Earth Week Learning Hour

Sun., April 16 @ 11:45 amLoper Chapel The Green Team will host a viewing of “Nation in Transition,” a film that explores the coal-to-renewables transition on the Navajo Nation and across northern Arizona through the stories of workers, their families and communities, business and tribal leaders, utility executives, policy makers and environmental activists. The film offers a roadmap for accelerating and navigating …

Abundance Table

3rd Sundays @ 11:15 amCloister Visit the Abundance Table this Sun., March 19, and test your green smarts!  Bring your extra produce to the Abundance Table this Sunday to share, and/or come and find something yummy to take home. Also, test your knowledge of green topics, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, with trivia questions shared by the FCCB Young Adult “green theme” St. Patrick’s Day gathering! — from the …

Are You Longing to Sing in Community?

Every 3rd Wed. of the month, 7 – 8:30 pmFirst Church Berkeley Sanctuary 3rd Wednesday CircleSinging is a tradition started in 2002 in Oakland to gather and celebrate how our voices can change the world. Voices in a New World is so grateful to First Church Berkeley for extending the invitation to make First Church their new home for this ministry. You are …

Second Annual FCCB Triathlon

Sat., Sept. 2, 2023Alameda Mark your calendars now for the Second Annual FCCB Triathlon in Alameda on Sat., Sept. 2. More details will be published here when summer approaches, but we’ll most likely be using the same route as last year, swimming about 1/4 mile in the Bay, biking 12-15 miles along the Bay, and running 2.5 miles. You are …

Did You Know…?

… that the Black Wealth Builders Fund received international attention? Squirrel News, a German news outlet that collects constructive stories from around the world, featured an interview recently with Susan Russell, co-founder of the Black Wealth Builders Fund. Listen to the interview here. …that on Sunday, March 12, you can help make sandwiches for our unhoused neighbors in our monthly …

Updated Mask Policy 

We’re approaching the three-year anniversary of those scary first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, and we’ve settled into a new normal: COVID numbers rise and fall, we get booster shots, we do our best to stay healthy and to keep our germs to ourselves, but we’re finding ways to live our lives within this long pandemic tail. First Church has …