August 4 at 6:30pm, an important town hall on Sheriff’s Department oversight will be held. We encourage you to attend and share information about the event with others. The City of Oakland has instituted an oversight board for the Oakland Police Department, The Coalition for Police Accountability, that is proving effective. This proposed county-level oversight board is much needed. Please attend if you are interested in learning about why this is sorely needed. In the meantime, the following gives good information on this issue. Register at bit.ly/SheriffsOversight

Read More: Advocates for Sheriff’s Department Oversight

Skyline Community Church is progressive, inclusive, open and affirming, green, sanctuary church of the United Church of Christ. We seek a substitute music director, with experience and proficiency in piano and singing, to lead the congregation in hymns and anthems and occasionally perform solo repertoire before, during, and at the end of services. Organ and choir directing skills are desirable, but not required. Repertoire is planned in consultation with Music Director Gabrielle Lochard and Pastor Laurie Manning. We primarily use The New Century Hymnal, welcoming its progressive theology and inclusive texts, and often source the African Methodist Episcopal Hymnal, Lift Every Voice and Sing, Flor Y Canto, and Breaking Bread. Our Congregational services often include traditional folk music, from African-American spirituals to Spanish and Shaker hymns, to contemporary popular and gospel songs with uplifting lyrics and familiar melodies. Sundays 9:15amwarm up, 10-11am service. Located in the Oakland hills at 12540 Skyline Blvd, Oakland, CA 94619, limited public transportation is available, but personal transportation is strongly encouraged. Compensation $200-250 per Sunday. Send resume to office@skylineucc.org

Rev. Laurie Manning shares Samuel 11, on King David, and her sermon, “Another Perspective: #MeToo” in our our July 25th worship service at https://youtu.be/h8Z06DgYwYw

Healing & wholeness, General Synod highlights, NCNC Annual Meeting & more!

Reclaiming the lost self, Live shows, Raffle winners + more!

Thursday, July 22 at 7pm, join the cast of Crescent Moon Theater Productions’ When Your Skin Calls You Home and Rev. Laurie Manning, Pastor of Skyline Community Church, for a Zoom discussion to share responses to and explore the rich, intercultural myth of their Selkie folklore inspired circus-theater production, based on Sealskin, Soulskin by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Read the SF Chronicle’s show review. We’ll also explore Estés’ Women Who Run with the Wolves, including the loss of sense of soul as initiation, losing one’s pelt, the lonely one, the spirit child, drying out and crippling, healing the old one’s call, cutting loose, diving in, the medieval woman, surfacing, the practice of intentional solitude, our innate ecology.

https://zoom.us/j/716026467
ID: 716 026 467
Dial in: 669-900-9128

Photo: Chloe Aftel

Our mission includes environment justice stewardship of church buildings and grounds, with an emphasis on best environmental practices. This NPR LifeKit podcast gives some great information on how to use less plastic. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7xvpDu2typrKxOMlezdnFz?si=8Hf4RPM6Rw2uu_TKOFSxMA&dl_branch=1

Annual meeting & picnic, Passionflower Duo concert, General Synod + more!

Our Music Director, Gabrielle Lochard, and pianist Jonathan Liu are a dynamic duo, specializing in the classical art song repertoire. Singing and playing together for the first time since 2019, they will perform songs about life and love, in French and English, by Moore, Hailstork, Faure, Debussy, and Hahn. $15 suggested donation at the door. While the vocalist will not be masked, the audience, limited to roughly 50 per performance, must be masked and socially distanced.

Friday, July 9 at 7pm and Saturday, July 31 at 7pm
Skyline Community Church, 12540 Skyline Blvd, Oakland

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