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Last Sunday was a fabulously full day. I left our congregational meeting tired, and encouraged, excited by the excitement I saw and heard in terms of our community life together. Above is a link to the video that I shared before the meeting - which highlights some of the successes and new things that we did in 2014, as well as asks questions about the future. Click on the picture to be redirected to the vide on youtube. Know that it's about 10 minutes long - so it's a commitment, and a fun one.
What do you think about the past year? What were successes for us to build upon in your opinion? What challenges lay before us in 2015? How will you be part of our response to them?
See you Sunday, if not before,
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TAIZE PRAYER TONIGHT @ 7pm
Join us at 7pm at the church for a 30-40 minute period of Taizé flavored prayer, songs and lector diving meditation. We're offering this meditative service each Wednesday night during Lent.
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This coming Sunday,
March 1, 2015
We're talking about seeing and sight - seeing Jesus as he really is,
seeing the world - and each other - and even ourselves - through his eyes.
Start the sermon now
by engaging with Monte's blog post online
at www.capcoakland.org or
www.montemcclain.com
The Vocabulary of Faith
(Bible Study Class) is meeting this week
at 9:30am in the Library.
SUNDAY WE'RE HAVING COMMUNION IN WORSHIP
BE SURE TO BRING CANNED FOOD ITEMS
FOR THE DEACON'S FOOD CLOSET
Ushers
Bob Brylawski
Jeff Trowbridge
Liturgist
Sharon Nelson
Coffee Hour
Chickwendu Okereke & Family
Godly Play
Our children will stay in worship for communion
These updates could be incorrect if switches have been made between different people.
Be sure to update the office if you've done a switcheroo so that we can
have our publications as up to date as possible. Thanks!
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Thank you & Congratulations!
Thank you to all those who were able to stay and participate in our Annual Congregational Meeting this past Sunday. At the meeting we elected many new leaders for the life of our congregation.
Elders • Class of 2017
Beth Beatty
Linda Davis
Patt Schroeder
Deacons • Class of 2017
Freodra Darmstadt
Annette Laverty
Cristina Ramirez-Fonua
Jeff Trowbridge
Nominating Team for 2015
Freodra Darmstadt
Annette Laverty
Cristina Ramirez-Fonua
Jeff Trowbridge
Thanks were extended to the 2014 Nominating Committee consisting of
Bob Brylawski, Lori Castner, Fredora Darmstadt, Linda Davis,
Louise Hirschman, Patt Schroeder and Margaret Smith.
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Practices • Connections • Devotional Readings
for this Holy Season
“Lent,” wrote Thomas Merton, “is not just a time for squaring conscious accounts: but for realizing what we had perhaps not seen before.” Lent is the most literary season of the liturgical year. The Lenten narrative is marked by violence, suffering, anticipation, and finally, joy. Jesus Christ’s 40 days of fasting in the desert are the spiritual and dramatic origin for the season that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday.
While Advent is a time of giving, Lent is a time of reflection, penance, and reconciliation, all revealed through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Holy Week is a solemn sequence of days leading to the grace of Easter. It is a different form of joy than Christmas; Easter joy is cathartic and transformational. Lent, then, is a time of complex and contrasting emotions. Highs and lows. A time to be shaken and surprised in hopes of stripping away what distracts and divides us to open us up to God's recreating wholeness.
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Check out our new Online Prayer Tools
Submit a prayer request for Sunday's service
You can share your prayer via the internet during the week. This is the same thing as filling out a prayer card during our weekly service, but it can be done in advance on our church blog at
http://capcoakland.wordpress.com/prayer-requests/
Join the electronic prayer chain
We use google groups to discreetly share urgent prayer needs during the week. Sign up on that same blog page.
Prayer Requests shared in worship on February 22, 2015
Prayers of praise and gratitude for:
- At the blessings of family, friends and community.
Prayers for God to intervene for:
- Healing for Cecilia Jackson and Terry Joseph,
- Linda Trowbridge as she regains strength and looks towards surgery on March 2nd;
- Gerry Parsons, healing and strength as he is having trouble with his multiple myeloma and was hospitalized last night with a possible infection;
- Lori Castner and other who are sick this week;
- my son that he may choose a righteous path and open his heart to the Lord;
- the Mooneys, friends suffering from the last affects of Parkinsonism;
- Candace with breast cancer;
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Mid Week Gathering at the Stothers
Are you looking for a smaller group or gathering in which you can practice your faith and/or connect with other people?
Welcoming, open and accessible. 7:30 pm to 9 pm.
Every Wednesday starting February 4th.
Thirty minutes exploring Celtic prayers and silence,
thirty minutes exploring God's Word,
thirty minutes sharing and praying
for one another, the church, community and the world.
Questions: call Marda 510.540.7173
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CHOIR NEWS
Our Choir is now meeting weekly for regular practices
from 12:15-1:15pm each and every Sunday,
If you're interested in joining this contagiously fun singing community contact Pete Feltman in person on Sundays or by email.
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Tail Songs and Prayers
Wednesdays at 7pm during Lent
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Education :: Faith is a process not just an event
Are you looking for ways to grow in faith or to wrestle with life in community? Faith can't be lived in a vacuum. Like embers in a fire, it's in community - life together - that we become alive and shine. Here are some ways you might find a place and space to grow with others:
CAPC Women's Group
1st, 2nd, 3rd Saturdays at 8:30-10:00am in the Library
The Vocabulary of Faith
aka "Bible Study"
Sunday mornings
with Pastor Monte from 9:30-10:15am in the Front Lounge. We're currently reflecting and studying together the readings for the Sunday in worship. Look for them and study in advance on our blogs.
Reading through the Bible
Thursdays at 11:30am in the Library.
Ever read through the Bible or wanted to discover what it says? Here's your chance. The group always goes for lunch along the avenue afterwards.
Godly Play
During worship each Sunday at 10:30am. We invite our children and families to worship as a full inter-generational community on our more kid-friendly 1st Sundays of the month.
Sunday Worship
Sundays at 10:30am
CAPC Choir
Sundays 12:15-1:15pm
in the Sanctuary
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February Birthdays
4 William Markman
8 Cecelia Jackson
9 Chelsea Osoria
Angel Carney
21 Elena Wenzler
Have we missed your birthday?
We probably don't have it in our records.
Please EMAIL us so that we can express our love on time !
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