Sunday, December 10, 2023

First Congregational Church

10 am

Celebrating 130 Years

1893 – 2023

Second Sunday of Advent

Visiting clergy Rev. Bill Eichhorn

A Little Bit About our Guest Pastor

The Rev. Bill Eichhorn was a long time pastor at Mill Valley Community Church and bridge pastor with his wife at Tiburon

Community Church. 



RITTER CENTER COLLECTIONS

Extended to SUNDAY DECEMBER 10



HOLIDAY GIFT CARD COLLECTION AND WARM COAT AND SWEATER COLLECTION

The Board of Mission is sponsoring two ways you can help those in need this holiday season.

The Ritter Center’s Family to Family Holiday Gift Card Program provides gift cards to Ritter Center registered families and individuals so they can fulfill their kids’ holiday wishes and buy what they need this winter. We recommend gift cards to Target and Safeway, in amounts of either $25 or $50. We will be collecting the gift cards on Sunday, December 10.

Ritter Center is also collecting warm coats and sweaters. If you have coats and sweaters in your closet that you can donate, please also bring them to church on Sunday, December 10.

Memorial Poinsettias

Fill the sanctuary during Christmas with color in honor/memory/ in celebration of a loved one(s). You may purchase a poinsettia by filling out the order form and a check for $10.00 (made out to FCCSR). Order forms will be available in the December Sunday bulletins and write “for poinsettia” in the memo area of your check.

Sunday, December 24 10 am

The Rev. Barry Cammer

7 pm Christmas Eve

A service of Carols and Scripture

11 pm Christmas Eve

A service by "firelight" with congregants reading the "Christmas Storu"

Book Club meets Thursday, December 21

The next book club meeting with be on Thursday, December 21, at 7:30 PM, on Zoom. Copies of the book are available for you to borrow at worship on Sundays.

We will be reading The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, by Sandy Tolan. Tolan's book is a tale of friendship between two people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East. The story focuses on the homes and histories of the two families at its center through the present day. Their stories form a personal microcosm of the last 70 years of Israeli-Palestinian history. "Makes an incredibly complicated topic comprehensible."

"Makes an incredibly complicated topic comprehensible.

Dear Church Family,

There will be a memorial service for Dave.

see Obit link @

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/marinij/name/david-hill-obituary?id=53673147

Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 1:30 PM 

First Congregational Church of San Rafael

8 North San Pedro Road

San Rafael, CA 94903

415.479-2747

There will be time to gather in the community room afterwards.  

It will be live streamed on YouTube courtesy of David Knopf.

Please RSVP if you plan to attend (Cathi Fuller fuller.cathi@gmail.com ) 

Love,

Annie

Board of Mission will meet via Zoom on Wednesday, December 13 at 1 pm.

Zoom link is here

 Our Youtube link for Sunday sermons is here

Remember your offerings- Ways to give:

* Send your check to FCC San Rafael:  

 8 North San Pedro Road, San Rafael, CA 94903

* Set up automatic donations through your banking institution

* Click on the PayPal link located below.

First Congregational Church of San Rafael

8 North San Pedro Road

San Rafael, CA 94903

www.fccsanrafael.org

415.479.2747