On Thanksgiving Day, Thursday November 22nd, at 10:00 am, we will join our sister church, St. James AME Zion, 825 Monte Diablo Street, for a worship service of praise and gratitude.
Music & Art, October 19
Friday, October 19, noon – 2pm • Buckham Room We are honored to have for our program Ellen Anne Chong. She is a Peninsula native with a broad range of experience in visual art and education. Ellen is currently Director of Education with the Peninsula Museum of Art in Burlingame and facilitates the museum’s Leonardo Studio children’s art program, where the … Read More
Wise & Wonderful
2nd & 4th Wednesdays, 10:30am – Noon • Cookies and coffee provided October 24: Film—The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, a PBS documentary about the relationship between an unemployed musician and a flock of feral parrots. November 14: Book discussion—On the Brink Of Everything: Grace and Gravity and Getting Old by Parker Palmer
First Tuesday Book Group
November 6 • 7:30pm • Fireplace Room Hold the presses: we are changing the title of our November book. If you liked Water for Elephants and The Nightingale, this book will capture your heart. The book committee has decided to read The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff for our November meeting. A best seller positively reviewed by NPR, Goodreads says: … Read More
Custodial Apartment Renovation Project
For the past few months, the Custodial Apartment Renovation Project Team (led by Jim Berthelsen, along with Jim Lindsay, Tony Gallo, and Marge Boyd) has been hard at work reviewing bids for the remodel of our custodian’s residential apartment, on the second floor of CCSM, over the Buckham Room and kitchen. The apartment has had little attention during the past … Read More
Welcome to our New Members!
These new members joined September 23, 2018: Back row: Ray and Noël Olson, Rolf and Robin Hansen, Ago Pedalizo Front row: Shannon, Bridgette, and Paige Sieckert, Troy, Kinsley, and Christine Grabow, Violeta Reyes, Chase Olson
CCSM Adopts Revised Bylaws in Unanimous Vote
From Your Moderator Hello CCSM! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dave Chandler and I am your new Moderator. As I contemplate past moderators and their tremendous achievements, both collectively and individually for over 150 years, I am deeply honored and humbled to take on this role and look forward to our time together. I would be remiss … Read More
Pick-A-Party: 20th Year!
PICK-A-PARTY list of parties is available October 7 Pick-A-Party Sunday is October 14, starting at 9:45 a.m. Since 1998, Pick-A-Party has been an essential part of the fabric of CCSM and a great opportunity to connect with others. Pick-A-Party is fun, extremely popular, and—by far—our largest fundraiser. Whether you host a party or sign up to attend a party, you … Read More
A Few of CCSM’s Saints
Since last All Saints Day, CCSM has lost quite a few pillars of our community. We miss them and remember them with love.
PSR’s The Catalyst featuring Jorge Bautista!
Our own Rev. Jorge Perry Bautista on the cover of Pacific School of Religion’s The Catalyst!
A Word from Penny
I am writing to you on the heels of a ground-shifting week which culminated in a dramatic climax on Saturday as we witnessed the Senate vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Whatever your political persuasion, clearly this series of events has only deepened our partisan divide. We have witnessed cruelty and mockery, slander and rage, at our … Read More
Sunday Celebrations
“This spiritual revolution rests upon a simple insight: God is the ground, the grounding, that which grounds us. We experience this when we understand that the soil is holy, water gives life, the sky opens the imagination, my roots matter, home is a divine place, and our lives are linked with our neighbors and with those around the globe. This … Read More
Advent Wreath Project
Believe it or not, the Liturgical Arts Team (LAT) is busy getting ready for Advent and plans to make lustrous wreaths to adorn the sanctuary. For this project, we would love donations of glass ball ornaments — all sizes and colors. Also most welcome would be poinsettia/holly/pine cone floral picks and other shiny extras that we could use to embellish … Read More
Organ Concert with Dominic Pang
Sunday, September 23, 4:00pm Our young and talented guest organist, Dominic Pang, age 14, will play a concert here in our Sanctuary on Sunday, September 23 at 4:00pm. Dominic lives in San Jose, California and studies piano with William Wellborn in San Francisco. He has studied organ and composition since 2015 with Angela Kraft Cross. Dominic performed the third movement … Read More
A Beautifully Expanding Vision
by Sandra Soto-Grondona A year and a half ago, starting a Spanish service at church was one of CCSM’s wild visions. With the help of Jorge, some of us decided to join this dream and became part of the Latino Ministry Team (LMT). Little by little, the Spanish services, known as the Wednesday Gatherings (WG), began to see a consistent … Read More