Northbrae Community Church

Northbrae Community Church is excited to host special guest, Betsy Rose to lead our service this Sunday, May 5th. Here is a brief description of Betsy's work:

Betsy Rose’s new music and writings are inspired by the spirit of Leonard Bernstein's statement after the assassination of JFK: " This will be our reply to violence- to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."

Her songs, reflections and poetry speak to this time of disruption, loss, fear and confusion, in our own culture and around the world.

From celebratory to grieving to faithful and grounded, Betsy’s sings of the fear, grief, anger, despair, joy, love, trust, and passion that weave through our hearts as we face an unstable present and an unknown future together.

Holy Week and Easter Celebrations

Palm Sunday Service

Sunday, March 24, 10:30 AM

Will include palm frond waving, and dancing as you are able and willing.

Service of Memories

for Ron Sebring at Northbrae

Sunday, March 24, at noon, after coffee hour in the parlor

Maundy Thursday

Thursday, March 28, 6:00 PM Soup Supper, 7:00 PM

Maundy Thursday Ritual with Communion

If you can bring a pot of soup to this event, please notify Carolyn Rosin. From now until Maundy Thursday, there will be a box in the church entrance where you may place prayers to be used during the Maundy Thursday Service.

Egg Dye and Dinner

Friday, March 29, 6:00 PM

We will have an adult egg-dying event in the Northbrae kitchen. You can bring children to supervise. We will have 500 eggs to dye for the Egg Hunt Sunday morning. You can bring your own dozen BOILED eggs. We’ll order pizza, dye eggs, and enjoy a dinner together. Bring salads to share.

March 31, Easter Sunday

10:00 Egg Hunt on Front Lawn

10:30 Easter Service in Chapel

Join Us For This Free Online Learning Experience Free online registration

Northbrae Community Church Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 10pm- 11pm

PEACE ON EARTH: The service features congregational carols, solos, Christmas anthems, and the readings of Maya Angelou's Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem and the Christmas story from the gospel of Luke. The choir anthems are from Handel's Messiah, and arrangements of traditional carols and a gospel piece. Solos will be O Holy Night, Benjamin Britten's Corpus Christi Carol, Away in a Manger by Mark Hayes, and Norman Dello Joio's A Christmas Carol. Instruments include trumpet, flute and violin.

Please join us for a wonderful service of meaningful readings and beautiful music.

Coffee Hour Book Talk with author Diane De Pisa
December 10 at 11:30 in the Parlor

Diane De Pisa married her husband Elio at Northbrae in 1960, and attended service here mainly during Ron Sebring's tenure. She was the main facilitator for monthly Wednesday night dinner presentations. Diane will talk about her two recent publications: a grief-and-relief memoir, Love of Finished Years, which debuted in December 2021 and her work of speculative fiction titled Rebirth on Xarbo, of October 2023. Paperback copies will be available for purchase. Both works deal with vicissitudes of relationships, mortality, and possible afterlife scenarios. dianedepisa.com

Food & Gift Card Drive for Afghan Refugee Family

The Church Council voted to assist an Afghan refugee family of three (including a three-year old daughter) who are in a dire situation of extreme need.
Northbrae can help with food and perhaps gift cards.
November 5 has been designated the collection day.
The list of food items desired includes:
Powdered milk (lots)
Basmati rice (lots)
Whole grain bread
Naan
Black tea (bags)
Sugar
Canned tomatoes
Canned soup
Canned tuna
Crackers
Granola
Peanut butter
Cake mix
Cooking oil
Onions
Eggplant
Spinach
Carrots
Cucumbers
Dates
Spices: salt, pepper, coriander, cumin
Please join us in helping this family!

Please join us on Zoom September 20th at 7pm to discuss the film Bicycle Thieves. This 1948 Italian Neorealism classic by director Antonio De Sica follows a poor father around post war Rome on his journey to find his stolen bicycle which he needs to support his family. Please email Suzanne at [email protected] for the zoom link.

NEWS FROM THE NORTHBRAE COUNCIL, JUNE 2023

Our new Administrator, Juliana Bruno, is here and on the job. Feel free to come in and meet her during the week. Her hours are 8 to 2 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and 9 to 3 on Tuesday and Thursday.

The chapel carpet is ordered and construction will begin in earnest on Monday July 10. Some work on the rock wall next to the pulpits may start next week. Also, we are hoping to have a demonstration sound system installed in the chapel later this week so next Sunday’s service may have a new sound system to consider.

Worship services in the Parlor will start on Sunday, July 16. A new high speed wifi system is being installed in the Parlor and Haver Hall so we can stream the services from there.

A Volunteer Pruning Club facilitated by Evelyn Borchert (who is an APA Certified Aesthetic Pruner) will be working to beautify the Northbrae grounds on Saturday, July 8 from 10:00am-3:00pm. Anyone in the church who would like to join them is more than welcome. Bring gardening gloves and tools and join the fun!