The Carillon
The Carillon is the newsletter of FCCB. It is edited and designed by Karyn Smith and Phil Porter and published almost every week.
You can download pdf files of recent issues of The Carillon here. If you would like to receive the Carillon by email regularly, whether you are a member or not, send us an email. If you don’t have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer (which you will need to open these files) click here to download a free copy.
Recent Issues of the Carillon
May 11, 2008 Cordelia’s Last Sunday; Margaret Trost Speaks to Alden Club About Haiti; All Church Workday.
May 4, 2008 Confirmation Sunday; Gospel Choir to Sing; Spirituality and Dying.
April 27, 2008 Episcopalians’ Struggle with Welcoming Gay Members; “Sacred Conversation About Race”; All Church Potluck.
April 20, 2008 Town Meeting Sunday; Fr. Louis Vitale on &ldqou;Love Your Enemies”; Immigration Teach-In; Campus Ministry Report April ’08
April 13, 2008 CROP Hunger Walk 4/20; Benefit Art Auction; Palestine and Israel; Bring Your Bible to Church.
April 6, 2008 Race, Religion and the UCC; Explore Membership; Bring Your Bible to Church.
March 30, 2008 Bill McKinney to Preach; Codys@FCCB Presents Chris Hedges; “Second Hour” on Race, Religion, and the UCC. Campus Ministry Report Mar ’08.
March 23, 2008 Celebrate Life at Easter; Organ Pops Concert; Easter Sunday Offering.
March 16, 2008 Exciting Palm Sunday; Easter Sunrise Service; Easter Offering Near and Far. Special Insert: Campus Ministry Report
March 9, 2008 Jazz/Gospel Worship with Cal Gospel Choir; Holy Week Begins with Palm Sunday; Obama UCC Speech Investigated by IRS.
March 2, 2008 “A Prayer for Peace” Shoe Collection; Deepak Chopra on March 3; Climate Action Events.
February 24, 2008 Sunday at “Second Hour”: Centering Prayer; Peace Prayers in March; Flora Wuellner Retreat March 8.
February 17, 2008 San Francisco Girls Chorus on March 2; Leadership Retreat; Asphalt Gospel Film to be Screened; New Members who joined on February 3, 2008.
February 10, 2008 Lent Series: “A Taste of Prayer and Meditation”; Author and Activist Parker Palmer Feb. 17; Leadership Retreat. Download the 2008 Lent Devotional.
February 3, 2008 Sunday is Full of Spirit; Presidential First Hour; “Lead Us Into Life”: Lent Begins 2/6.
January 27, 2008 Campus Ministry News; Second Hour on India; Annual Meeting Feb. 10.
January 20, 2008 PSR’s Earl Lectures; Congregational Meeting on Budget; Jim Wallis to Speak.
January 13, 2008 Jazz & Gospel Service This Sunday; Women’s Voices Retreat in February; Catch Snow Ball 2008.
January 6, 2008 UCC President to Preach; Explore Membership; Poet & Singer to Team Up.
December 23, 2007 Christmas Cheer at FCCB; Let’s Drive Together; Kitchen Community Ministry Team to Serve Women’s Shelter.
December 16, 2007 Christmas Eve Services; “Traveling to India”; Membership at First Church.
December 9, 2007 Sanctuary Dedication This Sunday; “Blue Christmas” Gathering on December 20; Christmas Offerings to Benefit The Suitcase Clinic (Berkeley) and Fonkoze (Haiti).
December 2, 2007 David Harrison to Speak; Caroling at Nursing Homes; Advent Taizé Worship.
November 25, 2007 Preparing for Advent; Stewardship News; David Harrison Returns.
November 18, 2007 Pledge Sunday and Singers Forum Concert; Ministry of Involvement Could Use Your Time and Talents; Cooking for Homeless Youth.
November 11, 2007 Jazz/Gospel Worship This Sunday; The Knowdells Share Their Gratitude; Providing Thanksgiving Meals for the Berkeley Food and Housing Project and Feeding Homeless Youth.
November 4, 2007 National LGBT Exec to Preach; The Wadmans Share Their Gratitude; Youth Hostel Director to do “Second Hour”.
October 28, 2007 Adelina and Santi Canez Share Their Gratitude; Climate Change Anxiety?; Getting Involved at FCCB, New Members Who Joined on Sept. 30.
