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City Church aspires to be an inclusive community that follows Jesus with our head, heart and hands.

09/11/2026

There's a kind of faith that stays inside the walls of a sanctuary, and a kind that walks out the door and asks who's hungry, who's forgotten, who's still waiting to be seen as fully human.

Sunday reminded us that these were never two separate things to begin with. To know God and to notice your neighbor — really notice them — turn out to be the same practice, just wearing different clothes. We left asking ourselves a harder question than we came in with: not whether we believe this, but whether our lives are actually built to reflect it.

09/09/2026

Visio Divina — "divine seeing" — is an old practice of praying with art instead of just looking at it. No reading, no analyzing. Just a pause to rest your eyes and your mind, and let an image do what words sometimes can't.

God is speaking — not in words here, but in light, in gesture, in the exact moment a life gets interrupted. We have the ears to hear it. Sometimes we just need the eyes first.

Sit with the painting. Let your gaze move where the light moves. No agenda beyond that.

09/08/2026

May this week greet you with kindness and bless you with courage.

This Sunday, stay a little longer after service on September 13th — we'll be ordaining and celebrating our new elders and deacons, then gathering as a congregation for a time of reflection, with lunch provided.

Come hungry, come ready to celebrate what God is building among us.

09/06/2026

Thank you for joining us on this Labor Day weekend.

09/04/2026

There's a kind of trust that doesn't come from seeing the whole road ahead — it comes from remembering whose story we've always been part of, and staying tender enough to notice where that story is still unfolding.

We don't get certainty about what's coming. We get an invitation: to keep listening, to stay soft toward what's inconvenient, and to take the next honest step even before the destination makes sense.

That's not blind faith. That's attention. That's showing up.

One step. Then the next. That's how a future gets built.

"God might set us up for big swings and humbling falls, but God will also meet us in our faithfulness and turn our humilities into a seedbed for hope. Which is why we continue to plant and put 1 foot in front of the other, stepping faithfully, as faithfully as we can into the future."

09/03/2026

Scripture holds many voices, but one message remains consistent throughout: God’s central commitment to care for the poor and oppressed. This concern extends to how those in power support that commitment. This Sunday, Pastor Amanda will lead us in reflecting how the labor movement carries that same conviction forward.

We will also welcome guest speaker Adam Tessier, a Google software engineer and proud member of the Alphabet Workers Union, as part of our participation in San Francisco Labor Council and AlphabetWorkers Interfaith Council’s “Labor in the Pulpit” program, which brings together labor leaders and faith communities to talk about our shared values and how our movements are woven together.”

09/02/2026

Lower those shoulders. Unclench your jaw. Give your back a good stretch.

Inhale:
O God of Exhilarating Energy, Fountain of Creativity, Source of all Solutions — give me confidence.

Exhale:
I wait in patience with the heart of a small child who delights in being surprised.

However full your feed is, however full your day is — you're allowed thirty seconds to just breathe this in. Confidence on the inhale. Wonder on the exhale.

09/01/2026

Mark your calendars! We've got updates, meals, and fun times ahead.

9/13 — Congregational Gathering & Meal
9/14 — City Hope Dinner & Game Night
9/17 — Ladies Social Club
9/23 — City Hope Documentary Screening

Four chances to gather, eat, laugh, and be known. Hope to see you at one (or all!). 💛

08/28/2026

This past Sunday, we reflected on what happens when the gospel becomes more than something we know—it becomes something that changes how we live together.

"Paul’s concern for the church wasn’t that they lacked information. It was that the gospel had not yet changed how they treated one another. Their struggle wasn’t intellectual shallowness, but communal immaturity."

And that invites a deeper question for us: Has the grace we’ve received begun to shape the way we love?

Christ is our foundation—a foundation strong enough to bear the weight of a world transformed. Our calling is to build a community whose life reflects that grace: a community that shows our neighbors what it looks like to belong, to be loved, and to believe in a God who made us for wholeness of life.

The gospel doesn’t just form what we believe. It forms who we become together.

08/26/2026

Take a moment to stop scrolling and breathe.

Lower your shoulders. Breathe in deeply. Exhale loudly.

Allow the words from Rebbe Nachman to disrupt the noise that has now become too normal these days.

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PO Box 641049
San Francisco, CA
94164

Website

https://citychurchsf.org/

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