Elevate

Our mission is to reach and serve our entire city of Fremont and beyond. We have a dedicated team who are passionate about serving and loving our community. Our after-school, complimentary tutoring program is 100% free and offers educational enrichment for our students through fun and interactive activities. Our ESL offerings teach English as a second language to both adults and children. They are designed to enhance not only their English speaking & reading abilities but also focus on cultivating their cultural insights in order to help them assimilate into our society. Together, we strive to bring hope and light to our city through meaningful and purposeful ministries.

Fall Semester 2024

Semester Duration: Tuesday, September 3rd 2024 ~ Thursday, November 7th 2024
All classes will be in-person at Fremont Community Church
39700 Mission Boulevard, Fremont, CA 94539

Drama Class

2nd - 5th Gr.

This will be a workshop where we closely work with our young, aspiring actors to teach them all of the tricks, tips, and guidelines on being a dynamic actor for the silver screen! We hope to show the actors everything they need to know to become better performers. This also includes talking about scripts, the art of storytelling, and other behind-the-scenes aspects of a film. Lights, camera, action!

Prerequisites: none
When: Tuesdays @ 5 - 6 PM
Teacher: Adrianne Hays & Kendall Hays
Drama Class
2nd - 5th Gr.
Tuesdays @ 5 - 6 PM
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Elevate Band

2nd - 12th Gr.

One of our longest standing classes and band returns for another exciting semester! These young musicians have learned so many incredible songs and performed in front of live audiences. This semester, we are looking to add some more fun, diverse songs to our repertoire and explore more opportunities for these young artists to hone their music theory skills and grow closer together as a band!

*Class roster is currently full. Registrations will be waitlisted.

Prerequisites: Must have prior knowledge and experience with an existing instrument
When: Sundays @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Teacher: Eugenia Cai
Elevate Band
2nd - 12th Gr.
Sundays @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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Kid Chefs Cooking Class

3rd - 5th Gr.

What kid doesn't love to cook? Wednesday nights will be our time to celebrate cooking and feast with our wonderful students! Come join us as we teach our kids safe, responsible ways to cook easy-to-prepare and delicious, enjoyable meals. Best of all, they can eat it afterwards too!

Prerequisites: $40 per student. This covers all ingredients, materials and cooking equipment use during the semester.
When: Wednesdays @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Teacher: Tahnie & Joyce
Kid Chefs Cooking Class
3rd - 5th Gr.
Wednesdays @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Puzzles & Games

3rd - 5th Gr.

Join us as we provide healthy down-time for kids to decompress after a long-day of school! We will enjoy relaxing community time through math puzzles, inquisitive riddles, and logic games. Fun and interactive for students of all ages!

Prerequisites: None
When: Wednesdays @ 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Teacher: Alan Cai
Puzzles & Games
3rd - 5th Gr.
Wednesdays @ 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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FCC Movie Camp

We are very excited to introduce to everyone our FCC Movie Camp coming next summer in 2024. We hope to utilize our Elevate platform to educate and teach kids on several fundamental skills about movie magic and film-making throughout the school year. We hope to introduce them to several essential movie-making concepts that will ultimately culminate next summer when our students will have the opportunity to film their own movie! Please look for the "film icon" below for the classes that will be themed towards next summer's movie camp. We will be auditioning for our summer movie theater camp during our Elevate Spring 2024 semester. If you are interested in being in our summer film project as an actor or extra, please sign up for our Film & Acting Workshop so we can train the actors and include them in our auditioning process!
Elevate Tutoring - Regular Classes

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Our Teachers

Adrianne Hays
Elevate Teacher

Adrianne Hays

Elevate Teacher

Adrianne Hays has been teaching science to homeschool students for the past 6 year and more recently to students online from all over the world. She is the mother of two children (Kendall -13 and Kieran - 11). Adrianne worked as a Child Life Specialist at a hospital in Cleveland, OH before staying home with her kids. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Child Development. Adrianne loves connecting with students and helping to inspire an early love of science. Adrianne recently moved to the Bay Area from Chicago and has been attending Fremont Community Church since August of 2021. She loves exploring the Bay Area especially museums and beaches.

