Coming up: this season: 2 Wednesday eves: our Keystone Lenten study: @ zoom with Pastor Lauren:
Wed. Mar. 10, 6:30-7:30 pm (try the checklist on p. 44)
Wed. Mar. 17, 6:30 -7:30 pm
Well hello here comes our season when we recall how Jesus turned toward Jerusalem and faced the truth, and we take time to get more real. Well how bout this year's Lent on the heels of already walking through our dumpster fire of a year?! We are still in it, and still with one another, day in and day out, still reflecting upon our mortality every.darn.day! But as more get closer to getting vaccines, what might bring us closer together in our virtual season of Lent, when we traditionally remember we are from dust, and to dust we shall return? These are our 6 weeks for contemplation, leading toward Easter. We often add a nurturing self discipline or try adding a helpful practice for 40 days. This year you are invited to do some searching amidst this beloved community of faith. This has been a year of reckoning and witness with Black Lives Matter movements, of which we have been a part.
Our inward and outward search brings us to a couple nights of supportive discussion study on 'Uprooting Racism'. Come to discover many intersections, in our racial, economic, and environmental justice efforts. A small group at Keystone has been helping to prepare our focus to especially examine our Christian tradition's complicity in white supremacy. We will strive to lovingly probe our call to become stronger anti-racist actors in all our varied advocacy and activism, for the healing of our world.
Give yourself time on these two Wednesdays (or also some Mondays, see below) for our Uprooting Racism discussion online. Take a fresh look at your ongoing work, in the company of others committed to growing their faith & action. RSVP
Also: Come to Mondays that you can; and read what pages you can! Keystone small discussion group with Pastor Lauren: Uprooting Racism: Cheat Sheets come in your email:
Mon. Jan. 25, 8-9 pm, p. 1-25.
Mon. Feb. 8, 7-8 pm, p. 25-50.
Mon. Feb. 22, 7-8 pm, p. 50-75.
Also Quarterly Monday Meetings via Admiral UCC: Uprooting Racism (if you opt in) start Mon. Mar. 22, 7-8:30 pm, (different zoom link with Registration below, through Admiral UCC, West Seattle & West Side Unitarian) with a Keystone small break out group, p. 1-75.
Details:
Uprooting Racism: study opportunities: take a short deep dive on the 2 Wednesdays; or, take a longer term discussion (more Mondays), with Paul Kivel's work. Both offer an intimate conversation group with others @ Keystone. We are talking through our own histories, stories, & experiences, as we encourage one another to act ever more faithfully for racial justice.
Here is a local Seattle bookstore you might support if you can, as you grab your own book: Estelita's Library- Justice Focused Community Bookstore.
Or get started here: 25 pages posted here (Thanks Admiral UCC!)
Note: The longer track: that just meets 4 times quarterly, with the Monday March 22 begin date, joins other PNC folks & Admiral UCC. It does, however, still include a Keystone break out group, as a workshop space to apply learnings for our particular church setting. (We each can Register here.) See the promo materials are here, and you can get more info: www.AdmiralChurch.org/UprootingRacism. 100% of registration fees will be donated to the Poor People's Campaign for Moral Revival. Talk toLaurenfor more info -or for the sliding scale option.
Zoom: gatherings with Keystone occur online in the same space we use on Sundays & Wednesdays, so a Cheat Sheet will come in your email. Note: the Mar. 22 track with Admiral UCC will use a different link, that will be shared, after you register (Then see you in the Break Out Room!)
Tent City 3 could use Tents: conversation after worship Sun. Feb. 14
This Sunday February 14, stay/come online at the end of worship, about 11:20 a.m. at Announcements, we will have a brief discussion about supporting Tent City 3 in their current search for additional tents. Friends have made us aware of a need. We will hold a quick vote after church to look at ways we can help procure some of the tents immediately, this cold week, & for use this winter. Tent City 3 is now in the U District, soon moving over to University UCC on 45th.
Remembering Nell
Save the Date! Jenn's ordination & installation Sunday Feb. 28: 3 pm
Come celebrate the ordination of Jenn Hagedorn to Christian ministry! She is to be installed as Pastor, at Spirit of Peace UCC, in Sammamish WA: http://spiritofpeaceucc.org
Jenn is our alum, from the inaugural 2012-13 Justice Leadership Program cohort, and former Keystone & JLP staff. Jenn's history includes coming up in the PNC UCC, growing up at Northshore UCC, and an alum of JLP who spearheaded the campaign for Seattle's Living Wage through the Church Council of Greater Seattle, and the No New Youth Jail support movement by predominantly white congregations across Seattle. We rejoice with our sister of the PNW as she begins her ordained ministry back here, and we can work together once again!
More info and Zoom link through this PNC news: Monthly Packet page. We celebrate with Pastor Jenn Hagedorn, MDiv, MPH Spirit of Peace UCC!
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