Event Calendar

2nd Annual Circus on the Square starring performers from Circus Bella!

Get ready for a day of pure magic and excitement at St. Mark’s Square's 2nd annual Circus on the Square! On Saturday, October 5th, 2024, we’re thrilled to present Circus Bella, bringing you an unforgettable experience filled with wonder, laughter, and incredible performances.

Reserve your spot today and join us for a spectacular celebration that’s sure to create lasting memories!

Will you be the voice for a child in foster care? 

"My CASA volunteering gives my life MEANING and is also FUN.  I can schedule it to suit my calendar.  My CASA youth and I jointly choose what to do, so we both have fun. What else am I doing (work, exercise, movie-going, hanging with friends, travel, hiking, biking, cooking, etc.) that could possibly be as meaningful and satisfying as creating an authentic, warm connection with a young person in need of acceptance?"   - Monica, current CASA Volunteer

A CASA is an advocate for an abused and neglected child in foster care. In a life full of uncertainty and endless change, you can be one consistent and caring adult.

Are you ready to become a CASA? 

The Winter training begins on 1/21/2025. You must be 21 or older to apply. Please visit: https://www.sfcasa.org/volunteer

Join us for our weekly contemplative service and take a pause during the week to center yourself. Recharge and reconnect in the midst of your busy week. 

We meet in-person in St. Mary's Chapel at Trinity + St. Peter's Episcopal Church as well as on-line on Zoom.

1620 Gough Street, San Francisco - St. Mary's Chapel inside Trinity + St. Peter's Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94109

To join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/439426178...
Meeting ID: 439 426 178
Password: 503124

All Zoom meetings can be joined by phone for audio only, without a computer, at 669-900-9128. Simply enter the meeting ID and password when prompted

For more information, go to our website or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MCCSanFrancisco/ 

Breakfast Host: Compassionate Community Care

Welcome/Reading of Interfaith Statement: Michael G. Pappas, Executive Director, SFIC

Reflective Moment: Father Donal Godfrey, Chaplain, University of San Francisco

Topic: Humanizing Immigration

with USF Law Professor Bill Ong Hing

and CARECEN San Francisco Executive Director Lariza Dugan Cuadra

Facilitated by SFIC Board Member Tessa Rouverol Callejo

Faith Journey: Ignatius Bau, Independent Public Policy Consultant

Topic: Humanizing Immigration

Please join us for a timely and important conversation on immigration issues with Professor Bill Ong Hing, a national immigration expert, law professor, and author, and Lariza Dugan Cuadra, a local and national community leader and director of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN SF), facilitated by SFIC Board Member Tessa Rouverol Callejo.  

The speakers will discuss the current political climate, the underlying root causes of migration today, how mass detention and deportation separate immigrants and their families, the unique role of the faith community historically and currently, and the issues that are most significant for our immigrant community members. They will address the danger and impact of highly polarizing, racially charged, and dehumanizing narratives that depict people who migrate as a threat to community health and well-being, rather than human beings seeking a new life for themselves and their families and/or asylum as they flee violence and other drivers in their countries of origin. 

Our speakers will help us to see the opportunities for welcoming and supporting migrants in our local community and moving towards a more just, and humane set of policies and practices that align with core tenets in our many faith traditions. 

Print Parking Permit Here

Will you be the voice for a child in foster care? 

"My CASA volunteering gives my life MEANING and is also FUN.  I can schedule it to suit my calendar.  My CASA youth and I jointly choose what to do, so we both have fun. What else am I doing (work, exercise, movie-going, hanging with friends, travel, hiking, biking, cooking, etc.) that could possibly be as meaningful and satisfying as creating an authentic, warm connection with a young person in need of acceptance?"   - Monica, current CASA Volunteer

A CASA is an advocate for an abused and neglected child in foster care. In a life full of uncertainty and endless change, you can be one consistent and caring adult.

Are you ready to become a CASA? 

The Winter training begins on 1/21/2025. You must be 21 or older to apply. Please visit: https://www.sfcasa.org/volunteer

Join us for our weekly contemplative service and take a pause during the week to center yourself. Recharge and reconnect in the midst of your busy week. 

We meet in-person in St. Mary's Chapel at Trinity + St. Peter's Episcopal Church as well as on-line on Zoom.

1620 Gough Street, San Francisco - St. Mary's Chapel inside Trinity + St. Peter's Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94109

To join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/439426178...
Meeting ID: 439 426 178
Password: 503124

All Zoom meetings can be joined by phone for audio only, without a computer, at 669-900-9128. Simply enter the meeting ID and password when prompted

For more information, go to our website or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MCCSanFrancisco/ 

Are you feeling fearful about political division, health, job and relationship issues? You are not stuck! Understanding more clearly your relationship with God, infinite good, ends fear and leads the way forward.

Come hear how at a free talk on Christian Science taking place Thursday, October 17 at 7pm, located at First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1700 Franklin Street, San Francisco.

The talk will be presented by Alexandre Fischer, CS, a Christian Science practitioner and Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.

Parking is available across California Street in the Whole Foods garage. San Francisco Muni lines nearby include the 1 California, 49 VanNess/Mission, and California Cable Car lines. Child care will be provided. 

Resources, Rights, and Cultural Responsiveness

Will you be the voice for a child in foster care? 

