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March 2025 Beloved! We are entering the month of March, which again this year brings us the Christian season of Lent. Lent has many different connotations for everybody. I have always appreciated Lent and not because I believe in all the ways in which we have to be miserable that we sometimes associate with this…

Hillcrest Church Office and Food & Clothing Rooms Closed Hillcrest Church Office, Food, and Clothing Rooms will be closed in observance of President’s Day, Monday, February 16, 2025. The Office will reopen on Tuesday, February 17th and the Food and Clothing Rooms will be open again on Wednesday, February 18th from 9 – 11:45 a.m.

In January 2025, Hillcrest Outreach Services volunteers provided food, clothing and new baby layettes to our neighbors in need. The numbers for January are as follows: Food: 682 individuals received food to feed them for 3 days. Clothing: 400 individuals received clothing at no cost. Layettes: 27 new mothers received a layette full of items…

Tuesday, December 24th at 5 p.m. Please join us for Christmas Eve service in the Hillcrest Church sanctuary. Hear about what Gabriel was trying to tell us and why that message is still important today. Following the service, we will gather on the the courtyard to sing, “Silent Night” by candlelight.

In anticipation of the birth of baby Jesus and all the new precious new babies, the Hillcrest Layette outreach program is providing an opportunity to help clothe new babies born to mother’s in need. The layettes are distributed by Contra Costa County Health Department to the new mothers. Tags on the Giving Tree in Fellowship…

Hillcrest Church is one of 260 local Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano partner agencies to help address food insecurity in our community. Nearly half of the food distributed through the Food Bank is through partner agencies, which include soup kitchens, church pantries, transitional housing services and child-care centers. Many Hillcrest members and friends…

While food insecurity rates increase, communities nationwide are rising to meet it. Dedicated volunteers and staff work tirelessly alongside families to run food banks and meal programs. They’re sharing food, building gardens, and calling for changes that make healthy food easier to find for everyone. Hillcrest Church thanks our Food Room volunteers for all they…

Worship Theme: “Do Unto Others: Kindness” In worship, we are beginning a new series on the theme of “Do Unto Others.” The first Sunday we will talk about kindness. There is always space for kindness. I am reminded of these words from Poet Laureate Joy Harjo: We see you, see ourselves and knowThat we must take…

We are at the last two weeks of our series on listening. These two weeks we are considering what it means to listen to the world. I will be sharing a special message that is ripening in my spirit. It focuses on a piece of scripture that we hardly ever read in church: Romans 13….

All Are Welcome! Dearly beloved! We are talking about listening in these weeks and if you’ve had a chance to hear my speak, you will understand that I think about listening broadly. It is really about being deeply perceptive. We contemplated listening to God the last two. In the next two weeks we’ll consider listening to…

Pastor Niels Teunis has joined other clergy in Northern California’s Clergy for Reproductive Freedom team–a volunteer group of community leaders from diverse faith traditions who support and advocate for the mission and vision of Planned Parenthood Northern California. The Three Pillars include: 1. Enhance and elevate faith voices that are pro-reproductive freedom, and counter the…

“Love listens. It is the first task, to listen” – Paul Tillich