Learn about upcoming and past MPC events via this weblog.
On Tuesday, April 21st at 7pm, join authors Gayle Forman (“If I Stay”) and Jay Asher (“Thirteen Reasons Why”) for a special event. “We Are Here: A Benefit to Raise Hope and Awareness for Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion”, is sure to be an inspiring evening, and not to be missed.
Sunday, April 19th at 11:30am, historian Amy Kittelstrom will be at MPC discussing her new book The Religion of Democracy: Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition. We hope you will join us for what is sure to be a fascinating talk.
Now through March 29th, registration is open for this Spring’s youth group retreat at Tahoe!
Defense Against the Dark Arts: Fighting Racism and Sexism (and playing Quidditch)
The *ACMP* Worldwide Play-In Weekend is a celebration of the joy of chamber music that occurs the first weekend in March each year. All welcome to enjoy this free event at Montclair Presbyterian Church.
The one-day MPC Spring Women’s Retreat is scheduled for Saturday, March 14, at the First Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, on the topic of “Presence: Tending to What’s Real.”
On Wednesday, February 18th, at 7 PM, we will gather for a special Taize service of prayer and meditation. Although we have a Taize prayer each month on the third Wednesday, this month it falls on Ash Wednesday and so our service will be specially designed to include time for reflection on the springtime season of Lent, which begins in the darkness of the earth.
Saturday, January 17th at 7pm, New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore will be at MPC discussing his new book The Work. A follow up to his bestselling book The Other Wes Moore, The Work continues a remarkable quest to find a meaningful life. We hope you will join us for what is sure to be a fascinating evening.
O come ye, O come ye, to a nativity scene entirely free of thee’s and thou’s, therefore’s and wherefore’s (you can get your fill of those when Pastor Ben recites the King James Version on Christmas Eve).
IF YOU MISSED THIS EVENT, OR WANT TO HEAR IT AGAIN, YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT BY CLICKING HERE
On Sunday, December 14th, at the 10 AM Celebration, join us for an Oakland pageant! There you will see the migrants María and José seeking a safe place to stay in the busy and inhospitable streets of Oakland, the warm-hearted family who gives them a place to stay in the garage, the night shift janitors receiving the good news, and the Magi wandering around among highway overpasses and back alleyways. Special appearances as well by Our Local Sports Team and some very friendly young mice.
The Rev. Ben Daniel and our colleagues at St. John Presbyterian in Berkeley appear in this segment of investigative reporting (“Sanctuary for Immigrants Comes Back to the Bay Area”) on immigrants and refugee families living in the Bay Area, as part of the larger Sanctuary Movement.
After a spike of immigration from Central America, the “Sanctuary” Movement is coming back to the Bay Area churches that helped to start it. Stephen Stock reports in a story that aired on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014.
The Rev. Ben Daniel appears in this investigative report about unaccompanied refugee children, and what local churches are doing to respond. Please watch and share this video.
Tens of thousands of children have been forced to flee their home country and head to the Bay Area. To get here, they risked starvation, dehydration and a harrowing ride on the roof of a train some call “The Death Train.” Stephen Stock reports in a video that first aired on Nov. 10, 2014.