"My CASA volunteering gives my life MEANING and is also FUN.  I can schedule it to suit my calendar.  My CASA youth and I jointly choose what to do, so we both have fun. What else am I doing (work, exercise, movie-going, hanging with friends, travel, hiking, biking, cooking, etc.) that could possibly be as meaningful and satisfying as creating an authentic, warm connection with a young person in need of acceptance?"   - Monica, current CASA Volunteer

A CASA is an advocate for an abused and neglected child in foster care. In a life full of uncertainty and endless change, you can be one consistent and caring adult.

Are you ready to become a CASA? 

The Winter training begins on 1/21/2025. You must be 21 or older to apply. Please visit: https://www.sfcasa.org/volunteer

Join us for our weekly contemplative service and take a pause during the week to center yourself. Recharge and reconnect in the midst of your busy week. 

We meet in-person in St. Mary's Chapel at Trinity + St. Peter's Episcopal Church as well as on-line on Zoom.

1620 Gough Street, San Francisco - St. Mary's Chapel inside Trinity + St. Peter's Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94109

To join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/439426178...
Meeting ID: 439 426 178
Password: 503124

All Zoom meetings can be joined by phone for audio only, without a computer, at 669-900-9128. Simply enter the meeting ID and password when prompted

For more information, go to our website or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MCCSanFrancisco/ 

Please join us next Wednesday 10/23 at 7:00 for an interfaith prayer service for Peace in our country. St Agnes Catholic  Church on Oak and Masonic has offered to host this event.

We will be joined by faith leaders of many faith traditions and hope you will be able to join us.  

David Richo, Ph.D., is psychotherapist and self-help writer who combines psychological and spiritual perspectives in his work. His website for information is davericho.com

Barry Brown, is teacher, mentor, and workshop leader. Barry combines storytelling and spiritual formation/practices in his work.

Date: 10/26/2024 (Sat.)

Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm PDT

Location: Westminster Presbyterian Church

Four times a year, Sinai Memorial Chapel invites the Northern California Jewish community to drop off sheymot, discarded sacred items, that were once used for a holy purpose and now, for any reason, need to be discarded into a Genizah, a reserved area, with dignity.

The next time to bring in your sacred items for burial will take place on Monday, October 28, 2024 from 9am to 4pm.

Three Drop Off Locations

Eternal Home

Cemetery

1051 El Camino Real Colma 94014

(650)755-5236

Home of Eternity

Cemetery + Mausoleum

5000 Piedmont Ave, Oakland 94611

(925)962-3636

Gan Shalom

Memorial Park

1100 Bear Creek Rd, Briones 94553

(925) 228-3636

Guidelines

• FREE: There is no charge to inter any of these eligible Jewish items with innate holiness to the residential communities of Northern California.
• DROP-OFF LOCATIONS: Sinai staff will receive sacred items at Colma’s Eternal Home Cemetery, Oakland’s Home of Eternity, and Briones’ Gan Shalom Cemetery. Items may not be dropped off at any of our funeral home mortuary offices or otherwise left unattended as it may compromise the respect that the items needing to be buried deserve.
• QUARTERLY DROP-OFF: Sinai provides this free service four (4) times per year. Items will not be received or accepted at other times. These are the next scheduled dates for drop-off: Monday, July 29, 2024, Monday, October 28, 2024, Monday, January 27, 2025, Monday, April 7, 2025, Monday, July 28, 2025, Monday, October 27, 2025, Monday, January 26, 2026, and Monday, March 30, 2026.
• BIODEGRADABLE: Sinai accepts paper in the form of prayer books (bentcher, birchonim, machzorim, siddurim), prayer shawls & phylacteries (talesim and tefillin). Please do not bring any plastic or laminate items.
• SORT IN ADVANCE: Please sort and place all items into a cardboard box prior to arriving at the cemetery. There is not dignified space for sorting at any of our cemeteries.
• NO UNNECESSARY ITEMS: Skull Caps (Kippot, kippah, yarmulke or koppel), Jewish newspapers, Hebrew language books, flyers, or secular in purpose items.

Please give us a call at any of the cemeteries or be in touch with our Cemetery Superintendent, Kelly Bonillas if you have an urgent need outside of the quarterly schedule so we can try and work with you.

Will you be the voice for a child in foster care? 

"My CASA volunteering gives my life MEANING and is also FUN.  I can schedule it to suit my calendar.  My CASA youth and I jointly choose what to do, so we both have fun. What else am I doing (work, exercise, movie-going, hanging with friends, travel, hiking, biking, cooking, etc.) that could possibly be as meaningful and satisfying as creating an authentic, warm connection with a young person in need of acceptance?"   - Monica, current CASA Volunteer

A CASA is an advocate for an abused and neglected child in foster care. In a life full of uncertainty and endless change, you can be one consistent and caring adult.

Are you ready to become a CASA? 

The Winter training begins on 1/21/2025. You must be 21 or older to apply. Please visit: https://www.sfcasa.org/volunteer

Join us for our weekly contemplative service and take a pause during the week to center yourself. Recharge and reconnect in the midst of your busy week. 

We meet in-person in St. Mary's Chapel at Trinity + St. Peter's Episcopal Church as well as on-line on Zoom.

1620 Gough Street, San Francisco - St. Mary's Chapel inside Trinity + St. Peter's Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94109

To join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/439426178...
Meeting ID: 439 426 178
Password: 503124

All Zoom meetings can be joined by phone for audio only, without a computer, at 669-900-9128. Simply enter the meeting ID and password when prompted

For more information, go to our website or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MCCSanFrancisco/