We embrace the teaching that all of church — worshiping, visiting, sharing a meal — is curriculum. Whether children or adults, we learn and are enlivened by one another.

Children’s Ministry

Sunday School

Sunday school is offered during the school-year months (September through May).

Leaning on resources from Illustrated Ministry, Sunday School classes are offered weekly for children in Pre-K through 6th grade.

First and third Sundays feature lessons by our Director of Children’s Music, Irene Navarro.

Child care is available for our littlest ones (0-5) throughout the year in the nursery.

Perspectives

  • Awareness as Food for Spiritual Growth

    Join us on November 9th, 16th, and 23rd at 11:30AM after worship in the Sanctuary for our next Perspectives series led by the Rev. Dale Trunk! Sometimes we are given the attitude that the life of faith is otherworldly - that our earthly context and our active human minds are distractions. This attitude may stem from approaching our Christian faith as our ticket out of here to escape to our “true home” in heaven. During this month’s Perspectives we will explore another approach to faith, prayer, and action. How about becoming more aware of ourselves as part of God’s creation, and seeing our earthly context as our present home that God calls us to engage and care for? How about embracing the elements of Creation as revelations along our path with and into God? We will explore the thoughts of three different teachers of awareness as food for metanoia prayer-engaging imagination-exploring reality-being of service.

    1) John Muir Laws is a local teacher of nature journaling. He offers a simple process of stimulating awareness: “I notice – I wonder – It reminds me of.”

    2) Simone Weil was a French philosopher known for her profound spirituality and commitment to social justice. She saw attention as a gateway to the divine. She wrote: “attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” It is not a transaction. It is not a loan. It is pure gift.

    3) Brother Lawrence is known for his simple approach to prayer and service: “The Practice of the Presence of God.” He lived through the horrors of fighting in the Thirty Years War and later became a Carmelite Friar, spending years as a cook and sandal maker. At the age of 16, he saw a leafless tree in a battlefield. Knowing that the tree would be budding forth in a few months, he saw it as a symbol of God's love able to transform human hearts.

  • Interested in becoming a member? We’ll be hosting New Membership classes in the Spring!

    This two-part class will be held April 26th and May 3rd after Sunday Worship. Please reach out to Pastor Jenna at jennameyers@seventhavenuechurch.org for more information or to sign up! Taking part in this class does not require a commitment to membership, it may just help in your discernment!

    • Mission Team: Mujeres Unidas Y Activas

      October 12th

      A guest speaker from Mujeres Unidas Y Activas (MUA), an immigrant aid organization in Oakland, will describe her own experiences and the ongoing essential work of MUA. We are also collecting a Special Offering through the end of October that will be sent to MUA to support their ongoing work in the immigrant community.

    • Music an Prayer, a Journey of Discovery with John Prescott

      May 18th and 25th

      During these two sessions, we will begin an exploration of the complex and fascinating relationship between music and prayer. From meditation with singing bowls, to instrumental music without words, to vocal music, we will share how various kinds of music help or inhibit our experience of prayer. We will compare the experience of live and recorded music as well as listening vs participating in music. There are no right or wrong answers and no formal musical training is necessary.