CRIBBAGE CLUB The Cribbage Club meets each Tuesday at noon in Clubhouse 1. Refreshments are served from noon-12:15 p.m. and anyone arriving by 12:15 is assured a place to play. Games begin at 12:30. The club celebrated Christmas by providing a luncheon for all the members. Sharon Rutigliano and Margaret Smith served everyone. Melinda Cowan and Lynne Sorum provided mixed nuts and assorted

The new Bocce Ball club winter season begins on Jan. 9, when 94 teams will take to the court for lots of friendly competition. All slots are filled for this seven week session, but substitutes are welcome to join the club and can send an email to rhonda2c@msn.com with their phone number. Those who are already a player and would like to sub on days not already played can send an email as well.

The Yahtzee Club will meet Dec. 29 in Clubhouse 3, Room 6, at 1 p.m. There will be a half time social to interact with friends and neighbors. The club meets the first, third and fifth Fridays of each month. Dec. 15 winners included Pat Herman, most Yahtzees; Joyce Ingram, high score; Sandy Wisenstein, low score; and Nancy Mora, door prize. For more information, call Diane Seeger at 562-533-5997.

Next Monday, the calendar page turns from a month filled with appointments, parties, obligations and celebrations, to fresh, clean boxes, space and potential. One can only speculate as to what might come to be next year, and that leaves room for hope. Even if it were possible to know what events would fill the empty calendar pages of 2024, would one really want to know? Hope for good things to come

The best way to spend the last Sunday of 2023 and to get a head start on 2024 is to come to church. All are welcome at Faith Christian Assembly. Residents will find a welcoming group of people, hymnal music, and an inspiring message from Pastor Sheri Leming that is straight from God’s word. God promises in his word that if believers put him first, everything else will fall into place. LWers

2024 is upon us. Sundays at 10 a.m. in Clubhouse 4, LW Baptist worshippers offer their lives afresh in service to the Lord for the coming year. As poet Frances Havergal wrote, “Another year is dawning, Dear Father, let it be, on earth or else in heaven, another year for Thee.” The sentiment echoes that of the Magi who arrived about Jan. 6 (Epiphany) and knelt in humble faith and worship before

Buddha Circle will meet on Saturday, Jan. 6, in Clubhouse 3, Room 1, from 9:30-11 a.m. with Venerable Kusala. Ven. Kusala is well known in the Buddhist community and presents Buddhism in simple ways. For more information, call 714-468-6887.

The Leisure World Korean Community Church (LWKCC) is a nesting church of Community Church in Leisure World. Sunday services are held at 11:50 a.m. in the sanctuary at 14000 Church Place. Early morning prayer meetings are held Tuesday-Saturday at 6 a.m. Breakfast is served in the fellowship room after each Saturday morning prayer meeting.