2025 Lenten Devotional
Mirroring the United Church of Christ’s 2025 General Synod theme, “Into the Deep,” the 2025 Lent Devotional invites reflection on God’s mysterious depths. As Mary Luti writes in the introduction, “God inhabits the depths of life, love, loss, ecstasy, and pain, God dwells in the profundities of prayer, in sighs too deep for words. God loves the deep.” From the …
Save the Date: Fall All-Church Retreat!
Fri. – Sun., Sept. 12 – 14, 2025Monte Toyon Retreat Center, Aptos, CA We’ll return to Monte Toyon Retreat Center in beautiful Aptos for this year’s Fall All-Church Retreat. We’re asking you to bookmark the whole weekend – Fri. – Sun., Sept. 12 – 14 – on your calendars for this high-joy, deeply spiritual intergenerational bonding experience! This opportunity only comes …
It Takes a Village to Feed a Village – Second Sunday Sandwiches
— Richard Brabham Second Sunday Sandwiches has been preparing bag lunches for our hungry neighbors since Oct. 9, 2016! Everyone’s help over the years has been much appreciated. Much has changed during that time. I used to be able to pick up any items not donated easily, but with my declining mobility, that is not the case. Generous donors have …
Did You Know…?
…that about 30 folks from numerous organizations (including our congregation) attended the asylum hearing in San Francisco to support Melissa last Wed., Feb. 19? One of the cloud of witnesses was a member of Kehilla Synagogue in Oakland. Read a moving account of their experience (originally shared with the Kehilla Community) here.
March 2 Learning Hour: Be Red Cross Ready – Emergency Preparedness
Sun., March 2, 2025, 11:45 amLoper Chapel Join us Sun., March 2, as Diana Graham, long-time church member & Red Cross volunteer guides us through the “Red Cross Ready” process to prepare for an emergency. She’ll focus on the importance of making a plan, building an emergency kit (go-bag & stay bag), home fire prevention & safety, and information about …
One Great Hour of Sharing Offering – Sun., March 2
Every year, the One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) offering has been helping American and Canadian Christians bring God’s hope and healing to hurting people at home and around the world. Based on this year’s theme—Be the Light (Matthew 5:14-16) — OGHS’s mission continues to support domestic and international development, fight poverty and its consequences, bring aid and relief to communities torn by war or ravaged by national …
Did You Know…?
…that there’s a new hybrid piano for Loper Chapel? It was recently assembled by Leonard, Frances, Jed and Derek!
Ash Wednesday
Wed., March 5, 2025, 7 pmSanctuary Join us on Ash Wednesday at 7 pm on the Chancel, the raised part at the front of the sanctuary, to sing together, remember our mortality and our flaws, and hope together for a world made new.