Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Comfort & Joy is a Winter Solstice Fundraiser. You can purchase tickets from December 1st to 22nd. The drawing will be on Sunday December 22nd at the Luncheon after the ChristSophia Mass.

Prizes Include:

• Pizza Making Kit

• Gingerbread House Kit

• Wreath Charcuterie Board Kit

• Cookie & Hot Cocoa Set

• Tea Basket& Tea Pot Set

• Wine Pairing Chocolate & Wine Set

• Honey Almond Spa Basket Set

TICKETS - 1 for $19.99, 3 for $49.99, and 6 for $99.99. Our goal is $1,000

You are not required to be present to win, but we would love to see you.

herchurch celebrates the four Sundays of Advent as returning of and to the Divine Mother, beginning Sunday 12/1 with the Ancient Mother.

To prepare ourselves and engage in another, artful way, we’ll gather in the Art Womb for an open session on Sunday, December 22nd after our Christ-Sophia luncheon (around 1:30) to wrap up our journals, get help from Jennifer, try supplies and techniques, etc

Explore the Divine Feminine honored on Sunday with color, texture, word and most of all, PLAY! No art experience needed at all. This is really about playing and praying with paper and art supplies while in community. The class is FREE and open to all- kids warmly welcome.

Warlock Bravery leads a monthly group exploring our connections to mother earth, the elements, the ancestors and spirit. Learn how to open up your intuition and heart to ancient and modern Goddess ways and mysteries of the divine feminine.

Every LAST Thursday at 6:30 PM in herchurch Mural hall

Text questions to Bravery at 727-503-0651

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 2219 4835

All are welcome!

Our circle will include singing chants for healing and empowerment by Jann Aldredge-Clanton and Katie Ketchum, integrating vocal technique and rehearsal for herchurch Saturday zoom service.

4pm PST on the 4th Friday of the month

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Goddess Rosary is a time for quiet meditation with or without candles/votives, and praying with a rosary- bring your own, or we can provide one.

In person at herchurch. You may come and go during the hour or stay the whole time. Communal recitation of the Goddess Rosary Prayers at 6:15 and 6:45. Soup available during and after the hour.

Time to focus, relax, meditate with the art and silence. We will meet every first Thursday.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

We’ll show you around the Altar Space, in one of the most distinctive and beautiful buildings in San Francisco: herchurch.

The 45 minute tour features over 100 works of fine art created by artists in our community and friends of the community. The primary subject matter of the art is the Divine Feminine in the Goddess and holy women. Pictured below are some of the pieces we will see on the tour.

This tour also gives access to and information about our Art Womb. The Art Womb is where our tactile spirituality classes are held, including our once a month icon making class (no art skill or experience needed).

There will be time for questions.

The tour meets outside at the sign on the southeast corner, every first Sunday at 1pm.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

We will read poetry, stories, interviews and viewing art and films and sharing from our encounters with the various artists, activists, authors, etc and discuss. Come and share what you've explored, or just listen.

Join Samy’s Zoom Meeting* (Not the same as one used for Liturgy and Art Classes).

In past meetings we’ve discussed…

Books

The Keeper by Tannanarive Due, Steven Barnes and Marco Finnegan
Kindred by Octavia Butler
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Films

Black Panther and Wakanda Forever

Smithsonian Institution video called "Afrofuturism the Origin Story" available to stream via various means (iTunes, Amazon, Smithsonian channel, etc.) Here is the trailer: (1) Smithsonian Channel premieres AFROFUTURISM: THE ORIGIN STORY - YouTube They will also have an exhibit starting in March of 2023 and running for a year at  National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC: Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures

Videos

(1) Intro to Afrofuturism | Part 1 What is Afrofuturism - YouTube

(1) Afrofuturism Explained: Not Just Black Sci-Fi | Inverse - YouTube

Other material people shared that might be of interest:

1.TV show: "Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space" (PBS American Experience)
Tuesday January 17 on PBS (in San Francisco this is KQED)

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Visual Meditation

Visual Meditation (Visio Divina) at herchurch is a process of meditating with paintings of the divine feminine. The process can include journaling and asking for guidance.

Every 2nd Sunday, anytime between 12pm-1pm in person at herchurch (678 Portola), enjoy a free meditative process. Priestess Katie Ketchum will be standing in the front doors of herchurch at noon to show you the downstairs Altar Art Gallery- or you can ask anyone for directions.

The Visual Meditation is taken in silence and is self guided with instructions provided.

herchurch's Fiber Arts Circle/Prayer Shawl Ministry meets every 2nd Sunday, 1pm-3pm in person and on Zoom. Bring a project and stitch along! Some supplies available too. No formal instruction, but of course we'll help each other out.

January 2025 is a Wolf Moon.

Being pack animals, wolves teach us about strong family bonds and loyalty. Similar to how they gather in communal dens to stay safe during the harsh winter, the Wolf Moon encourages us to either reconnect with loved ones or deepen our relationship with ourselves through self-care practices

All genders are welcome to this drumming circle and ritual. Bring your own drum/instruments BUT some drums are available. In person in the herchurch sanctuary.

Proof of vaccination required.

Drum pictured is a djembe. This goblet-shaped drum is traditionally carved from a single piece of African hardwood and topped with an animal skin as a drumhead. In western understanding, the drum belongs to the membranophone class of instruments in the percussion family. They are called membranophones because sound is created by vibration of membrane stretched tight.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

All are welcome, all ages, and no art experience needed!

Every 3rd Sunday, from 1:30 – 4:30 PM, we host our Goddess/Holy Women icon making class. We will create works of mixed media or painting, as you choose. Join Priestesses Jennifer Mantle and Katie Ketchum for a heart warming, creative, hands on, playful, guided and spiritually uplifting experience.

We work on the same icon for two months time. Every class meets both in person and on zoom. You are welcome to attend one or both, and to follow along with the icon we have chosen on or choose your own.

Those meeting in the art womb at herchurch have access to supplies. Those zooming, gather what you have and we will help you make it work.

This class is free for herchurch members and $25 for general admission.

Held every third Sunday, healing circle is a time for sharing what is on your heart, listening to others, giving and receiving healing energy, and sharing what you have learned.

