The Carillon
The Carillon is the newsletter of FCCB. It is edited and designed by Margaret Copeland and Phil Porter and published every week except in the months of July and August when it is published every other week. There is no issue the last week in December.
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Click here for issues of the Carillon that were published before December 2008.
Recent Issues of the Carillon
September 5, 2010 It's a Brand New (Sun)Day!; Axis of Friendship Sunday; FCCB All-Church Retreat; Organ & Trumpet Recital; Join FCCB's Adult Ed Team; Brennan's at FCCB.
August 29, 2010 FCCB All-Church Retreat Is Coming Up!; Suitcase Clinic to Receive Fifth Sunday Collection; 100 Mile Potluck; Campus Ministry Report.
August 15, 2010 Rev. Mark Wilson to Preach; Brand New Sundays!; Contemplative Worship on August 22; 2030šs Do Karaoke; The Deckers Go Hawaiian.
August 1, 2010 Bay Area Rallies to Protest Immigration Laws; Rev. Mark Wilson to Preach; Grant/Mehserle Event at PSR; Sunday School Changes.
July 18, 2010 "A Spirited Life in the Secular World"; Town Hall Meeting about Sunday Schedule Update; Follow FCCB on Twitter!; Downtown Oakland After the Verdict.
July 4, 2010 "A Spirited Life in the Secular World"; Rev. Jim Forbes to Preach; Addressing the Gulf Oil Spill; Excerpt from Winthrop Workcamp Blog.
June 27, 2010 Rev. Jim Forbes to Preach; July 1st Fast for Justice; Carillon Summer Schedule; "A Spirited Life in the Secular World"; Friday Group Summer and Fall Plans.
June 6, 2010 "Open House Sunday" Celebration; Council Endorses Second Service Plan; Children's Art Gallery Opens; Beatitudes Intern to Begin; Farmer's Market Seeds and Service.
May 30, 2010 "Open House Sunday" Celebration; 5th Sunday: Diapers for Babies; June Is Anti-Torture Month; Ministry Training Sessions; A Sunday Full of Celebrations and Red!
May 23, 2010 Wear Red for Pentecost; "Open House Sunday" Celebration; 5th Sunday Offering: Diapers for Babies Needed; Are You Keeping e-Posted?; Alden Club Lunch Reminder.
May 16, 2010 Geoffrey Gaskins to Preach this Sunday; Rennebohm to Begin Internship; Save the Date! FCCB Community Picnic; The Boomerangs Come Back; FCCB Book Group.
May 9, 2010 Mother's Day at FCCB; Call to Connection Lunch; Diapers for Babies Needed; 2030s Chat with Pat.
May 2, 2010 All-Church Potluck on Sunday, May 2; Truth Commission on Conscience in War; Save the Date! FCCB Community Picnic; FCCB Book Group.
April 25, 2010 Inspiring New UCC Ad!; Please Help FCCB Kids Help Haiti; Join the 2030s for Berkeley's Crop Walk; Friday Group Retreat.
April 18, 2010 FCCB Town Hall Meeting to Discuss 2nd Service; Community Potluck on Sunday, May 2; Celebrating Earth Day; Photo Directories Are Here!.
April 11, 2010 FCCB Celebrates 15 Years as Open and Affirming; Second Hour: Margaret Trost to Speak on Haiti; Truth Commission Report; April Alden Club Luncheon.
April 4, 2010 Holy Week Events; Holy Easter Saturday Vigil; More about the New UCC Commercial; Rebuilding Together; FCCB Book Group.
March 28, 2010 Holy Week Events; Berkeley Crop Walk in April; New UCC Commercial Set to 'Spiral' on April 16; Endowment Wishes; Soweto Gospel Choir to Perform.
March 21, 2010 It's Open House Sunday!; Maundy Thursday Supper; Holy Saturday Easter Vigil; "Still Speaking" Magazine to debut.
March 14, 2010 Power of Nonviolence; One Great Hour of Sharing; FCCB’s Messaging Task Force; Holy Week Events; “Praying with Images”; Brewsters, Alden Club and Boomerangs.
March 7, 2010 It’s Community Sunday!; FCCB Leadership Retreat; Sam Keen on March 11; “Embodying the Journey”; “O Happy Day!” University Gospel Chorus Concert.
February 28, 2010 This Sunday’s Second Hour: “Finding the Words”; FCCB's Job Connect; Two Deckers Events: Asian Art Museum and Alcatraz; ”Embodying the Journey“.
