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Our Digital Campus
Sisters and Brothers,
If you haven’t already, please take a moment to install/download Zoom on your personal computer, tablet, or smartphone. As a reminder, our building is closed and worship, bible study and other meetings will be held online via zoom (or telephonically) until further notice. Signing up and downloading Zoom is easy. On your computer, go to zoom.com and click “Sign up, It’s Free.” Then follow the prompts for setting up your account. If you’d like to Zoom via iPad or smartphone, look for the Zoom Cloud Meetings app that is free in the app store.
Christian Fellowship UCC Digital Worship
11:00 AM Pacific Time
Join our Digital Campus for Worship
Please email info@christianfellowshipucc.org
Many thanks to Min Monica Bradley, Christie Hill, and members of the Diaconate and Evangelism Board for their technical support each Sunday. Please invite a friend or family member, near or far, to join us online!
I am looking forward to gathering with you at on Digital Campus, we have so much to thank and praise God for! If you miss our worship, services are viewable on the Christian Fellowship Youtube Channel.
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Peace and Power,
Christian Fellowship UCC Church and the movement to ban all neck restraints in San Diego
Christian Fellowship Congregational Church UCC has been a formal member of the Racial Justice Coalition of San Diego (RJC) since 2018 and we have played an active role in its “I Can’t Breathe Campaign”. The Racial Justice Coalition started this specific campaign to end all neck restraints used by law enforcement in San Diego. This movement finally succeeded when a ban on the carotid restraint in the City of San Diego was announced on June 1st, 2020 and then a County level ban was announced on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020.
San Diego became one of the last major cities to ban neck restraints and it was in part due to this massive and sustained social movement that included not just religious institutions and leaders, but also those who had personally experienced being put in one of these neck restraints and those who had family members that had a relative placed in neck restraints, as well as community groups, civil rights organizations, and medical and law enforcement professionals.
Christian Fellowship Congregational Church hosted the first public teach-in on neck restraints organized by the RJC in January of 2018 which included expert panelists Genevieve Jones-Wright, Bishop Cornelius Bowser, Buki Domingos, Robert Branch (a San Diego County Sheriff Deputy used a neck restraint against Mr Branch and he successfully sued the County of San Diego,) and his attorney, Marc Kohan. This work was integral to the mission and regular activities of the Social Justice Ministry at Christian Fellowship, who not only endorsed the “I Can’t Breathe Campaign” but offered to host this teach-in and support all of the activities and organizing work of the Racial Justice Coalition. Being on the right side of history and playing a role in the ending of the barbaric and racist neck restraints that law enforcement have historically used against Black and Brown men has been an invaluable role of the Social Justice Ministry at Christian Fellowship with the Racial Justice Coalition, as well as in our Emerald Hills community in southeastern San Diego.”
Dr. Darwin Fishman, PhD
Black Lives Matter
Our faith teach us that each person is created in the “Imago Dei” (image of God) in Genesis 1:27. Because humanity has been made in the image of the Holy Parent we are therefore full of intrinsic worth, value and deserving of dignity. What is true is that God did not create race, racism, superior groups of humans, nor did God create hegemonic and hierarchical social structures. God does not sanction human suffering, but looks upon those who are suffering and intervenes directly to bring about liberation and justice for the broken and oppressed. Black Lives Matter.
Black Lives Matter, because we live in nation where young black males are 21 times more likely to be shot dead by police than their white counterparts.
Black Lives Matter, because black women in crisis are often met by police with deadly force.
Black Lives Matter, because queer and especially transgender black individuals face elevated negative outcomes when they encounter police in moments of trauma.
As a Church, we boldly proclaim, “Black Lives Matter” not simply because we are a largely black worshipping congregation, but because we are called to witness against white supremacy and support the struggle to build a society that is antiracist and reimagine a world where the public safety of the most vulnerable is centered and prioritized. In this church we insist upon living a life that is model in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, to shows us what love looks like, what justice looks like, and equality looks like– in both the public square and our private places of being.
#BlackLivesMatter and white silence is violence.
Communion and Trinity Sunday, June 7th
Church,
In the midst of all that is happening in the world without a doubt we are called by the Spirit to live Pentecost everyday; doing what we can to set the world ablaze with the fire of justice, love and liberation. I want each of you to know that I see the multiple ways you are making this come alive in our world–whether it is reaching a new person and encouraging them to experience our church online, caring for an elderly parent, encouraging friends on social media to be anti-racist, or joining peaceful and nonviolent efforts in the city street–you are being the church and living the story of Pentecost!
Thank you for joining us this Sunday, and a very special thank you to the many who worked at home to make our Pentecost Community Art a collective display of hope for the fire of justice, healing and peace burning in our world today.
Grace, Peace and Power,
Dr. Hill
~UPCOMING DIGITAL GATHERINGS~
WEDNESDAY EVENING BIBLE STUDY
Wednesday, June 3rd at 6PM
Meeting ID: 868 9845 4595
Password: 1886
Phone: +1 669 900 9128
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JOINT SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
Sunday, June 7th at 9:30AM
Meeting ID: 894 3290 5741
Password: 1886
Phone: +1 669 900 9128
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COMMUNION and TRINITY SUNDAY WORSHIP
Sunday, June 7th at 11AM
Meeting ID: 874 6087 5328
Password: 1886
Phone: +1 669 900 9128
In preparation for our digital worship experience of Holy Communion this Sunday please prepare a small piece of BREAD (cracker, wafer, crouton, torilla) and a cup of JUICE (wine or water). These elements will be consecrated in worship and shared together as a holy sacrament.