The circle is limited to 12 people, so please email Elaine Chan-Scherer (echanscherer at yahoo dot com) if you are interested. You will need to access zoom on your phone or computer.

Everything shared is confidential. The Healing Circle is for herchurch members.

All are welcome!

Our circle will include singing chants for healing and empowerment by Jann Aldredge-Clanton and Katie Ketchum, integrating vocal technique and rehearsal for herchurch Saturday zoom service.

4pm PST on the 4th Friday of the month

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Warlock Bravery leads a monthly group exploring our connections to mother earth, the elements, the ancestors and spirit. Learn how to open up your intuition and heart to ancient and modern Goddess ways and mysteries of the divine feminine.

Every LAST Thursday at 6:30 PM in herchurch Mural hall

Text questions to Bravery at 727-503-0651

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 2219 4835

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

We’ll show you around the Altar Space, in one of the most distinctive and beautiful buildings in San Francisco: herchurch.

The 45 minute tour features over 100 works of fine art created by artists in our community and friends of the community. The primary subject matter of the art is the Divine Feminine in the Goddess and holy women. Pictured below are some of the pieces we will see on the tour.

This tour also gives access to and information about our Art Womb. The Art Womb is where our tactile spirituality classes are held, including our once a month icon making class (no art skill or experience needed).

There will be time for questions.

The tour meets outside at the sign on the southeast corner, every first Sunday at 1pm.

Goddess Rosary is a time for quiet meditation with or without candles/votives, and praying with a rosary- bring your own, or we can provide one.

In person at herchurch. You may come and go during the hour or stay the whole time. Communal recitation of the Goddess Rosary Prayers at 6:15 and 6:45. Soup available during and after the hour.

Time to focus, relax, meditate with the art and silence. We will meet every first Thursday.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

We will read poetry, stories, interviews and viewing art and films and sharing from our encounters with the various artists, activists, authors, etc and discuss. Come and share what you've explored, or just listen.

Join Samy’s Zoom Meeting* (Not the same as one used for Liturgy and Art Classes).

In past meetings we’ve discussed…

Books

The Keeper by Tannanarive Due, Steven Barnes and Marco Finnegan
Kindred by Octavia Butler
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Films

Black Panther and Wakanda Forever

Smithsonian Institution video called "Afrofuturism the Origin Story" available to stream via various means (iTunes, Amazon, Smithsonian channel, etc.) Here is the trailer: (1) Smithsonian Channel premieres AFROFUTURISM: THE ORIGIN STORY - YouTube They will also have an exhibit starting in March of 2023 and running for a year at  National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC: Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures

Videos

(1) Intro to Afrofuturism | Part 1 What is Afrofuturism - YouTube

(1) Afrofuturism Explained: Not Just Black Sci-Fi | Inverse - YouTube

Other material people shared that might be of interest:

1.TV show: "Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space" (PBS American Experience)
Tuesday January 17 on PBS (in San Francisco this is KQED)

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

herchurch's Fiber Arts Circle/Prayer Shawl Ministry meets every 2nd Sunday, 1pm-3pm in person and on Zoom. Bring a project and stitch along! Some supplies available too. No formal instruction, but of course we'll help each other out.

February 2025 is a Snow Moon.

The Snow Moon is the Full Moon in February, named after abundant snowfall in the Northern Hemisphere. Some North American tribes named it the Hungry Moon due to the scarce food sources and hard hunting conditions during mid-winter, while others named it Bear Moon, referring to bear cubs being born this time of year. Spiritually, the snow moon is a powerful time for reflection and renewal, especially as it aligns with the bold energy of Leo. This year's fiery snow moon encourages you to take stock of your life and think about what dreams you want to pursue

All genders are welcome to this drumming circle and ritual. Bring your own drum/instruments BUT some drums are available. In person in the herchurch sanctuary.

Drum pictured is a djembe. This goblet-shaped drum is traditionally carved from a single piece of African hardwood and topped with an animal skin as a drumhead. In western understanding, the drum belongs to the membranophone class of instruments in the percussion family. They are called membranophones because sound is created by vibration of membrane stretched tight.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

All are welcome, all ages, and no art experience needed!

Every 3rd Sunday, from 1:30 – 4:30 PM, we host our Goddess/Holy Women icon making class. We will create works of mixed media or painting, as you choose. Join Priestesses Jennifer Mantle and Katie Ketchum for a heart warming, creative, hands on, playful, guided and spiritually uplifting experience.

We work on the same icon for two months time. Every class meets both in person and on zoom. You are welcome to attend one or both, and to follow along with the icon we have chosen on or choose your own.

Those meeting in the art womb at herchurch have access to supplies. Those zooming, gather what you have and we will help you make it work.

This class is free for herchurch members and $25 for general admission.

Held every third Sunday, healing circle is a time for sharing what is on your heart, listening to others, giving and receiving healing energy, and sharing what you have learned.

The circle is limited to 12 people, so please email Elaine Chan-Scherer (echanscherer at yahoo dot com) if you are interested. You will need to access zoom on your phone or computer.

Everything shared is confidential. The Healing Circle is for herchurch members.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Warlock Bravery leads a monthly group exploring our connections to mother earth, the elements, the ancestors and spirit. Learn how to open up your intuition and heart to ancient and modern Goddess ways and mysteries of the divine feminine.

Every LAST Thursday at 6:30 PM in herchurch Mural hall

Text questions to Bravery at 727-503-0651

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 2219 4835

All are welcome!

Our circle will include singing chants for healing and empowerment by Jann Aldredge-Clanton and Katie Ketchum, integrating vocal technique and rehearsal for herchurch Saturday zoom service.

4pm PST on the 4th Friday of the month

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

We’ll show you around the Altar Space, in one of the most distinctive and beautiful buildings in San Francisco: herchurch.

The 45 minute tour features over 100 works of fine art created by artists in our community and friends of the community. The primary subject matter of the art is the Divine Feminine in the Goddess and holy women. Pictured below are some of the pieces we will see on the tour.

This tour also gives access to and information about our Art Womb. The Art Womb is where our tactile spirituality classes are held, including our once a month icon making class (no art skill or experience needed).

There will be time for questions.

