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Church Events
- Sunday Parking
- The Ministry Parking Lot on 24th St. at Vicksburg is available for Sunday parking! All churchgoers are welcome to park free of charge from 9 AM to 2 PM. Simply drive in, leave your car and be grateful!
- Leaving a Message at the Beep...
- NVM has undertaken a cell phone recycling drive, to raise money for the Building Fund. It is easy to participate! Just drop off your old cell phones (with interior batteries included, but not other accessories) at Marshal's office downstairs in the building foyer. There is a dedicated box inside his office to collect phones. If the office is closed, you can drop the phones into the mail slot in the door. The phones will be shipped to a recycling company, they will pay us for them, and we will donate that money to help fix up this wonderful old building! Plus it means less "stuff" in the landfill! Thanks for your help. Tell your friends!
- One Congregation, One Book
- Pastor Keenan would like everyone in the congregation to read one book! We have four copies of "Take This Bread" by Sarah Miles. They can be checked out and shared over the summer. It is a "good read" about coming to faith and feeding the hungry, all about Sarah Miles and San Francisco and the St. Gregory's Food Program. We can form discussion groups if anyone would like - and Keenan would welcome your responses.
- AIDS Walk Sunday, July 20
- You are invited to be part of a Presbyterian Team at the AIDS Walk San Francisco. The 6.2 mile walkathon begins at 8:30 AM in Golden Gate Park, so walkers would miss worship. But you could still catch up for the BBQ afterwards. There is no registration fee and no fundraising minimum. For those who cannot attend but would still like to help with the fundraising, you can go to their web site at www.missionbaycc.org, and look at the lower left corner (event calendar) for a link with more information and photos.
- Book Group Chooses Mists of Avalon
- The Mists of Avalon is the next selection of the Book Group. This 1983 novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley relates the Arthurian legends from the perspective of the female characters. It articulates women's experience at time of great change and shifts in gender-power. Bradley's is one of the most original and emotional retellings of the familiar Arthurian legend. There is neither black and white or good and evil, but themes of truth.
- All-San Francisco Concert for $10
- The annual All-San Francisco Concert of the SF Symphony will be Friday, Sept. 8. This is a commitment of the Symphony to bring the symphonic arts experience to all of SF's diverse communities. This year music will include Ligeti, Poulenc, and Prokofiev. Sign up by Keenan's office.
- Sundaes on Sunday
- Please stay after worship next Sunday (July 27th) for a finger food lunch and an old-fashioned Ice Cream Social. On hand will be the church architect John Goldman, to talk about his work in the city, his approach to church renovation, his thoughts about this church in particular. This is a great chance for active engagement, Q&A, sharing information and vision, and plain old fun and fellowship. During the following ten days we hope to collect the Capital Campaign pledge sheets. Please be ready for and open to your call!
- Beach Clean-Up Scheduled
- Ready for a day at the beach? Ocean Beach to be exact. Mercy-Justice Committee has organized a beach clean-up at Ocean Beach from 10 AM-noon, followed by a picnic and sand games. Good for the environment, fun for us! Call Betsy Bannerman or sign up outside Keenan's office.
- Take a Survey about Health Care Reform
- What do you think is important in all the health care reform swirling around us as a nation? Faithful Reform offers a Health Care survey specifically designed for the faith community. It's not long; it's clear; it gives room for thought. If you'd like to participate in a survey that, for once, is designed with you in mind, please log onto: http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=950766 To learn more about Faithful Reform, please visit the web site at www.faithfulreform.org.
- Tenderloin To Get Full-Service P.O.
- The US Postal Service has announced plans to expand their Tenderloin facility. For Tenderloin P.O. box patrons, the dignity of having a full-service post office is all that they've been asking for. The current location at 101 Hyde Street opened up in 1991. Today, you can't even send out mail from that facility - and last year they removed the vending machines to buy stamps. The neighborhood complains that the building is an eyesore and a place for loiterers. We can be proud that we were among those who gathered over 1,000 signatures in just three months, to push through the new plan.
- Interfaith Council Has New Website
- The San Francisco Interfaith Council has just launched its new website: sf-interfaith.org. Google hasn't tracked it yet, so you need to type in the whole address. Like all of us, this website is a work in progress, it tells the SFIC story, it informs and it engages. Check it out!
