Thank you for planning to stay after zoom worship (at approx. 11:20 AM) we will do our annual business, budgeting, and electing of new officers. It will be our zoom Congregational Meeting, and will be fairly short, and everyone is welcome. We will be counting every vote in our gallery, whether on screen or phone, and all who are present will be free to exercise voice and vote!
Prayers of the People, from Sunday June 13
Prayers
~ We Pray in Community ~
~Prayers listed here include, in general terms, some of what was lifted aloud online in worship Sunday June 13~
~Please add your love, as you pray each name, concern, or joy- and reach out to one another!~
(Prayers are listed approx. two weeks, unless you prefer otherwise.)
Rejoicing with our graduating seniors celebrating the culmination of their public school careers, Quinn, Vic, and Trinaty!!! And to our extended family (Dick and Pat’s granddaughter and Keith’s daughter Fiona and for Griff - at UW!
Prayers with John, as a different diagnosis is sorted out, with horizon of hope for a positive outcome. To be buoyed in all this by the love of his community here, and strengthened by God.
For faithfulness to God;s justice.
To be called to bigger faith, to the power of self-giving love.
For Pride month!
For all our AAPI siblings in the fight for justice, in media, and every realm of life, for power for us all to keep pushing back the endless bias.
To Carly and Betty and all the teachers and parents helping scholars finish strong, and get set up for summer.
For baseball buddies, and fort building in the woods.
For Jo’s youngest brother coming through surgery, and all the family.
For our leaders, for continued insight, generously shared Sheri.
For Sandie’s good spirit and care to continue through this Rehab.
To continually show up, stand on the side of the marginalized.
Holy God, in your mercy ... hear our prayers!
Continue to send your prayers to Lauren & Rich and as you wish, we can include them in Sunday worship online or Wednesday gatherings online or this weekly Newsletter.
Pastoral concerns: Pastor Rich (keystone5019@gmail.com), & Pastor Lauren: lauren.cannon@keystoneseattle.org, or text/ call Lauren: 773.501.7382.
Wed. July 7th assignment: next study circle: Uprooting Racism
This month our focus is on two sets of “Questions and Actions.” All are welcome to join. We create safe space for deep dialogue, in this Uprooting Racism study. We learn to more readily tell our own stories and take up courageous engagement with this book, do our research, and be supportive with each other.
Assignment for July 7:
4.1 Questions and Actions: Native Americans: p. 187-188.
4.2 Questions and Actions: African Americans: p. 199-200.
You may want to dedicate a notebook. We are really digging in. As you do your research, feel free to reach out to one another and me, and do chunks in dyads or triads if you like.
And we will see each other Monday 6/28 on Admiral UCC zoom with the other church/ justice groups in the meantime as well!
Questions/ to join: contact Pastor Lauren
Take 5 this week!! Eviction Moratorium? Protecting Trans Pride? Trans Mountain Pipeline? Voting Rights?
Wed. June 30 picnic in the park 5-6:30 pm
Update: Gather for a bit of in-person catch up, new friends and old! Maybe 80 degrees will now feel balmy for a picnic. Come- if the excessive heat almost demolished you and yours. Come- if you have been carrying the burden with those who did not have homes in which to ride out the heat. Come -if you need to detox, “this is why we did the ON FIRE study ‘The Burning Case for a Green New Deal’, its time to step it up! Come if the kids are ready to romp.
You may hear more on the Green Team meeting July 1. Or the practice of Lectio Divina July 1. Come!
Save these in person dates also:
Sun. July 18: children & families @ Keystone playground, during zoom worship.
Wed. July 28: next picnic eve in the park!
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Picnic in the Park: 5-6:30 pm. Thanks to the lovely crowd that came to our first picnic 6/8. Come meet up in Wallingford’s Meridian Park, across 50th from Keystone Church. Gather at the same spot near playground, again, a bit to the north west corner, up from the stone arch at 50th & Meridian. BYO picnic snack, blanket or folding chair! The Wallingford Farmers Market is each Wednesday afternoon/eve, incase you want to grab something. Text/call/email Lauren for directions, questions.
For those who are vaccinated, good news: Washington adopted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention masking guidelines that state people who are fully vaccinated no longer are required to wear facial coverings, beginning Wed. June 30. “Fully vaccinated” refers to people who are two weeks removed from their second shot of Pfizer or Moderna or the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
For people who are not vaccinated (like our children), masks are still required in public spaces after June 30.