The tour meets outside at the sign on the southeast corner, every first Sunday at 1pm.

Goddess Rosary is a time for quiet meditation with or without candles/votives, and praying with a rosary- bring your own, or we can provide one.

In person at herchurch. You may come and go during the hour or stay the whole time. Communal recitation of the Goddess Rosary Prayers at 6:15 and 6:45. Soup available during and after the hour.

Time to focus, relax, meditate with the art and silence. We will meet every first Thursday.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

We will read poetry, stories, interviews and viewing art and films and sharing from our encounters with the various artists, activists, authors, etc and discuss. Come and share what you've explored, or just listen.

Join Samy’s Zoom Meeting* (Not the same as one used for Liturgy and Art Classes).

In past meetings we’ve discussed…

Books

The Keeper by Tannanarive Due, Steven Barnes and Marco Finnegan
Kindred by Octavia Butler
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Films

Black Panther and Wakanda Forever

Smithsonian Institution video called "Afrofuturism the Origin Story" available to stream via various means (iTunes, Amazon, Smithsonian channel, etc.) Here is the trailer: (1) Smithsonian Channel premieres AFROFUTURISM: THE ORIGIN STORY - YouTube They will also have an exhibit starting in March of 2023 and running for a year at  National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC: Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures

Videos

(1) Intro to Afrofuturism | Part 1 What is Afrofuturism - YouTube

(1) Afrofuturism Explained: Not Just Black Sci-Fi | Inverse - YouTube

Other material people shared that might be of interest:

1.TV show: "Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space" (PBS American Experience)
Tuesday January 17 on PBS (in San Francisco this is KQED)

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Visual Meditation

Visual Meditation (Visio Divina) at herchurch is a process of meditating with paintings of the divine feminine. The process can include journaling and asking for guidance.

Every 2nd Sunday, anytime between 12pm-1pm in person at herchurch (678 Portola), enjoy a free meditative process. Priestess Katie Ketchum will be standing in the front doors of herchurch at noon to show you the downstairs Altar Art Gallery- or you can ask anyone for directions.

The Visual Meditation is taken in silence and is self guided with instructions provided.

herchurch's Fiber Arts Circle/Prayer Shawl Ministry meets every 2nd Sunday, 1pm-3pm in person and on Zoom. Bring a project and stitch along! Some supplies available too. No formal instruction, but of course we'll help each other out.

March 2025 is a Worm Moon.

The Old Farmers' Almanac, which first began publishing the names for the full moons in the 1930s, states that some refer to the full Moon in March as the "Worm Moon" because earthworms are thought to appear around this time as the ground thaws from winter. In some Native American traditions, the worm moon is seen as a time of renewal and rebirth, as the earth begins to thaw and the worms return to the soil, bringing nutrients and vitality to the land. It is also associated with the start of spring and the awakening of new life after the cold winter months. The Worm Moon represents finding your equilibrium and tapping into your inner-self, especially when it comes to relationships and personal growth- the ultimate balancing act. This beautiful lunation can also invite an internal assessment of people-pleasing tendencies.

All genders are welcome to this drumming circle and ritual. Bring your own drum/instruments BUT some drums are available. In person in the herchurch sanctuary.

Drum pictured is a djembe. This goblet-shaped drum is traditionally carved from a single piece of African hardwood and topped with an animal skin as a drumhead. In western understanding, the drum belongs to the membranophone class of instruments in the percussion family. They are called membranophones because sound is created by vibration of membrane stretched tight.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

All are welcome, all ages, and no art experience needed!

Every 3rd Sunday, from 1:30 – 4:30 PM, we host our Goddess/Holy Women icon making class. We will create works of mixed media or painting, as you choose. Join Priestesses Jennifer Mantle and Katie Ketchum for a heart warming, creative, hands on, playful, guided and spiritually uplifting experience.

We work on the same icon for two months time. Every class meets both in person and on zoom. You are welcome to attend one or both, and to follow along with the icon we have chosen on or choose your own.

Those meeting in the art womb at herchurch have access to supplies. Those zooming, gather what you have and we will help you make it work.

This class is free for herchurch members and $25 for general admission.

Held every third Sunday, healing circle is a time for sharing what is on your heart, listening to others, giving and receiving healing energy, and sharing what you have learned.

The circle is limited to 12 people, so please email Elaine Chan-Scherer (echanscherer at yahoo dot com) if you are interested. You will need to access zoom on your phone or computer.

Everything shared is confidential. The Healing Circle is for herchurch members.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Warlock Bravery leads a monthly group exploring our connections to mother earth, the elements, the ancestors and spirit. Learn how to open up your intuition and heart to ancient and modern Goddess ways and mysteries of the divine feminine.

Every LAST Thursday at 6:30 PM in herchurch Mural hall

Text questions to Bravery at 727-503-0651

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 2219 4835

All are welcome!

Our circle will include singing chants for healing and empowerment by Jann Aldredge-Clanton and Katie Ketchum, integrating vocal technique and rehearsal for herchurch Saturday zoom service.

4pm PST on the 4th Friday of the month

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Goddess Rosary is a time for quiet meditation with or without candles/votives, and praying with a rosary- bring your own, or we can provide one.

In person at herchurch. You may come and go during the hour or stay the whole time. Communal recitation of the Goddess Rosary Prayers at 6:15 and 6:45. Soup available during and after the hour.

Time to focus, relax, meditate with the art and silence. We will meet every first Thursday.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

We’ll show you around the Altar Space, in one of the most distinctive and beautiful buildings in San Francisco: herchurch.

The 45 minute tour features over 100 works of fine art created by artists in our community and friends of the community. The primary subject matter of the art is the Divine Feminine in the Goddess and holy women. Pictured below are some of the pieces we will see on the tour.

This tour also gives access to and information about our Art Womb. The Art Womb is where our tactile spirituality classes are held, including our once a month icon making class (no art skill or experience needed).

There will be time for questions.

The tour meets outside at the sign on the southeast corner, every first Sunday at 1pm.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

We will read poetry, stories, interviews and viewing art and films and sharing from our encounters with the various artists, activists, authors, etc and discuss. Come and share what you've explored, or just listen.

Join Samy’s Zoom Meeting* (Not the same as one used for Liturgy and Art Classes).

