All are welcome to join our weekly yoga class on Monday mornings, 8:30-9:45 a.m. in the Church Narthax. 

No previous yoga experience is required to attend, and contrary to popular belief, flexibility is not a prerequisite for yoga! Options or modifications will be offered for every pose to accommodate individual bodies. Please bring a yoga mat (though we have extras if you don’t have one) and dress for ease of movement. 

Join members of the parish choirs from Christ Church Los Altos, St. Bede’s Menlo Park, St. Mark’s Palo Alto, and Christ Church Portola Valley Woodside for a series of Evensong services. The first Evensong will be on Sunday, October 5, at 5:00 p.m. at St. Bede’s (2650 Sand Hill Drive, Menlo Park) and will celebrate Saint Francis. The service will include pieces from composers including Reginald Unterseher, Richard Ayleward, Gabriel Jackson and John Rutter. All are welcome!

Join members of the Christ Church and Los Altos United Methodist Church communities for a Blessing of the Animals on Sunday, October 5, 2:30-3:30 p.m., at Cuesta Park (615 Cuesta Drive, Mountain View). The group will meet on the grass area adjacent to the parking lot off of Cuesta Drive. All are invited to bring furry, feathered, scaly, or stuffed companions to receive a blessing of love, health, and gratitude. In the spirit of gratitude and giving back, you are invited to support the Silicon Valley Humane Society by purchasing items from their Amazon Wishlist. Your generosity helps provide care and comfort to animals in need. All are welcome to this joyful, all-ages community event--whether you come with a pet, a memory or photo of a beloved animal, or simply your love for creatures great and small. 

Join us for the second week of our Adult Forum exploring the Acts of the Apostles, on Sunday, October 5, 9:00-10:00 a.m. between the services in person in the Fireside Room. The Acts of the Apostles is one of the fastest-moving, most action-packed books of the Bible. Written by the same author as the Gospel of Luke, and immediately following the gospels in the New Testament, it includes visions and miracles, conflicted friendships and countless controversies, and ultimately traces a rag-tag grassroots movement led by the early disciples to the birth of the church. In this two-week Bible Study we’ll explore the major themes and highlights of this essential and exciting book. Nursery care is available in the Parish Hall Library. 

Fall Fest is Saturday, October 4, 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.  

Enjoy Ventana School’s annual fall celebration with carnival games, crafts, a preschool bike-a-thon and elementary school obstacle course.

We will have a Food Truck from Sajj Mediteranean as well as Cocina Karma Mexican catering. To see the day’s schedule, pre-order your lunch (you can pre-order through Thursday the 2nd and will be able to buy lunch in person on Saturday) and purchase carnival tickets, click here. 

All are welcome to come out and enjoy the fun!

All are welcome to a family-friendly weekly community dinner on Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall. Come join in a Halloween Costume Swap and Re-creating! Next week and the week of the 15th we’ll get ready for Halloween. If you have a costume to swap, bring it. If you have a costume you want to modify, bring it. If you have fabric you want to use to make a costume, bring it. We’ll have pizza and hope you can join us for some spooky fun! Note that we order the food Wednesdays before noon, and while we do plan for a little overage your RVSPs using this Google Form are important in helping us plan for enough food.

The meditation group meets via Zoom on Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m. If you’re interested in learning more about contemplative practices drawn from the Christian and Buddhist traditions, as well as contemporary psychology, you’re welcome to attend. All are welcome!

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All are invited to the Stanford’s Progressive Christians: Episcopal Lutheran Campus Ministry kick off BBQ on Wednesday, September 24, 6:00 p.m. at the Gibbons Grove on the Stanford University Campus (campus map link here).

Christ Church offers a simple Eucharistic service each month usually on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 11:00 a.m. in the Gardenia Room in The Forum’s Health Center. This month it will be on Tuesday, September 23. Although this is held in the Health Center, it is open to all residents of The Forum. It’s a simple service with music and a bread-only Eucharist, and those who attend enjoy it greatly. Come join us if you can!