October 21, 2007 “A Radically Generous People”; Climate Action “Second Hour”; How to Parent Teenagers.
October 14, 2007 Special “Second Sunday” Worship; UCC Leaders to Present Anti-War Petitions in D.C.; Ministry Team Training.
October 7, 2007 Stories From Malawi; John Bell to Share Wisdom; Discussion on Iraq War.
September 30, 2007 Discussing Immigration; New Worship on Second Sundays; Jonathan Kozol to Speak.
September 23, 2007 Sam Keen to Read from New Book; “Saving Jesus” Study Series to Begin in October; Garrison Keillor to Appear at FCCB.
September 16, 2007 Paul Tomasiello to Share South Africa Stories; Schaal, Keen Next FCCB Authors to Speak; Garrison Keillor to Appear at FCCB. Second Hour Survey: Let us know your opinions on Adult Education after-church programming—click on the link to download the file, fill it in and send it to church.
September 9, 2007 Second Hour on South Africa, Clinton Official Critiques “Supercapitalism”, Camp Cazadero Sign-Ups.
September 2, 2007 Fellowship Fair & Ice Cream Social; FCCB Authors to be Featured; Johannesburg News. Read stories about the summer experiences of some of the students in our community in the Welcome Students Insert.
August 19, 2007 All Church Hymn Sing; Membership Classes to Begin; Sing with the Chancel Choir.
August 5, 2007 All Church Hymn Sing; Beyond Prisons Book Discussion; All Church Work Day.
July 22, 2007 5th Sunday Donation to Benefit Alameda Food Bank; “Amazing Grace ” to be Screened; “Second Hour” on Church World Service.
July 8, 2007 “Boogey to Church”; “Who Killed the Electric Car?”; “The Art of Prayer”.
June 24, 2007 Mark Wilson Preaches; Multi-Media Worship 7/8; Synod Celebrates 50th Anniversary of UCC.
June 17, 2007 Second Hour: Across the Generations; Guest Musical Director; Auction: A Fun Success; New Members Insert.
June 10, 2007 Cellar Thrift Shop Turns 20!; FCCB Member to Speak on New Book About War Profiteering; Intergenerational Reflection on FCCB during Second Hour.
June 3, 2007 Youth Musical; Kite Runner Author to Speak; Showing of Abu Ghraib documentary.
May 27, 2007 Pentecost with Jazz; Paul Hawken to Speak; Families at FCCB to Meet.
May 20, 2007 Annual Meeting at Asilomar; Codys@FCCB: Esalen Writer Jeffrey Kripaul and entrepeneur/activist Paul Hawken; Workshop on Letting Go.
May 13, 2007 Bay Area Singers’ Forum Concert; Faith in Family Life Event; Kingsolver and Hawken to Speak at FCCB.
May 6, 2007 Wear a Hat to Worship This Sunday!; UCC Justice Exec to Preach May 13; Tuesday Night Bible Study.
April 29, 2007 Youth to Lead Worship; Auction This Friday; All Church Potluck.
April 22, 2007 Reservations for Campus Ministry Auction; Special Organ Recital; Grieving Through Loss.
April 15, 2007 French Anti-Torture Activist to Speak; Renewal and Solidarity in New Orleans; CROP Walk on April 22.
April 8, 2007 Bellah & Scheper-Hughes Receive First William Sloane Coffin Award; Campus Ministry Auction Goal Set; 2030s Free Easter Brunch.
April 1, 2007 Climate Action Potluck; Deane-Drummond to Speak; Feed Homeless Youth.
March 25, 2007 Holy Week Journey; Katrina Blog; Morality & Evolution.
March 18, 2007 SF Girls Chorus to Sing; Holy Week Services Announced; Climate Action “Steps it Up”; New Members Who Joined Feb. 11.
March 11, 2007 Waging Peace at FCCB; Lenten "Hero" David Harrison Here March 18; Second Gathering of Open and Affirming - 3/11.
March 4, 2007 Zimbabwe Art Exhibit and Sale; Adam Blons Writes about Racism; Fead Homeless Youth..
February 25, 2007 Tenderloin Minister Glenda Hope to Speak; David Harrison, South Africa AIDS activist to preach on Sunday, March 18; Codys@FCCB: Seixas (Mar. 4) and Dyson (Mar. 6).
