This Sunday we'll meditate on the themes of Justice and Mercy through poetry and prayer, with Special Music throughout by Shira Kammen, playing vielle and Medieval harp. Tim K. Murphy will play this week’s Prelude and Postlude. Maria Tupua will serve as our liturgist.

Childcare will be available during the service for children ages 2 and up.

Click HERE To Preview This Week’s Bulletin!
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If you are unable to attend today's in-person service, simply visit our YouTube channel and look for the Live Stream video link at the top of our page..

Starting promptly at 10 am you'll see the top video as a Live-Stream. Click on the video and you will be able to enjoy the service as it is happening live at ACC! You may need to refresh the page a few times before the live video becomes active.

Visitors, please check in with us at:

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Online giving is easy at:

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Monthly meeting of Church Council led by Church Moderator, Nina Harmon. This month’s meeting will take place in-person in the Fireside Room but members can also attend via Zoom. Council meetings are open and guests are always welcome to attend. If you’d like to join via ZOOM please reach out to Jacob in the Office and he can send you the link.

Get ready for a night of laughter, friendly competition, and brain-busting fun at Arlington Community Church's Community Trivia Night! Join us as John Chapman, host of the wildly popular 49ers Rush Podcast, leads us through an evening of engaging trivia that spans pop culture, history, sports, and more.

Come with a team or fly solo!
Whether you're bringing your trivia dream team or showing up on your own, we've got you covered. Solo guests will be matched with others to form teams!

Win fun prizes!
Top teams will take home exciting prizes, bragging rights, and the coveted title of Trivia Champs!

Snacks provided!
Enjoy light refreshments and a welcoming, all-ages atmosphere perfect for families, friends, and neighbors.

Let’s come together for an evening of community, connection, and a little friendly competition. See you there!

One way of keeping our congregation strong is by staying connected. You are invited to join us every Tuesday morning from 11:00 – Noon for an hour of checking in, sharing, listening and prayer. No experience necessary. Come as you are.

Discussion Topic:
”Prayer…let’s talk about it! What is prayer? What forms of prayer do you practice, and what forms of prayer are you interested in trying or learning more about?”


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Teams make sandwiches at ACC for the GRIP SOUPER CENTER in Richmond every 3rd Tuesday and 5th Thursday of the month. If you’d like to participate sometime, email Joe Pratt. Volunteers also serve lunch at the SOUPER CENTER on Tuesdays from 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM. If you are interested in serving, contact Pastor Jen.

This Sunday is the second in our series on Justice and Mercy. Rev. Aaron Bolerjack will preach on Mercy in the Christian faith, looking at the story of the merciful Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37. Tim K. Murphy will play this week’s Prelude, Offertory, and Postlude. Yusef Malenky will serve as Liturgist.

Childcare will be available during the service for children ages 2 and up.

Click HERE To Preview This Week’s Bulletin!
Click HERE To Begin Live-Stream Worship!

If you are unable to attend today's in-person service, simply visit our YouTube channel and look for the Live Stream video link at the top of our page..

Starting promptly at 10 am you'll see the top video as a Live-Stream. Click on the video and you will be able to enjoy the service as it is happening live at ACC! You may need to refresh the page a few times before the live video becomes active.

Visitors, please check in with us at:

https://www.arlingtoncommunitychurchucc.org/virtual-visitor

Online giving is easy at:

https://www.arlingtoncommunitychurchucc.org/online-giving

One way of keeping our congregation strong is by staying connected. You are invited to join us every Tuesday morning from 11:00 – Noon for an hour of checking in, sharing, listening and prayer. No experience necessary. Come as you are.

Discussion Topic:
"Aspirational Dinner Party - If you could invite three people to dinner (living or dead, real or fictional) who would they be and why?"


