No Adult Religious Education Class This Sunday (7 July 2024

There is no 9:00 AM adult religious education class this week.

Sleep in this Sunday (7 July 2024) and then join us for the 11:00 AM worship service to hear Barbara Deger’s “Happy Interdependence Day! – Don’t (Forget to) Talk to Strangers!”

Join us next Sunday (14 July 2024) at 9:00 AM in person in the social hall or via Zoom for our next adult religious education class (more information and Zoom link will be available on our website next week).

Meditation with Larry Androes (6 July 2024)

Please join us on Saturday (6 July 2024) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.

This group will be meeting via Zoom and not in person.

This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.

The group is free and open to all.

Summer Fun for Children and Youth (30 June 2024)

This Sunday’s summer fun activity during the 11:00 AM worship service is Kindness Rocks.

The children and youth will paint river rocks with messages of kindness, peace, and hope.

They can keep the rocks as reminders to themselves, give them to friends, and also leave them in random places (around the church or in their neighborhoods) to offer a hopeful message to someone they are likely never to meet.

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (30 June 2024)

Please join us on Sunday (30 June 2024) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

We will have a conversation with Nida AbuBaker (daughter of Shukri Abu Baker).

We are honored to have Nida join us for class this Sunday morning for an informal and wide-ranging conversation about her father’s arrest, trials, and imprisonment, her family’s experience, and her own life as the activist daughter of a Palestinian political prisoner in the United States.

Nida will join us via Zoom from her hotel room for the class and will be speaking in our pulpit in person at the 11:00 AM worship service.

Meditation with Larry Androes (29 June 2024)

Please join us on Saturday (29 June 2024) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.

This group will be meeting via Zoom and not in person.

This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.

The group is free and open to all.

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (23 June 2024)

Please join us on Sunday (23 June 2024) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

We will be watching Part II of The Holy Land Five (a documentary exploring the arrest, trial, and subsequent sentencing of 5 leaders of the Holy Land Five Foundation — the largest Muslim charity in the U.S. until after 9/11 when it was shut down, assets seized, and leaders arrested by the FBI).

If you missed last week’s class and you want to watch Part I, you can find Part I of the documentary here.

The film features interviews with defense and prosecution attorneys, witnesses, and family members as well as courtroom recreations looking back at the case.

We will have discussion afterwards.

Meditation with Larry Androes (22 June 2024)

Please join us on Saturday (22 June 2024) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.

This group will be meeting via Zoom and not in person.

This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.

The group is free and open to all.

Summer Fun for Children and Youth (16 June 2024)

It’s Tie-Dye Sunday in the religious education wing during and after the 11:00 AM worship service.

Children and youth can tie-dye a t-shirt or other 100% cotton item for their Dad, for any special grownup, and for themselves.

We do have some extra, mostly adult size t-shirts they can use, but we recommend they bring one if they can just to get the garment and size that they want.

Kids and adults who want to tie-dye should definitely wear clothes that can handle getting stained with dyes.

These dyes are permanent by design — and though we do have t-shirt smocks they can wear to protect their clothing — we really recommend they wear something that won’t be tragic with a little extra color.

When you get to church please bring your garments down to patio behind the social hall to start them soaking in the soda ash solution that will help the dyes set better.

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (16 June 2024)

Please join us on Sunday (16 June 2024) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

This Sunday’s adult religious education class is a work in progress.

But we promise we will be there.

And we will know a lot more when we email the group on Sunday morning (and if you’re a newcomer, you can be surprised when you show up).

Meditation with Larry Androes (15 June 2024)

Please join us on Saturday (15 June 2024) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.

This group will be meeting via Zoom and not in person.

This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.

The group is free and open to all.