In past meetings we’ve discussed…

Books

The Keeper by Tannanarive Due, Steven Barnes and Marco Finnegan
Kindred by Octavia Butler
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Films

Black Panther and Wakanda Forever

Smithsonian Institution video called "Afrofuturism the Origin Story" available to stream via various means (iTunes, Amazon, Smithsonian channel, etc.) Here is the trailer: (1) Smithsonian Channel premieres AFROFUTURISM: THE ORIGIN STORY - YouTube They will also have an exhibit starting in March of 2023 and running for a year at  National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC: Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures

Videos

(1) Intro to Afrofuturism | Part 1 What is Afrofuturism - YouTube

(1) Afrofuturism Explained: Not Just Black Sci-Fi | Inverse - YouTube

Other material people shared that might be of interest:

1.TV show: "Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space" (PBS American Experience)
Tuesday January 17 on PBS (in San Francisco this is KQED)

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Visual Meditation

Visual Meditation (Visio Divina) at herchurch is a process of meditating with paintings of the divine feminine. The process can include journaling and asking for guidance.

Every 2nd Sunday, anytime between 12pm-1pm in person at herchurch (678 Portola), enjoy a free meditative process. Priestess Katie Ketchum will be standing in the front doors of herchurch at noon to show you the downstairs Altar Art Gallery- or you can ask anyone for directions.

The Visual Meditation is taken in silence and is self guided with instructions provided.

herchurch's Fiber Arts Circle/Prayer Shawl Ministry meets every 2nd Sunday, 1pm-3pm in person and on Zoom. Bring a project and stitch along! Some supplies available too. No formal instruction, but of course we'll help each other out.

April 2025 is a Pink Moon.

The name Pink Moon comes from the April full moon's seasonal association, appearing in spring around the blossom time for flowers, according to the Farmers' Almanac. The full moon aligns with the blooming of Phlox subulata, a pink wildflower native to eastern North America. In Jewish tradition, the Pink Moon is recognised as the 'Passover Moon,' as it signifies the commencement of the Jewish festival of Passover (Pesach). Do what you can to release what’s weighing you down this month.

All genders are welcome to this drumming circle and ritual. Bring your own drum/instruments BUT some drums are available. In person in the herchurch sanctuary.

Drum pictured is a djembe. This goblet-shaped drum is traditionally carved from a single piece of African hardwood and topped with an animal skin as a drumhead. In western understanding, the drum belongs to the membranophone class of instruments in the percussion family. They are called membranophones because sound is created by vibration of membrane stretched tight.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

All are welcome, all ages, and no art experience needed!

Every 3rd Sunday, from 1:30 – 4:30 PM, we host our Goddess/Holy Women icon making class. We will create works of mixed media or painting, as you choose. Join Priestesses Jennifer Mantle and Katie Ketchum for a heart warming, creative, hands on, playful, guided and spiritually uplifting experience.

We work on the same icon for two months time. Every class meets both in person and on zoom. You are welcome to attend one or both, and to follow along with the icon we have chosen on or choose your own.

Those meeting in the art womb at herchurch have access to supplies. Those zooming, gather what you have and we will help you make it work.

This class is free for herchurch members and $25 for general admission.

Held every third Sunday, healing circle is a time for sharing what is on your heart, listening to others, giving and receiving healing energy, and sharing what you have learned.

The circle is limited to 12 people, so please email Elaine Chan-Scherer (echanscherer at yahoo dot com) if you are interested. You will need to access zoom on your phone or computer.

Everything shared is confidential. The Healing Circle is for herchurch members.

Warlock Bravery leads a monthly group exploring our connections to mother earth, the elements, the ancestors and spirit. Learn how to open up your intuition and heart to ancient and modern Goddess ways and mysteries of the divine feminine.

Every LAST Thursday at 6:30 PM in herchurch Mural hall

Text questions to Bravery at 727-503-0651

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 2219 4835

All are welcome!

Our circle will include singing chants for healing and empowerment by Jann Aldredge-Clanton and Katie Ketchum, integrating vocal technique and rehearsal for herchurch Saturday zoom service.

4pm PST on the 4th Friday of the month

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Goddess Rosary is a time for quiet meditation with or without candles/votives, and praying with a rosary- bring your own, or we can provide one.

In person at herchurch. You may come and go during the hour or stay the whole time. Communal recitation of the Goddess Rosary Prayers at 6:15 and 6:45. Soup available during and after the hour.

Time to focus, relax, meditate with the art and silence. We will meet every first Thursday.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

We’ll show you around the Altar Space, in one of the most distinctive and beautiful buildings in San Francisco: herchurch.

The 45 minute tour features over 100 works of fine art created by artists in our community and friends of the community. The primary subject matter of the art is the Divine Feminine in the Goddess and holy women. Pictured below are some of the pieces we will see on the tour.

This tour also gives access to and information about our Art Womb. The Art Womb is where our tactile spirituality classes are held, including our once a month icon making class (no art skill or experience needed).

There will be time for questions.

The tour meets outside at the sign on the southeast corner, every first Sunday at 1pm.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

We will read poetry, stories, interviews and viewing art and films and sharing from our encounters with the various artists, activists, authors, etc and discuss. Come and share what you've explored, or just listen.

Join Samy’s Zoom Meeting* (Not the same as one used for Liturgy and Art Classes).

In past meetings we’ve discussed…

Books

The Keeper by Tannanarive Due, Steven Barnes and Marco Finnegan
Kindred by Octavia Butler
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Films

Black Panther and Wakanda Forever

Smithsonian Institution video called "Afrofuturism the Origin Story" available to stream via various means (iTunes, Amazon, Smithsonian channel, etc.) Here is the trailer: (1) Smithsonian Channel premieres AFROFUTURISM: THE ORIGIN STORY - YouTube They will also have an exhibit starting in March of 2023 and running for a year at  National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC: Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures

Videos

(1) Intro to Afrofuturism | Part 1 What is Afrofuturism - YouTube

(1) Afrofuturism Explained: Not Just Black Sci-Fi | Inverse - YouTube

Other material people shared that might be of interest:

1.TV show: "Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space" (PBS American Experience)
Tuesday January 17 on PBS (in San Francisco this is KQED)

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Visual Meditation

Visual Meditation (Visio Divina) at herchurch is a process of meditating with paintings of the divine feminine. The process can include journaling and asking for guidance.

