Remember how moving and fun it was to see us all waving our palms last Palm Sunday? This year, you have two options for participating in our second (and hopefully last?) virtual Palm Sunday parade: Submit an individual video: Find some foliage, draw a palm, or pick one up from church (this Friday, 3/19, 1-4 pm) or participating Neighborhood captains, then film …
Sunday, March 7, 12:15 pmhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88967740143?pwd=M1pqRE92SnZBbjZKNmpvelBKVTNRdz09ID: 889 6774 0143 Passcode: 261432 Barbara McHugh’s presentation will be based on the premise that most religions have two poles: love (interconnectedness) versus wisdom (self- and world-transcendence). There’s an argument for believing that Buddhism emphasizes wisdom training over loving other people, while Christianity does the opposite, but perhaps for many people the two religions have …
If you’d like to donate a lily in honor of a family member, friend, or other meaningful person in your life, email Louise Halsey ([email protected]) the name of the person(s) you’d like to honor, indicating if the lily is “in thanksgiving for,” “in memory of,” or “in honor of” your beloved. The cost is $30 for each lily. Donations support …
Thursday, March 11, 12 pm Watch Party, 1 pm Chathttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89734349905?pwd=M01tRGtMQkthQXAzWWREanJadlRoQT09ID: 897 3434 9905 Passcode: 609807 Let’s have a “party” with 5 other UCCs in the East Bay who, like us, have committed their Lenten offering to a new Black homeownership fund! One small step toward addressing the racial wealth gap as part of a wider reparations movement. As we seek …
By Alice Clark On behalf of EveryOneHome, Moe Wright has announced an important report just issued by the Oakland-Berkeley-Alameda County Continuum of Care (CoC) titled “Centering Racial Equity in Homeless System Design.” This report declares the intention by the CoC to include racial equity in addressing homelessness in Alameda County. Fully aware, as never before, of the force of structural racism …
Saturday, April 179:30 am – 12 pmSign Up Herehttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81362427438?pwd=ZnA4NWZ2dDM4ZTI4RzdzSTQ1S0JyQT09ID: 813 6242 7438 Passcode: 625673 Feeling out of touch? Out of sync? Missing connecting at church with old and new friends? Twelve months of Covid makes it tough on people of all ages at school, at work, or in retirement. Everyone is facing challenges of all shapes and sizes. This mini retreat …
We are joining with several other East Bay UCCs to take a small but mighty step toward addressing historic systemic racial injustice this Lent, by creating a fund to support Black Homeownership! The Black Homeownership Reparations Fund (BHRF) is a project launched by Arlington Community Church (UCC), to help repair a small portion of the financial damage of racism and …
Saturday, February 27, 4 pmWatch Concert HereDonate Here Please RSVP and share widely on Facebook and set a reminder on YouTube! Join City of Refuge UCC and First Church Berkeley for our annual joint concert of music and spoken word. In this extraordinary time, we’re taking our concert online, with artists from near and far joining us in celebration! This year, “Singing Hope: Praise Through a …
Learning Hour with Rev. Christina Hutchins Sunday, February 28, 12:15 PMhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88967740143?pwd=M1pqRE92SnZBbjZKNmpvelBKVTNRdz09ID: 889 6774 0143 Passcode: 261432 This experiential Learning Hour is for you if you have written poetry, secretly or publicly, for many years, if you haven’t written poetry since you were a teenager, if you can’t remember ever having written a poem, or have never thought about writing a …