Dear friends,
Join us this Sunday as we welcome Garrett House to our pulpit. Garrett is a long time member and leader at CCP. He’s about to enter his final year as a seminarian at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. He’s also in the ordination process for the United Church of Christ, and we are his sponsoring congregation. We don’t see him regularly on Sundays because he works as the Director of Religious Exploration at the nearby congregation of the Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo. In the two years since I first met him I’ve noticed the transformation that has taken place in him as he engages his vocational journey. I was so proud last fall to hear him preach at the Seminary Chapel. Whether you’ve known him for many years, or more recently, you are invited to hear him this Sunday morning as he talks about Luke 11:1-13 and the Lord’s Prayer. Hope to see you!

Faithfully,
Pastor Jim

P.S.: Please join us for our Mission & Vision retreat this Saturday! And be sure to RSVP for the church picnic on Aug. 3 here: Church Picnic RSVP

Dear Friends,

I will be gone the next two weeks on study leave. Pastor Warren and Pastor Thomas are preaching the next few weeks, and we have great music lined up. Since college and beyond I have studied Hymnology and Hymnody (these are real words). It is my hobby- I have over 1000 hymnals in my personal collection. I’ll be learning and studying and doing presentations at two conferences. I will be at the Metropolitan Community Church General Conference in Scottsdale July 2-7 and at the Annual Conference of the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada in Detroit July 10-17. I’ll also get a chance to see both my adoptive and biological families in Michigan (where I’m from). I look forward to seeing you in a few weeks.

Yours in faith,

Jim