Affordable Housing on Campus Update
We have some exciting new updates about the affordable housing project, which will add 100% low-income housing to our First Church Berkeley campus, and help us do our part to mitigate the travesty of Bay Area homelessness and housing insecurity! Last year you met our chosen developer, EBALDC, who has a long track record in the East Bay and build …
Montgomery Pilgrimage to Affirm Black Lives
Fri., Feb. 16 to Mon., Feb. 19, 2024 Have you always wanted to go to the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Incarceration in Montgomery AL, conceived and built by the Equal Justice Initiative? Or have you been already and want to have a deeper, richer experience of it alongside people from your faith community? Or perhaps you are just ready …
New Member of Staff – August Laperche
August Laperche (pronouns: they/them) has recently returned to the Bay Area after spending several years in North Texas. August’s spouse, Evan (he/him), grew up in Fort Worth and his family still lives there, which is what brought them to TX in late 2019. They now live in Oakland – near Lake Merritt – with their cat Toothless (named after the …
Staff Transition – Robin Kempster
We are enormously grateful to the kind, knowledgable, and generous Robin Kempster for her many years of service as our Parish Nurse (10 and counting!), including undertaking to bring Mental Health Ministry to our church and supporting us into becoming a WISE congregation. In her working life, Robin was a public health nurse and we are grateful for her sharing …
Did You Know…?
…that you can contribute funds through the Hawai’i Conference of the UCC to support the people of Maui after the devastating wildfires earlier this month? Click here. …that on Service as Worship Sunday (Aug. 13), those in our community created 75 postcards that will be mailed every few days to the Alameda Co. Sheriff and the District Attorney to remind …
Genesis Bible Study
3rd & 4th Thursdays, 6:30 pm, beginning Aug. 17Pillar Room Ready to begin our deep dive into the book of Genesis? Join us every 3rd & 4th Thursday of the month in the Pillar Room as we look more deeply at the first book of the Bible. Contact Rev. Hannah ([email protected]) with any questions.
Fall All-Church Retreat 2023
Fri.- Sun., Sept. 15 – 17St. Dorothy’s Rest Retreat Center, Camp Meeker, CARegistration deadline, Sun., Sept. 10 Join us as we gather together as a *whole* community, babies to eldest elders, to play, hike, do art, learn, sing, dance, eat and worship together! There will be options to stay one night, two nights, or just come for the day to St. …
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