This Sunday, May 17, is the 6th Sunday of Easter! We welcome you and invite you to join us as we worship together in an online celebration, as we all continue to shelter in place during the Covid-19 pandemic. We look forward to a time when we can all worship together again! Please see our bulletin if you’d like […]
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Hi, Everybody: This Sunday, May 17, is the 6th Sunday of Easter and Fill the Food Barrel Sunday for reals! Yes, John Williams will be at the church from 8:45 am to noon to accept your drop-offs of non-perishable food itemsfor the League of Volunteers of Newark. All the usual social distancing protocols apply. I’m sure John will have an extra-large
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hi, Everyone: This Sunday, May 10, is the 5th Sunday of Easter, Mother’s Day (hi, Mom!), and Scrip Sunday. I hope you all took advantage of ThankScriping Day yesterday. If not, think of scrip for Mom! Once again, anyone who still needs to get a scrip account set up can do so by going to ShopWithScrip.com and using our organization code B768EC1D14576
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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
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“We look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18[1] Dear Church, This image[2] captures the longing I feel to go…. To go somewhere, to see someone, or be somewhere…else. I know I live with two dear friends
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