Sunday at DCC: The In-Between

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Sunday Service on YouTube at 10:30 a.m.
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Saturday at DCC
    RealTimers 40's-50's Fellowship: Hiking to Pierce Canyon Falls
    Davis Phoenix Coaltion: Remembering Roe
    Soul Collage Seasonal Retreat
    Family Game Night
    Mosaics Lunar New Year Festival
Sunday at DCC

    Sunday Service at 10:30 a.m
    Coffee Connect: Meet Pastor Derek!
    Zoom Café
    Building Loving Relationships with Nonviolent Communication
    DCC's COVID Precautions
    Sunday School at 10:30 a.m.
Announcements
     Congregational Meeting: 1/29
     Westminster Woods Women's Weekend: 4/21-23
     Prayer Requests
Compassion, Peace & Justice Ministry
Empower Yolo: Request for Towels
      Remembering Roe with Davis Phoenix Coalition
Upcoming Events

   New! First Sunday Writing Groups
     First Wednesday Online Writing Group
     Parents of Exceptional Kids: 2/5
   ArtsPlay: 2/16
     Dimensions of Dementia: 2/19
     Ongoing Groups/Events
   Music at DCC
     FloColab: Thursdays
     Centering Prayer: Tuesdays, Wednesdays
     Playschool Experience: Tuesdays
     C Street Ukulele Band
     Wednesday Zoom Meditation & Prayer
     Friday Reiki Sessions and more!
Community Partners
Giving to DCC
Stay Connected Online

Davis Community Church is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church (USA).

RealTimers 40s&50s will hike to Pierce Canyon Falls out of Guinda in the Capay Valley on Saturday, January 21^st. This is a moderate hike (5.8 miles roundtrip). We will meet at 9 a.m. at the Guinda Corner Store, 7530 CA-16. Questions? Contact hike leader Peter Hernes (pjhernes@gmail.com).

The group will also meet on Saturday, February 4 for their regular potluck brunch on the first Saturday or each month. The brunch is at 10 a.m.- 12 noon in the

Thank you,
Suzette Smiley-Jewell

As we embark on a new Post-Roe era, let us decompress within a creative community space as we discuss the realities of the reproductive rights movement, abortion stigma, and a sneak peek at the 2023 policy landscape for protecting reproductive rights in California and Nevada.
Saturday, January 21 at 12 noon
Sanctuary
Register here.

Davis Phoenix Coalition

Mosaics Lunar New Year Festival
Mosaics provides intercultural meetups for language and music learning
Saturday, January 21, 2023
12:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Fellowship Hall

Open to all Mosaics members and their friends & family

• Cooking Class: Chinese Dumpling Making
12:30 - 4:30 p.m.• Dinner Banquet at 5 p.m.
Chinese and Korean dishes. Please bring Asian side dishes and desserts to share.

• Games, Raffles and Music: Starting at 6:30 p.m.Please donate raffle prizes.

For more information, please contact Rev. Stephen Moon at (916)217-5470. Thank you!

An afternoon of collage, reflection and sharing using the intuitive, image-driven process of Soul Collage.

Welcoming 2023 - A New Year Ahead!
Saturday, January 21, 2023
1:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Fireside Room
Facilitators: Deborah Luthi and Elizabeth Fulmer

REGISTER HERE

Sunday at DCC

Worship Service at 10:30 a.m.
Live-Streamed on the DCC YouTube Channel

Message: Rev. Dr. Derek Austin, Interim Pastor

Whether anticipated or not, we as both humans and people of faith find ourselves in the in-between places,
those liminal spaces in which we are challenged to embrace the “unknown.” .

Would you enjoy serving as a liturgist on Sundays?
Our liturgists add additional voices to our worship experience at DCC. We can provide a bit of training and would love to have you. Sign up here.
Questions? Please contact Alf Brandt

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Come Meet Pastor Derek!

He's here!
Community Life (and friends) will host an opportunity to chat with our new Interim Pastor, Derek Austin.
Coffee Connect time after the 10:30 service on Sunday will be extended and feature a special expanded menu as we gather to welcome Pastor Derek. Name tags will be provided to help him get to know us. Joins us in the Fireside Room. See you there!

Community Life Ministry

Want to be a host Coffee Connect? The schedule is wide open after next week!

Sign up here.

Last Chance!
In the Fireside Room, you will find books from Elisa Stone's office. There are any number of great books to choose from. Peruse the books and take home what you like. We will donate the remaining books to Friends of the Library after January 22.