February 18, 2007 Lent Theme: “Filled With Compassion”; Katrina Work Camp Benefit next Sunday; Ishmael Beah on February 23; Annual Report for 2006; 2007 Lent Devotional: “Filled with Compassion”.
February 11, 2007 Outreach Fair Next Sunday; Codys@FCCB: Ishmael Beah & Michael Eric Dyson; Mardi Gras Alleluia Party on 2/20.
February 4, 2007 Solar Panel Plan to be Reviewed; Lenten Series: “Saving Jesus” Begins Feb. 27; New Ministry Team on Diversity at FCCB
January 28, 2007 2nd Hour2: - Organizing with Intention, and Pakistan & Afghanistan Relief; Annual Meeting Feb. 11; Bernice Powell Jackson Preaches Jan. 28
January 21, 2007 2nd Hour: - Writing the Sacred; Pilgrimage Healing; Bernice Powell Jackson Preaches Jan. 28; Women's Retreat Feb. 2 - 3
January 14, 2007 2nd Hours: - Diversity, and Writing the Sacred; Budget Meeting Jan. 28; Middle School and Songs of The Soul Choirs Beginning
December 24, 2006 Stewardship Goal Exceeded!; Christmas Eve Services Dec. 24; Taize Service Jan. 3
December 10, 2006 Festival of Choirs Dec. 17; Human Rights Sunday; Sing Christmas Carols to Seniors; Carbon Anonymous Meeting Dec. 13
December 3, 2006 Bring your Pledges; Christmas Toy Drive; Join the Gospel Choir for Advent; Ministry to the Homeless needs food
November 26, 2006 Dedicating Peace Pole; East Bay Sanctuary Holiday Craft Fair Dec. 2-3; Taize Service Returns Dec. 6
November 19, 2006 Stewardship Sunday; Advent to Focus on Peace-Making; “Travelers on the Way” for Second Hour
November 12, 2006 Hot Topics: “Elections and Faith” on Nov. 15; Inaugural Organ Recital This Sunday; Advent Retreat Dec. 2
November 5, 2006 Marcus Borg & Huston Smith to Speak on Nov. 11 &: 12; Religion, Science & Ecological Crisis in America; Take the FCCB Carbon Challenge
October 29, 2006 Can Money Have a Soul?; Responding to Climate Change; Annie Liebovitz at FCCB on Thursday, Oct. 26
October 22, 2006 “Gratefulness” Theme for Stewardship Season; Focus on the Death Penalty; United Church of Christ 50th Anniversary; Codys@FCCB: Barbara Brown Taylor on Nov. 3; Codys@FCCB: Marcus Borg & Huston Smith on Nov. 10 & 11
October 15, 2006 “Progressive Church” Town Meeting on Sunday, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai to speak; Stewardship Season to Begin; Next Page: Circles of Peace—2006 All Church Retreat at Cazadero
October 8, 2006 Hot Topics: “Our Place in the World”; New Members Class; Town Meeting Oct. 15; BookMarks p.1, BookMarks p.2
October 1, 2006 New Codys@FCCB Events; World Beat/World Communion Sunday; India Fair
September 24, 2006 Russell to Preach Sunday; Town Meeting on Oct. 15; Borg & Smith Nov. 10-11
September 17, 2006 What a Sunday! What a Monday!; Codys@FCCB: Philip Jenkins; International Day of Prayer for Peace
September 10, 2006 Evolution/Creationism Series to Begin; Global Day for Darfur; Explore FCCB Membership
September 3, 2006 Excitement Builds for Welcome Sunday; “Hot Topics&rdquo to Debut on Sept. 13; 3-Way Covenant with Judy Huston to be Celebrated
August 27, 2006 College Students Welcome on 9/27; Jim Wallis & Mozart on 9/11; Fellowship Fair and “Headline” Sunday on Sept. 10
August 13, 2006 Radical Hospitality; Fellowship Fair; “Seven for Leaven” Small Groups to Form; “Campus Buzz” Insert
July 30, 2006 “This Sunday: “Energy and the Environment”; Jim Wallis to Speak on September 11; Berkeley Food and Housing to Benefit from 5th Sunday Offering
July 16, 2006 “This Sunday: “Women and the Bible”; Plea for Response to East Coast Floods; UCC Finance Expert to Preach on July 23
July 2, 2006 “Second Hour” on Darfur & Sudan; Robin Meyers, UCC Activist and Minister to Speak; “Out of Darkness” Walk to Educate and Inform about Student Suicide
June 25, 2006 “Second Hour” on Abraham Lincoln; Sound Out Against Torture after church on Sunday; Wesley Wright Show to Open