Every 2nd Sunday, anytime between 12pm-1pm in person at herchurch (678 Portola), enjoy a free meditative process. Priestess Katie Ketchum will be standing in the front doors of herchurch at noon to show you the downstairs Altar Art Gallery- or you can ask anyone for directions.

The Visual Meditation is taken in silence and is self guided with instructions provided.

herchurch's Fiber Arts Circle/Prayer Shawl Ministry meets every 2nd Sunday, 1pm-3pm in person and on Zoom. Bring a project and stitch along! Some supplies available too. No formal instruction, but of course we'll help each other out.

May 2025 is a Flower Moon.

The Flower Moon is named after the flowers that begin to bloom during this month, which serve as a reminder that everything is part of the cycle of life and death in a similar way to how Christians remember Jesus Christ throughout Easter. Using candles, incense or sage smoke for manifestation rituals can be quite potent. You might also anoint candles with any oils and light, float a bloom in your chalice or bowl of water. Hold any stones or crystals, charging them with your intention. You may sit in meditation with the moon, working to release anything that no longer serves you moving into the season of blooming and fruition.

All genders are welcome to this drumming circle and ritual. Bring your own drum/instruments BUT some drums are available. In person in the herchurch sanctuary.

Drum pictured is a djembe. This goblet-shaped drum is traditionally carved from a single piece of African hardwood and topped with an animal skin as a drumhead. In western understanding, the drum belongs to the membranophone class of instruments in the percussion family. They are called membranophones because sound is created by vibration of membrane stretched tight.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

All are welcome, all ages, and no art experience needed!

Every 3rd Sunday, from 1:30 – 4:30 PM, we host our Goddess/Holy Women icon making class. We will create works of mixed media or painting, as you choose. Join Priestesses Jennifer Mantle and Katie Ketchum for a heart warming, creative, hands on, playful, guided and spiritually uplifting experience.

We work on the same icon for two months time. Every class meets both in person and on zoom. You are welcome to attend one or both, and to follow along with the icon we have chosen on or choose your own.

Those meeting in the art womb at herchurch have access to supplies. Those zooming, gather what you have and we will help you make it work.

This class is free for herchurch members and $25 for general admission.

Held every third Sunday, healing circle is a time for sharing what is on your heart, listening to others, giving and receiving healing energy, and sharing what you have learned.

The circle is limited to 12 people, so please email Elaine Chan-Scherer (echanscherer at yahoo dot com) if you are interested. You will need to access zoom on your phone or computer.

Everything shared is confidential. The Healing Circle is for herchurch members.

All are welcome!

Our circle will include singing chants for healing and empowerment by Jann Aldredge-Clanton and Katie Ketchum, integrating vocal technique and rehearsal for herchurch Saturday zoom service.

4pm PST on the 4th Friday of the month

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Warlock Bravery leads a monthly group exploring our connections to mother earth, the elements, the ancestors and spirit. Learn how to open up your intuition and heart to ancient and modern Goddess ways and mysteries of the divine feminine.

Every LAST Thursday at 6:30 PM in herchurch Mural hall

Text questions to Bravery at 727-503-0651

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 2219 4835

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

We’ll show you around the Altar Space, in one of the most distinctive and beautiful buildings in San Francisco: herchurch.

The 45 minute tour features over 100 works of fine art created by artists in our community and friends of the community. The primary subject matter of the art is the Divine Feminine in the Goddess and holy women. Pictured below are some of the pieces we will see on the tour.

This tour also gives access to and information about our Art Womb. The Art Womb is where our tactile spirituality classes are held, including our once a month icon making class (no art skill or experience needed).

There will be time for questions.

The tour meets outside at the sign on the southeast corner, every first Sunday at 1pm.

Goddess Rosary is a time for quiet meditation with or without candles/votives, and praying with a rosary- bring your own, or we can provide one.

In person at herchurch. You may come and go during the hour or stay the whole time. Communal recitation of the Goddess Rosary Prayers at 6:15 and 6:45. Soup available during and after the hour.

Time to focus, relax, meditate with the art and silence. We will meet every first Thursday.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Visual Meditation

Visual Meditation (Visio Divina) at herchurch is a process of meditating with paintings of the divine feminine. The process can include journaling and asking for guidance.

Every 2nd Sunday, anytime between 12pm-1pm in person at herchurch (678 Portola), enjoy a free meditative process. Priestess Katie Ketchum will be standing in the front doors of herchurch at noon to show you the downstairs Altar Art Gallery- or you can ask anyone for directions.

The Visual Meditation is taken in silence and is self guided with instructions provided.

herchurch's Fiber Arts Circle/Prayer Shawl Ministry meets every 2nd Sunday, 1pm-3pm in person and on Zoom. Bring a project and stitch along! Some supplies available too. No formal instruction, but of course we'll help each other out.

June 2025 is a Strawberry Moon.

During this full moon strawberry moon, you may feel a heightened sense of responsibility and productivity toward your goals, ambitions, and overall life path. The influx of Capricorn energy will help you stay grounded and focused, allowing you to take practical steps toward achieving your goals.

All genders are welcome to this drumming circle and ritual. Bring your own drum/instruments BUT some drums are available. In person in the herchurch sanctuary.

Drum pictured is a djembe. This goblet-shaped drum is traditionally carved from a single piece of African hardwood and topped with an animal skin as a drumhead. In western understanding, the drum belongs to the membranophone class of instruments in the percussion family. They are called membranophones because sound is created by vibration of membrane stretched tight.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

We will read poetry, stories, interviews and viewing art and films and sharing from our encounters with the various artists, activists, authors, etc and discuss. Come and share what you've explored, or just listen.

Join Samy’s Zoom Meeting* (Not the same as one used for Liturgy and Art Classes).