- PDA Issues Appeal for Myanmar Relief
- The Presbyterian Church (USA) is issuing a special appeal through Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) for long term recovery efforts from the cyclone that has devastated Myanmar. Additionally, PDA has committed $100,000 from One Great Hour of Sharing and designated funds for emergency assistance to survivors of Myanmar. Our mission is to heal broken lives, as well as broken homes. Communication has been widely destroyed in the region, but attempts are being made to be in conversation with our partner churches in the area including the Presbyterian Church of Myanmar (located in northeastern Thailand), our PC(USA) regional liaison located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Christian Conference of Asia, and Myanmar Council of Churches. The full extent of the damage from cyclone and more recent hurricanes has not yet been determined. Close to one million people are homeless and priority needs are for water purification tablets, plastic sheeting, basic medical kits, bed nets and food. Power and water supply have been disconnected, and the price of food has multiplied since the storm An already marginal infrastructure has been further damaged resulting in poor communications and impassible roads. Power outages and scattered debris also hamper recovery efforts. Gifts by credit card can be made by calling PresbyTel at (800) 872-3283 or online. Gifts can also be made by Checks payable to PC (USA) and sent to Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Central Receiving Services, Individual Remittance Processing, DR000145 P.O. Box 643700, Pittsburgh, PA 15264-3700
- The Nonviolent Vigil For Peace And Justice:
- Every Thursday, Noon-1:00 p.m. at the Federal Building, Larkin and Golden Gate. The vigil is sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, the Episcopal Peace Fellowship and the San Francisco Friends (Quaker) Meeting. This group has held vigil for nonviolence every Thursday since September 11, 2001. All are welcome to join them.
- Earth Day Awareness
- Last September, nearly 300,000 pounds of trash were pulled from the Bay on just one volunteer cleanup day. A recent study found an average of three pieces of trash along every foot of streams that lead to the Bay. This poisonous runoff - including plastic bags, Styrofoam cups, cigarette butts, cans, bottles and batteries - kills wildlife, smothers wetlands and spoils water quality. We need the governor to: Encourage the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board to do what it takes to reduce trash discharge into the Bay, and Make state funding available for cities' and counties' trash prevention efforts. Please ask Governor Schwarzenegger to help protect San Francisco Bay!
- Among Those To Be Honored
- The San Francisco Interfaith Council has, for 20 years, co-coordinated winter shelter for 60-90 men from mid November to the end of February. Congregations that offered their facilities as shelter sites, as well as the many faith communities and agencies that provided and served meals, will be recognized and honored at a special observance on Thursday, June 12, 2008, at St. Mark's Lutheran Church (8:00am-9:30am).. All of us are invited.
- One Minute Each Evening
- During WWII, there was an advisor to Churchill who organized a group of people who dropped what they were doing every night at a prescribed hour for one minute to collectively pray for the safety of England, its people and peace. This had an amazing effect as even bombing was stayed. There is now a group organizing the same thing here in America. If you would like to participate: each evening at 6:00 PM Pacific Time, stop whatever you are doing and spend one minute praying for the up-coming elections, for peace in Iraq, for reconciliation in Israel and Palestine, and for the revival of faith and forgiveness in our world. Our prayers may be the most powerful asset we have.
- Meditation, Labyrinth, Discontinued for Now
- The 6:15 PM Wednesday evening programs at NVM have included a candlelit Labyrinth Walk on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, and a combination Guided Meditation/Healing Prayers on the 4th Wednesday. Both programs have been suspended for now. However, either activity can be reinstated upon request, on a one-time or an on-going basis; your pastors will be happy to facilitate! The Book Group on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Wednesdays remains an enthusiastic, interesting group, with an open invitation to everyone!
- Take the Peace Pledge
- Go to (http://pdamerica.org/petition/pledge-for-peace.php) to sign a petition asking Congress to use the power of the purse to limit any addition funds appropriations to the protection and safe redeployment of all our troops out of Iraq. Seventy Congresspeople have already signed an open letter to this effect: http://pdamerica.org/articles/misc/2007-07-20-07-59-11-misc.php.
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