Zoom Café

Zip over to Zoom after the 10:30 a.m. service and join in the discussion. In a small group, you will have an opportunity to share your thoughts and meet friends online.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87114925688?pwd=THI2aHROT0NPQ2VoMTFtRm5PZjlxUT09
Meeting ID: 826 9333 6805
By phone: 1 669 900 6833

Would you like to learn a tried and true, effective approach to loving, quality conversations? As an extension to our Racial Equity and Inclusion training, come learn to have loving conversations with others using non-violent communication.

Sunday, January 22
11:30 am (bring a bag lunch)
12 - 1 p.m. (course of study)
Library
No need to sign up. Free!
Facilitator: Maria Cartwright

Questions?
Please contact Maria Cartwright

COVID Update:
The COVID Community Level has risen to MEDIUM from LOW in Yolo County.
Wastewater, however, contains the highest level of three genes of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, since the beginning of the pandemic. Hospitalizations are lagging but expected to increase. Masks continue to be required for worship and encouraged indoors. Read more here.

Yolo County Health Department
N95, KN95 or KN94 masks at the worship service continue to be required.

We serve communion indoors. Participants are invited forward to receive communion, but return to their seats before removing their mask and consuming the bread and juice. We also provide an outdoor option for those who feel more comfortable outdoors. (Chancel Choir members and speakers remove their masks.)

In the event of an exposure to COVID, please follow the Centers for Disease Control guidance. Wear a mask and test on Day 6 following the exposure.
Read more here.

If you or a child in your family has a fever, please stay home. If you have a cough or any other symptoms, please test for COVID before participation in a DCC event.

Stay up-to-date on COVID vaccines and get a booster when eligible.
(It's also time to get a seasonal flu shot.)

On Campus – Masking Highly Recommended
DCC's Session continues to HIGHLY RECOMMEND, but not require, masking indoors. Having said that, groups are encouraged to discuss and agree to the precautions they will take so that everyone in the group feels safe. Groups may choose to require more, but not less, stringent precautions.

Sunday School
Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

Children's Ministry COVID Precautions

For all who attend Sunday School, we require proof of full vaccination, including booster shots for all who
are eligible.

Discovery Time (DT) is a short in-person Bible story time offered in the Sanctuary during the 10:30 a.m. Sunday service, and is followed by Sunday School. Children attending DT will be asked to follow the same COVID precautions as those attending the service: i.e., full vaccination (as eligible) or testing within 72 hours of events at DCC, and high-quality masks. Everyone age 2 and over will be required to wear an N95, KN95 or KF94 mask while indoors. We have additional masks of this kind on hand.

For children who do not wish to go into the Sanctuary for DT, or who cannot be vaccinated or test, childcare will be provided outdoors and DT will be available for you to watch from home on the DCC YouTube channel. For all children attending Sunday School or other childcare sessions, please be sure to bring proof of vaccination for your children, or email a photo of their card to kate@dccpres.org.

Announcements

Photo by Anchor Lee on Unsplash

All in the Family

Congregational Meeting

DCC's Session has called a congregational meeting for Sunday, January 29 at 11:40 a.m. Please join us to elect new elders and Nominating Committee members. We will also hear from our new Interim Pastor and Head of Staff, Pastor Derek Austin.

Nominees for the Class of 2026 include Brad Barber, Deborah Luthi, Jan Soller and Joe Yun. Emily Henderson is nominated to continue on Session and to fill an unexpired term in the Class of 2025.
Read more here about this group of nominees.

The meeting will also be available on Zoom.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87114925688?pwd=THI2aHROT0NPQ2VoMTFtRm5PZjlxUT09
Meeting ID: 826 9333 6805
By phone: 1 669 900 6833

All are welcome to attend the meeting. Church members will be asked to vote on some items on the agenda.

JoAnn Diel
Clerk of Session

Westminster Woods Women's Weekend

Westminster Woods offers an annual women's retreat weekend. This year’s Women’s Weekend (April 21-23) celebrates Earth Day and will give you time to rest while continuing to discover God’s rhythms within Creation.

The leaders is Mary DeJong, a trained eco-theologian who comes out of the Christian mystical tradition. Mary has a BA in English Literature; Masters in Theology & Culture with a focus in Eco-Theology and Eco-Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology; holds post-graduate certificates in Ecology & Religion from Yale and in EcoPsychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute; and is a Year Two Student of the School of Celtic Consciousness with John Philip Newell.

Deborah Jory has attended these retreats in the past, highly recommends them and invites you to join her for the weekend if you feel called. Register here.

