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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …