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First Church Kitchen

The kitchen at first church is committed to fair trade purchasing. This includes our coffee, tea, and sugar. As time passes, this list will grow to be more comprehensive.

Lent and Advent

First Church focuses on fair trade during both lent and advent. Specifically, during advent, our pastor focuses on different practices each week to celebrate the coming of the Christ. An offering was taken throughout the month with 1/4 of the proceeds going towards fair trade work.

Spark Compassion

First Church hosted an event centered around social justice issues. There were three sets of speakers talking about human trafficking, fair trade, and refugee tutoring. The fair trade portion included an educational portion and a practical portion where people were given steps for how to engage in the issue and purchase fair trade products.

Roots of Giving Fair

SDFC has a booth at PLNU’s Roots of Giving alternative Christmas gift market. Not only does this encourage church members to attend the fair and buy other products, it also allows members of first church to make their own products to encourage people to buy. This market does an excellent job of connecting people to […]

Coffee at Church

Fair trade coffee and sugar is served at church each Sunday morning.

Youth Group

The SDFC youth group made a special commitment to using fair trade at their youth retreat this year. While there were many fair trade products and foods available, an interesting story was relayed by one of the members when he asked why there was no Coke available. The youth leader explained that Coca Cola did […]

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Wednesday Night Market

Santa Rosa’s Wednesday Night Market is Sonoma County’s premier Farmer’s Market and Street Fair. Since its inception 23 years ago, the Wednesday Night Market continues to be a wonderful atmosphere to celebrate the spirit of Sonoma County for local residents and visiting guests. With an average nightly attendance of over 6,000 people and an average […]

Santa Rosa Community College

The Sonoma County Junior College District is one of the largest single college districts in the country, serving approximately 40,000 students each semester within a 1,600 square mile service region that is bordered to the west by the Pacific Ocean, to the east by Napa and Lake counties, and extending from southern Mendocino County to […]

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Fair Trade Club Table – Welcome Back Jam

What is Fair Trade

Class for the Empty Nesters social group of the synagogue

kiddush

at shabbat fellowship, various fair trade foods are added. dried fruits, nuts, specialty items

Purim baskets

adding chocolate bars to our annual Purim fund raiser.

Chocolate

distributed every shabbat morning to the young children who come to services. distributed by the president sweet treats will think that the experience of coming to services is sweet. .

Conversation with 6th grade students

Shabbat morning conversation led by Dennis Klein

Jimmy Zhang