Members of Foothills Congregational Church in Los Altos are scheduled to participate in the CROP Hunger Walk 1 p.m. Oct. 8 at Nealon Park, 800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park.
The walk is a fundraiser for Church World Service, a nonprofit group that feeds the hungry and provides clean water.
We seem to be living in a terrified age. Good people all over the world are afraid that other people – “they” – will take our jobs, our safety, our privacy. Fear is at the source of racial conflict, immigration issues and arguments about gun ownership.
Michael Kinnamon, a scholar who has worked across religious denominations, recently wrote a book, “The Witness of Religion in an Age of Fear.” It doesn’t take much to make the case that fear and a contest for security may be the most dangerous forces at play today in our country and in the world.
Musicians from Los Altos United Methodist Church and the Viva la Musica choir and chamber orchestra are scheduled to perform a “Baltic Tour Farewell Concert” 2 p.m. Oct. 1 at the church, 655 Magdalena Ave.
The musicians will join forces under the baton of Shulamit Hoffmann prior to departing for a two-week performance tour that includes concerts in Vilnius, Lithuania; Riga, Latvia; Tallinn, Estonia; St. Petersburg, Russia; and Helsinki, Finland.
Los Altos United Methodist Church has scheduled its fifth annual Compassion Week Oct. 2-8, offering local residents the opportunity to join in a week of volunteer community service.
The Compassion Week planning team has organized more than 150 projects addressing a range of local needs, from cleaning up local creeks and parks to cooking and serving meals to veterans and the homeless, sewing dresses for children in Africa and repairing bicycles for dayworkers and their families.
About 30 of us sit wide-eyed in the bright conference room, like trick-or-treaters waiting for candy. We are new hires at a Bay Area technology company on day one of orientation, about to receive our laptops. I’m actually a rehire. And I’m particularly eager – and nervous – to satisfy months of curiosity. Would my old company have a place for a new me – and people like me?
Parishioners at St. William Catholic Church in Los Altos have scheduled their annual rummage sale 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the church, 611 S. El Monte Road.
Items for sale range from electronics items to jewelry, clothing and toys.