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The Pastor-Parish Relations Committee will meet Sunday July 6 after worship. We celebrate all the things that are going well for Jen and for the congregation, and if there are areas that need adjustment, we talk about possible solutions. Of course you are always encouraged to go directly to Jen with your compliments or your concerns. But if you have a comment or question that you would prefer the committee to share, feel free to speak to Tom Dean, Faith Abel, or Sara Laferte.

This Sunday we are kicking off a new series which will feature interfaith conversations around the concepts of justice and mercy. To get us started, Rev. Jen Chapman will preach on justice in the Christian faith, looking at the concept of justice throughout our Christian scriptures. Each week we sing that “justice” is required of us by God, but what does that mean? And how does it relate to the American concept of “liberty and justice for all?” This Sunday’s music will feature Mae Mars on vocals and Tim K. Murphy on piano. Dudley Thompson will serve as Liturgist.

Childcare will be available during the service for children ages 2 and up.

Click HERE To Preview This Week’s Bulletin!
Click HERE To Begin Live-Stream Worship!

If you are unable to attend today's in-person service, simply visit our YouTube channel and look for the Live Stream video link at the top of our page..

Starting promptly at 10 am you'll see the top video as a Live-Stream. Click on the video and you will be able to enjoy the service as it is happening live at ACC! You may need to refresh the page a few times before the live video becomes active.

Visitors, please check in with us at:

https://www.arlingtoncommunitychurchucc.org/virtual-visitor

Online giving is easy at:

https://www.arlingtoncommunitychurchucc.org/online-giving

One way of keeping our congregation strong is by staying connected. You are invited to join us every Tuesday morning from 11:00 – Noon for an hour of checking in, sharing, listening and prayer. No experience necessary. Come as you are.

Discussion Topic:
”Flags & Faith - From Pride flags to American flags, what flags do you fly at home and why (or why not)? What significance does flag-flying have in Christian faith and life?"


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ACC CHOIR

The ACC Choir rehearses most Mondays from 5:00pm - 6:15pm in the Sanctuary.

BELL CHOIR

The ACC Bell Choir rehearses from 6:15pm - 7:00pm in the Sanctuary.

Interested in joining our choir? Contact our Music Director, Jeffrey Frederic Paul, to learn more!

Everyone in the congregation is encouraged to be at the Invitation & Belonging meeting. Susan Russell will lead us through developing a marketing plan for our church. What do we have to offer? Who doesn't know about us? How do we reach out? What should we do first? Come and talk about it! Bring your coffee with you; snacks will be provided.

This Sunday we are celebrating and renewing our covenant commitment to be an Open & Affirming Church! Rev. Rhina Ramos, NCNC Associate Conference Minister for Justice & Witness and Anti-Racism, will preach and Rev. Jen Chapman will lead the service. We have a wonderful line up of Special Music featuring Our Choir and Bell Choir, directed by Jeffrey Frederic Paul, and accompanied by Tim K. Murphy, with Guest Musicians Holly Whitman, Jacob Day, & Mariko Sarafin. Allan Gardiner will serve as this week’s Liturgist.

Childcare will be available during the service for children ages 2 and up.

Click HERE To Preview This Week’s Bulletin!
Click HERE To Begin Live-Stream Worship!

If you are unable to attend today's in-person service, simply visit our YouTube channel and look for the Live Stream video link at the top of our page..

Starting promptly at 10 am you'll see the top video as a Live-Stream. Click on the video and you will be able to enjoy the service as it is happening live at ACC! You may need to refresh the page a few times before the live video becomes active.

Visitors, please check in with us at:

https://www.arlingtoncommunitychurchucc.org/virtual-visitor

Online giving is easy at:

https://www.arlingtoncommunitychurchucc.org/online-giving

Join us Friday, June 27 for the viewing of Trip to Bountiful. Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Carrie Watts (Geraldine Page) may be old, but she suffers no shortage of spirit. When her carping daughter-in-law (Carlin Glynn) and overprotective son (John Heard) forbid her to travel alone from Houston to her childhood home in Bountiful, she strikes out anyway. Learning that trains no longer stop there, she takes a bus instead and en route meets a young woman (Rebecca De Mornay) with whom she shares both secrets and memories. Little does she know that her family has alerted the police.