February 21, 2010 Second Hour: Wills, Trusts and Planned Giving; Celebrating Troop Five’s 90th Birthday; Ambassador Warren Clark to Speak on Mideast Peace; Boomerangs Lunch.
February 14, 2010 Shrove Tuesday & Ash Wednesday Services; "Embodying the Journey" Worship Series; French Organist to Give Concert at FCCB; "Stoles for All Seasons" Art Show.
February 7, 2010 FCCB Annual Meeting February 7; From Our New Moderator, Becky Smith; Shrove Tuesday/Ash Wednesday to Begin Lent; Ecclesiastical Council; FCCB Book Group.
January 31, 2010 Fifth Sunday News; Second Hour: Loper Chapel Renovation; Harp Concert to Benefit Loper Chapel; New "Journey Home" Class; 2030s Ski Trip Fun.
January 24, 2010 UCC Responds to Haiti; FCCB 2010 Budget Vote this Sunday; Anna Carol Dudley Farewell Recital; FCCB Career Club; Lenten Devotional Going Green.
January 17, 2010 Second Hour on Martin Luther King, Jr.; 2010 Season of Lent; FCCB Annual Meeting February 7; Brennan's Comes to FCCB's Alden Club.
January 10, 2010 FCCB Career Club; Meet Women's Retreat Leader Mani Feniger; Anna Carol Dudley Farewell Recital; Boomerangs; 109th Earl Lectures.
January 3, 2010 FCCB Budget Update; "The Heart of Pilgrimage": FCCB's Annual Women's Retreat; Ring in the New Year with the Labyrinth Walk; More photos-"Garage Door Nativity".
December 20, 2009 From the Moderator: Rave Reviews for the GDN Preview!; Campus Ministry Funds UC Spirituality Research; Photos from the "Garage Door Nativity".
December 13, 2009 Spread the Word About the Garage Door Nativity; Keep on Shining!; Economy Blues?; Winter Farming; Fellowship Group Events.
December 6, 2009 Open House/Community Sunday Activities; Walking the Labyrinth; You Asked for It: "FCCB" Lyrics!; Christmas Poinsettias; Fellowship Group Events.
November 29, 2009 Second Hour: Dr. Beverly Haddad; Invite Your Friends to Church; Hanging of the Greens; Fellowship Group Events.
November 22, 2009 More Shining Lights From FCCB's Past Generations; YEAH Thanksgiving; "Gifts for the World" catalog; Fellowship Group Events.
November 15, 2009 More Shining Lights From FCCB's Past Generations; Second Hour: What Is Worship? Part 2; "Garage Door Nativity" Production Ramps Up; Fellowship Group Events.
November 8, 2009 More Shining Lights From FCCB's Past Generations; Second Hour: What Is Worship?; FCCB's 135th Birthday Celebration; Fellowship Group Events.
November 1, 2009 Shining Lights from FCCB's Past Generations; "Call to Connection" Events; The Gloria Challenge; Advent Retreat at Keen Farm, 2009; Fellowship Group Events.
October 25, 2009 Reflections on Angola; FCCB's 135th Celebration; SisterSpace Retreat; Fellowship Group Events; Bookmarks.
October 18, 2009 Neighbors in Need; Second Hour: Spirit Talk Groups; FCCB Retreats; Community Sunday, Nov. 1; Golfing for God.
October 11, 2009 UCC Response to Asia-Pacific Disasters; Caz Photos; Walk the Labyrinth; Quick Guide to FCCB Fellowship Groups.
October 4, 2009 Rousing Kickoff to "A Call to Connection"; Spirit Talk Groups; Our Children's Milestones; Friday Group Retreat.
September 27, 2009 "A Call to Connection"; Our Children's Milestones; FCCB Endowment; "European Grand Tour."
September 20, 2009 Welcome Sunday and Ice Cream Social; 100K for Healthcare; Berkeley Arts & Letters @ FCCB.
September 13, 2009 Axis of Friendship Sunday; "A Call to Connection"; Rev. Geoffrey Black Visits Bay Area.
September 6, 2009 Axis of Friendship Sunday; Dr. James A. Donahue to Preach; Our Children's "Milestones".
August 30, 2009 Welcome Students Sunday; Campus Ministry/2030s BBQ & Lawn Games Event; Cellar Thrift Shop 2nd Quarter Report.
August 23, 2009 Human Capital Campaign; James Donahue to Preach Sept. 6; Mid-Year Budget Report; FCCB Music Opportunities.
August 9, 2009 Rev. Roland Stringfellow to Preach August 23; Mid-Summer Party Revels; FCCB Summer Film Series; UCC Pulpit Exchange.
