Saturday Picnic is moved
to Rain Date:
See you Tuesday June 8th
@ 5 pm!
No longer today Saturday June 5th: 4:30 pm. Our weather points us to Tuesday- thanks for spreading the word!
BYO Picnic -
Keystone community gathering
Meet outside by Keystone playground (in the back), walk over to Meridian Playground (4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98103). Bring your own picnic and blanket or folding chairs for Covid-safe social time to catch up--in person! Contact Lauren for questions or more details:
5-6 pm: Meet up for our casual first outside spring gathering! Come by the pretty church grounds and head over to Meridian Park (across 50th from Keystone in Wallingford). We won't be sharing food, but bring your own early supper snack!
Park your bike or car at Keystone as you like. Children, families and Anita & Lauren will meet at Keystone playground and walk over.
Parking at Good Shepherd offers a shorter walk: 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. Come for an hour of covid-safe-outside, physically-distanced, masked, gathering time to catch up. There is lots of space for kids to run, a playground, & bathrooms. (Same park we gathered June 2020 to cheer Paisley's graduation.) Anita may read kids a story if we get a little group!
More outdoor chances to visit can come, if you are not around for this one!
Rain date for this first in-person BYO picnic:
Tuesday June 8 at 5-6 pm.
See below and at Keystone calendar!
Next Listening Session: Wednesday June 23 @ 6:30 pm
Announced on Sunday May 30:
Thank you Northshore UCC folks for joining Keystone again- we LOVE when you get to zoom-travel on your 5th Sundays of the month!
Thank you Keystone for the good turn out and discussion at Thursday May 27 Listening Session.
Next Listening Session: Wednesday June 23 @ 6:30 pm on zoom.
(Note no zoom meet ups Wednesday June 2 or 9th; see Thursday zooms these first two weeks of June.)
Thursday June 3:
6 pm Lectio Divina practice on zoom.
6:30 pm Green Team
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Thursday June 10:
6 pm Lectio Divina practice.
6:30 pm Uprooting Racism study circle.
Details below and at Keystone calendar!
Thursday June 3 & Thursday June 10
Next 2 Thursday Evenings at Keystone
Pray, tell stories, study, change the world
Join us for mid-week fellowship. Meet up--at Keystone online! All meetings are in our Zoom space.
Note: We are offering Thursdays (not Wednesdays) for the next few weeks, then back to Wednesdays for many zoom gatherings. (Periodically groups will need to gather on eves other than Wednesday.) Lectio Divina may continue on Thursdays. Thank you- stay tuned!
Thursday, June 3 zoom
6:00pm: Lectio Divinawith Rita and Rev. Lauren
6:30pm: Green Team Come meet with Keystone’s think tank and action team, led by Rich V. Uplifting resource sharing and strategizing to amplify Keystone’s impact!
Thursday, June 10 zoom
6:00pm: Lectio Divina with Rita and Rev. Lauren
6:30pm: Uprooting Racism with Rev. Lauren. Part IV of Book: The Effects of History. (thru page 242.)
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For mid week evening gatherings, you will receive the "Cheat Sheet" email for that event, which includes the ways you can enter the online Zoom meeting. All gatherings occur in the same Zoom space, so you can use any previous link or Cheat Sheet. Let us know if you have any questions!
Saturday June 5th Meridian Park outside gathering 4:30 pm BYO picnic
Saturday June 5th:
4:30 pm
BYO Picnic -
Keystone community gathering
Meet outside by Keystone playground (in the back), walk over to Meridian Playground (4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98103). Bring your own picnic and blanket or folding chairs for Covid-safe social time just to catch up--in person! Contact Lauren for questions or more details:
4:30pm- 5:30 pm: This is a casual first meet up outside this spring! Come by the pretty church grounds and head over to Meridian Park (across 50th from Keystone in Wallingford). We won't be sharing food, but bring your own early supper snack!
Park your bike or car at Keystone as you like. Children, families and Anita & Lauren will meet at Keystone playground and walk over.
Parking at Good Shepherd offers a shorter walk. Or ask to be dropped off at 50th & Meridian, and there is a ramp under the stone archway. We will find a space for our picnic blankets at that end of the field, near the arch. Come for an hour of covid-safe-outside, masked & physically-distanced, time to catch up! There is lots of space for kids to run, a playground, & bathrooms. (Same park we gathered June 2020 to cheer Paisley's graduation.) Anita may read kids a story if we get a little group!
More outdoor chances to visit can come, if you are not around for this one!
Rain date for this first in-person BYO picnic:
Tuesday June 8 at 5-6 pm.
3 areas of Research: Volunteers sought: Help Gather info for Keystone-future conversations
Over the months we have been having good conversations about Keystone's future. We are at a point in the conversation where more information would be helpful.
Though Lauren and Rich may be able to provide some ideas, the research work will need leadership from members of the congregation. Here is what is currently needed:
Keystone is looking for volunteer(s) to research what other churches are learning from their various responses to post-Covid worship. (Ex. sanctuary worship + zoom or FB live, video recording of worship + posting, outdoor worship, etc.)
We are also looking for volunteer(s) to research the viability and zoning for selling our corner of land & buildings to redevelop the church buildings to become low income housing, a worship space, community renters, offices, etc.
And we are looking for volunteer(s) to talk with those who would not be able to attend Keystone for worship, if we worship in the sanctuary.
Please let Lauren or Rich know if you are interested in one of these opportunities.
Other areas of research have been well underway all year and continue. For example, how Keystone/ STCC/ PreSchool/ +all our cherished renters can safely come back-in-person. If you are vaccinated, WA State and King County continue to have encouraging words. But Keystone’s process through our winter and spring Listening Sessions have especially kept an ear tuned to whom may still be vulnerable. What do you need? (Ex. how can children safely worship, with singing, with communion, with their class, with hugs at coffee hour? What are the needs of those with particularly compromised immune systems?)
We are thankful for all the participation in the Listening Sessions, held at the end of each month. Next up: this month: Wednesday June 23, 6:30 pm. Save the date- thank you!