You are invited to our Justice / Resistance / Resilience Community Sing!
Sat., Nov. 7, 2:30–4 p.m.
Urban Sanctuary Center for Spirituality, Arts & Activism
80 S. 5th Street, San Jose, CA 95112
We’ll sing pre-selected songs, and have time to sing whatever you want. Come and sing together with other activists, organizers & workers for justice & the common good during these trying times.
Let singing together lift your spirits! Experience community! Have fun! Light refreshments provided.
For more information, contact Deb St Julien at [email protected]. See the event details.
Someone take a picture, please, and send it to me. :) [email protected]
A Transition Team!
Adding one more chance this Sunday: if you haven’t voted yet, now is the time!
Part of an interim ministry is a team of folx trusted by the church to help guide the direction of the interim time — and thus, the future direction of the church. This team may morph into, or help to form, the eventual search committee for the settled pastor. The team is formed by you! We’ll take up slips of paper on which we hope you will write down the three people in the church you trust more than anyone else.
- Please do not list yourself.
- Please do not vote more than once.
- Please list only three.
- This is the honor system. :)
- Votes are anonymous. If you need to vote by email, you can email [email protected], and Neil will get me your vote (without your name).
A Creative Team!
Trying this again. I really want your voices to inform what I preach about on Sundays! Will you meet with me, just once, and talk about the scriptures for the upcoming weeks? Tuesday, November 3, 10 a.m., in the Martin Luther King library coffee shop. This group meets once and only once. I’ll form a new creative team in a few weeks — with all different people. :) No commitment. Do it once, and then maybe never again. Sign up to inexpertly yak about the Bible here! (You can show up even if you don’t sign up!)
Meet with me!
I’ve been so glad to meet with a few of you, and I want to get to know more of you, all of you, or as many as possible, in these first few weeks of my time here. Sign up, and let’s hang out. (If none of the listed times work, just send me an email. We’ll work it out.)
Since Millie asked: this picture is of my mother-in-law, Kathy, and my daughter, Junia. Two years ago. :)
All Saints Day
All Saints Day is coming up on Sunday, November 1, and we want stories from you about people you love. Specifically, people who embodied one of the attributes blessed by Jesus in Matthew 5. Find more information, and sign up to share your beloved’s story, right here. Sign up! Sign up! Sign up!
Drive me?
Thank you so much for offering rides to the church from the Berryessa BART station. Kind souls who have car, will travel, please sign up to drive me!
And remind me to get a pic, else we’ll be using this same one forever! (Applies to everything in this newsletter… if I don’t get pics with y’all, it’ll look like this church is just me and my fam!)
Where’s Remi?
Your long-distance, part-time pastor has a bit of a scramble schedule. Here’s who is leading worship each Sunday and what’s happening after the service.
| Date | Leading worship | After-session |
|---|---|---|
| Sun, Oct 25 | Remi, in person | Social Hour |
| Sun, Nov 1 | Remi, in person — All Saints Day | Non-binary, Transgender learning session – Walter |
| Sat, Nov 7 | All-Church Sing, 2:30–4 p.m. | |
| Sun, Nov 8 | Remi, by video | Board Meeting |
| Sun, Nov 15 | Jodi Capitola-Duran (guest preacher) | Fun Questions, revisited – Martha |
| Sun, Nov 22 | Remi, remote | Extended Social Hour |
| Sun, Nov 29 | Remi, in person — First Sunday of Advent | Continuing the Conversation |
Remi is in the church office on October 21 and 22 and on November 3, 5, and 24, and works remotely on most other weekdays. Remi is away November 9–14 and November 26–28, and Mondays and Saturdays are Remi’s days off.
This is a lot of information! I’m very open to feedback on how it’s presented.
See you in the next newsletter!
Missed the last one? Read the previous newsletter.