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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'Tending the Light
A Celebration of the Winter Solstice'  Sunday, Dec. 21
Special 90-minute service

Our final service of the year: 'Tending the Light, A Celebration of the Winter Solstice'  on Sunday, Dec. 21 promises to be one of the highlights of the year at Live Oak with beautiful music and inspiring words.

In this, our yearly celebration of the Winter Solstice, we honor the rebirth of the Sun, an observance as old as humankind.

And while the return of light after the longest night has always carried a promise of renewal, it is in our darkest seasons that its meaning feels most profound. For it is precisely in such times that we are reminded that light does not return on its own—we must help make the way for it.

The theme of this year’s service, Tending the Light, invites us to reflect on the flame entrusted to us—the light of compassion, justice, courage, and hope. We did not kindle this light, yet it is ours to shelter and nourish, to pass from hand to hand when the winds of fear or hatred rise.

In tending the light, we keep faith with one another and with the turning of the year itself.

This special 90-minute extended worship service will be led by Live Oak's Richard Stromer and Karen Boutilier and will be woven with beautiful music and inspiring words. It will conclude with our annual Candlelighting Ritual, a high point of the year at Live Oak.

We meet on the first and third Sundays of each month at Christ Episcopal Church in Alameda at 4 p.m.
Live Oak's Board of Directors: President Jim Freschi, Secretary -Treasurer Roger Hallsten,  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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