Kendall Hays is a 7th grader who loves to learn. Kendall has been serving in the Kid’s Ministry at church for the past two years and helps spend time with younger children while their parents participate in ESL classes at Fremont Community Church. This past summer, Kendall taught science to elementary students at her church’s summer camp. She is excited to pass on her love of learning to younger students.


Alan Cai
Elevate Teacher

Alan Cai

Elevate Teacher

Alan has lived in Fremont since 1997 and has been a member of FCC since 2010. He’s passionate about kids and has 2 of his own (7-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter). He has 15+ years of experience working in the IT industry in Silicon Valley and is currently employed at NetApp. Loves to teach and help equip students of all ages to become successful in life!


Anita Li
Elevate Teacher

Anita Li

Elevate Teacher

Anita is a dedicated Fremont resident with her husband and 2 daughters. She grew up in the Fremont area and is excited to take a small part of investing in the next generation! Anita has a passion for teaching and having a ton of fun while learning! She has taught English and Storytelling in Hong Kong to children ages 3-12. Her background is in corporate recruiting in the Technology Industry including LinkedIn, Facebook, Tesla, and Google. Graduated from Santa Clara University, BA in Communications.


Chris Javier
Elevate Teacher

Chris Javier

Elevate Teacher

Elaine & Bruce Choy
Elevate Teachers

Elaine & Bruce Choy

Elevate Teachers

Elaine and Bruce Choy - ESL instructors - Elaine and Bruce have recently retired and are spending their spare time on small projects around their home and playing with their grandsons. Elaine taught for 26 years and prior to that was a Human Resource officer for Wells Fargo Bank. Bruce was a partner in a law firm specializing in workers compensation and later branched out to Trusts and Estate. Most recently he worked for Veterans Services for Alameda County, retired, and has been called back to a part time position there. The Choys have been members of the Fremont Community Church family for 30 years serving in different volunteer capacities. They have 2 adult children who have families of their own.


Eric Hays
Elevate Teacher

Eric Hays

Elevate Teacher

Eric has been serving in full-time church ministry since 2004 with a background in youth ministry, worship ministry, and local outreach. He earned a BA in Mass Media Communication from the University of Akron (2004) and a Master of Arts in Religions from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (2006). He’s currently working toward a Doctor of Ministry degree from Northern Seminary with a focus on contextual theology and missional leadership.

Some of Eric’s passions include cross-cultural ministry, team-building, relational discipleship, and missional vision for the local church. In his free time, Eric enjoys reading, playing guitar, running, and eating spicy food.


Eugenia Cai
Elevate Teacher

Eugenia Cai

Elevate Teacher

For the past 5 years, Eugenia has been instrumental in the journey of our Children's Ministry, Powerhouse.  Creative, fun and quick to laugh, Eugenia loves to live her faith out loud in front of every person she meets.  She is a proud mama of 2 wonderful kids, Eliana and Evan and is married to the love of her life, Alan.


Gary Louie
Elevate Teacher

Gary Louie

Elevate Teacher

Gary has been married to Stephanie for almost 41 yrs and has been an optometrist in Union City for 43 years. He is currently transitioning into retirement and looking to see how he can serve our community in a more significant way. He and Stephanie are Bay Area natives and Gary is a 5th generation Chinese-American in California. Both his and Stephanie’s family immigration stories are quite interesting and they would be happy to share them if you are interested! He is pretty much monolingual in English but knows more Spanish and Farsi words than he does Chinese words!


Joyce
Elevate Teacher

Joyce

Elevate Teacher

Stephanie Louie
Elevate Teacher

Stephanie Louie

Elevate Teacher

Stephanie has been an active member of Fremont Community Church since 1982. Although recently retired, she comes with a diverse background as an elementary and middle school teacher, an educational therapist for the learning disabled, and a K-8 school administrator. She is the proud parent of her ever expanding family from her two married sons and wives, her four-month old grandson, Hudson and a new grandbaby due in February 2022. Her youngest son is currently in Korea serving as a Physician Assistant in the US Army. Her passions are working with kids who struggle to learn, and most recently being a grandmother. She and her husband are also hoping to resume their passion for travel post pandemic.


Tahnie
Elevate Teacher

Tahnie

Elevate Teacher

Ty Hall
Elevate Teacher

Ty Hall

Elevate Teacher

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