What’s next.

Welcome!

I’m honored and grateful that you’re here. And where is here? Great question. This is both a new and continuing community. Some of you have been around for a while in what was the Sunday Night Service and some of you are brand new to the space. Regardless of how you got here, we are a community unfolding into what we hope will be the start to a new church here in the East Bay.

Over the course of this next year, we will host monthly hangouts, some of which will be just to hang out and some will involve discussion around topics of our choosing. We’ll also have one-off events centered around art and faith and theology and food, liturgy and worship, and building relationships. Our goal is to have an official name and denominational affiliation by late fall of this year, at which point we will likely be able to start with some regular weekly gatherings. This newsletter, and the events calendar on this same site (coming soon) will be the best way to know what’s happening.

To start, you can mark the last Wednesday night of every month on your calendar as our beer garden hang out nights. The next one is next week, May 29th. I’ve reserved some tables on the patio at Fieldwork in Berkeley* from 6-8p. The intent of these gatherings is to get to know each other and to hopefully find the ways our stories are interconnected—where our journeys in and out of faith overlap, the people we know in common and the experiences we hold in common—but also to create and learn new ways to be in journeys of faith in which we find ourselves. Anyone is invited to these gatherings, just come ready to meet new people and to share the stories of your faith journey. We’ll pick up the tab on some pizzas and salads, so there’s really no excuse not to stop by! 

See you soon,

Emily

*Fieldwork is a brewery that has a food menu including pizza and salads and plenty of fun non-alcoholic drinks as well. We’ll hang out on the patio so that those with kids, or those of us who get a little antsy sitting down for too long, can move around a bit. There are good space heaters, but I’d bring a coat. Feel free to drop in and say hello, or stay the whole time.

**art on the previous page by Brenna Hall.