50 years celebration

Last night, nearly 100 people (from the congregation, surrounding neighborhoods & the wider church) gathered together at St. Cyprian's to celebrate our 50th Anniversary in the building at Turk & Lyon Street. We'll upload photos of the party soon, but you can easily check out a slide show featuring images from the past 50 years.

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Thank you to everyone for coming out to party and inspire the next 50 years of this unique & dynamic community's life.

Community Workday - spiffing up St. Cyprian's

Last Saturday over 20 people from the congregation & the neighborhood gathered together to paint, clean, and prepare our space for our 50th Anniversary Party and Christmas celebration. Many thanks to everyone who participated, to long-time congregant & warden Bruno Peguese for making a number of trips to carry donations, recyclables and garbage away, new member Michael Helquist who organized the entire day & Will Valentine our skilled neighbor who put in hours of time prepping the bathrooms for painting.

Below is a list of the jobs that were completed. Our building, like many churches and other non-profits has much deferred maintenance but as we begin our 51st year we are working hard together to ensure our space is prepared to welcome our neighbors & partnering organizations. As we share this work we are deepening and broadening our community - making new friends, bridging a variety of differences and discovering common dreams for the future.

There's much more for us to do together, the plan is to hold seasonal workdays to keep things in good shape.

Jobs completed:

Bathrooms
Both bathrooms (three rooms): sanded, holes filled, primer coat applied to all walls, ceiling and door.
Each wall has two coats of paint with welcome, distinctive colors
A new badly needed tile floor in the women's rooms. 
new much-need fixtures in both bathrooms: faucets, tissue dispensers, soap dispensers, coat racks, light coverings etc.
Holes in walls under sinks repaired
New mirror installed in men's room and women's room

Hallway Wall
two new coats of paint in accent color

Toy donation
dozens of large toys (previously donated to Cyps) were given to SFPD Holiday Toy collection

Main storage closet off community room
cleaned and sorted 

Choir Loft
old paint cans removed
toys removed
100 old choir robes removed

Exterior
front doors washed
Turk Street windows washed

Community Room Stage
excess tables removed
rearranged for greater use 

December Newsletter - Pass it on

Check out our latest community news and events. With huge thanks to St. Cyprian's member Jennifer Wolfe for her beautiful work.

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