July 26, 2009 Conference Minister, Rev. Mary Susan Gast, to Preach at FCCB; Larry Marrietta's European Summer Musical Travels; Mid-Summer All-Church Party.
July 12, 2009 Rev. Geoffrey Black, New UCC President; Synod Passes Iran Resolution; Family Choir; Mid-Summer All-Church Party.
June 28, 2009 Modern Weapons for David; Thank You, Chancel Choir!; Summer Bible Study at FCCB; Family Choir Sundays.
June 21, 2009 Winthrop Work Camp on the Farm; General Synod and FCCB; All Church Workday; Message of Peace to Iran.
June 14, 2009 Loper Chapel Renovation; Welcome, Phoebe Coloma; Movie: “Traces of the Trade”; Sign up for eScrip.
June 7, 2009 FCCB Anti-Torture Banner Flies Again; Songs of the Soul Performs “Jesus Christ Superstar”; Nonprofits to Benefit from “Gifts to the World” Catalog.
May 31, 2009 Response to CA Supreme Court Decision on Prop 8; Welcome to Beatitudes Society Intern Phoebe Coloma; Spike & Mo Get Excited About “The Garage Door Nativity”.
May 24, 2009 FCCB’s Vibrant Longtime Members (photo and list); Second Hour: “Torture and Popular Culture”; “Remembering People’s Park” Photo Exhibit.
May 17, 2009 Summer Staff Plans; 5th Sunday Offering in May; “Garage Door Nativity” Performers Needed.
May 10, 2009 Second Hour Torture and Popular Culture; Celebrating Longtime (50 Years+) Members; All-Church Picnic.
May 3, 2009 All-Church Potluck; UCC Exec Rev. Steve Sterner to Visit; Border Immersion Report.
April 26, 2009 All-Church Potluck; After Easter the Work Begins; Garage Door Nativity.
April 19, 2009 It Takes a Community to Celelbrate Easter; Neichelle Guidry to Return for Beatitudes Fundraising; 3rd Annual “Big House Meets the Opera House”.
April 12, 2009 Easter Sunday Celebrations; Palm Sunday Photos; Adult Education Presents “Grandfather Series” in May.
April 5, 2009 Jazz it Up This Easter; Palm Sunday Celebration; Rebuilding Together.
March 29, 2009 San Francisco Girls Chorus to Perform; Fifth Sunday Donations; New Members Class to Begin.
March 22, 2009 Beatitudes Society Fundraiser; Holy Week Events; Border Immersion Team: Commissioned and Ready to Go.
March 15, 2009 Labyrinth Walk Before Church on Sunday; Economy Got You Down? Sunday Prayer Breakfast; Fundraiser; Authors & Ideas Events.
March 8, 2009 15th-Year Anniversary for Patricia de Jong; Labyrinth Sunday, March 15; One Great Hour of Sharing, Live on the Web.
March 1, 2009 Border Trip Fundraising Results; YEAH! Needs Volunteers; Job Opening at FCCB.
February 22, 2009 “Create in Me…: Lent to Begin Next Week; Come See “Redemption”; Prop 8 Meeting with UCC National Staff.
February 15, 2009 Ted Peters to Preach; Israel/Palestine Pilgrimage; Circle of Conversation.
February 8, 2009 Annual Meeting: One God, One World, One Spirit; Minister Emeritus Browne Barr Dies; Pilgrimage to Israel & Palestine.
February 1, 2009 Identity town Hall Meeting, Part 2; Women’s Voices retreat; 134th Annual Meeting on February 8.
January 25, 2009 Women’s Voices Retreat; Immigration Immersion Trip to Tijuana in March; Earl Lectures.
January 18, 2009 Identity Town Meeting; FCCB Annual Meeting February 8; UCC Identity Seminars.
January 11, 2009 BOCA Sponsored Inauguration Event; Women’s Voices Retreat; FCCB to Mark 7th Year of Guantanamo Bay Prison.
January 4, 2009 Church Budget Town Hall Meeting Jan. 11; FCCB Joins Countdown Against Torture; Ray Welles to Preach Jan 4.
December 21, 2008 “Axis of Friendship” Congregational Vote; COme Celebrate on Christmas Eve; Outreach Grant Recipients.
December 14, 2008 Advent Season Schedule; Festival of Carols & Choirs; “Axis of Friendship” Resolution Vote.
December 7, 2008 Advent Season Schedule; Festival of Carols & Choirs; “Axis of Friendship” Resolution Vote.
Check out issues of the Carillon that were published before December 2008.