Second Harvest Food Bank's Operation Brown Bag Program provides low income seniors with a weekly bag of groceries at distribution sites throughout Santa Clara County. They are looking for a host site on Tuesday mornings from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in Sunnyvale.

Join Fr. Louis Vitale to learn more about this proposal for bold, powerful and peaceful steps to help establish a comprehensive withdrawal plan. A longtime social activist, Louie co-founded the Nevada Desert Experience, a movement to end nuclear testing. He served 13 years as pastor of St. Boniface Catholic Church in the Tenderloin and recently completed a six-month sentence for nonviolent action to close the School of the Americas/WHINSEC at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

Find out where candidates running for District Attorney of Santa Clara County stand on a moratorium for the death penalty and where you can find out more about the candidates!

What Would Jesus Do?
Join the Parade! Bless the Children! Love Everybody!

The Council of Churches of Santa Clara County is proud to have a contingent in the Los Altos High School "Celebrate Diversity" Gay Straight Alliance Parade. The parade is coming up on Sunday, June 4th.

The Council of Churches of Santa Clara County invites you to participate with us in the Gay Pride Weekend Events, June 9-11 in San Jose.
• See the film "God and Gays: Bridging the Gap" on Friday, June 9th, 7pm at the First Congregational Church of San Jose.
• Join in our "Celebration of Spirit Worship Service" on Saturday, June 10th, 10am with the theme "Traveling Mercies." This year marks the 15th annual Celebration in Spirit service!
• March with the Council in the Gay Pride Parade, Sunday, June 11th, 11am.
• Support the Council of Churches booth at the Gay Pride Festival, Sat & Sun, June 10-11, 11:30am-8pm at Guadalupe River Park Discovery Meadow.

Why should we join in the pre- and post-movie dialogue about "The Da Vinci Code"? As people and as Christians, we are called to leave the window to our mind open so that we can receive wisdom and grace, even if it involves acknowledging the dark and painful or even the intellectual, or thinking areas of our lives and our world. The release of the film is not just another movie venture, but rather a priceless opportunity for meaningful, even profound, dialogue about Christianity, religion, money, power, sexuality, philosophy, and theology. It is also an opportunity to envision,and give voice to, progressive Christian ideas about Christ and the Church.

The Council of Churches of Santa Clara County invites you to join us in celebrating Mother's Day for Peace. To this end, you can find links to approriate materials, - inlcuding a Mothers Day sermon by Jerry Fox based on I John 4 (lectionary) as well as lectionary notes that might prompt some good Bible study in preparation for Sunday, - by clicking on "read more". In addittion, you can learn about the Mother of Mother's Day, Julia Ward Howe and her call for "A Mother's Day of Peace" in the General News article, "The Mother of Mother's Day"

Experience the World Council of Churches right here in San Jose!

The U.S. Conference of the World Council of Churches will meet in San Jose May 11-13, and will host an ecumenical service on Thursday, May 11, 7:15pm, inviting the public to join them. It will be held at Wesley United Methodist Church, 566 North 5th Street in San Jose.

There will also be a discussion on the 9th Assembly on Friday, May 12th, 7pm at the Saint Clarie Hotel in San Jose.