In past meetings we’ve discussed…

Books

The Keeper by Tannanarive Due, Steven Barnes and Marco Finnegan
Kindred by Octavia Butler
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Films

Black Panther and Wakanda Forever

Smithsonian Institution video called "Afrofuturism the Origin Story" available to stream via various means (iTunes, Amazon, Smithsonian channel, etc.) Here is the trailer: (1) Smithsonian Channel premieres AFROFUTURISM: THE ORIGIN STORY - YouTube They will also have an exhibit starting in March of 2023 and running for a year at  National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC: Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures

Videos

(1) Intro to Afrofuturism | Part 1 What is Afrofuturism - YouTube

(1) Afrofuturism Explained: Not Just Black Sci-Fi | Inverse - YouTube

Other material people shared that might be of interest:

1.TV show: "Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space" (PBS American Experience)
Tuesday January 17 on PBS (in San Francisco this is KQED)

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

All are welcome, all ages, and no art experience needed!

Every 3rd Sunday, from 1:30 – 4:30 PM, we host our Goddess/Holy Women icon making class. We will create works of mixed media or painting, as you choose. Join Priestesses Jennifer Mantle and Katie Ketchum for a heart warming, creative, hands on, playful, guided and spiritually uplifting experience.

We work on the same icon for two months time. Every class meets both in person and on zoom. You are welcome to attend one or both, and to follow along with the icon we have chosen on or choose your own.

Those meeting in the art womb at herchurch have access to supplies. Those zooming, gather what you have and we will help you make it work.

This class is free for herchurch members and $25 for general admission.

Held every third Sunday, healing circle is a time for sharing what is on your heart, listening to others, giving and receiving healing energy, and sharing what you have learned.

The circle is limited to 12 people, so please email Elaine Chan-Scherer (echanscherer at yahoo dot com) if you are interested. You will need to access zoom on your phone or computer.

Everything shared is confidential. The Healing Circle is for herchurch members.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Warlock Bravery leads a monthly group exploring our connections to mother earth, the elements, the ancestors and spirit. Learn how to open up your intuition and heart to ancient and modern Goddess ways and mysteries of the divine feminine.

Every LAST Thursday at 6:30 PM in herchurch Mural hall

Text questions to Bravery at 727-503-0651

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 2219 4835

All are welcome!

Our circle will include singing chants for healing and empowerment by Jann Aldredge-Clanton and Katie Ketchum, integrating vocal technique and rehearsal for herchurch Saturday zoom service.

4pm PST on the 4th Friday of the month

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Goddess Rosary is a time for quiet meditation with or without candles/votives, and praying with a rosary- bring your own, or we can provide one.

In person at herchurch. You may come and go during the hour or stay the whole time. Communal recitation of the Goddess Rosary Prayers at 6:15 and 6:45. Soup available during and after the hour.

Time to focus, relax, meditate with the art and silence. We will meet every first Thursday.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

We’ll show you around the Altar Space, in one of the most distinctive and beautiful buildings in San Francisco: herchurch.

The 45 minute tour features over 100 works of fine art created by artists in our community and friends of the community. The primary subject matter of the art is the Divine Feminine in the Goddess and holy women. Pictured below are some of the pieces we will see on the tour.

This tour also gives access to and information about our Art Womb. The Art Womb is where our tactile spirituality classes are held, including our once a month icon making class (no art skill or experience needed).

There will be time for questions.

The tour meets outside at the sign on the southeast corner, every first Sunday at 1pm.

July 2025 is a Buck Moon.

The Buck Moon's name comes from the Algonquin tribes of the northeastern United States. They named it after the time of year when male deer, or bucks, begin to grow their new antlers. It's called the Thunder Moon due to frequent summer storms.

All genders are welcome to this drumming circle and ritual. Bring your own drum/instruments BUT some drums are available. In person in the herchurch sanctuary.

Drum pictured is a djembe. This goblet-shaped drum is traditionally carved from a single piece of African hardwood and topped with an animal skin as a drumhead. In western understanding, the drum belongs to the membranophone class of instruments in the percussion family. They are called membranophones because sound is created by vibration of membrane stretched tight.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

We will read poetry, stories, interviews and viewing art and films and sharing from our encounters with the various artists, activists, authors, etc and discuss. Come and share what you've explored, or just listen.

Join Samy’s Zoom Meeting* (Not the same as one used for Liturgy and Art Classes).

In past meetings we’ve discussed…

Books

The Keeper by Tannanarive Due, Steven Barnes and Marco Finnegan
Kindred by Octavia Butler
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Films

Black Panther and Wakanda Forever

Smithsonian Institution video called "Afrofuturism the Origin Story" available to stream via various means (iTunes, Amazon, Smithsonian channel, etc.) Here is the trailer: (1) Smithsonian Channel premieres AFROFUTURISM: THE ORIGIN STORY - YouTube They will also have an exhibit starting in March of 2023 and running for a year at  National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC: Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures

Videos

(1) Intro to Afrofuturism | Part 1 What is Afrofuturism - YouTube

(1) Afrofuturism Explained: Not Just Black Sci-Fi | Inverse - YouTube

Other material people shared that might be of interest:

1.TV show: "Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space" (PBS American Experience)
Tuesday January 17 on PBS (in San Francisco this is KQED)

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Visual Meditation

Visual Meditation (Visio Divina) at herchurch is a process of meditating with paintings of the divine feminine. The process can include journaling and asking for guidance.

Every 2nd Sunday, anytime between 12pm-1pm in person at herchurch (678 Portola), enjoy a free meditative process. Priestess Katie Ketchum will be standing in the front doors of herchurch at noon to show you the downstairs Altar Art Gallery- or you can ask anyone for directions.

The Visual Meditation is taken in silence and is self guided with instructions provided.

herchurch's Fiber Arts Circle/Prayer Shawl Ministry meets every 2nd Sunday, 1pm-3pm in person and on Zoom. Bring a project and stitch along! Some supplies available too. No formal instruction, but of course we'll help each other out.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

All are welcome, all ages, and no art experience needed!

Every 3rd Sunday, from 1:30 – 4:30 PM, we host our Goddess/Holy Women icon making class. We will create works of mixed media or painting, as you choose. Join Priestesses Jennifer Mantle and Katie Ketchum for a heart warming, creative, hands on, playful, guided and spiritually uplifting experience.