Please plan to arrive at about 1:30 to allow time to grab your popcorn and settle in before we start the film at 1:45, and, if your schedule allows, linger for a few minutes after to discuss the film.

In-person monthly meeting for board members, trustees, and pastor in the Fireside Room.

Let’s have lunch together. If the weather is inviting, we can picnic on the church patio. Bring your lunch – apple and cheese, sandwich, salad, whatever you like to eat. We’ll have water, and maybe homemade lemonade. No RSVP needed, just come when you can.

Connect with your inner wisdom and healing, in community.

Mindful Yoga 9:30-10:30 AM
Relate with kindness to your body and mind through basic yoga poses (modified as needed), breathing practices, and relaxation in a supportive environment. Bring a yoga mat, 2 yoga blocks, and a blanket.

Arlington Community Church 52 Arlington Ave, Kensington, CA
All levels of experience welcome
(Sliding scale $10-25 per class)

One way of keeping our congregation strong is by staying connected. You are invited to join us every Tuesday morning from 11:00 – Noon for an hour of checking in, sharing, listening and prayer. No experience necessary. Come as you are.

Discussion Topic:
“When you’re feeling discouraged, about your life, your community, or the world, how do you navigate your way out of that mindset?”


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ACC CHOIR

The ACC Choir rehearses most Mondays from 5:00pm - 6:15pm in the Sanctuary.

BELL CHOIR

The ACC Bell Choir rehearses from 6:15pm - 7:00pm in the Sanctuary.

Interested in joining our choir? Contact our Music Director, Jeffrey Frederic Paul, to learn more!

Rev. Julie Stokstad and Rev. Barry Cammer will lead worship this Sunday. Julie’s sermon is all of our Spiritual Journeys and the surprising story about her loss of faith last summer and what has come to replace it. The ACC Choir, led by Jeffrey Frederic Paul, will Provide this week’s Special Music. Jeffrey will also accompany Larry Brookes for this week’s Offertory. Dorothy Streutker will serve as this week’s Liturgist.

Childcare will be available during the service for children ages 2 and up.

Click HERE To Preview This Week’s Bulletin!
Click HERE To Begin Live-Stream Worship!

If you are unable to attend today's in-person service, simply visit our YouTube channel and look for the Live Stream video link at the top of our page..

Starting promptly at 10 am you'll see the top video as a Live-Stream. Click on the video and you will be able to enjoy the service as it is happening live at ACC! You may need to refresh the page a few times before the live video becomes active.

Visitors, please check in with us at:

https://www.arlingtoncommunitychurchucc.org/virtual-visitor

Online giving is easy at:

https://www.arlingtoncommunitychurchucc.org/online-giving

The Kensington Fire Protection District will be offering its first shredding event this year with us on Saturday June 21 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. This free event is open to all Kensington residents to dispose of excess papers (fire hazards) in your household.

A mobile shredding truck will be parked in our parking lot during the designated time and can destroy all papers on site. There is no limit to the amount of shredding material that you may bring and it is not necessary to remove staples or small paperclips. All paper shredding is recycled by returning it to a paper mill.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact KFPD at (510) 215-4450. 

Monthly meeting of Church Council led by Church Moderator, Nina Harmon. This month’s meeting will take place in-person in the Fireside Room but members can also attend via Zoom. Council meetings are open and guests are always welcome to attend. If you’d like to join via ZOOM please reach out to Jacob in the Office and he can send you the link.

Let’s have lunch together. If the weather is inviting, we can picnic on the church patio. Bring your lunch – apple and cheese, sandwich, salad, whatever you like to eat. We’ll have water, and maybe homemade lemonade. No RSVP needed, just come when you can.

Connect with your inner wisdom and healing, in community.

