Welcome!

We create loving community
through worship and service to others.

Live Oak is a progressive religious 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. Join us as we create a diverse, spirit-growing, justice-seeking community.

We look forward to welcoming you! Be our guest in our fully wheelchair accessible home: 1700 Santa Clara Ave., Alameda (in the Christ Episcopal Church building at the corner of Santa Clara and Grand).

Join us in the sanctuary for worship and music on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month (January through December). And for occasional educational or recreational activities, too.

Accessibility is important to us. The sanctuary, guild room, parish hall, bathrooms, and courtyard are wheelchair accessible. We also offer assisted listening devices in the sanctuary. And we have large-print Orders of Service (programs) and hymnals. Just ask the greeter at the welcome table if any of these are useful for you. And please do tell us if you have other needs that we might be able to accommodate.

Children and youth join the adults for the first 15 minutes of each worship service, which includes music and a story for all ages. Children and their teachers then head to their classrooms. Several times a year, the children stay and participate with the adults in a multi-generational service. Children are, of course, always welcome to stay with a parent in the service. Likewise, parents are always welcome to go into the classroom with their child(ren).

Supper after: Many friends and members stay after our programs for a fellowship meal. Everyone is invited to stay to get to know us and to break bread together. We hope you, too, will join us.

For more details, please contact info@uuliveoak.org.

Below: One of several photos of Live Oak in Alameda's 4th of July parade.
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Live Oak's Next Sunday Worship Program

Sunday, August 5, 4:00 p.m.
We Are So Much More Connected Than We Think
Worship led by Eleanor Piez and Darlene Pagano

Guest Worship Leader Eleanor Piez spent two weeks in June in San Ysidro, CA, and Tijuana, Mexico, studying the U.S.-Mexico border through the lens of theology. Eleanor will reflect on the struggles, suffering and possibilities occurring there, and how we can participate now in the sixth UU principle, the goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all.

Eleanor, a lifelong/third generation Unitarian Universalist, is a candidate for the UU ministry, working toward her M.Div. degree at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. In 2016-17 she served as Intern Minister with the UU Church of Annapolis and the UU Legislative Ministry of MD. Her interests in ministry include magnifying Unitarian Universalism in the public square, the spirituality of social justice activism, and strengthening the interdependent web of nonviolent, creative relationship. Eleanor is the mother of two young adult daughters and resides in Richmond, CA. She is grateful to Live Oak for having served as her congregational sponsor.

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