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INFORMATION
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Sundays @ 9 a.m.
Spirit Village
a child-centric & play-based spiritual circle
Sundays
@ 10:10 a.m.
Sacred Roots
Communion & Music
Wednesdays @ 9 a.m. Solace
Communion & Meditation
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Weekly Happenings at Turk & Lyon...
Simply Sandwiches
Fridays
10 a.m. - Noon
Volunteers make over 200 sandwiches for San Francisco's hungry.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Saturdays
11 a.m. - Noon
Al-Anon
Mondays
6:30-7:30 p.m.
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Our Partnerships
St. Cyprian's Church
is also home to
First United Lutheran, San Francisco Live Arts, and The Village Project, an after-school and summer program for Western Addition youth.
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"God has come to St. Cyprian's like The Expert Gardener comes to a fig tree that is struggling, and God has dug around our roots and fed and watered us so that we can come alive and bear fruit."
The Reverend Dr. Susanna Singer
 Dear Friends, Neighbors and Members of St. Cyprian's, Each day the corner of Turk & Lyon is becoming a place of deeper and wider collaboration and partnership. Some relationships are relatively new --- such as our sharing space with Episcopal Senior Communities and others have been developing for a few years now --- like our support of The Village Project. All for the strengthening of our witness to a God that loves and cares for all people, whatever we believe or whomever we are. One person that has been an essential partner for many years is The Reverend Dr. Susanna Singer, who preached last Sunday. Below you will find excerpts from her reflection on our life and work together at Turk & Lyon. You can read her whole sermon by clicking here. St. Cyprian's is very blessed by her committed engagement and spiritual wisdom, helping to link our work with the wider church and those being trained to serve for years to come.
Being fed by God with the food we need, with real food, will change us.
Being fed with the mercy and forgiveness of God will mean that we will become people who turn away from wickedness, people who repent - which means, literally, getting whole new mind, a whole new way of living.
Eating life-giving divine food will make us into people who are alive! It puts a whole new spin on the old saying, you are what you eat. The Gospel gives us another vivid image of the tending and transformation that will happen to us if we let God lay hands on us - only this time God is The Expert Gardener.
We will be like the fig tree in Jesus' parable - even when we're not bearing fruit, we won't be dismissed as barren failures, we'll get another chance, and our merciful, gardener God will dig around out hard soil, loosen us up, shovel on the life-giving manure, and generously, hopefully wait for that care and feeding to make us into living trees, producing a great crop of figs....
The message of the prophet Isaiah and the parable of Jesus that we have heard today are things we have been actually living out in this congregation.
God has come to St Cyprian's like The Expert Gardener comes to a fig tree that is struggling, and God has dug around our roots and fed and watered us so that we can come alive and bear fruit.
It's not an accident, I think, that the new face we show to our neighborhood has green sidewalk gardens; it's not an accident that some of our newest friends in the community are students of ecology.
God has come to St Cyprian's like One Of Those Mothers, worried about our hunger and thirst, concerned that we are just getting by, and offered us a feast of good food so we can come alive and be witnesses to new hope, and share the feast with others.
It's not an accident, I think, that so much of the new life in this community happens around tables of food - sandwiches, and lunches for elders, and concert refreshments, and foraged dinners, and after-school snacks. It's not an accident that part of our stepping out in hope means that we know we absolutely have to make a new kitchen.
St Cyprian's has always been a great food place, and now the feast is overflowing into the world.
Because we let God feed us, every week here at this table, with God's very self, we are becoming people who feed others.
Because we know God's renewing care and grace among us, we are becoming a community of renewal in our neighborhood.
See you soon at Turk & Lyon!
Peace,
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Save the Date - Sunday, April 7th
St. Cyprian's
90th Anniversary Celebration
The Right Rev. Marc Handley Andrus Bishop of California The Very Rev. Dr. Jane Shaw Dean of Grace Cathedral and the people of St. Cyprian's Request the pleasure of your company at Festal Evensong with The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church Sunday, April 7th at 4:15 p.m. at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco  
The celebration will begin with an optional tour of various locations where St. Cyprian's members have gathered through the years for worship, prayer, service and fellowship.
Dinner will follow at St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church hosted by the ECW and honoring longtime congregation members,
especially Lee Dora Rigmaiden.
Space is limited,
RSVP by April 2nd
by emailing turkandlyon@gmail.com
or calling 415.567.1855
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cyprian's arc presents Free Public Speaking & Networking Workshop Thursday, March 14 at 7pm  This workshop led by Brian Rashid provides practical principles, exercises and real-life case studies to help you get clear on the personal and professional life you want, and how to network that message. This workshop focuses on the following series of exercises: - Identifying your personal and professional gifts, strengths, and talents
- Creating your customized 30 second message tying those skills together
- Structuring a roadmap to pursue your desired project/job
- Public speaking & networking tips for events and interviews
- Mock interview and networking exercise role play and practice
Brian Rashid is a Coach, Motivational Speaker, and Urban Projects Innovator. Since moving to San Francisco, he has worked with Facebook engineers, Executive Directors of nonprofits, Silicon Valley CEO's, documentary filmmakers, holistic doctors, and App Developers. In New York City, Brian did speech writing, editing, and public liaison work for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Administration. Additionally, he co-produced a networking event focused on getting to the life you want through personal message development. Internationally, he has created, implemented, and advised human rights projects in South America and the Caribbean. Brian has a J.D. from the City University of New York, and speaks Spanish fluently. He currently lives in San Francisco, but his client base, workshops, and speaking presentations keep him global. Info: events@cyprians.org
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March at Turk & Lyon...
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Art classes, concerts, free dinners, public speaking workshops,
Holy Week & Easter.
Please click on the flier to get a closer look. Thank you to neighborhood volunteer Kevin Barnard for creating these monthly posters.
More info: cyprianscenter.org
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Weekly E-Mail Archives
In January, 2011 St. Cyprian's began sending weekly e-newsletters. You can find an archive of all these messages here. Forward messages and invite friends, neighbors, and distant congregants to join our list. |
St. Cyprian's is a congregation emboldened by the opportunity to engage with our energized urban neighborhood to create a community
where everyone matters.
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