As part of Christ Church Portola Valley & Woodside’s Voices in the Valley Speaker Series, join Yorkshire born and bred, Angela Hey, on Tuesday, September 23, at 10:30 a.m. for an exploration of England’s religious ruins, and sacred site. This illustrated talk will discuss the legacy of magnificent abbeys, minsters and priories across England. There will be an informal Q&A with lunch to follow after the talk. Christ Church Portola Valley & Woodside is located at 815 Portola Road, Portola Valley.

All are welcome to our Adult Forum on Sunday, September 21, 9:00-10:00 a.m. between the services in person in the Fireside Room. We’ll do a deep dive into the incredibly confusing parable from Luke this week where Jesus seems to endorse embezzlement. Could this really be true? Could it be that the more faithful person gets a better car? Or is there something else happening here? Nursery care is available in the Parish Hall Library. 

On Wednesday, September 17, from 4:00-6:30 p.m., SpiritCare will have a fundraiser at The Avant (4041 El Camino Way, Palo Alto). SpiritCare visits over 80 care communities in the Bay Area each month to provide worship services, hymn singing and prayer time for older adults in long-term care. You can learn more about this ministry at here. SpiritCare is always interested in volunteers who can join in for worship services, for example, on the third Sunday of the month at 3:00 p.m. they are at The Sequoias in Portola Valley. For more information about volunteering, contact Angela Hay at amhey@heymash.com. 

Join the Christ Church and Ventana School community to pack meals for Rise Against Hunger in the Parish Hall, on Saturday, September 13, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Our previous events have been fun, energizing and inspiring as we came together to make a positive impact and provide food for over 10,000 families in an impoverished country. Children of all ages are encouraged to participate - there is something for everyone to do. All are welcome! Registration is required, click here to register. We need volunteers for set up and clean up, you also can sign up for either of those when you register (you can check multiple boxes when you register).

On Saturday, September 13, 9:30-11:30 a.m., CIC Ministries (Correctional Institutions Chaplaincy of Santa Clara County) is offering a training for volunteers interested in jail chaplaincy. The training will take place at Trinity Church (330 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park). CIC Ministries is a community of people from diverse life experiences and spiritual backgrounds united in a common call to be with those who are incarcerated. They train volunteers to meet the spiritual needs of individuals inside Santa Clara and Santa Cruz County Jails and Juvenile Detention Facilities. See the event flyer linked here for more information on what the training entails and how to register.

On August 30 and 31, members of the Christ Church community, along with our ecumenical partners, will offer a progressive Christian presence at Silicon Valley Pride’s Festival and Parade. Everyone is invited to march in the parade on Sunday, August 31 at 10:30 a.m. If you want to march with our group, please contact Rev. Cal (cal@ccla.us). We are part of an Episcopal Church booth at the festival on Saturday, August 30, 6:00-9:00 p.m. and again on Sunday, August 31, 12:00-6:00 p.m. If you want to explore the festival, you can purchase wristbands for Saturday and Sunday here. Come by the booth and say hello!

All are welcome to a family-friendly weekly community dinner on Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. in the Lower Lawn picnic area. Next week we’ll BBQ – burgers, sausages and a vegetarian option. Please bring a dessert (last name starts A-M) or a salad or side dish (last name starts N-Z) to share. Bring serving utensils with your dish if that will be needed. Hope you can join us! RSVP using this Google Form so we can make sure that we have enough food.

All are welcome to a family-friendly weekly community dinner on Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. in the Lower Lawn picnic area. Next week we’ll have a potluck which means everyone needs to bring something to share (last name A-I brings dessert; last name J-Q brings main dish; last name R-Z brings side dish). Sign up for what you will bring here. Please bring any required serving utensils for the dish you bring. Hope you can join us! Your RSVP using this Google Form will help us plan for enough food.

Our weekly yoga class in the Church Narthex returns in August! Please note that there will be one Tuesday class, August 5, 8:30-9:45 a.m., before the class moves to Monday mornings on an ongoing basis. 

