Sundays at 9 am (next meeting – Jan. 12, 2025)Loper Chapel The 9 am Progressive Theology Discussion Group will be taking a break from meeting during the holidays. We will start to gather again on Sun., Jan. 12 at 9 am in Loper Chapel with a new video series from The Work of the People. See you there!
Sing for Your Life! 2024 – An Annual Event since 2002
Mon., Dec. 30, noon to 10 pmSanctuary You are invited to join David Worm and the CircleSing Community to experience this year’s Sing for Your Life! Lend your heart and your voice to this non-stop continuous Circle of Celebration on this day before New Year’s Eve. Come for a while or stay for the entire 10 hours, as Dave and his …
Gift Cards for Our Unhoused Neighbors – An Update
— Your Justice & Service and Worship & Spiritual Life Ministries First Church, thank you for your thoughtful generosity for our unhoused neighbors this Christmas season. Thank you to those who took time to write warm, loving messages in the Christmas cards. And to all the people that have donated gift cards, checks, cash and on Realm, thank you! Because of …
Blue Christmas Service Tonight
Tonight, Thurs., Dec. 19, 6:30 pmSanctuary If you can’t make it to tonight’s Blue Christmas service in the Sanctuary, you can hold your own sacred observance right at home! Click HERE for an order of worship to help you navigate your own big complex feelings in this season of the play between light and darkness.
Christmas Offering 2024
— Maureen Prochaska, Chair, writing for your Justice and Service MinistryStan Boghosian, Barbara Grady-Ayer, Doris Lynch, Chuck Monroe, and Susan Shome Star Stuff. How has this Advent theme become a part of your waiting time for Christmas? I am writing this Christmas Offering letter during the first week of Advent, the week of Hope when Rev. Kelly has asked us …
Carol Sing – Sun., Dec. 22
Sun., Dec. 22, 2024 , 9:40 amSanctuary Join us in the Sanctuary at 9:40 am (before the 10 am worship service) on Dec. 22 to sing some of your favorite Christmas carols, accompanied by Elizabeth Forsyth on the organ.
Ancora Sings in Worship this Sunday
Sun., Dec. 15, 2024 , 10 am Don’t miss Ancora—the treble ensemble of the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir—singing for us this Sunday during our 10 am worship service!
Did You Know…?
…that First Church’s Director of Music Derek Tam will be guest conducting the California Bach Society‘s concert “GAUDETE: A Christmas Dialogue Across Centuries” in our Sanctuary on Sun., Dec. 15 at 4 pm? Advance ticket prices through Thurs., Dec. 12 are: General – $35, Senior – $30, Under 30 – $10 Find out more and purchase tickets here. …that you’re …