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1751 Sacramento St, San Francisco | Free Parking | Kid Friendly | Get Directions
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1751 Sacramento St, San Francisco | Free Parking | Kid Friendly | Get Directions
Click here for online streaming worship
Click here for Sunday's bulletin
Old First Presbyterian Church enthuiastically invites all people into our community!
This church was the first Protestant congregation established on the west coast of the U.S. during the gold rush. And we are proud now to continue sharing Christ's love, justice, and welcome to modern seekers who arrive in San Francisco now 175 years later. We have taken a leadership role both locally and nationally welcoming LGBTQIA+ Christians into full participation in the life and leadership of the Presbyterian Church. We strive to bring hope, joy and justice reaching out to people of all ethnicities, incomes, races, and life situations, and like Jesus, we always try to offer a smile and welcome the outcasts.
We hope you will come visit and consider becoming part of our community. We want to know you and share your own particular gifts, experience, and insights with us on our corner, in our city, and in our world.
We worship every Sunday at 11:00 am both in person in our beautiful sanctuary and on line via YouTube livestream. We celebrate communion on the third Sunday of the month. Worship is our joyful praise and thanks to God - our celebration of God's Love.
We have a wonderful choir singing a mixture of classical and modern music and singers are always welcome. Our organ is one of the most renowned in the city. We founded and support an amazing variety of new artists each week in our Old First Concerts programs.
Bringing God's love, welcome, justice, in our neighborhood, city and world and working to make the world a better place for all are important to us. We are a founding member of the weekly interfaith food pantry every Saturday and host a free community meal on the 4th Saturday of each month. We work with many local, national, and international groups to promote racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, and other human rights, to end gun violence, and to help immigrants.
We feed the hungry, comfort the afflicted, and work for justice. We always need volunteers to help with all of these projects.
We believe that learning and growth are important for all ages. We offer regular book studies, Bible studies, theological discussions, and topical classes for adults on issues important in our culture. Small groups meet on Zoom and in members' homes for study and support. We make time and space for children in worship and offer regular, broadly graded children's church school every 1st and 3nd Sundy. We also have excellent childrens' and adults' libraries.
We love to read and support the Little Free Library on Sacramento Street. Bring you books to share with the community.
(RNS) — More than 210 mostly Chicago-area clergy, representing a range of liberal and conservative traditions, have signed a letter criticizing ICE titled ‘Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview.’
The Rev. Hannah Kardon, left, is pulled from a group of demonstrators by Illinois State Police outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, Oct. 17, 2025. (Video screen grab)
By Jack Jenkins, October 21, 2025
(RNS) — Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back. One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram — jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
To read the whole article, click here: Religious News Service
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The weekly food pantry needs YOU any Saturday morning!
Volunteer at the Food Pantry and make a real difference! The Interfaith Food Pantry feeds 350 people every Saturday morning! We work from 7:30 to 11:30 am at Old First Presbyterian Church. If you have a compassionate heart, strong arms, and you are able to be on your feet all that time, please come. We need 20 people a week.
Beginning in October
On October 5, the Old First Capital Campaign Committee announced they had already raised over half of the money to fund restoration and infrastructure improvement for our hundred-year-old building. Now, they are asking everyone to pledge and complete the project, make improvements to our space, and support ministry on our corner, in our city, and in the world. 10% of all donations will go to fund other organizations working for love, justice and welcome in San Francisco
Projects include stopping water intrusion, repairing and restoring the beautiful exterior doors and windows, refinishing floors downstairs, re-painting, and other things to making Old First a safe, welcoming, and beautiful space for worship and community life for the coming years.
Watch your U.S. mail for a pledge form, or contact a member of the committee, by clicking below:
Coming Soon
This mural at Laguna Honda Hospital shows the style of painting of our artist Deirdre Weinberg.
Renowned mural artist Deirdre Weinberg and our own Kirk Schwartzmann will design the mural for the garage wall behind the church on Sacramento Street. The theme is "Love and Justice in our Neighborhood" as we celebrate the Polk Gulch neighborhood and Old First's contribution to it. It will feature our feeding ministries, music, and inclusiveness. A group of church and community members met with the artists in August to share ideas. Deirdre and Kurt are in the design process now. We hope to have church and community members participate with Deirdre and Kurt in the painting process beginning in October.
This is the blank wall on the side of the garage where the mural will go:
Contact Chris Burt by clicking below to volunteer in the project.
November 2025
As we enter this year's stewardship season, we invite you to reflect on this question: "What gives you hope at Old First Presbyterian Church?" Is it the welcome you find on Sunday mornings, the music that fills our sancturary, the friendships that sustain you, or the work we do together for justice and compassion? In these days, being hope-bearers in our neighborhood, our city, and our world is more important than ever. Please consider pledging or increasing your pledge to give in support of the hope this church shares with our city and the world. In these days, when hope seems in short supply and needs are ever increasing, we want to remain abundant in our ministry.
In worship on Sunday, November 30 we will all dedicate our pledges to give money and offer our work to serve Christ's mission. You can use the pledge card sent to you in the mail or print the card below. Then bring it to worship on November 30 or send it to the church treasurer with the link below.
What's Happening at Old First