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Summer Worship Leaders Needed   

 Would you like to take part in our Sunday Worship services? There are openings for Worship Leaders this summer to lead the opening and closing prayers and read the scriptures.

Please see Laurel Williams for details and to sign up for a Sunday that works with your summer schedule!


Summer Volunteering

With summer approaching, we look forward to beautiful walks around the lake greeting our neighbors with food and a smile not to mention prepping lunches with a jolly team and sunbeams coming through the expansive Stark Room windows. Did we say how blessed we feel after our monthly Saturday food giveaway knowing that even that brief bit of time and effort means free food is made accessible to our community?  We are meeting a new people each month. Get out your calendars and pick some dates to come out to be blessing and even more so to be blessed!

Contact Rose Lynn, Tom, Kathleen, Liz and Horacio for any questions.  All are welcome!


Right of Return Pilgrimage

Sunday, June 8, 7am – 7pm

Join the PIP-FOWF small group in participating in the second interfaith pilgrimage in conjunction with the global movement of ceasefire pilgrimages. Organized by Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity and partners, this 22 mile journey – from Alameda to Berkeley – the reverse of last year’s pilgrimage route, will be held in prayer and solidarity symbolizing the distance from Rafah to Gaza City.  Please contact Elliot Bernadel-Huey (elliotghbh@gmail.com) or Rose Lynn Abesamis-Bell (roselynn20@gmail.com) for more information and register here.


All-Church Conference 

Wednesday, June 11, 5:30 pm

A Special Charge Conference will be held on June 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM for approval of the Affordable Housing Development Project at Lake Park Church Campus of Lake Merritt UMC and approval of hiring the Owner’s Representative. All church members are invited to attend in person. Bay District Superintendent Rev. Sun Hee Kim will preside over the conference.


Reserve Your Spot for Free YMCO Concert

Saturday, June 14, 7:30pm

Join the Young Musicians Choral Orchestra on June 14th for a free concert titled “On the Wings of Song”. The concert will be held at Littlefield Concert Hall on the Mills College/Northeastern University campus at 5000 MacArthur Blvd. in Oakland.  The concert is free, but please reserve your seat by contacting YMCO at 510-845-1403 or online at www.youngmusiciansco.org


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