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.

Thurs. June 17 @ 6 pm: Lectio Divina Practice

Mid week centering time. All welcome- it is a small group in zoom. Come for a deep breath and perhaps a help for your spirit. This gathering is a chance to crack open the scripture for the Sunday coming up, in a prayerful, meditative, spacious practice. No prep or experience necessary. Come anytime you can use a boost. This practice trusts that a community of listeners can illuminate the text in fresh ways amidst the concerns on our hearts. Zoom cheat sheet comes by email each week.

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Wed. June 16 @ 6:30 pm: Concerns of the World

Come for shared lament and come to build hope! Make it through the month with some interactive community prayer space (as participatory as you like.). This is a monthly 45 minute time to bring prayers and concerns together in our zoom space with Rev. Rich. Every third week of the month! (zoom link is emailed out in Cheat Sheet. Or just sign up here.)

Prayers of the People, from Sunday June 6

Strength to Pat, Dick, Kitten, Michael, Trinaty, Steve (Michael’s brother) and Steve’s three sons (Kitten and Michael’s godchildren), in this time of sudden loss, after Julie collapsed (partner/ mom/ sister-in-law), in Buckley.

Courage to John, Barb, and Grace as they learn more results for John, and make treatment plans.

Fortitude to Rita as she continues to navigate changes requiring forbearance & endurance.

Sandie’s address at Rehab - please send your cards, and share phone calls:

Kline Galland Home (206) 725-8800,

Write to: 7500 Seward Park Ave. S., 

Seattle, WA 98118

Call and ask for Sandie Schumacher’s room, or call Sandie’s cell (in the Directory.)

Cheers, love, all our pride and joy to Keystone seniors approaching their turns in the road after public school!!! Vic and Quinn and Trinity!

For a year of heroics in unthinkable study settings.  

For God’s restorative love.

For sabbath and rest (Deuteronomy).

For hard anniversaries coming this month, hold us in your love.

Monica’s continued healing and strength as her leg is so much better.
Gus on hospice now, and to Marilyn and all the family, with grandchildren visits, wedding, and navigating it all, with God’s love.
Happy 90th birthday to beloved neighbor friend Bob (Betty and regular at Keystone dinners.)

Sheri, for the rest or sabbath for our pastors.
Harriet Thompson (Dave P.) for her inspiration to so many, and her chance now to rest.

For rest, dignity, freedom, hope.

Inspiration to leave the siren song of constant consumption, dragging us down.

To center in God’’s worldview: LOVE is sufficient.  How DEEPLY loved we each are.

Forgive our debts, that we have been saddled with, so we can become lifters of burdens of others, through sharing God’s love!

June 10: Histories of Racism, and models for speaking out

Evenings at Keystone UCC

Pray, tell stories, study, change the world

Break up the week with some fellowship!

Thursday, June 10

6:00-6:25pm

Lectio Divina

Twenty-five (25) minute reflective scripture reading practice with Rita and Pastor Lauren, reading our scripture for this upcoming Sunday, June 13: 1 Samuel 8:4-20. No prep necessary.

6:30-7:45pm

Uprooting Racism study circle

with Rev. Lauren. Part IV of Book: The Effects of History, through page 242. Come for conversation to really dig in, as we are learning to be Christians who acknowledge our role in history; Kivel opens this part of the book “most of us (white folks) are woefully misinformed about the actual history of interracial relationships, particularly their more devastating aspects. We have been taught lies beginning with the benign story of Columbus’ “discovery” of America…(p. 179.) …

…Our history effects our current situation.. including the effects of slavery, the genocide of Native Americans, the conquest of Mexico, and the banning of Chinese and later all Asian immigration continue to influence our lives and the lives of people of color.”

Yet “we have a long history of white people speaking out for economic and political justice, and we need to reclaim and learn from those role models.”

All are welcome, thank you for making time, to learn in community.

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Both meetings will be in our usual Zoom space.
Watch for the Cheat Sheet in your email with the ways to join. Or if you have not subscribed yet: here is the form