Congregational Church of Belmont United Church of Christ

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Nov. 7 ~ Hold on to Faith All Saints Sunday and First Communion; Job 19:23-27a; Psalm 17:1-9; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5,13-17; Luke 20:27-38.
Nov. 14 ~ Infinite Possibilities Stewardship Sunday and Donor Sabbath; Isaiah 65:17-25 Isaiah 12 is the response. 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Luke 21:5-19
Nov. 21 ~ Thanksgiving Sunday with Childrens Skit and Choir; Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Psalm 100 Philippians 4:4-9 John 6:25-35
Nov. 28 ~ Advent I Ready and Waiting; Isaiah 2:1-5 Psalm 122 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24:36-44

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You'll find people who love to sing and do so with gusto, accompanied by guitar or piano, or a pipe organ built and tended by a member of our congregation. You'll find a special time for children that includes a ringing of bells, so we can listen to God in the silence that follows. You'll find flowers and beauty in our historic building.
In our church, you will find ideas to stimulate your thinking and surprising new understandings that can come from reaching deep into the history and mystery of the scriptures.
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Violinist Eric Leong to Perform All-Beethoven Concert
Violinist Eric Leong will perform an all-Beethoven concert with pianist Dmitriy Cogan at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, at the Congregational Church of Belmont, 751 Alameda de las Pulgas. Leong will play the Sonata No. 9 in A maj. "Kreutzer," L.V. Beethoven, and Concerto in D maj., L.V. Beethoven.

Leong holds a master's degree in classical music performance from Manhattan School of Music in New York City. He is a performer and teacher of violin, viola, cello and trumpet and resides in Redwood Shores. He performs internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player and has been a member of the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland, directed by James Levine.
Outside of the classical music circle, he has performed with prestigious musicians such as Ray Charles, Bjork, Terence Blanchard, Josh Groban and Bud Shank. He served as concertmaster of the Peninsula Symphony Orchestra in the 2002-03 season, as a member of San Jose Opera from 2004-07 and as concertmaster of the Viva La Musica Choir Orchestra. In 2009, he won the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra Competition and appeared as soloist with the orchestra.
In addition to music, Leong is a practitioner and certified teacher of yoga in the BKS Iyengar tradition, and during the winter, he is a competitive big wave surfer.
Cogan was born in Moscow and began music studies at the age of 6 at the Central Music School in Moscow. In 1974, he immigrated with his family to the United States and settled in San Francisco. He studied conducting at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and continued his piano studies with Vladimir Pleshakov and Maria Cysic. In 1979, he moved to New York to study with Martin Canin at the Julliard School of Music where he received bachelor and masters degrees.
He has performed publicly since age 9. His American debut was in 1975 with the Peninsula Symphony in San Mateo. He has performed throughout North America and Asia with violinist Alexander Markov; their first compact disc was released worldwide on the Erato label. He lives in Daly City.
Admission will be $15, $10 for seniors, and children under 8 are free. Refreshments will be provided. For further information, contact the church at 650-593-4547.
Building a Stronger Faith
By Jim Burklo
"If a student at a faith-based institution gives up her faith, convinced that its intellectually untenable, has that institution failed? Has it succeeded? What if that happens at a secular institution?"
This is one of the questions posed for discussion at a conference I'll be attending today at Westmont College, an evangelical Christian school in Santa Barbara. As I prepared for this meeting, I considered the many theological conversations I've had with students over the years, when I worked as ecumenical Protestant campus minister at Stanford, and now as associate dean of religious life at USC. Students continue to come through my door, one after another, realizing that the dogmas and doctrines in which they were raised do not make sense to them after they have been exposed to a broad academic university curriculum.
They take literature and history courses, and realize that the Bible and other religious texts were written by real human beings who had axes to grind, points of view colored by their contexts. They study the sciences and grow increasingly uncomfortable with religion that demands belief in the supernatural.
They meet gay and lesbian people who would have been shunned or closeted in their home churches, and realize that they are just folks like themselves, expressing the sexual orientation with which they were born. They get to know practitioners of other religions, and discover that their faiths are as good for their followers as their own is for them. . .

The Language of God from United Church of Christ on Vimeo.