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900 Cabrillo Highway North 
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
​(650) 726-9293

A Spiritual Oasis where all are welcome

Mission Statement
Coastside Lutheran Church is a spiritual harbor where all, without exception, are welcome and accepted with open arms. We are fed and grow by sharing in the grace of God through Jesus Christ, so we can go out to serve the community inspired by the
Holy Spirit.


Affirmation of Welcome
We seek to provide a loving community to everyone regardless of sex, race, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, physical or mental ability, age, or station of life. We are a Reconciling in Christ congregation.
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All public gatherings of any kind are postponed until further notice.
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SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP VIA ZOOM @ 10 AM with fellowship after
 
Every Sunday experience virtual Holy Communion ​​where ALL are welcome without exception!
 
Zoom link for worship and fellowship:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84381518830?pwd=aVdLbXBkWWNiTHJFYUVWc1JsOGhuQT09  
dial in:   +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 843 8151 8830 Password: 656832

Zoom Sunday mornings at 10am for worship or view any time from our website or Facebook page. 



During this difficult time, we ask that you consider donating to CLC to keep our staff and programs going during this "shelter-in-place". Your financial contributions are much appreciated. You can donate via check (mailed to 900 Cabrillo Hwy N, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019) or with the PayPal link below. Read our giving letter from our Council President HERE. Thank you & God Bless.

Keep in touch--see current newsletter for details


Women's Daytime Gathering is @ 2 pm-3:30 pm via zoom on January 12th  
Every 2nd Tuesday 
each month. We have new zoom link and passcode.
Theme for January/February is "Journey with Angels"

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85211109648?pwd=QU9CNXhrcThUSXZvMzV4ZjhHeDRUZz09
Dial by your location: +1-669-900-9128. Meeting ID: 852 1110 9648. Passcode: 150680


Diverse Stories Discussion Group is ON for 4th Thursday, January 28, 2021 New January Book! The Dutch House, latest novel by Ann Patchett
Set over 5 decades, it delves deeply into questions of inheritance, love, forgiveness,
how we want to see ourselves and who we really are.
 

Meets 12-1:30 pm Via Zoom 
 
 
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/331354783 
Dial by your location: +1 720 707 2699  Meeting ID: 331 354 783

Check out January 2021 Newsletter for more information!  Thanks Marian Lacey for your lead!

Prior Books read: Help, Thanks, Wow--The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott, H is for Hawk & Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald, The Invention of Wings by Sue Kidd Monk, Tattoos of the Heart & Barking to the Choir by Father Gregory Boyle, Accidental Saints by Nadia Bolz-Weber. 
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ELCA reaffirms its commitment to combat racism and white supremacy:

 https://www.elca.org/News-and-Events/8039?_ga=2.203446617.875481088.1604845974-1493876312.1604845974 

Here is a link to our other Social statements and policies: 
 https://www.elca.org/Resources/Faith-and-Society 

CLC providing sandwiches on Friday for the hungry via Abundant Grace!
If you would be willing to donate cheese and meat for the sandwiches (packaged cookies would be fun too!) or would like to help make sandwiches, please contact Marian: melacey@pacbell.net



Here are uplifting links you may find helpful while we shelter in place.
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PRAY AS YOU GO--10 minute daily devotions of song, scripture, and meditation
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Salt Project weekly commentary, poem, & almanac on Sunday readings 

Wednesday Evening worship with The MANY 6 pm PST   

Holding On to Hope National Prayer Service
ELCA Bishop Eaton joins other religious leaders in a worship for healing and wholeness for our Nation. 

Learn about ways you can be an anti-racist on our Resource Page
(or click here to Download List of Recommended Books/Films as a PDF)


Online connection for those in recovery

Family Sunday School lessons from SparkHouse Publishers

900 Cabrillo Highway North, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
​Office: (650) 726-9293
info@coastsidelutheran.org

Epiphany Wonder

1/12/2018

 
“...they [the magi] set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its rising in the East, until it stopped over the place where the child was.”  Mt 2:9
 
“I’ve been looking at the night sky my whole life.  I’ve dreamed I’ve walked the length of the Milky Way.  I thought, as a child, that it was the path to heaven. Do stars tell us anything?
They tell us about the visions of the powerful and ambitious for sure like Berenice’s Hair,  a constellation named in honour of an Egyptian King.  Or the Pleiades.  The daughters of Zeus.  Stars show us our dreams and our projections.  
I have my own theory.  They are just light.  Light from another time, another age.  Light reaching us.  Pointing the way.  That’s what I thought when we saw the star.  That’s what convinced me to leave home.  That’s what I found to be true.  After the countless miles, the dead-ends, and finally our discovery of the child.  
A star gives itself to show the way.  It dies in its giving.  It is the grace that has no concern for itself.  It might be named in honour of the powerful, but it offers itself for all.  And it pointed us to be the true light of the world.”     Mann, Rachel, Magi (II): A Star-Filled Grace. Glasgow: Wild Goose Publications, 2015. Pages 53-54. Print.
What and/or who has guided your way to greater understanding about the fullness of living, giving, and being authentically you in the world?  How have you been affected by the stories of God’s unconditional love and engagement with all creation from the beginning of time?  How are you affected by the One who enters our reality as a beloved yet dependent baby named Jesus who becomes a refugee child, and later a carpenter, teacher, healer, and friend? In his own baptism, Jesus is filled with the Holy Spirit and claimed as God’s own.  He is led into the wilderness to discover his call to ministry and what that means for him from that point forward.  What difference does the Word made manifest make in your life? Or, in our call as a faith community here at Coastside Lutheran Church?  These are the questions we explore the Sundays after Epiphany.  It’s a time to listen, to celebrate, to be renewed, and to discover what it means to follow this one “full of grace and truth,” (John 1:14b) because “nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.”
(Romans 8:39).  Enter with me into the blessings of this season of worship and community activity to experience renewal, clarity, and communion. In Christ,  
Pastor Dawn



 



 
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