College Avenue Presbyterian Church
Safe • Open • Real
Located in the heart of Rockridge, College Avenue Presbyterian Church (CAPC) is a Christian church dedicated to serving the needs of our community. Our congregation includes people from a variety of spiritual backgrounds, gathered around the teachings of Jesus. We welcome you to a SAFE, OPEN, and REAL sanctuary of light and hope, where you can explore your relationship to faith and deepen your commitment to community service.
Join us on any Sunday …we just might be the church for you!
We invite you to join weekly services every Sunday morning at 10:30 in our sanctuary designed by the renowned architect Julia Morgan. Great music, friendly people, and thought-provoking sermons are hallmarks of our gatherings. All are welcome here!
Our gatherings are hybrid. CLICK ON THIS LINK to join our us via Zoom
Meeting ID: 546 703 271 Passcode: 5951
Dial by your location +1 669 900 6833
FAITH IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE
We believe that our faith is integral in our life as individual people, a community of followers of Jesus and also important in how we live our life in the public square as citizens, neighbors and advocates for justice. We share ways in which you can learn and be involved in actions through our blog. You can go there to learn about what the Church is doing in the public square as well as ways to work with other members of the CAPC Oakland community to act locally.
“Worship is not a spectator sport” as we often say. We’re seeking to use more technological tools to help maximize the participation of our congregational members in the leading of worship on Sunday mornings. You don’t have to know how to do this already. Our church leadership will help train, equip and prepare you.
THE FRIDAY NIGHT MEAL
Each Friday night, our church and volunteers serve approximately 100 meals to unhoused and other members of our local community. You can help! We welcome the help of children and families too! Learn more, and sign-up to help…
the book of acts
Throughout the Spring and early Summer we’re wrestling wtih the story of the Book of Acts on Sundays and in our group discussions. We’ll wrestle with this story of the beginning of the Church and how we are called to be Church today, here and now in the midst of all that’s happening. Our series will tease out the paramount moments in the narrative of the beginning of the Church and use those as ways to look at our own life, vocation and sense of community today in 2025.
We’re reading a couple thoughtful essays written by leaders of our national Presbyterian Church of the USA. They are PDFs that you can download, taken from a larger collection produced by our national church. You can find them - and other resources - on our book club webpage.
blessing bags
Twice a month we give out Blessing Bags - new underclothes (t-shirts, underwear, socks) and new toiletries to all those who need and want them. You can give of your money and time to make this possible.... Learn more...
We meet as a community each week for worship together on Sunday at 10:30am at our campus: 5951 College Avenue, Oakland 94618.
Find directions to our campus and parking tips HERE.
Our service is casual with folks dressing according to California Bay Area style from jeans to trousers, shorts to dresses. Those who worship with us live from the flats to the hills, permanently and marginally homed. We gather after each weekly service for coffee and snacks for 30-45 minutes.
We have a program for children K-6th during the service using the Godly Play curriculum. Kids start with the whole community in the service before leaving about 10 minutes later.
You can learn a bit more about who and how we are today through text and images on this website, and also by the glimpse that some of our other online spaces may give you here..... Blog | FB | Twitter
