Weave of Faith

Statement of Purpose | Herstory of Weave of Faith | Participatory Leadership

We seek to establish an intentional community where its participants can experience the love and acceptance of God through the love and acceptance they receive from each other so that they can find empowerment to impact their individual lives and communities. In this respect we are modeled on Base Christian Communities.

We are an inclusive church, embodying the biblical ethic of hospitality, welcoming female and male; gay, straight and bisexual; old and young; all races, ethnicities and nationalities.

Because this community is founded by women, we seek to establish a worshiping community which honors and brings forth the special spiritual gifts of the feminine. We afford women full participation and call forth the contribution of those whose stories have hitherto not found expression, such as is modeled in WomenChurch. We are rooted in feminist theology, an expression of liberation theology which advocates for the poor, the outcast, the exploited.

We seek to recognize and celebrate the particular sweet blessings that have come to us from our foresisters. Their heritages, their cultural expressions, and their life principles have become our legacy.

We seek to create a learning environment whereby we are intellectually challenged by new insights, new knowledge and new spiritual openness.

We seek to create a place for spiritual reflection where each participant can find their God.

We draw upon the sacred texts of the Christian tradition. Believing that a singular cultural viewpoint is insufficient for the human family, we also seek to draw insights from other traditions and contemporary sources.

We believe in a power greater than ourselves who has many names, one of which is "God". We believe God is universal and is known by members of the human family in many different ways, and that we can grow in our own understanding of this power by exploring these differences.

Join with us in our remembering, our naming, our silences and our speech. Be with us in our affirmations and our denunciations, our learning and struggling, our mourning and our raging, our laying to rest what we must, and our lifting up what we can.



Created September 13, 1994

Herstory of Weave of Faith

Co-Founders

Along with many, many individuals over the years!

Judy Kriege	Rev. Sandy Gess	Connie Adachi
Co-Founder Music Leader President of Our Board	Co-Founder Ordained in the Methodist tradition Masters of Divinity, Pacific School of Religion Berkeley, CA MLIS, UC Berkeley Certified Labyrinth Facilitator	Co-Founder Consummate Organizer

In Memory of Diana Avila A favorite Meditation Christ has no body on earth but yours, No hands on earth but your hands. Yours are the eyes through which He looks out with compassion upon the world. Yours the feet with which He Chooses to go about doing good For as He is the head, so we are the members. - St. Theresa

Participatory Leadership

Weave of Faith is registered with the State of California as a religious association and continues in the process towards incorporation. Our Board is working with Elizabeth Genevieve (of Genevieve & Associates, San Francisco) to develop our organizational structure in keeping with our feminist values.

Contact us to share resources, organize a Women's Worshipping Community network, or if you have questions Contacting us Messages: (510) 482-9319 weavefaith@earthlink.net Note: because of the amount of spam we have received, we have had to block much email. To get through to us, follow the instructions from our server, and add as your Subject "Inquiry-Weave of Faith"

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