Thursday, January 7, 2021, 8 pmhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83465197048?pwd=VytqeER1QW55T2szcmZZeHpMc0ZVdz09 Gather round for a post-holidaze happy hour (or unhappy hour, or so-so hour, all emotions and any kind of beverages/snacks very welcome)! Chat, catch up, play some game type things, reconnect with Rev. Kit after maternity leave, help us do some thinking about future young adult ministry stuff (ie., Open Chapel: to continue via …
The new stimulus package Congress will pass soon includes a $600 check for those who filed tax returns last year, and fall into a certain income bracket. With hunger, homelessness and housing insecurity in the Bay Area at historic levels, our siblings at First Congregational Church in Oakland have offered to redistribute wealth in a way our current federal government …
We need LOVE NOTES (at least one!) for each of the bags for the unhoused. Often what unhoused people crave as much as having their physical needs cared for is being acknowledged with dignity and compassion. Can you write some love notes and either drop them off at the church office by Sunday, December 20, or mail them to the …
Inside / Outside Prison Bible Study Feb 2021-July 2021 Join members of First Congregational Church of Berkeley and incarcerated people in building relationships across prison walls through scripture study. Participants will have the opportunity to correspond with a currently incarcerated individual as we grapple with the commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves in a country that incarcerates more people …
We are so grateful to have sojourned with Rev. Riana Shaw Robinson these past few months as our Public Theologian in Residence. Her preaching and teaching and general warmth, faith and spirit has been a balm and a blessing to so many of us. Don’t miss Riana’s last sermon with us this Sunday, and come say hi to her and …
For future congregational votes we will offer electronic ballots via email to those who prefer to vote electronically rather than with paper ballots through the US mail. Electronic ballots will save the Church labor, paper, and postage costs. Members: please take 2 minutes to print and fill out this form and return it today – take a photo of your filled-out form or …