Live Oak UU Fellowship
in Alameda

Welcome to Live Oak UU Fellowship

We create loving community
through worship and service to others

Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is a progressive spiritual community in the heart of Alameda. We walk diverse paths to find meaning and purpose but are united by our belief in the worth and dignity of all and the obligation to express our faith through acts of justice and compassion.  Please join us as we create a diverse, spirit-growing, justice-seeking community.

Organized in 2009, we are a small lay-led fellowship that aligns itself with the Unitarian Universalist Association. We  meet on the first and third Sundays of each month at 4 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church in Alameda.

Our services are filled with music and meaning and are led by members of our congregation. We frequently feature guest speakers from throughout the Bay Area.  After every service,  we have a community meal for all attendees. 

Each Sunday's offering is donated to outside organizations whose values reflect our own.  Recently, we have given to organizations ranging from the Alameda Food Bank and the Boys and Girls Club of Alameda to Americares.

In addition to our services, we have a number of small groups that meet regularly and other activities including game nights and picnics. 


Live Oak welcomes everybody. Everybody means - whatever you look like, however you speak, whoever you love, however you dress, whoever you live with, rich, poor, tall, short, dark, light - in all the myriad confusing ways we are human, we welcome YOU. 

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'Flower Communion' 
Sunday, June 21

A much-loved new tradition at Live Oak, we will celebrate our annual Flower Communion on Sunday,  June 21. 

The original Flower Communion was created by Rev. Dr. Norbert Capek (1870-1942), who founded the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia. He introduced this special service to that church on June 4, 1923.

For some time, he felt the need for some symbolic ritual that would bind people more closely together. The format had to be one that would not alienate anyone who had forsaken other religious traditions. The traditional Christian communion service with bread and wine was unacceptable to his congregation.

So, he turned to the native beauty of the Czechoslovakian countryside for elements of communion that would be genuine to them.

This simple service was the result. It was such a success that it was held yearly, and the tradition was brought to the United States in 1940. 

Please bring flowers to the service. If you don't have any readily available, we'll have plenty!

This is the third time we have celebrated the Flower Communion. Live Oak's Jay Roller and Karen Boutilier will lead the service.

Live Oak's Richard Stromer will be the Worship Associate for our service, which starts at 4 p.m. We meet on the first and third Sundays of each month at Christ Episcopal Church in Alameda.
Live Oak's Board of Directors:  President Jim Freschi,  Mark Goor,  Matt Lovering, and Jackie Roth.

 Where We Worship

We worship at Christ Episcopal Church at the corner of Santa Clara and Grand Street in Alameda on the first and third Sundays of the month at 4 p.m.

Our mailing address and where we worship is:  1700 Santa Clara Ave.  Alameda, CA 94501 


510  295-7382

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