HEAR'S WHAT'S HAPPENING AT ACC

You're invited to come to a Sunday afternoon get-together to chat with Felicity and revisit good memories you share.  The dates are October 12th  or October 19th ,  from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.      The gathering on October 12 will be at Elena and Anthony Caruthers' home at 234 Willamette in Kensington.   The gathering on October 19 will be at Ruth and Mike Robinsons' home at 557 Colusa Avenue in El Cerrito.  It will be helpful to know how many people to expect, so we ask that you please call the church office to RSVP  (526-9146).  If you haven't called ahead, please feel free to drop in anyway -- we'll have saved a cookie for you!

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New members will be welcomed into the church on Sunday, October 12th. 

On Sunday, September 28 from 3:00-6:00 there will be a gathering for those

interested in either joining the church and or exploring the possibility of joining the church.  The gathering is being hosted by Margaret and Larry Kornfeld at their home at 2976 De Anza Drive in El Sobrante.  The schedule will include time for learning about the history and theology of the United Church of Christ, discussing ACC’s vision for the future.   An informal time of socializing and dinner will conclude our time together.  If you are interested in attending, please call the church office at (510) 526-9146.  Directions to Margaret and Larry Kornfeld's:   I 80 N. to San Pablo Dam Road Exit; turn right at the exit and go up San Pablo Dam Road (past Apian Way) to May Road. Turn left. Continue on May Road (just past Hope Lutheran Church). Make an immediate right onto De Anza Drive to 2976. (Phone 510-223-1820)

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                         Spirit and the Arts:

      Theater, Dance, Song, and Story for Youth 7-14

              Embracing World Community Traditions and 

                Learning Universal World Community Values

                 October: Native American Spirit and the Arts

                                   Monday Evenings

                                      6:15-7:30 PM

The third year of weekly interfaith education, fun, community, and ritual for young people ages 7-14 from 6:15-7:30 on Monday evenings beginning October 13 at Arlington Community Church.  Activities will include music, song, dance, art, drama, and stories of "community" from many traditions. Learn community rituals and practices and stories from the great world religions and cultures.  Through the arts, we will celebrate and remember shared spirit and wisd om, as we learn together what it means to be "community." Families join with us twice a semester for special intergenerational community celebrations of our learnings. 

Native American/First Nation/Indigenous Spirituality and the Arts

Saturday Oct 11 -- Berkeley Pow-Wow -- Berkeley MLK Jr Civic Center Park (10:00 - 1:00) (Whole Family Celebration) (see ad below)

Monday Oct 13 -- Native American Spirit and the Arts

Sunday Oct 19 -- Kensington Parade/Luncheon Day and ACC Ice Cream Social (1:45 - 3:00) (Young People Serve the Community Ice Cream)

Monday Oct 20 -- Native American Spirit and the Arts

Monday Oct 27 -- Native American Spirit and the Arts

Contact Michael at jeangarcon@aol.com with questions. 

For further information, contact the church office at (510) 526-9146. 

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The Missions Board is asking that you bring canned and boxed food to alleviate hunger.

There are bins in the front narthex; please give generously.

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                         WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

Special activities are in italics; ongoing activities that happen weekly are in regular font.

                                            MEDITATION

Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil!

Retrieve the utter tranquility of mind

from which you issued.

Although all forms are dynamic,

and we all grow and transform,

each of us is compelled to return to our root.

Our root is quietude.

To fully return to our root is to be enlightened.

Never to experience tranquility is to act blindly,

a sure path to disaster.

To know tranquility is to embrace all.

To embrace all is to be just.

Justice is the foundation for wholeness.

Wholeness is the Great Integrity.

The Great Integrity is the infinite fulfilling itself.           

Tao Te Ching, Verse 16, Tranquillity