Prayer Requests
You have four options with regard to a prayer request:
1.Your requests may be held by the pastoral staff in strict confidence. For pastoral care, please contact Pastor Eunbee Ham. (Once settled, Pastor Derek will be available as well.)
2. Your prayers may be shared confidentially with the staff and spoken at the weekly staff meeting.
3. Your prayers may be listed in All in the Family. Contact: Pastor Eunbee, Heather Carson or Julie Herdt, Communications Coordinator
4. DCC Prayer Chain 2023

DCC has had a faithful prayer chain for more than 20 years. We are re-setting the list for 2023 and would love to include more members. Are you interested in setting time to pray for folks in need of prayer?

Ideal Member Attributes:

An ability to treat all prayer requests with confidentiality
An interest in setting aside time for prayer during the week (We all just try our best.)
A shaky or firm belief in the power of prayer

Would you like to be part of the dedicated team of prayers? If so, please contact Heather Carson or text (530)601-1923 to join the team. It is possible that you were on the team but we have lost your email. Please contact Heather to continue.

Congregational Care

January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. We often partner with Empower Yolo, a local non-profit that serves marginalized people throughout the county. Empower Yolo relies on donations for, among other things, survivors of abuse. This month they request brand new towels.

Davis Community Church is generous. "We will grow in gratitude and generosity" (Vision 2028). One way to live into the vision is to donate a towel. It will provide comfort to a survivor.

Your gifts can be placed in the box labeled "Empower Yolo" in the church narthex during Sunday services in January. The church office will also accept the items during regular office hours, Sunday 12 noon to 2 PM and Monday through Thursday 9 AM to 1 PM.

Thank you!

Compassion, Peace & Justice Ministry

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Many at DCC contributed to Paul's Place, a center that includes a day-use resource center,
and emergency, transitional, and permanent housing for people living without homes.
Paul's Place will provide one-stop referrals to services.
All are invited to celebrate it's grand opening on February 8, 2023.

DCC's Calendar of Events

It is part of our mission to welcome all! You are invited to pay what is affordable for your budget.
Some events have fees that go to the event facilitators. Cost, however, is never a barrier at DCC.

You are also invited to contribute to the Scholarship Fund as you are able.

New Writing Group!
On the first Sunday of each month Deborah Jory and Mary Sprifke invite you to enjoy a new writing group at DCC. Attendance is in-person or by Zoom. Timing has been chosen to include those whose weekday’s
aren’t free.

Prompts will be offered at each meeting, and will be visual or written.Participants will choose how and what to write for about 20 minutes, followed by sharing if so desired. Group guidelines include honoring privacy and providing positive feedback to others. All are most welcome!

First Sundays Writing Group
February 5, 2023
DCC Library
4-5:30 p.m.
Drop-ins are fine, but please contact Mary Sprifke by email for Zoom and other
information: msprifke@gmail.com.

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DCC offers a second writing group on the first Wednesday of each month via Zoom.

Sunday, February 5
and on the first Sunday of each month
Fireside Room at 3:00 p.m.
Also offered via Zoom

When a child is diagnosed with issues parents often feel all alone. You are not alone. This group will meet monthly to learn from and support one another in the experience of parenting exceptional kids in a world designed mainly for typical kids.

If you wish to join via Zoom you must sign up in advance. A Zoom link will be provided in your registration confirmation. PLEASE SIGN UP HERE

If you plan to attend in person, there is no need to sign up in advance. Just come to the group!

The Celebration of Abraham, a long-time interfaith organization in Yolo County, extends an invitation to the whole community to join us for our 20^th annual community conversation: “Caring for Our Earth, Caring for Each Other.”

Regardless of spiritual traditions, all are welcome to join in the virtual ZOOM gathering from 3 pm to 5 pm on Sunday, February 5. Please register here: https://bit.ly/CeleAbraham20.

A free-will offering will benefit Grace Garden at Davis United Methodist Church. Their mission is to grow healthy organic food for the food insecure. At Grace Gardens volunteers from the community at large are drawn to this interfaith effort to provide fresh organic fruit and vegetables for serving at Davis Community Meals and Housing, Grace in Action, and affordable housing complexes in Davis. Last year the Grace Garden provided over 1,600 pounds of fresh food to these groups.

Helen Roland Cramer
hroland2@gmail.com

Thursday, February 16, 2023
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Fireside Room

A small-group offering for women that weaves creativity with laughter and fun! Not an art class, this gathering provides evenings of sharing and exploring creative expression together.

$20 materials/facility fee. The facilitator fees are provided by an endowment.

