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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'Becoming: Forged in Love'
Sunday, August 16

Guest Minister Rev. Johnnie Bloom Ramirez returns to Live Oak for a service titled "Becoming, Forged in Love."
"Damascus Steel is most valuable in crafting martial weapons," he said.  " Like humans, it's a metal designed in layers formed and reformed."

On Sunday, Aug. 16, he will draw parallels to the forging of steel and the layers that create us, including joy and trauma.

The Rev. Johnnie Bloom-Ramirez/Rev. Johnnie (he/they) is originally from Southern California, but now serves the Mission Peak UU Congregation in Fremont, as well as the UCSF Medical Center as a chaplain per diem.


He graduated from Meadville Lombard with a Master of Divinity and is currently pursuing his Doctor of Ministry in Arts and Theology at United Seminary of the Twin Cities.

He is married to Rene, and they have an adult son, Geordyn. A total history nerd, he builds historical garments and runs a nonprofit historical reenactment company in his spare time.

Live Oak's Darlene Pagano will be the Worship Leader 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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