Fairfax COMMUNITY Church, California

Celebrate Easter with Fairfax Community Church! Sunday at 10:30 am, email [email protected] for more information and the Zoom code!

Join FCC Wednesday evening at 7pm as we explore the mysteries of Mary Magdalene.

The Times We’re Living In by Robin Rose Bennett It is not so easy to see what it birthing Beneath the surface of the world, ... Getting ready to emerge Like a newborn crowning As old ways of domination and violation Fight to hold sway, A great birthing has begun, The birth of a new way of being in the world A way of re-connection and shared power, A way of cooperation and love We are flowering out of the mud Of our darkest time of separation Evolving from the time of me To the time of we This time is difficult, yes But it is also juicy and joyous. It is not easy to soar through mud But mud is rich and fertile And out of mud The lotus blooms. Join Fairfax Community Church for Sunday Services on Zoom! We meet weekly at 10:30 am. Email [email protected] for more information.

Reaching For The Light. Join FCC this Lenten Season as we reach for the light. Online service every Sunday at 10:30 am. Email: [email protected] for more information.

Courage, my friend, You do not walk alone. We will, walk with you, And sing your spirit home. ... FCC welcomes you to share Sunday Celebration with us! 10:30 am each Sunday. For more information please email [email protected]

Remembering all the soul-nurturing that occurs in our beautiful sanctuary. Missing this exquisite space, looking forward to returning when we can, and cherishing that we still soulfully connect on Sunday mornings via Zoom. (Leave message at 415-295-2233 to get log-in info if you'd like to join us. This Sunday, 10:30 am, Kacey Carmichael & Judith Tripp lead our monthly Contemplative Arts service with lots of singing and community.)

SENDING FORTH (John Phillip Newell) To the home of peace to the field of love to the land where forgiveness and right relationship meet we look, O God, with longing for earth’s children... with compassion for the creatures with hearts breaking for the nations and people we love. Open us to visions we have never known strengthen us for self-givings we have yet to make delight us with a oneness we could never have imagined that we may truly be born of You makers of peace co-creators of a just and loving world. See more

From our virtual service last Sunday THE WORK OF CHRISTMAS by Howard Thurman When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone,... When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flocks, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among people, To make music in the heart. See more

From our Virtual Service last Sunday: Blessing (U.N. Environmental Sabbath Program) We join with the earth and with each other To bring new life to the land... To restore the waters To refresh the air We join with the earth and with each other To celebrate the seas To rejoice in the sunlight To sing the song of the stars We join with the earth and with each other To recreate the human community To promote justice and peace. To remember our children. We join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery: For the healing of the earth and the renewal of all life.

CHRISTMAS PRAYER Loving God, in the birth of a tiny babe, you have given our weary and struggling world reason to hope. By the light of a star, you have helped us find our way again. We thank you, generous God, that in the birth of the Christ Child you have made your love known to us. As we go from this place, may we carry your light within us and share your peace and love with all whom we meet. We pray in the name of Emmanuel, God-with-us. Amen.

From our virtual service last Sunday, where we lit the second candle of advent, the candle for peace. An Advent Poem from More Light Presbyterians: Take a quiet moment during this busy season...... Light a candle, say a prayer, see beauty. We are on a spiritual journey. Remember the sacred underlying the mundane in this season of lights. Something Holy is about to be born in us. In the dark lay possibilities: the seed in the ground, the seed in the womb, the seed in our souls. The deepest desires of our heart and soul lead us toward God, toward ourselves, toward the world... A way is being prepared in the wilderness of our lives. Vision. Strength. Encouragement. Hope starts small and overtakes us, stretching the borders of what we have known. See more

From our virtual service, November 29, 2020. Advent Candle Lighting (sung to the tune of Away in a Manger)... Come swiftly, Great Spirit, as dawn follows night. Our hearts long to greet you, as roses the light. Goodwill draw near us, our vision engage. One candle is lit for the hope of the age.

From our November 22 online service. Happy Thanksgiving! FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH (Lyrics taken from the UCC Hymnal)... For the beauty of the earth, for the splendor of the skies, For the love which from our birth, over and around us lies, God of all, to you we raise, This our hymn of grateful praise For the wonder of each our, of the day and of the night, Hill and vale, and tree and flower, sun and moon and stars of light, God of all to you we raise, this our hymn of grateful praise For the joy of the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild, God of all to you we raise, this our hymn of grateful praise.

From our virtual service last Sunday: Celebrating Sanity by Peter Miller... Are the longings of our hearts so strange, so misguided, so out of touch with our times? We who companion the forgotten; who seek the healing of the nations; who cry for justice: who struggle for peace, who envision a different world. Are we mad to speak of hope as so many die in violence? Be still, my friend, and celebrate your sanity! Keep to that path where the Spirit befriends us, For millions walk with us and share our dreams.

Looking forward to this!