Friends: One compassionate word, action or thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring them joy.  One word can give comfort and confidence, destroy doubt, help someone avoid a mistake, reconcile a conflict, or open the door to liberation.  Once action can save a person’s life or help him/her to take advantage of a rare [...]

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Friends, Instruct those who are rich in this world’s goods that they should not be proud and should set their hopes not on money, which is untrustworthy, but on God who gives us richly all that we need for our happiness.  They are to do good and be rich in good works, generous in giving [...]

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Jazz at Peace has returned the second Sunday evening of each month at 5:00 p.m. Here’s a glimpse of the upcoming season that you are not going to want to miss! November 9:  Pet Yellin December 14:  John Calloway January 11:  Anton Schwartz February 8:  Marcus Shelby Orchestra with a new tribute to Martin Luther [...]

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Friends: O God, help me to be half the person my dog thinks I am and half the person my cat wishes I were. The Animal Blessing/Pet Festival was amazing.  Such energy, joy and gratefulness.  An incredible turn out of people.  Well over 125 pets were blessed and nearly all received a St. Francis Medallion [...]

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Please click on the image above to view photos from the Animal Blessing and Pet Festival The St. Francis Animal Blessing and Pet Festival was a remarkable day!  A huge crowd turned out and over 125 pets were blessed; the smallest a rat and the largest a horse.  Some people brought their cat’s collars or [...]

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The Holy Convergence on September 28, 2008, brought together many people from diverse spiritual traditions and opened our hearts in so many ways. The Opening and Closing Rituals were filled with Bahai Prayer, Shofar, Jewish chant, soulful drumming, Sikh chant and Sufi Universal Dances of Peace. Prayer Flags and Thankhas from the Rigpa Center surrounded [...]

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Friends, In honor of Saint Francis, Pete Seeger recently composed a new song – “If It Can’t Be Reduced.” It has a verse taken directly from the minutes of the City Council of Berkeley, “If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned, or [...]

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Animal Blessing and Pet Festival Sunday, October 5, 2008 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Peace Lutheran Church Please plan to join our furry, feathered, and leathered animal friends this coming Sunday for a very special afternoon of fun. ARF will be at Peace with their mobile cat adoption unit for those of you interested in [...]

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In June of 2008, several Peace youth along with leader Elizabeth Felts, traveled to Mexico to build housing in the impoverished Nueva Millenio neighborhood of Tijuana under the auspices of the Corazon organization.  Together with youth from St. Clare’s Episcopal Church of Pleasanton, Bob, Alexei, Sara and Elizabeth completed construction on a home addition for [...]

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