To keep us, our loved ones and the vulnerable in our community safe, we require proof of vaccination/boosters OR a negative Covid test within 24 hours of each session. Please wear your N95 or KN95 mask. (We have a few to offer if you need one!)
Register here.

Dimensions of Dementia
Sunday, February 19, 2 p.m.
“Understanding Alzheimer's & Dementia"
featuring a speaker from the Alzheimer's Association
Fireside Room
and on selected Sundays through November, 2023

DCC is offering a series of educational sessions related to dementia. The video series combined with three guest speakers from the Alzheimer’s Association support whose lives are touched by dementing illnesses.

Alf Brandt, facilitator
Free of charge and no registration is required.

All offerings are both in person and on Zoom.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82441192821?pwd=R3BFenpMSGJXRFVpdXd4dnppRTU3UT09
Meeting ID: 824 4119 2821
Passcode: 354887
Read more about this series.

Ongoing Events

The new year is a great time to join DCC's fabulous music ministry program!

FloColab: Collective Blossoming for Young(ish) Adults

Thursdays, 6 p.m.
Christian and Katie Georgely's home
2850 Concord Ave., Davis

Child care is available at DCC and begins at 5:45 p.m.
The group meets outdoors and requires that all who attend are fully vaccinated.

Florilegium collaborative: a place for young(ish) adults to explore Christian faith in a supportive space. Affectionately called Flo CoLab, we collectively decide the subjects and materials we want to study together as we each seek to understand and practice our faith. We aim to be rooted in and wrestling with this faith, to explicitly consider multiple perspectives, and to build community. While we may study deep topics, we focus on building relationships and having fun. We welcome young(ish) adults to our
weekly meetings!

To receive the latest updates for Flo CoLab,

please send an email to eunbee@dccpres.org with “subscribe” in the subject line.

Centering Prayer

Tuesdays at 9 a.m. in the Fireside Room
Wednesdays at 8 a.m. on Zoom

Centering Prayer quiets the mind and allows us to be open to the gift of God’s presence.

Please contact the church office to receive an invitation to the Zoom group.

Play School Experience
It's fun! It's free!
Bring your little ones for quality play time!

For more information, please contact Kate Boxeth at kate@dccpres.org.
Note: Play School Experience will meet at a new time beginning November 29: 9:30 - 11 a.m.

The C Street Ukulele Band
Tuesdays, 11 a.m.
Music Room

The C Street Ukulele Band welcomes uke players and singers of all ages, all levels, to share the joys of ukulele and song.

Please contact:
    Lynn DeLapp lynndelapp@me.com
    Karen Johns: karenlbj@gmail.com or
    Barbara Greene: barbarag1021@gmail.com

Wednesday Zoom Meditation & Prayer Gathering

The "Zoom Prayer Room" opens at 11:50 a.m. which allows time to connect with others before the prayer time begins. At 12:05 p.m. we'll grow quiet and prepare for meditation and prayer. All are welcome!

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83811670496?pwd=SllEekcwQ2lNSDlqRkJzWWZjMEVidz09
Meeting ID: 838 1167 0496

Passcode: 276810

By phone: 1 669 900 6833

Available sessions HERE

Davis Mosaics
DCC Oak Leaf Native American Flute Circle
Monday Morning Yoga Sutra
Writing Group

Secure Giving to DCC

dccpres.org

We Get Screened Out as SPAM: How to Prevent That!

There are several things you can do that might help:

1. Add Davis Community Church and announcements@dccpres.org to your Contacts.

2. If your ISP (AOL, sbcglobal, gmail, att, etc.) has a Safe Senders list, add announcements@dccpres.org
to that list.

3. Search your SPAM and Promotions emails for Davis Community Church and annoucements@dccpres.org. If you find it, open it, star it as important, and/or "not SPAM." (The options vary depending on your ISP.) Your ISP will learn that we are not SPAM.

4. You might need to search for a solution. Try a Google search for Safe Senders list for ________ (your ISP).

Backup Plan
Generally, these things work out with time. In the meantime, you can always find the e-news on the website. On the front page at dccpres.org, look for E-NEWS just below the photo on the Home page.
That will take you to the archive of e-newsletters. The e-news appears there immediately after distribution on Friday afternoon. (I know that is less than ideal.)

Julie Herdt
Communications Coordinator
announcements@dccpres.org

412 C Street, Davis, CA 95616
4th & C Streets, located in the heart of Davis
(530)753-2894
office@dccpres.org

Office Hours
Sundays, 12 noon - 2 p.m.
Monday - Thursday, 9 a.m - 1 p.m. or by appointment

Sunday at DCC

Empower Yolo: Bath Towel Donations

Community Partners