On Sunday March 17th our congregation called the Reverend Bruce Reyes-Chow to be the next Pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto, beginning on April 1, 2019. Bruce has been a Presbyterian pastor for over 23 years serving a diversity of congregations in the San Francisco Bay Area. A 3rd generation Chinese/Filipino, in 2008…

From Saturday, March 16 – Monday, March 18, more than a hundred people will walk from Palo Alto to Wells Fargo Headquarters in San Francisco to protest Oily Wells’ continuing financing of fossil fuel infrastructure.  On Monday, Wells Fargo Founders Day, the march culminates with a rally (11:30am at the Montgomery BART station) followed by…

On Ash Wednesday, March 6 at 7 PM, Covenant Presbyterian, First Presbyterian, and First Baptist congregations will gather together in the sanctuary at First Baptist to share in a service of prayer and meditation at the beginning of the Lenten season. The following Wednesdays at 6PM, we will gather in our Sanctuary for Taizé services. The mood of Taizé…

We are excited about this year’s Vacation Bible School, Justice for (Sm)all, happening August 5-9!  We will host a fun-filled week for kids entering Kindergarten through 5th grades for morning activities. Activities will center on the Bible stories focused on the “radical love” of Jesus: loving your neighbor, helping the poor, the sick, the elderly…We’ll…