Sat. Feb. 27 Celebration of Life for Nell Townley

Celebration of Life: Nell Townley's memorial Saturday Feb. 27, Noon.

Keystone & Nell's family invite you to Save the Date. (This is also posted at Nell's FB page and Caring Bridge: https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/nelltownley)

Dear Family Members and Friends,

We are writing to invite you to join us on Saturday, February 27 for a virtual memorial service and a celebration of life for our mother, Nell Townley. Because this is a virtual event, we are hoping that our family and friends across the country will be able to join us.

We will begin at Noon Pacific Time/ 1 PM Mountain Time/ 2 PM Central Time/ 3 PM Eastern Time with a memorial service with the members of Keystone United Church of Christ, Mom's beloved church community for more than 30 years.

After the service and time for a break from zoom, we will begin a celebration of Mom's life for a less formal time to share stories and memories of her at 2 PM Pacific Time/ 3 PM Mountain Time/ 4 PM Central Time/ 5 PM Eastern Time. 

We hope you can join us for both events and, depending on your schedule, you are welcome to join for all or part of either event. If you wish, please think about your favorite memory with Mom that you might share during the family event. We want to collect stories that Mom's great-grandchildren can hear and enjoy even as they become adults so that multiple generations can know her better.

If you plan to attend, please let us know and we will send the zoom links.  We will use the church's link for the first event and Teresa's link for the second event.  

For those who might not be familiar with zoom, Teresa is happy to send information about connecting and to hold a 'practice session' earlier in the week of February 22.

Your presence in Mom's life and in ours is much appreciated and we hope you can join us for this day of sharing memories and stories about Mother as we wish her well on this next phase of her journey.

Love, Teresa and Rick, Nathan and Ruth

Feb. 14 join online Worship 10:30 am! (or bring your coffee by at 10!)

Join Keystone for 10: 30 a.m. worship Sundays

&

Wednesday evening learning!

Every Sunday – 10:30 a.m. Worship online

Every Wednesday – online 6 pm Bible Reflection /
6:30 p.m. Gatherings 
(See below- various topics) 

Drop in!  Always- All Welcome!  Interactive, Online

This Coming Sunday: Feb. 14

Lent begins Ash Wednesday, February 17

Casual Coffee Convo online each week: 10-10:30 a.m.
Epiphany 6:  Worship: Feb. 14 @ 10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Preaching: Rev. Rich
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Worship leader: Rev. Lauren
Host:  Elliot (Yigit off)
Tech Deacon: -
Scripture Reader: Arlene
Text (click this link):  2 Corinthians 4: 3-6
Musicians: Elliot Kraber, vocals,
and Yiğit Kolat, piano/instruments

After church, share Announcements @ approx. 11:15-11:20 a.m.
Tent City 3 Conversation
Break Out Rooms: approx. 11:20-11:30 a.m.

We currently gather for interactive online worship through Zoom. The link to the service is mailed through this newsletter every Sunday morning. To invite someone to worship with us- you can forward them the Sunday a.m. "Cheat Sheet", or invite them to subscribe to our newsletter through our web site by clicking here: http://www.keystoneseattle.org/contact.

Couple Options:
SUNDAY SCHEDULE: When you wish, sign in anytime 10-10:30 a.m. with "Bring Your Own Coffee  (half) hour" to see each other and chat before worship.

Make Announcements after in your own words, then we host Break Out small groups (randomly assigned) for 10 minutes, to connect!

Holden Prayer online Wednesday December 2: service of song 6:30-6:50 pm

Advent Holden Prayer

DECEMBER 2, 16, 23: Advent Season: Holden Prayer online

sign in by 6:30 p.m. (use ‘contact us’ form on this web site to receive the link)

Join us any of the 3 Wednesdays in December- service of song and reflection

From home- bring your tea or candle, & your singing voice, for 20 minutes of Holden Prayer. Elliot, Yigit Carli, Rich & Lauren have prepared this candlelit evening service with lots of singing, reflective time, & a seasonal scripture. Holden Village retreat center in the North Cascade mountains started this lovely prayer service. Many of the hymns we sing in Sunday worship at Keystone were written by Marty Haugen who once took a sabbatical in the Holden Village in 1986. He composed Holden Evening Prayer for the winter community while he was there. Its a vespers (evening) service, that is now done in many places for simple contemplative worship. A while back, two Keystone year-long young adult volunteers, Melissa and Eric, brought us this practice.

Holden Prayer online - come for 1, 2 or 3 weeks!
6:30 pm:
Wednesday Dec. 2,
Wednesday Dec. 16,
Wednesday Dec. 23.

(We do not have 6 p.m. Lectio Divina, these weeks.)

Also:
Wed. Dec. 2, Green Team meeting, 7 pm.

And note:
Wed. Dec. 9: 6 pm Lectio Divina.
6:30 pm Parables Study (with Ch. 4 & 5)

Thurs. Dec. 24- Christmas Eve online worship.

(No Listening Session- no gathering on Wed. Dec. 30.)

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Take 5 for Advocacy: Week of Nov. 2, 2020

Join 350Seattle at 4 p.m. today (Wednesday) at the Pioneer Square totem pole for a Democracy Defense organizing meeting (Facebook event here) to connect with community, discuss organizing plans, and start plugging people into roles for the work ahead. Participants will then march together to the main Protect the Results demonstration at 5 p.m. at Occidental Park. (Check out the Facebook event here.) If you can’t hit the streets or aren’t ready to do so yet, please join 350Seattle tonight at 7 p.m. for their General Meeting: register here. You’ll learn about what 350Seattle is doing, and how you can engage.

The Poor People's Campaign will share a Message to the Nation from its co-chairs, Rev. Dr. William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 10 a.m. PST to remind the people that the work of the people hasn't been about one election, but the work of changing the world: Organizing the poor, the homeless, the uninsured, the sick, the unorganized. This is a movement, not a moment. You can tune in for that message by clicking here.

Prayers of the People (from Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020)

Pastor Lauren shares here some of what we carried on our hearts October 25 in worship:

Holy God we seek a way through polarities and limitations of binary options. Make us seekers of the unwavering justice of God, our God who is always on the side of the vulnerable.

We are praying a swift recovery for those who are ill or injured, and we give thanks that those who have had medical procedures are back at home with family.

We are with every 581 + now orphaned child of God, forcibly separated from their families. We are with 81 thousand corona virus grief struck families who have lost loved ones.

We continue to be with between 220, 000- 300, 000 families who have lost their loved ones, and with so many more that are moving through positive virus diagnoses fall out & varying continual implications.

God give us strength for a long road ahead. God make us carriers of Your love through a long hard struggle ahead. Turn us out in creative new ways, make us your builders of better ways and better days. God we pray not to return to ‘normal’, but to live for a better normal.

We are with every person offering service to our country, in the spirit of creating peace, but suffering separation and loss.

God we pray You ease us to be tender with our broken hearts. Remind all that you are there. So that You might extend Your reach- through us. Bring us to be with separated families, in every way, and every circumstance. Embolden us to look at structures we did not mean to be part of creating, but now are responsible to dismantle.

Our holy God, we call upon your in-breaking reign to make us a force of your justice. To give Your support to others. Through our very own hands and feet.

God in your mercy, hear our prayers.