Mindful Yoga 9:30-10:30 AM
Relate with kindness to your body and mind through basic yoga poses (modified as needed), breathing practices, and relaxation in a supportive environment. Bring a yoga mat, 2 yoga blocks, and a blanket.

Arlington Community Church 52 Arlington Ave, Kensington, CA
All levels of experience welcome
(Sliding scale $10-25 per class)

One way of keeping our congregation strong is by staying connected. You are invited to join us every Tuesday morning from 11:00 – Noon for an hour of checking in, sharing, listening and prayer. No experience necessary. Come as you are.

Discussion Topic:
"How can I help? We all want to be helpful when people are going through difficult times, but we're not always sure what to say or do. What is real help? Share times when people's words or offers for help have actually been helpful...and when they haven't!"


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Teams make sandwiches at ACC for the GRIP SOUPER CENTER in Richmond every 3rd Tuesday and 5th Thursday of the month. If you’d like to participate sometime, email Joe Pratt. Volunteers also serve lunch at the SOUPER CENTER on Tuesdays from 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM. If you are interested in serving, contact Pastor Jen.

ACC CHOIR

The ACC Choir rehearses most Mondays from 5:00pm - 6:15pm in the Sanctuary.

BELL CHOIR

The ACC Bell Choir rehearses from 6:15pm - 7:00pm in the Sanctuary.

Interested in joining our choir? Contact our Music Director, Jeffrey Frederic Paul, to learn more!

Choose Joy

I recently read a blog by Rev. Cameron Trimble.  Her thoughts are shared here for our June Memoir/Discussion prompt:

 “Our Black siblings have long held joy as a form of resistance. It’s what birthed jazz in the face of brutality. It’s what sang spirituals through the chains of slavery. It’s what laughed in kitchens and danced in church aisles and found life even in the margins.

Joy doesn’t wait until freedom comes. It creates the pathway to it.

We are not betraying our grief by laughing. We are strengthening our capacity to survive it, to feel deeply and remember what makes us human, to stay connected to beauty when the world feels bleak.

Let’s not treat joy as a luxury. Let’s treat it as a lifeline.

We’re in this together.”

For Discussion:  “When was the last time you truly laughed? What did it awaken in you?”

 And from Rev. Trimble:

A Prayer for Joy That Holds the World

Spirit of Laughter,
You who crack the sky open with thunder,
who fill lungs with breath and bellies with laughter—
meet us here.

We carry grief in our bones.
We carry dread in our newsfeeds.
And still, we ask:
Let joy rise up in us.

Not as denial.
Not as escape.
But as resistance.
As memory.
As a reminder that we are more than what breaks us.

Help us to laugh—not because everything is okay,
but because we still believe it can be.

Amen.

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Men are invited join John Chapman for breakfast on Monday June 16th at 8:30AM at Fat Apples in El Cerrito, 7525 Fairmount Ave, El Cerrito, CA.

On this Trinity Sunday we will celebrate the relational nature of God and look to Romans 5:1-5 for some hopeful inspiration. We’ll have flowers to honor or remember our fathers, consider Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, continue to celebrate Pride, and look toward Juneteenth! The ACC Ensemble, directed by Tim K. Murphy, has an uplifting set prepared including “Help!” by the Beatles and “Acknowledgement” from A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. Rev. Jen Chapman will preach and lead the service, and Susan Wootton will serve as Liturgist.

Childcare will be available during the service for children ages 2 and up.

Click HERE To Preview This Week’s Bulletin!
Click HERE To Begin Live-Stream Worship!

If you are unable to attend today's in-person service, simply visit our YouTube channel and look for the Live Stream video link at the top of our page..

Starting promptly at 10 am you'll see the top video as a Live-Stream. Click on the video and you will be able to enjoy the service as it is happening live at ACC! You may need to refresh the page a few times before the live video becomes active.

Visitors, please check in with us at:

https://www.arlingtoncommunitychurchucc.org/virtual-visitor

Online giving is easy at:

https://www.arlingtoncommunitychurchucc.org/online-giving