion and we should certainly do that I will take that in the board in the next coming meeting on Wednesday and see if the board members can take a lead on that if not anybody who is listening or we can put it in our newsletter that we would like to start this but we do need some active participation from Insha'Allah our community here has so many great resources majority of the people here are working in in tech or in HR or in funds or start startups we would like to hear from you about something to help the younger generation who is coming into the workforce get better at this or people who are looking for jobs connect with other networking people and then they can find some connection in there so I will be discussing that Insha'Allah in the board we will bring it up and then if you are a person who is really passionate about this passionate about networking and starting something in the do reach out to one of us next Sunday Insha'Allah we will be having a session with one of the sisters who will be helping with it's only for sisters though that she has come forward and she said that I would like to help the sisters with resume building and linked in profile building and Insha'Allah we will try to set something up like that for the brothers who has come forward and she wants to do it so we need a volunteer like that for the rest of the community who wants to take this on so the board can support you and champion your cause but we want volunteers who will also help the community go through this process and Insha'Allah we have plenty of resources for those that are online we see the questions coming in so we will get to all of them Insha'Allah I will go through this quickly so so he actually does this as a site business I think it's called Empower and he will help people go through the entire process of essays things have to do to get it in college his wife was on the University of Berkeley Board of Governors right it's a very high position that's one suggestion the other is if you're serious about this get it started right talk to 10 people that had their kids graduate last year put get them up here this is the process I went through that's all you have to do this is a little bit initiative I asked the board can I do this yes a little bit of work yep but that's I want to encourage the entire community it doesn't take that much there's a little bit of thinking how should I do it but all you need is 10 people that did it last year okay they're going to school here because you can get them up here that's all it takes right okay so on that note one of the questions is can we have sports competitions against other I think this goes with brother pervers point that yes we can where are you can you put some skin in the game to help us get this going here so that's really comes down to because you have a leadership over here at MCC and you'll see that when we you come to us you give us a proposal it works and where we can make it happen with the marketing and everything here I'll keep going down the questions because the online community is very strong now and they're sending in questions can you please elaborate more on the special needs programs and the Sunday school so special needs programs it really so far unless it takes a staff member kind of putting them under their belt they have typically a volunteer that runs a cohort or a program it lives and breathes on that volunteer or that group of volunteers so when they start really up in their game that's when you see a lot more activities we have had a drop off on the side of special needs on the side of young kids recently and you'll see that in the program we don't have as much special needs programming as we once did we have core volunteer members that are doing special needs programming for our Sunday school and that's why that class is weight listed at capacity right now because we have dedicated volunteers that are doing that at our Sunday school but as far as regular programming it takes the special needs parents saying to MCC yes I want to help out with special needs programming I'm a special needs parent myself I know what my cohorts what other people in the community who have special needs children want and I want to do this and that's just bringing it to us and we ask as well what can I do to kind of help out with the situation Insha'Allah Do you want to elaborate? Yes Sunday school the class is full right now for our MCC Sunday school special needs but you can join by contacting the MCC in Sunday school and they have a special weight list as far as I'm aware for just our special needs parents there are some special needs parents who have kids that necessarily can't attend it so they want to audit and the teacher there will come to the room and see what it's like there is also one at MCA and I'm not sure if there's room or not at MCA but that's worth reaching out to so as far as I'm aware if there's only two in the bay area special needs weekend school Islamic school at MCC and at MCA and you know it really just takes the person to reach out to us and ask us so this past somebody came to us who is deaf and said because we're a most certified which is reach out to most and most helps us find a sign language interpreter to come down here and now that's going to happen so