Keith Hillesland

WEEKLY DEVOTION BY PASTOR BARBARA“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.” Proverbs 13:12 My grandson told his mom he was painting “a hopeful window” for his neighbors to enjoy.  We are worried about the children in all of this sheltering at home, and yet….by fulfilling his desire to do something for […]

A situation vs a slog I am going to my Seth Godin well once again! Seth writes: “Wake me when it’s over,” is a natural instinct during a short-term interruption in our usual pattern. A crisis is there to be managed or waited out. The goal of each day is to simply get through it. Until

60 days of Shelter-in-place in Alameda County as of today! 60 days mostly spent at home with the three people I love most. 60 days in which I have been thinking all of the following repeatedly in any order possible: “This is crazy! Ah, what’s so bad about hunkering down at home anyways? This is

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me.  Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.  Psalm 51:10-12[1] Does anybody else see

Sunday, May 10th, is the 5th Sunday of Easter and Mother’s Day. As we have been doing since the shelter-in-place order first took effect, we invite you to join us in this online worship service. Please see our bulletin if you’d like to follow along and participate.  Today’s worship service was recorded at different times and places in order

Giving Thanks For Women of Faith Strength, fortitude, intelligence, bravery, talent, kindness and faith. These are just a sample of the qualities of the women of faith I have been blessed to know and to be nurtured and challenged by. This Mother’s Day, like many of us during this time, I will have to settle

When laying in my bed at night, I find myself praying much more intentionally and more intensive right now than just a couple of months ago. Has my faith grown? I am not sure. But my fear has grown and my level of discomfort and the feeling of uncertainty. So, I pray. I actually mostly