Join us for services
Worship Every Sunday – 10:30 a.m.
All Are Welcome!
This Sunday, December 22, 2019
Rev. Rich preaching
Worship leader: Rev. Yuki
(Rev. Lauren away)
Text: Isaiah 35:1-10
Music Leader: Elliot Kraber
Accompaniment: Yigit Kolat
Children's Ministry: Anita
Reader: Barb
Usher: Margaret
Advent Candle Lighters: Arlene and Elliot
Coffee Hour Host: O'Neills
Theme: Journey of Faith
Families: Children start the morning in worship for opening hymns & taking in the voices of community & welcome. Once the scripture is read, teacher Anita will lead children down to classroom for the sermon time: a craft, Bible story, & creative play. All ages together.
Anita will usher children back up to sanctuary @ Communion & they join us for closing hymn!
*Also find the basket of Activity pages & books on the welcome table every week!
This Children's class with Anita = programming every Sunday 10 a.m.- 12 p.m. More info at http://www.keystoneseattle.org/children-youth/
Miss a Sermon? Down at Classroom? Audio Available Online: Feel free anytime to click on an audio file for a listen HERE, and share!
NEXT WEEK
Sunday, Dec. 29: 10:30 a.m. worship
Preaching: Rev. Rich
(Rev. Lauren and Rev. Yuki away)
Music Leader: Elliot Kraber
Accompaniment: Yigit Kolat
Children's Ministry: Anita is off but regular substitute Paisley is on! Children can begin worship with their families, and after the scripture reading head down to the classroom for stories and creative play.
Reader: Paisley
Usher: Christian
Communion: Rev. Rich
Coffee Hour: Barb
CHRISTMAS EVE
Tuesday, Dec. 24: 7 p.m.
Preaching: Rev. Rich
(Rev. Lauren and Rev. Yuki away)
Music Leader: Elliot Kraber
Accompaniment: Yigit Kolat
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| A big THANK YOU to Teacher Anita and the kids for being our Advent Candlelighters on Dec. 15! The children and their adults brought energy and creativity to the lighting of the candle of joy! |
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"We hold you in our love ..."
Fortifying prayers with our brave sister Anne Marie Jehle, engaging care & healing at Navos, and with Abby & Phil, as they all journey toward reunion, in coming days.
Congratulations to Dick & Pat Becker & family! Welcome great grand daughter Harley Rain Sharpe!! Parents Jade Castino & Jason Sharpe & all are doing well!
Nell Townley continues to express thanks for the visits to Northaven, as she and her family will begin to pack up her home after the holidays, for Nell's move January 10-11. They are pleased to have found a great family home where she can have her own room (so rare) located just north of Mill Creek, in S. Everett. Connecting is most welcome, if you wish to mail a card, call, or stop by for a brief visit:
Nell Townley @ Northaven
531 NE 112th St. #503
Seattle, WA 98125
Prayers continue to surround Mary and Stan Jeppesen, as they adjust routines following Stan's stroke in November, and they chart course, with positive thoughts accompanying each day.
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Come Learn About Drawdown in January
Instead of our usual Wednesday night supper workshop in January, Keystone is encouraging folks to join up with Communities Rising for the month and attend the Drawdown workshops, which will be held on Tuesday nights throughout the month of January.
 Drawdown.org features 100 well-researched solutions to climate change. Participants are invited to consider implementing these solutions with family and local community - i.e. a "middle-out" approach, as a complement to a "bottom-up" approach (individual action) and to a "top-down" approach (national political action). You may recall that Communities Rising, which meets at Keystone, held an "Introduction to Drawdown" event earlier this month to explore these ideas with the newly established Drawdown Seattle group (DrawdownSeattle.org). Issue areas that Drawdown focuses on may speak to your own interests for stopping climate change. They include:
- Built Environment
- Electricity Generation
- Food
- Land Use
- Materials & Waste
- Oceans
- Transportation
- Women & Girls
Drawdown workshops will be held on Tuesday nights on Jan. 7th, 14th, 21st, and also on Feb. 25th, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. You can register for these workshops here. Talk with Jim, Christian, or Revs. Rich and Lauren if you want to know more about the Drawdown workshops or if you'd like to attend.
And .. SAVE THE DATE for our Feb. 5th Learning and Fellowship Wednesday night supper workshop, 5:30 to 7 p.m. in Battson Hall. Topic to be announced soon. |
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And ... Prep for Our Climate Change Lenten Study
In March 2020, we'll turn our Lenten study to help us deepen our climate action as a faith community. Tentative dates for the study are Wednesday nights, March 11, 18, and 25th. Here are a couple ways you can prepare for this study:
- Add to your reading list: Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything" and/or "On Fire: the Burning Case for a Green New Deal." Get a jump for Wednesday classes in March with our pastors.