No previous yoga experience is required to attend. Contrary to popular belief, flexibility is not a prerequisite for yoga, options or modifications are offered for every pose to accommodate individual bodies. Please bring a yoga mat (though we have extras if you don’t have one) and dress for ease of movement. All are welcome!

Join Rev. Julie for our Adult Forum on Sunday, July 20, 9:00-10:00 a.m. between the services in person in the Fireside Room to explore the Scriptures appointed for that Sunday. We will engage the time-honored practice of Lectio divina ("Divine Reading"), unpacking the Scripture through the four-step process of Lectio (reading), Meditatio (meditation), Oratio (prayer), and Contemplatio (contemplation). All questions are welcome, and all are invited to join us in this exploration of our Scripture passages! Childcare is available in the chapel.

Join us for a holy hike at Windy Hill Preserve on Sunday, July 13 at 2:30 p.m. We will meet in the parking lot of Christ Church Portola Valley & Woodside, located at 815 Portola Road, Portola Valley. Our walk will start from the church parking lot promptly at 2:40 p.m. We'll be joined by members of Christ Church Portola Valley & Woodside for a fun afternoon adventure with both parish communities. This hike will be beginner-friendly, and all ages and levels are welcome! Click here to view the flyer for this hike. Please RSVP to Rev. Cal at cal@ccla.us so he knows you're coming before the group hits the trail. 

Join Rev. Cal and David Deatherage for a special Adult Forum on Sunday, July 13, 9:00-10:00 a.m. between the services in person in the Fireside Room. This special Forum, "Surprisingly Spiritual Songs," will be a listening session for the nonreligious songs that hold spiritual meaning for each of us. You are invited to send Rev. Cal (cal@ccla.us) the YouTube or Spotify links to one or two songs that resonate with your soul, regardless of genre. We'll listen to each song, hear from the person who submitted it about how the song feeds their spirit, and share reflections as a group. All are welcome to this spiritually-minded listening party! Childcare is available in the chapel.

Join our Minister for Adult Formation Minister, Alice Kochunov, and Rev. Cal for our Adult Forum on Sunday, June 29, 9:00-10:00 a.m. between the services in person in the Fireside Room. Drawing on Alice's gifts in the visual arts, we will delve into the practice of Visio Divina, a multi-sensory adaptation of Lectio Divina ("Divine Reading"). Together, we will explore that Sunday's Scriptures through the visual contemplation of Christian art to delight the senses and engage both the mind and the heart. All are welcome! Childcare is available in the chapel.

Christ Church members are warmly invited to attend the memorial service for longtime parishioner, Carole Lopez, to be held in the Church on Saturday, June 28, at 11:00 a.m. A reception in the Parish Hall will immediately follow the service.

The service will be live streamed via Zoom.

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This Sunday we will celebrate Trinity Sunday. Rev. Sheldon will hold a special Adult Forum on Sunday, June 15, 9:00-10:00 a.m. between the services in person in the Fireside Room to explore the mysteries of the Trinity, which have perplexed and inspired Christians for two thousand years. Together, we will delve into the strange and wondrous dimensions of our Triune God. All questions are welcome, and all are invited to join us in this exploration. Childcare is available in the chapel.

Slavyanka Chorus presents “Songs of the Soul,” a concert of Russian spiritual music on Saturday, June 14, 7:00 p.m., at Church of the Redeemer, 380 Magdalena Avenue, Los Altos. The concert will include music from the Orthodox Church – and monastic poems of ancient chant, spiritual chants of the late 17th-early 18th centuries, folk poetry, songs of wandering lyre players or pilgrims, and even some deeply moving contemporary music on spiritual themes – as some performers used to say, "songs in the presence of God." More information and tickets can be found here.

All are welcome to Justice Vanguard’s 6th Annual Juneteenth festival on Saturday, June 14, 11:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. at 97 Hillview Avenue, Los Altos. Thousands of Bay Area students, parents and families attend every year. Come engage with the community in a positive celebration of culture and progress, and have fun at an outdoor summer festival. There's no cost to attend and all are welcome! Find out more details and reserve your free tickets here.