Sun., Oct. 20, 2024, 11:45 amLoper Chapel Do you know that religion, medicine, and healthcare have been related in one way or another in all population groups since the beginning of recorded history? Care for those with mental-health challenges in the West also had its roots within monasteries and religious communities. Only in recent times have these systems of healing …
Trunk or Treat 2024
Sun., Oct. 27, 4 pm2330 Durant Ave. parking lot & play yard Join us for our annual Trunk or Treat safe trick-or-treating event in the First Church parking lot (entrance at 2330 Durant Ave.). There will be a costume contest with prizes, fun decorated car trunks, and mac and cheese from Homeroom for dinner. FREE to all! Please RSVP here if you’d …
Silent Retreat – Now Pay What You Can!
Fri.- Sun., Oct. 25 -27, 2024St. Dorothy’s Rest Retreat Center, Camp Meeker, CA Deadline to register for the Silent Retreat is TODAY (Thurs., Oct. 10) and good news! We are offering the remaining spots as pay-what-you-can! Click on the registration button below. Registration costs were $390 for a private room or $680 for couples sharing a room. If you need …
Election Night Watch Party
Tues., Nov. 5, 2024, 6 – 10 pmLoper Chapel, Pillar Room, Hall of Entrance Remember the wonderful, terrible Election Night Watch Party we held at church in 2016? If you were there, well: we ended dancing to Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.” And we have. We’re approaching another monumental presidential election, and this time Covid won’t stop us from gathering …
Oct. 13 Learning Hour: An Important Conversation about CA Prop 36
Sun., Oct. 13, 2024, 11:45 amLoper Chapel Join us for an important conversation about CA Prop 36 with Willem VandeKamp,First Church liaison to the Interfaith Coalition for Justice in our Jails (ICJJ). Prop 36is on the ballot for the November elections with the purpose to undo Prop 47,which California voters approved in 2014. Prop 47 reclassified certainoffenses concerning theft and …
Roots, Removal and Resistance: Japanese Americans in Berkeley – New Berkeley Historical Society Exhibit
Opening, Sun., Oct. 13, 2024, 3 to 5 pmVeterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St., Berkeley— Kate Lucchese After many months of work, richly rewarded, the Berkeley Historical Society exhibit, “Roots, Removal, and Resistance: Japanese Americans in Berkeley,” is currently being mounted over at the Berkeley History Center, located on the ground floor of the Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center Street, …
Donate Hygiene Supplies to Refugees in Need
Sundays, Oct. 20 & 27, 10 am to noonHall of Entrance Want to support refugee families and LGBTQ+ individuals resettling in the East Bay this fall? Simple things like hygiene supplies make a big difference to aid a newcomer in their adjustment to life here. FCCB churchgoer Katia Kiefaber will be hosting a hygiene collection drive on Sundays, Oct. 20 …