June 18, 2006 de Jong to Share South Africa Stories; Discussion of An Inconvenient Truth; Winthrop Work Camp to Oregon
June 11, 2006 "Song of the Soul" Share Exerpts from Joseph; Hear About Spirituality of South India; See And Discuss "An Inconvenient Truth"
June 4, 2006 Wear Your Flame Colors for Pentecost!; Hear Bay Area Professional Singers' Recital; Hear James Carroll Discuss His Book "House of War"; New Members Who Joined May 21
May 28, 2006 Bay Area Professional Singers Forum; Celebrate Pentecost with Gospel Choir; Caring for Loved Ones with Prolonged/Terminal Illness
May 21, 2006 All-church Picnic May 21 at Noon; See and Discuss the Da Vince Code; 2nd Hour and Japan Slides with the Zikmunds
May 14, 2006 2nd Hour with Barbara Brown Zikmund; Distribution of Outreach Funds; "Living the Questions" with Rita Brock
May 7, 2006 Honoring Teachers and Youth Leaders; FCCB Responds to Darfur; Senior Minister to Travel to South Africa
April 30, 2006 Reports On Katrina Trip & Mentoring Program This Sunday; Deris Rice to be Ordained; Fifth Sunday Collection for Alameda Food Bank; Notes from the Roundtable: Charles & Frances Townes
April 23, 2006 Global Warming Talk on Sunday; UCC Students Share Vocation Stories; Day of Conscience for Darfur
April 16, 2006 Brock to Lead “Living the Questions”; Book Collection for New Orleans; Zikmund to be Next McCall Lecturer
April 9, 2006 “Living the Questions” to begin; Youth Dance Nets $1500 for Katrina Relief; “Next Page” article about The Children’s Art Gallery
April 2, 2006 Networks Censor New UCC Ad; Katrina Work Team Updates; Holy Week Approaches; Bookmarks p.1; Bookmarks p.2
March 26, 2006 Buford to Speak at FCCB; Katrina Work Team Blog Created; Five Services During Holy Week
March 19, 2006 UCC To Launch New National Ad at FCCB; SF Girls Chorus to Sing Mar 19; Tsunami Film to be Shown
March 12, 2006 Worship to Return to Sanctuary; Shelly Dieterle to be Ordained; Storytelling Series to Continue Throughout Lent
March 5, 2006 Ken Iha Chosen as New Church Business Administrator; New Adult Education Program: “The Myths, Stories and Scripts that Shape Our Lives”; The Healing Team shares the Pilgrimage Process
February 26, 2006 The Organ Arrives Bit by Bit (including a photo); Opportunity to Meet Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement Representative; Lenten Program Guide; Lent Devotional
February 19, 2006 Lent Begins with Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday; Gospel Sunday February 26; Katrina Project Fundraiser Feb. 26; New Members Who Joined on Feb. 12
February 12, 2006 John Hope Franklin to Appear; Annual Meeting on Feb. 12; Donate for Youth Raffle
February 5, 2006 “Race is the Place”: New Documentary to be Shown; Worship to Move to Large Assembly; Annual Meeting on Feb. 12
The Next Page
The Next Page includes longer articles illuminating the life of First Congregational Church of Berkeley. These occasional articles will be included in the email version of the Carillon and will appear here online.
10/16/06 Circles of Peace—2006 All Church Retreat at Cazadero Adam Blons, Minister of Community Life, describes an important aspect of FCCB’s intergenerational programming when over 130 people drive up to the beautiful Camp Cazadero for the weekend. Read first hand accounts from several FCCB members of all ages!
5/13/06 Embracing Our Neighbors: The Katrina Work Relief Team University of California at Berkeley students and FCCB members share their experiences of doing relief work in the New Orleans area.
4/9/06 Holly & The Children’s Art Gallery Holly Coates-Bash has taken artwork created by children and youth in our Sunday school classes and graced the walls of the church.
3/2/06 When Words Aren’t Enough: The Pilgrimage Process Nancy McKay and members of the FCCB Healing Team provide a powerful source of witness and support.