• This Sunday, Nov 3: honoring the dead

• Jason Hubbard returns Sat, Nov 2

• Rev. Terri Echelberger's Oct 27 sermon

• Support the Walk to End Alzheimer's

• A nun's 450-year-old paining rediscovered

• Review us on Yelp and Google

• Save the dates

• Quote of the week

• Events this week

This Sunday, we'll celebrate All Soul's Day and Dia de los Muertos. We'll honor the dead by bringing their pictures and beloved objects for our altar, as well as singing "For All the Saints," "Litany of the Saints," and other favorites.

Please remember that Daylight Saving Time ends on the morning of Nov 3. If you don't change your clock, you may arrive early to church!

This Sat, Nov 2, church development coach Rev. Jason Hubbard will return for a workshop. Now that he's helped us uncover why we gather and how we enact our core values, we'll discuss what we can do next.

Please join us from 9 am to 3 pm in the sanctuary. Food will be provided for breakfast, and we encourage you to bring a dish for our potluck lunch.

Join members of Many Journeys and College Heights as we wrap gifts at the Stanford Shopping Center. This is the largest fundraiser of the year for Home & Hope, which provides emergency housing for homeless families. We'll wrap gifts that shoppers have purchased, and in return they'll make a donation to Home & Hope. It's a fun and festive way to raise money for a great nonprofit.

Our dates are Dec 7, 16, and 21. Sign up for a volunteer shift here.

Last Sunday, Rev. Terri of Many Journeys MCC preached about the role of reformation in our communities, churches, and lives. Listen now on our sermon page.

Several of our members and friends are participating in local Walk to End Alzheimer's events. To support Pepe Doyle's participation, donate on her page.

Right: Rob and Diane Lamphier Ruddell with Gracie at the Petaluma Walk to End Alzheimer's on Oct 19. Their shirts feature longtime church member David Lamphier.

16th-century Italian nun Plautilla Nelli was the first woman known to have painted the Last Supper. "Her version, completed around 1568, was remarkable for several reasons. Most paintings of the Last Supper were frescoes, painted directly onto wet plaster and nearly impossible to move. But this one was portable, painted on a canvas that had moved several times over the centuries. More strikingly, this was the first-known depiction of the Last Supper by a woman. Both these facts help explain why the painting still exists — and why it was just unveiled in public for the first time in 450 years." Read more.

We need your help to expand our reach online! Please review us on Yelp and Google. It will help us be found by people who are searching for a new church.

To review us on Yelp, click here. To review us on Google, do a Google search for "college heights church san mateo california." If you're on a computer, our info will appear on the right side of the screen. Click "3 Google Reviews" and follow the directions.

Sun, Nov 17: Book group and dinner: "The Second Mountain" by David Brooks (6 pm)

See the full calendar of upcoming events at at collegeheights.us/calendar .

"Religion is a defense against the experience of God."

— Carl Jung

Wed, Oct 30

• Meditation (Sanctuary, 7 am)

• Yoga (Sanctuary, 9:15 am)

Sat, Nov 2:

• Jason Hubbard workshop (9 am–3 pm)

Sun, Nov 3

• Worship service: Day of the Dead (10 am)

• Worship & Arts meeting to plan worship (11:15 am)

Mon, Nov 4

• Women's fellowship (Pine Room, 7 pm)

• Yoga (Sanctuary, 5:30 pm)