Sun., June 1, 2025 Are you graduating this year? Whatever you are graduating from—could be high school, middle school, kindergarten, college, grad school, cosmetology, or another specialized program—we want to celebrate you and bless you as you go forward this Sunday! Please email Rev. Hannah so you can be included in this celebration!
Pentecost Blooms!
We celebrate Pentecost, the “birthday of the church,” on Sun., June 8! In addition to wearing red clothes to church, you are invited to bring any red, orange, or yellow flowers you might have in your yard to worship that day, and put them in the vases on the communion table during the prelude or the welcome.
Help Cover the Final Costs for our Beautiful New Building!
We are overjoyed to be moving into the new South Wing of our church property next month! The new wing will provide new spaces for our community to gather after service, to host events, and to meet in the smaller spaces like the library. But we have one final hurdle before we can officially celebrate the end of construction. Despite …
First Church Berkeley Family Retreat!
Sat., June 7, 10 am to 3 pmRedwood Park, Oakland You are invited to the First Church Berkeley Family Retreat on Sat., June 7, 2025 from 10 am to 3 pm at Redwood Park in Oakland. Please see the invitation for more info and to RSVP by Sat., May 24 so we know who is coming. — Matt Reed & Joey Gottbrath, FCCB Family, Children and …
Follow-up to Molly’s Sermon on Mental Health & Psychedelics
Hi all! Thank you for your keen curiosity and warmth in response to my relatively impromptu sermon last Sunday (May 18, 2025)! Many of you told me how much it touched you. For those who weren’t there or didn’t watch online: since it was the UCC’s Mental Health Sunday and Hannah was healing from her seizure, I preached about my …
Did You Know…?
…that if you missed last Sunday’s “Starvation as a Weapon of War: Education & Fundraising Event,” you can still make a donation through the Bukrah Foundation HERE?
Visit the Abundance Table this Sunday!
Sun., May 18, 2025 @ 11:15 am & most 3rd SundaysHall of Entrance or Cloister This Sunday, the monthly Abundance Table, where we share produce from our gardens, will be especially abundant. It is full springtime, and the table will feature a variety of vegetable and wildflower seedlings, ready to transplant into large containers or gardens, as well as an …
Starvation as a Weapon of War: an Educational and Fundraising Event
Sun., May 18, 2025, 2:30 pm (doors open); 3 pm (program begins)First Church Berkeley SanctuaryDonations welcomed but not required (Donation link here) For more than 60 days, Israel has prevented any food from entering Gaza. As of May 5, 65 children have been killed by starvation and 70,000 children are suffering from severe malnutrition with 250,000 malnourished. You’re invited to: …