We work on the same icon for two months time. Every class meets both in person and on zoom. You are welcome to attend one or both, and to follow along with the icon we have chosen on or choose your own.

Those meeting in the art womb at herchurch have access to supplies. Those zooming, gather what you have and we will help you make it work.

This class is free for herchurch members and $25 for general admission.

Held every third Sunday, healing circle is a time for sharing what is on your heart, listening to others, giving and receiving healing energy, and sharing what you have learned.

The circle is limited to 12 people, so please email Elaine Chan-Scherer (echanscherer at yahoo dot com) if you are interested. You will need to access zoom on your phone or computer.

Everything shared is confidential. The Healing Circle is for herchurch members.

All are welcome!

Our circle will include singing chants for healing and empowerment by Jann Aldredge-Clanton and Katie Ketchum, integrating vocal technique and rehearsal for herchurch Saturday zoom service.

4pm PST on the 4th Friday of the month

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Warlock Bravery leads a monthly group exploring our connections to mother earth, the elements, the ancestors and spirit. Learn how to open up your intuition and heart to ancient and modern Goddess ways and mysteries of the divine feminine.

Every LAST Thursday at 6:30 PM in herchurch Mural hall

Text questions to Bravery at 727-503-0651

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 2219 4835

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

We’ll show you around the Altar Space, in one of the most distinctive and beautiful buildings in San Francisco: herchurch.

The 45 minute tour features over 100 works of fine art created by artists in our community and friends of the community. The primary subject matter of the art is the Divine Feminine in the Goddess and holy women. Pictured below are some of the pieces we will see on the tour.

This tour also gives access to and information about our Art Womb. The Art Womb is where our tactile spirituality classes are held, including our once a month icon making class (no art skill or experience needed).

There will be time for questions.

The tour meets outside at the sign on the southeast corner, every first Sunday at 1pm.

Goddess Rosary is a time for quiet meditation with or without candles/votives, and praying with a rosary- bring your own, or we can provide one.

In person at herchurch. You may come and go during the hour or stay the whole time. Communal recitation of the Goddess Rosary Prayers at 6:15 and 6:45. Soup available during and after the hour.

Time to focus, relax, meditate with the art and silence. We will meet every first Thursday.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

We will read poetry, stories, interviews and viewing art and films and sharing from our encounters with the various artists, activists, authors, etc and discuss. Come and share what you've explored, or just listen.

Join Samy’s Zoom Meeting* (Not the same as one used for Liturgy and Art Classes).

In past meetings we’ve discussed…

Books

The Keeper by Tannanarive Due, Steven Barnes and Marco Finnegan
Kindred by Octavia Butler
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Films

Black Panther and Wakanda Forever

Smithsonian Institution video called "Afrofuturism the Origin Story" available to stream via various means (iTunes, Amazon, Smithsonian channel, etc.) Here is the trailer: (1) Smithsonian Channel premieres AFROFUTURISM: THE ORIGIN STORY - YouTube They will also have an exhibit starting in March of 2023 and running for a year at  National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC: Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures

Videos

(1) Intro to Afrofuturism | Part 1 What is Afrofuturism - YouTube

(1) Afrofuturism Explained: Not Just Black Sci-Fi | Inverse - YouTube

Other material people shared that might be of interest:

1.TV show: "Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space" (PBS American Experience)
Tuesday January 17 on PBS (in San Francisco this is KQED)

August 2025 is a Sturgeon Moon.

The sturgeon moon is named after one of the oldest and most primitive fish species, some astrologers believe that it spiritually signifies strength and resilience. August was the time of year when sturgeon fish are most easily caught in the Great Lakes and other northern hemisphere lakes and rivers.

All genders are welcome to this drumming circle and ritual. Bring your own drum/instruments BUT some drums are available. In person in the herchurch sanctuary.

Drum pictured is a djembe. This goblet-shaped drum is traditionally carved from a single piece of African hardwood and topped with an animal skin as a drumhead. In western understanding, the drum belongs to the membranophone class of instruments in the percussion family. They are called membranophones because sound is created by vibration of membrane stretched tight.

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Visual Meditation

Visual Meditation (Visio Divina) at herchurch is a process of meditating with paintings of the divine feminine. The process can include journaling and asking for guidance.

Every 2nd Sunday, anytime between 12pm-1pm in person at herchurch (678 Portola), enjoy a free meditative process. Priestess Katie Ketchum will be standing in the front doors of herchurch at noon to show you the downstairs Altar Art Gallery- or you can ask anyone for directions.

The Visual Meditation is taken in silence and is self guided with instructions provided.

herchurch's Fiber Arts Circle/Prayer Shawl Ministry meets every 2nd Sunday, 1pm-3pm in person and on Zoom. Bring a project and stitch along! Some supplies available too. No formal instruction, but of course we'll help each other out.

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

All are welcome, all ages, and no art experience needed!

Every 3rd Sunday, from 1:30 – 4:30 PM, we host our Goddess/Holy Women icon making class. We will create works of mixed media or painting, as you choose. Join Priestesses Jennifer Mantle and Katie Ketchum for a heart warming, creative, hands on, playful, guided and spiritually uplifting experience.

We work on the same icon for two months time. Every class meets both in person and on zoom. You are welcome to attend one or both, and to follow along with the icon we have chosen on or choose your own.

Those meeting in the art womb at herchurch have access to supplies. Those zooming, gather what you have and we will help you make it work.

This class is free for herchurch members and $25 for general admission.

Held every third Sunday, healing circle is a time for sharing what is on your heart, listening to others, giving and receiving healing energy, and sharing what you have learned.

The circle is limited to 12 people, so please email Elaine Chan-Scherer (echanscherer at yahoo dot com) if you are interested. You will need to access zoom on your phone or computer.

Everything shared is confidential. The Healing Circle is for herchurch members.

All are welcome!

Our circle will include singing chants for healing and empowerment by Jann Aldredge-Clanton and Katie Ketchum, integrating vocal technique and rehearsal for herchurch Saturday zoom service.

4pm PST on the 4th Friday of the month

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Warlock Bravery leads a monthly group exploring our connections to mother earth, the elements, the ancestors and spirit. Learn how to open up your intuition and heart to ancient and modern Goddess ways and mysteries of the divine feminine.

