Meaningful Movies Virtual Screening & Discussion: The Biggest Little Farm

Release Year: 2019
Running Time: 92 minutes
Director: John Chester

“The Biggest Little Farm” chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature’s conflicts, the Chester’s unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination.

Featuring breathtaking cinematography, captivating animals, and an urgent message to heed Mother Nature’s call, “The Biggest Little Farm” provides us all a vital blueprint for better living and a healthier planet.

Register here: https://sustainableballard.wildapricot.org/event-3932841

More about the film here: https://www.biggestlittlefarmmovie.com

Please join Meaningful Movies:Sustainable Ballard to view and discuss.

5:30 pm Screening 
7:00 pm Discussion 

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thebiggestlittlefarm

Next contemplative practice of Lectio Divina: August 26: 6:30-7 pm

“Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.  The world needs our peace, and the world needs our happiness.” -Thich Nhat Hanh* 

On August 26 we will take centering time to reflect on lines from the Gospel of Matthew 16: 21-28, the cost and promise of discipleship.  Since our worship for Sunday August 30 may draw on our lectionary with these verses, as we share some quiet, we will see what phrases stick with us, and how we are connecting with this passage.  Our last round in the practice helps us each see what God is asking us to do through this text.

Come share a couple minutes in this quiet practice, done in community.  These strange coronavirus times are bringing us to be together in contemplation to restore ourselves.  We can begin to do this practice as our weekly feast to sustain our Spirits, for the seasons ahead.  

Two Wednesdays/month +/or a weekly Friday 10:30 AM Lectio practice, are under consideration.  We meet online.  Give yourself a quiet half hour in your week, to be with others from Keystone.  Bring your Bible.  You will get to spend some time with our Sunday texts, for the days leading up.

Questions welcome to: Pastor Lauren: lauren.cannon@keystoneseattle.org

*Thich Nhat Hanh: from Living Buddha, Living Christ.

Take 5 for Advocacy: Week of August 17, 2020

TELL CONGRESS TO SAVE THE POST OFFICE: Speaker Nancy Pelosi is holding a vote on Saturday in the House on a bill that would prevent any changes or delays to the postal service. 350.org is asking folks who care about the postal service and are aware of the many different ways folks depend on the public mail service for prescriptions, connections, and support, to join them in asking our Congressional representatives to pass the Delivering for America Act, to protect the US Postal Service and also to ensure that voters who will use the mail to vote this year will be able to make their votes count. Click here to send a message to your representatives now! 

Prayers of the People

In worship last Sunday, we joined together to lift these prayers:

• That love is more powerful than ingrained ways we’ve been trained to see the world.  May love be our interpretive lens.  May love be how we come to see and engage all the world!  (via Gospel of Matthew 15)

• For John’s niece Nadine with colon cancer.  Prayers  that her 8/18 surgery was smooth and God guided her  surgeon’s hand.  God bring relief to your servant, as we pray her recovery leads to all cancer being gone.

• Our prayers have been around Pierre as he underwent 8/18 hernia surgery, with all thanks that it went well, and for his rest and recovery at home.

• Our members who have had family unable to come to offer their usual help in the yard or home.  For a spirit of creativity to be learning solo, new ways to keep up all chores.

• With Nell’s niece who has found ovarian cancer all through her body.  May chemo and surgery begin, and may she be given hope in the direction & course ahead.

We continue to lift in prayer: 

• Families & teachers at Keystone, who are figuring fall plans to work while they support our youth scholars, our college scholars, and our children in this new year out of their cherished daycares, preschools, & elementary schools. 

Holy God ... hear our prayers!

These prayers are crafted to carry those shared in worship to our whole community, in the general spirit in which they were given (a leader notes as others pray.)  Also send Rev. Lauren prayer requests, and we can add them  to our online worship.  Also add your prayers to the Zoom chat box during live worship, and we can fold them in to the spoken prayer time. 

Pastoral concerns & prayers? 

Pastor Yuki (yuki.schwartz@keystoneseattle.org), 

Pastor Rich (keystone5019@gmail.com), 

Pastor Lauren:  lauren.cannon@keystoneseattle.org, 

Also feel free to text/ call Lauren’s cell:  773.501.7382

TONIGHT @KeystoneUCC

Justice Bible Study: The Justice Bible Study Group meets tonight, August 12, reading the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5. Come to the study and bring your questions and your reflections of your week as we try to work out together where we meet God in these stories and in our work in the world. You don't need to read before coming, we'll read stories together. The study space opens up at 6:15 p.m., and the study will start at 6:30 p.m., in the same Zoom space we use on Sunday mornings and for our other gatherings (look for a Cheat Sheet with the info coming in your email!). 

Gather & Resilience Hangout: Come circle up (this one especially welcomes parents!)  Perhaps we each strive to stay well by various groups for support.  But here is a chance to gather with your fellow Keystone faithful families (and all generations of Keystone folk who are cheering you on).  We will hold a circle of support.  Keystone prayers continue to be with you these days, families!  Let's meet on line to casually commiserate a little, then strategize a bit too.  We can lean in to our tradition that practices hope!  We will get through this wild year ahead, with remote schooling, and any and everything else that is to come.  We can hold each other's grief.  We can have a few laughs in solidarity with each other.  Come lament a little on Aug. 12 for a 45 minute round up, on how the heck you are doing! All Keystone folks and friends are welcome too!  You can show your support to all our beloved parents! At the end, we will plan if we might circle up again. 
(If you are at Bible Study beforehand- just come on in to chat after your study!) Find the meeting link in your email Cheat Sheet. You can also call/text Pastor Lauren at  773-501-7382.

New to Keystone and want to join one of these fellowship times? Email us at worship@keystoneseattle.org to get the Cheat Sheet.