Donate an Easter Lily

Even though we don’t know yet how we’ll be celebrating Easter together, you can still donate an Easter lily in honor of a family member, friend or other meaningful person in your life. Your donation supports First Church’s Flower Fund, which pays for the beautiful flower arrangements we enjoy most Sundays. Email Louise Halsey ([email protected]) the name of the person(s) you’d like …

Church Protocols in a Time of Pandemic

Following the Alameda County public health department protocol, we are sheltering in place to slow transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Global precedent suggests that we are at a critical time for containment, to slow or “flatten” the curve of community spread and hopefully avoid a healthcare system overload. The way we respond in these next few weeks matters and can …

This Weekend’s Worship Webcast

We are observing the strictest interpretation of the region’s shelter in place order for Sunday worship, worshipping in a dispersed way with all leaders in their homes. We will have a combination of taped and live segments, edited together in what we hope will be a seamless fashion, but there will undoubtedly be glitches, and we ask patience and grace …

Hello Beloved,

As I write this, we are nearing the end of day 2 of our shelter-in-place order throughout the Bay Area, and it feels like it’s already day 200. I am about to start our Zoom book study on our all-church read of Barbara Brown Taylor’s “An Altar in the World.” This online book study was planned well ahead of any …

Super Easy Guide to Zoom

Need to use Zoom to attend an upcoming meeting? Don’t panic! Here is a guide for you. Download Guide Here

New Church Signage

Big thanks to Joe Vega who helped move the project through the permitting and installation process. We understand the sign can be set up to change colors. -Nick Kukulan and the SFA Ministry

Learning Hour: Essential Foundations for Financial Wholeness

Sunday, March 22, 2020, 11:30 am Sunday’s Learning Hour will be held via Zoom! Follow this link (https://zoom.us/j/283004010) to join our own local financial coach Anna Gustafson (participant in our young adult ministry/Open Chapel). What can we be doing now to set ourselves up for fully living, generous giving, and financial stability in the future? Our financial foundation is even more …