- Read Drawdown & come to the Drawdown workshops (see above), to build community in which we can implement these solutions. (see below).
- Join Christian, Allie, Lauren, Yuki, Elliot & more at the January 23 People's Echo sing events @All Pilgrims on Cap Hill, for learning songs we can lead at future demonstrations.
- Host a January kick off meeting with Lauren & Christian as UCC + local church groups come together @ Keystone to learn about the Sierra Club steps for securing clean energy across our public school systems.
- Make your donation to our solar panels for our roof (see more below)! Every bit helps make a lasting boost toward aligning our community's values, for years to come!
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Solar Power to the People
You may have noticed the work to replace the roof has finished (yay!) and now we're turning our attention to part two of our roof plans -- raising funds for our solar panels. Christian has created this poster to explain and track our fund-raising efforts. We'll color in the thermometer with a red Sharpie marker as we go to show how much closer we are to our goal. Keep watch in the church narthex (lobby) for the appearance of this poster, and let folks know about this work of environmental stewardship that Keystone is taking up.
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Come see Elliot in A Christmas Carol
Keystone music leader Elliot Kraber is part of a production of A Christmas Carol, based on the story by Charles Dickens, at the SecondStory Repertory in Redmond. The production, which runs on weekends throughout December, finishes on Monday, Dec. 23. Find out more from Elliot or go to the SecondStory Repertory's web page on this show to get more information. |
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Play Uses Nativity Story to Focus on Homelessness, Refugees, Migration, Borders
Gift of Grace Lutheran Church invites Keystone members, friends and family to attend the play, "Lantern Rock, or The Many Angels of Mama Droplet: A Spoken and Sung Performance by Edward Mast," at 2 p.m. Sunday, January 5, 2020, at Gift of Grace Lutheran Church, 40th and Meridian in Wallingford. Edward Mast serves with Gift of Grace's Pastor Jami Fecher on the Community Advisory Committee for Northlake Nicklesville Tiny House Village, and has dedicated his life to advocating for and standing in solidarity with vulnerable people. His plays intend to spark conversation about (usually) uncomfortable topics.
LANTERN ROCK or THE MANY ANGELS OF MAMA DROPLET is a play for singers and actors using elements of the traditional Christmas Nativity story to create a space for concern and reflection on the global and local crisis of refugees, migrations, homelessness and weaponized borders. Traditional songs are fitted with new lyrics to alternate with spoken narrative, telling a story of the search for home and refuge in lethally dangerous times.
The performance features the talents of Meg Savlov, Miriam Blau, Ruth McRee, Straton Spyropoulos, Rich Hawkins, and Jeff Carter, with visual design by Lisa Bade. It will be followed by a conversation with some people involved locally in the ongoing crises. The performance and discussion will be over by 4:00pm.
This is a free community event but donations will be accepted. |
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Glance- down- the- Calendar
December:
Mon. Dec. 23: Last performance of A Christmas Carol w/ Elliot, 8 p.m.
Tues. Dec 24: Christmas Eve worship, 7 p.m.
January:
Sun. Jan. 5: Play: Lantern Rock or The Many Angels of Mama Droplet, 2 p.m.
Tues. Jan. 7: Drawdown workshop, 6-8:30 p.m.
Keystone Green Team folks are hard at work, setting up the systems to invite the many good groups and people of our extended community of neighbors & renters & visitors to donate to our installation of solar, as our metal roof goes up! We are starting to visit groups and users of the building, to invite participation, to help donate. Spread the word- donate through our online donations-- thank you team & Christian!
Thursday January 2, 2020 @ Noon: submissions: next deadline for Newsletter announcements: to Lauren & Yuki
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Leo - 12/22
Elvina - 12/23
Pierre - 1/1
Here's wishing them each the happiest of birthdays, from all of us at Keystone UCC! On the last Sunday of each month we have cake at coffee hour to celebrate these wonderful lives.
Please let Barb know additions/ omissions!
Keep an eye out here for upcoming Keystone Birthdays!
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Reaching Keystone UCC Pastoral Staff:
Reach us at your Keystone church office: (206) 632-6021. This phone is also checked remotely since all staff serve part-time.
Pastor Rich is available Tuesday to Thursday mornings and Friday evenings, and holds additional office times on Saturdays and Sundays. (Monday is Sabbath.) Not all of these times will Rich be in the church office. If you want to see him, it is best to make an appointment. Email him at keystone5019@gmail.com
Pastor Lauren is on Sunday thru Thursday (Sabbath = Friday & Saturdays). Email is a great way to line up a meeting time: lauren.cannon@keystoneseattle.org
Pastor Yuki is at church two Sundays a month and is available to meet by appointment (Sabbath = Fridays). Email her at yuki.schwartz@keystoneseattle.org. |
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