Sign-up here:www.mealtrain.com/n5dqw7 We’d love to enjoy a home cooked meal from our friends and family, or delivery if you so prefer, from our loving community. What is a meal train?There are times in our lives when friends and family ask, “What can I do to help out?” The answer is usually to help them with a meal. When many friends give a meal, this is a Meal Train. …
March 29, 1:00 pm, Berkeley The FamChY and Justice and Service committees are organizing the annual CROP Walk! CROP Walk is a community walk that raises money for Church World Service, an ecumenical organization that supports communities around the globe facing poverty, hunger, and/or the aftermath of natural disaster. This year’s CROP Walk will be March 29 at 1:00 pm! Our …
The Blue Fire Team is hard at work modeling all three concepts of a rebuilt campus to see which one aligns most closely with our mission, constraints, needs, values and long-term financial health. We have shifted the congregational vote date slightly to allow time for the congregation to absorb details from the final concept we will present in May. Here’s …
Have you ever wondered or been curious about prayer and how it can deepen and strengthen your personal and communal spiritual life? Lent is a perfect time to enter into some new spiritual practices, and during this upcoming church season FCCB is helping to coordinate prayer partnerships (or “buddies”) for members of the congregation. If you are interested in being assigned a prayer …
Wednesday, February 26, 8-9 pm Prophetic anger and sorrow at the current national situation fill us up and threaten to paralyze us. There are things we cannot bring ourselves to express, and tears we are afraid to cry. Terrible things are happening in our country, and it seems like more than one person can bear. Let us join together and let …
All women are warmly invited to attend this year’s Women’s Voices Retreat, Fri–Sat., March 13–14, at Ralston White Retreat Center in Mill Valley, a beautiful setting in which to enjoy great food, opportunities to rest, play, reflect, hike, worship, sing, dance, and immerse yourself in the warmth of a loving circle of women. This year’s theme is Making Space… . Register online now at https://bit.ly/2weANMb or …
Photo Album On Saturday, February 8th a hardy team of 15 First Church volunteers planted two Shumard Oak trees in the Dana strip as part of Roger Bash’s design plan. The Shumard Oak will grow to be a tall tree with wide spreading branches to beautify and green-up the entrance-side of church. This is a hardy and long-lived tree with …
Geoffrey A. Gaskins, M.Div., was First Church’s Brown Barr Intern Minister from 2009-2011, and has been facilitating our Progressive Christian Bible Study since that time (since 2009!). Geoffrey’s professional life has included being an executive at a Bay Area start-up tech firm (animal cloning and stem cell research) and a marketing communications consultant to international law firms headquartered in the …