this is it's just a matter of letting us know and putting it on our radar and because we're a special needs we have the resources and the commitment to make that happen and are there any more questions in the room yeah and the questions are so the special needs thing or any other idea or a suggestion that you might have please do remember that you can come to us I will share a little story this happened this past Ramadan we were going through the facility deciding for Ramadan how to make the facility flow better during Taravi and what would work and what will not work and at that time majority of us were pretty adamant that we should convert the bathrooms that prayer hall banquet hall for the sisters so because when sisters are praying we do not want the brothers to come and pray go to the bathroom there and they feel uncomfortable we feel uncomfortable because mashallah typically there our prayer area or flows into the banquet hall area and the very next day I think was Jema and I was talking in Monir's office one of our special needs brother came in and he thanked us that we have a facility in which the bathrooms are here in the lobby and his wheelchair can go easily because he has a very hard time going to that bathrooms because of the carpet and it made me realize that unless we are in your shoes we don't know what your challenges are we can try but we really don't know until you bring to our attention that you know what this really would this young gentlemen who came this Friday and said he would like to have sign language interpretation done at the Jema what a beautiful idea we should be doing that anyways or the brother who told us because of this wheelchair he cannot do unless he can go to this bathroom and we did accommodate it was just one person but we accommodated him and we did not switch out the bathrooms except for a few nights just because there were women all over that area so please bring your ideas your suggestions to us we would like to hear them we would like to grow for the community for their benefit whatever our community needs we are here to serve you that's the reason we are here so please let us know we will try our best we can't promise that everything that you bring to us will come to fruition because it's we have certain things as a board of directors or as a community or with the building or with the funds but inshallah we will try our best to service you in a better way than we have been and moving forward we will always be our community what they say always has the opportunity for us ساكولو you want to just stay there for a second sir أمير we have one question from Facebook and it's for Hafiz Zaid maybe you can answer this in his absence Hafiz Zaid can you handle one-to-one long-term relationships so create more of a buddy system for our team boys so at this time the idea that Hafiz Zaid has is that he will have the group sessions on Fridays then as you saw in his calendar he has opened certain times and days on which his office hours will be open to to anybody in the community especially the youth to come in and have one-on-one session with him that could lead into a long-term relationship with him as a mentor or maybe he can find a mentor in the community for your young gentlemen or young lady who is looking to form that bond with a scholar or with an adult so please do reach out to him on his calendar and sign up and inshallah he can provide better guidance I think that's it I think we've answered all questions online if I missed any please pipe up right now inshallah but I think going through all the comments there's a lot of comments just saying thank you for your service for MCC and the board and all the leadership here so we're honored to serve you but I think we've answered I think the one comment right now is we should use the newsletter more to share some of the stuff we talked about today so we can drive more people for example by being able to drive initiatives this is something that we should be shared on the newsletter one comment just saying inshallah we will make that in part of their newsletter that what we are looking for at this time we will be closing with a dua from our board member brother Sayyid Khan Jazakallah everybody Jazakallah everyone thank you and may Allah bless the community may Allah bless the MCC all the board members board of directors and trustees and you everybody of the community Jazakallah everybody I desire a praise from Asshaita the Lord in the name of Allah the Merciful may Allah bless us may Allah bless our Shafi'ah our beloved and our tiptoes and our 你제يد and my family may Allah bless and greet you may Allah bless you May miss you may God offer the إنه يأخلونه من أبدا إسهديتنا وحب لنا من الله دونك رحم إنكان تلوحب الله ما محفظنا من كل بلاي الدنيا وعذاب الأخيرة الله ما إهدي نصراتا مستخيم الله ما عايز الإسلام والمسلمين الله ما إنكافون كريم توحبوا لفافافو أنها يا كريم يا كريم يا كريم برحمتك يا أرحم الرحمين الله ما إنا لا أذكرك وأشكرك yet وخسنة إبادتك ربنا تقبل مننا إِنكان تسمي لنين وتبالينا إِنكان تتواب الرهيم ربنا تقبل من الفاتحة إن الله و ملائكته يسلون على النبي يا أيها الذين آمنوا سلوا عليه وسلموا تسليمه اللهم سلي الأسينا شفنا حبنا مرحمة محمدي و على آل سينا مرحمة محمدي و بارك وسلمي فلسبحان ربك رب العزة يما يسفون وسلامنا للمرسلين والحمد لله رب لا لبي