Every LAST Thursday at 6:30 PM in herchurch Mural hall

Text questions to Bravery at 727-503-0651

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 2219 4835

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Goddess Rosary is a time for quiet meditation with or without candles/votives, and praying with a rosary- bring your own, or we can provide one.

In person at herchurch. You may come and go during the hour or stay the whole time. Communal recitation of the Goddess Rosary Prayers at 6:15 and 6:45. Soup available during and after the hour.

Time to focus, relax, meditate with the art and silence. We will meet every first Thursday.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

We’ll show you around the Altar Space, in one of the most distinctive and beautiful buildings in San Francisco: herchurch.

The 45 minute tour features over 100 works of fine art created by artists in our community and friends of the community. The primary subject matter of the art is the Divine Feminine in the Goddess and holy women. Pictured below are some of the pieces we will see on the tour.

This tour also gives access to and information about our Art Womb. The Art Womb is where our tactile spirituality classes are held, including our once a month icon making class (no art skill or experience needed).

There will be time for questions.

The tour meets outside at the sign on the southeast corner, every first Sunday at 1pm.

September 2025 is a Harvest Moon.

In 2025, the "Harvest Moon" refers to the full moon that occurs closest to the autumnal equinox. It is a time to celebrate the harvest of summer crops and prepare for winter, with the bright moonlight historically aiding farmers in late-night harvesting activities.

This year, the Harvest Moon may occur around the October 6th “Hunter’s Moon” based on current astronomical calculations.

All genders are welcome to this drumming circle and ritual. Bring your own drum/instruments BUT some drums are available. In person in the herchurch sanctuary.

Drum pictured is a djembe. This goblet-shaped drum is traditionally carved from a single piece of African hardwood and topped with an animal skin as a drumhead. In western understanding, the drum belongs to the membranophone class of instruments in the percussion family. They are called membranophones because sound is created by vibration of membrane stretched tight.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

We will read poetry, stories, interviews and viewing art and films and sharing from our encounters with the various artists, activists, authors, etc and discuss. Come and share what you've explored, or just listen.

Join Samy’s Zoom Meeting* (Not the same as one used for Liturgy and Art Classes).

In past meetings we’ve discussed…

Books

The Keeper by Tannanarive Due, Steven Barnes and Marco Finnegan
Kindred by Octavia Butler
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Films

Black Panther and Wakanda Forever

Smithsonian Institution video called "Afrofuturism the Origin Story" available to stream via various means (iTunes, Amazon, Smithsonian channel, etc.) Here is the trailer: (1) Smithsonian Channel premieres AFROFUTURISM: THE ORIGIN STORY - YouTube They will also have an exhibit starting in March of 2023 and running for a year at  National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC: Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures

Videos

(1) Intro to Afrofuturism | Part 1 What is Afrofuturism - YouTube

(1) Afrofuturism Explained: Not Just Black Sci-Fi | Inverse - YouTube

Other material people shared that might be of interest:

1.TV show: "Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space" (PBS American Experience)
Tuesday January 17 on PBS (in San Francisco this is KQED)

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Visual Meditation

Visual Meditation (Visio Divina) at herchurch is a process of meditating with paintings of the divine feminine. The process can include journaling and asking for guidance.

Every 2nd Sunday, anytime between 12pm-1pm in person at herchurch (678 Portola), enjoy a free meditative process. Priestess Katie Ketchum will be standing in the front doors of herchurch at noon to show you the downstairs Altar Art Gallery- or you can ask anyone for directions.

The Visual Meditation is taken in silence and is self guided with instructions provided.

herchurch's Fiber Arts Circle/Prayer Shawl Ministry meets every 2nd Sunday, 1pm-3pm in person and on Zoom. Bring a project and stitch along! Some supplies available too. No formal instruction, but of course we'll help each other out.

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

All are welcome, all ages, and no art experience needed!

Every 3rd Sunday, from 1:30 – 4:30 PM, we host our Goddess/Holy Women icon making class. We will create works of mixed media or painting, as you choose. Join Priestesses Jennifer Mantle and Katie Ketchum for a heart warming, creative, hands on, playful, guided and spiritually uplifting experience.

We work on the same icon for two months time. Every class meets both in person and on zoom. You are welcome to attend one or both, and to follow along with the icon we have chosen on or choose your own.

Those meeting in the art womb at herchurch have access to supplies. Those zooming, gather what you have and we will help you make it work.

This class is free for herchurch members and $25 for general admission.

Held every third Sunday, healing circle is a time for sharing what is on your heart, listening to others, giving and receiving healing energy, and sharing what you have learned.

The circle is limited to 12 people, so please email Elaine Chan-Scherer (echanscherer at yahoo dot com) if you are interested. You will need to access zoom on your phone or computer.

Everything shared is confidential. The Healing Circle is for herchurch members.

Warlock Bravery leads a monthly group exploring our connections to mother earth, the elements, the ancestors and spirit. Learn how to open up your intuition and heart to ancient and modern Goddess ways and mysteries of the divine feminine.

Every LAST Thursday at 6:30 PM in herchurch Mural hall

Text questions to Bravery at 727-503-0651

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 2219 4835

All are welcome!

Our circle will include singing chants for healing and empowerment by Jann Aldredge-Clanton and Katie Ketchum, integrating vocal technique and rehearsal for herchurch Saturday zoom service.

4pm PST on the 4th Friday of the month

Please join/sign in between 10:10 - 10:25 AM.

Newcomers welcome - please be sure to join early and introduce yourself.

Please invite others, friends, family – and ask them to let us know you invited them!

Where we celebrate and engage the divine feminine through ritual, music, the arts and community gathering. Our lives are enriched and our wisdom expanded as we embody "she who is" always among us! In our hearts, in the world, in justice she is rising!

Proof of vaccination required. Masks recommended.

Goddess Rosary is a time for quiet meditation with or without candles/votives, and praying with a rosary- bring your own, or we can provide one.

In person at herchurch. You may come and go during the hour or stay the whole time. Communal recitation of the Goddess Rosary Prayers at 6:15 and 6:45. Soup available during and after the hour.

Time to focus, relax, meditate with the art and silence. We will meet every first Thursday.