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During the last 6 weeks we have been out protesting quite a bit. Always at family friendly events. Our favorite protest was the one on Thursdays in Berkeley, organized by parents of Washington Elementary School. Once a week we would stand along MLK street, holding our signs and taking a short “march” from one traffic […]

Welcome! Please join us for worship! Today, July 5th, is the 5th Sunday after Pentecost.  We continue to record online worship services in lieu of in-person worship at the church due to COVID-19.  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 to observe social

Hi, Everybody, and Happy Fourth of July! (tomorrow): This Sunday, July 5th, is the 5th Sunday after Pentecost.  We continue to have our online worship services in lieu of in-person worship at the church due to COVID-19 (you have heard of it, haven’t you?).  As usual, we will be having a Zoom Coffee Chat at 10 am.  I am attaching the Zoom information

Pastor Tim’s Devotion for July, 03, 2020: Don’t Give Up We sure have seen a lot of different yard signs in the last few months haven’t we? From graduation, birthday and wedding anniversaries to Black Lives Matter and Thank You Health Care Workers. I saw the one above on one of my walks the other

Pastor Tia’s Devotion for July 01, 2020: “Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.” (Dr. William Butler, 17th Century English Writer) I fully agree. Doubtless God didn’t make a better berry. (Sorry, raspberry, currant, blackberry…). One of my best times in my life was when I lived on a

Devotion for Monday, June 29, 2020, by Pastor Barbara Caine “What possible spiritual significance could a trip to the grocery store have?  How could something as common as a toothache be a door to greater life?  No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual

Join us for an online worship service! This Sunday, June 28, is the 4th Sunday after Pentecost and Vacation Bible School Sunday!  This year’s theme is Rocky Railway.”  All this week Terri and her helpers have been conducting VBS by Zoom.  Some said they were crazy to want to have a virtual VBS – that they had loco motives – but Terri and

Pastor Tim’s Devotion for June 26, 2020: How will you mark June 29th? In case you have not seen the important message from the ELCA I share it with you now. “The Church of Christ in every age, beset by change but Spirit-led, must claim and test its heritage, and keep on rising from the

Pastor Tia’s Devotion for June 24, 2020: Dear Zoomed-in-and-out Saints! Do you know this feeling of tiredness after a Zoom meeting? This deep exhaustion after having stared at the screen and it’s so hard not to get distracted and to start doing something else (like checking my Emails or turning off the video and muting