Join us in marking the beginning of Lent at our Ash Wednesday service on this Wednesday, February 18th at 7:30PM. The service will be in the sanctuary and online. Childcare will be available, we hope to see you there!

Join us at 11:30AM February 8th and 15th after worship for a two-part Perspectives series led by our own Connie Swanson! For decades, the work of some physicians, philosophers, physicists and neuroscientists, proffered a solid claim that beyond the offer of reason and science as ways of knowing, intuition and imagination also exist as ways for us to know reality. In other words, epistemology now opens to include more of who we humans are. Our sense of the Sacred is hard to wrestle into words. Now, in a time when words about the Sacred may be more important than ever, when imagination may be more essential than ever, new understanding of the way our brains work may teach us about these human potentials.

Join us at 11:30 AM this Sunday after worship for our next Perspectives class! The Rev. Cindi Fong will be doing a workshop on the Ministry of Presence through Radical Listening. This simple practice can offer hope and healing in our sometimes divided, violent, and broken world. The Ministry of Presence through Radical Listening can be a gift particularly in relationships or situations where we do not know how to care for others or ourselves because of difference, mental illness, or grief. We will learn about Radical Listening, practice it, and then hear stories from Cindi’s experience using Radical Listening to care for others through her Chaplaincy Training with San Francisco Night Ministry (SFNM).

December 17th @ Noon to help put up trees and decorate the sanctuary for Christmas Eve

December 24th @ 6 PM for a Christmas Eve service with special musicians 

December 28th @ 10 AM for Christmastide Fellowship Sunday where we will have the chance to connect with each other in place of traditional worship

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: John Muir Laws, Simone Weil, and Brother Lawrence. 

Join us on Saturday, November 1st at 6PM for Seventh Avenue’s annual Homecoming Potluck and Talent Show! The theme for 2025 is Eternal Imagination! Come celebrate our beloved community and diaspora with yummy food and an entertaining show.

And then come back on Sunday November 2nd, at 2PM for our Organ Recital featuring Jonathan Dimmock, an internationally recognized concert artist. He regularly performs at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

Childcare will be provided at both events, we hope to see you there!

It's that time of  year again! Join us on Sunday, September 14th at 10 AM as we kick off the new school year with a celebration of our community! Service will be Lay Led and we will be marking the beginning of Sunday School and adult education. Come join us for singing, worship, and joyful community!

No Worship August 3rd: Pew-Less Podcast

Sunday, August 3rd, there will be no regular morning service. We will worship asynchronously via a produced podcast (available at 6 AM), featuring voices of the community and the wonderful Rev. Kathryn Price preaching a sermon from across the pond! Consider listening to the service in the park, on a walk, or sitting in a patch of sunlight. (There will be NO in-person or Zoom worship that day.)

Looking to connect with folks in the Seventh Avenue community?  Have you ever wished for more time to chat at Social Hour? Mark your calendars for Sunday, June 22nd at 10AM for our annual Fellowship as Worship Sunday, when we will have a chance to share food and spend some extra time connecting with each other in place of traditional worship. We encourage folks to bring a snack or appetizer to eat and bring some to share if you are able! The Social Hall will be set up with extra tables and chairs, and childcare will still be available. 

The Mission Team and Council have designated two Sundays in May for a Special Mission offering. One third of the collected offering will go to One Great Hour of Sharing, a national PCUSA offering supporting disaster relief, hunger and justice programs. As a Sanctuary Church, the rest will go to the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity to support local undocumented immigrants in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Please designate SPECIAL MISSION OFFERING on your check, envelope or online giving.

Sunday, April 13 @ 10 AM - Palm Sunday Worship

Wednesday, April 16 @ 7:30 PM - Virtual Taizé

Thursday, April 17 @ 7:30 PM - Maundy Thursday Service

Friday, April 18 @ 7:30 PM - Good Friday Service

Saturday, April 19 @ 10 AM - Flowering the Church

Sunday, April 20 @ 10 AM - Easter Worship followed by Egg Hunt & Potluck

Join us on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at 7:30PM for a virtual Taizé service featuring chants, candlelight, and quiet. This meditative time together is a nice break from the chaos of the every day, we hope to see you there.

This Sunday we will worship asynchronously via an audio recorded service (available at 6AM that Sunday morning), featuring voices of the community and Dr. Lisa Fullam preaching. Consider listening to the service in the park, on a walk, or sitting at your favorite sunlit window. There will be NO in-person or Zoom worship on March 23rd.

We are excited to welcome Rod Swanson to teach our next Perspectives two-part class! March 9^th we will look at Walter Wink’s Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way. In this small book Wink offers a summary of his thinking about the relation of Jesus and his message to politics and nonviolence, the history of nonviolent efforts, and nonviolence as an alternative to the dominant and death-dealing "powers" of our consumerist culture and fractured world.

We are excited to welcome Rod Swanson to teach our next Perspectives two-part class! March 2^nd we will look at Stanford University - King Center’s inaugural digital course. Nonviolence365® Masterclass Edition which provides insight into Dr. Martin Luther King’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning strategy to prepare people across the globe to embrace nonviolence as a lifestyle and as a vehicle for social change.

Our own Nancy Knop will be leading a three-part series on the topic of “Sleep and Dreams - studying with Science and Scripture'.” Join us after worship at 11:30AM on February 9th, 16th, & 23rd!

Please join us after worship on February 2nd at 11:30AM for our congregation’s Annual Meeting. We will be sharing our 2025 budget, welcoming new members, and conducting other church business. The meeting will be in the sanctuary and on Zoom, we hope to see you there!

Please join us at 6PM on Christmas Eve for our annual evening service in the sanctuary or on Zoom! Following worship, stay for dessert reception in the Social Hall. Please bring your favorite dessert to share, childcare will be provided!

Seventh Avenue as it is could not exist without the support of our community. The church is the people, and we are thankful to those who give of their time, energy, and resources. We are rooted in San Francisco but our diaspora stretches over the oceans. As we move into 2025, you are invited to join us in upholding this beloved community and the work that is done as we try to make this world a more loving place. Fill out a pledge for next year here and we’re glad you’re with us!

Pastor Jenna Meyers will facilitate our annual Advent retreat at Mercy Center in Burlingame on Saturday, December 7th 9AM - 4PM. During this daylong retreat, we will lean into this year's theme, “Believing Something Wild”, as we make our way to the Feast of the Nativity. Click on the photo for more information!