Still Time for Baking, Eating & Sharing Christmas Cookies!

Sat., Dec. 24, 2022 We need your home-baked Christmas cookies for our special Christmas Eve After Party, which follows the 9 pm Candlelight & Carols Service. Bring your favorites (with list of ingredients) to the Hall of Entrance small kitchen before or after the 4 pm All-Ages service, before the 8:30 pm concert/9 pm Candlelight & Carols service, or email …

Rev. Molly’s New Book!

Let’s face it: life is really kind of a drama queen these days! And we need all the help we can get when we are going through the hardest parts of being human. Our lead pastor Rev. Molly survived cancer while parenting small children and resurrecting a struggling church, only to move to 3,000 miles to Berkeley to watch her new …

Make a Year-End Donation to the Black Wealth Builders Fund

Thanks to you, it has been a great year for the Black Wealth Builders Fund. We have made 21 zero-interest loans, for a total of $275,665, to first-time Black homebuyers throughout Contra Costa and Alameda counties. We have supported four new homeowners each in Richmond and Concord, three in Pittsburg, and two each in Martinez, El Sobrante, Oakland, San Lorenzo, …

More Information About EBALDC, First Church’s Affordable Housing Development Partner

In case you missed the Dec. 4, 2022 Affordable Housing Forum in our Sanctuary, you can review the PowerPoint presentation here, which was given by representatives of our nonprofit affordable housing development partner EBALDC. You can also learn more about some of their projects by clicking on the links below:Building Partnerships: The Casa Arabella StoryBuilding Community: Our Preservation Story

Did You Know…?

…that if our Sunday morning worship webcast crashes, you can go to the First Church Berkeley website’s watch page – https://www.firstchurchberkeley.org/watch/ – in hopes the issue will be resolved quickly? …that Rev. Dr. Diane Weible, our United Church of Christ’s Northern California Nevada Conference Minister, will be transitioning from her role as of Dec. 31? Read her announcement here. Our …

Still Time for Baking, Eating & Sharing Christmas Cookies

Bring your favorites (please drop off your cookies with a list of ingredients or recipe): Sat., Dec. 24 – Candlelight & Carols Service on Christmas Eve – in Hall of Entrance small kitchen before or after the 4 pm All-Ages service or before the 8:30 pm concert/9 pm Candlelight & Carols service. Thank you! Questions? Contact Louise Halsey @ [email protected]