Join First Pres Berkeley in-person or online via YouTube for a joint Sunday worship service with New Bridges, Park Boulevard, and Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Churches! Pastors, musicians, and liturgists from each church will lead us in worship, and we are so glad to have Dr. Lisa Asedillo as our guest preacher for the day.
Following worship, all are invited to a multi-church POTLUCK on the Plaza. Potluck contributions can be dropped off in the Plaza from 9:30–10 am. Bring a dish that tells something about where you are from, and come make some friends! (Available to help? Sign up here.)
Children’s programming is available during worship:
- Infants younger than 24 months are welcome at the Nursery
- Children 2 years–pre-K are welcome in the “Teddy Bear Lair” in W214
- K–4th graders begin worship in the Sanctuary, then go to Westminster Hall for community time.
Dr. Lisa Asedillo (she/hers) is the Assistant Professor of Worship and Ethics and Director of the Master of Divinity Program. She is an ethicist and liturgist with research interests in decolonial/postcolonial feminist theory, transpacific and Asian American Christian Ethics, and Philippine studies. Lisa earned her MDiv at Union Theological Seminary and her PhD at Drew University in the Religion and Society area. Lisa’s co-authored chapter, “Becoming Asian American Christian Ethicists,” is included in Asian and Asian American Women’s Contributions to Theology and Religious Studies: Embodying Knowledge, edited by Dr. Kwok Pui Lan (2020); and she is a contributor to INHERITANCE magazine, which amplifies the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience of Christianity. Lisa is also a board member of Pacific Asian North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (PANAAWTM), an organization for education, mentoring, and networking that was founded in 1984. Given her mixed race heritage, queer identity, and transnational upbringing, she takes seriously that her particular embodiment gestures back towards painful colonial history, and also towards a particular experience with something to offer the work of solidarity, community building and ritual, and spiritually-rooted leadership development.