Friday, February 28, 2020

Practice Advocacy & Audacious Hope this Lent

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This Sunday, March 1, 2020
First Sunday in Lent
Preaching:
 Rev. Lauren
 preaching
Worship leader: Rev. Yuki & Rev. Rich

Text: Genesis 1:26,1:28, 2:5 & 2:15
Theme: Interdependence (has it on 'stewardship'!)

On Ash Wednesday we received the mark of ashes, reminding ourselves we come from dust and to dust we return.  We only have a brief time in life.  We sang.  And then encouraged each other "From the ashes of fear and despair, ... arise!"

That evening Paisley showed us how to support the Sunrise Movement this spring, with focus on the Green New Deal.  Our Wednesday evening study is about to begin March 4: our Lenten Journey: "Have Faith to Change the World".  Four Wednesdays we gather:  "On Fire:  Prophetic Faith & the Green ew Deal."

So this Sunday our lectionary nicely gives us some timely formational Genesis texts, that charge us "to till and keep" our garden of Earth.  Come worship as we search for a key surprise: stewardship can be unintentionally colonial, damaging, and patronizing (!)

So instead, we immerse in a deeper interpretation: the call to interdependence.  Humans, species, & earth in partnership together.  Not humans over others. 

As followers of Jesus, who listened to the margins, we are learning to do the same.  We listen to those bearing most of the climate crisis, as we find ways ahead.

 
Music Leader:  Elliot Kraber
Accompaniment: Yigit Kolat
Children's Ministry:  Anita Featherston
Reader: Mary
Usher: Dan O.
Coffee Hour Host:  Margaret

NEXT WEEK

Sunday, Mar. 8: 10:30 a.m. worship
Second Sunday in Lent

Preaching: Rev. Rich
Worship leaders: Rev. Lauren & Rev. Yuki

Theme: Sin

Music Leader: Elliot Kraber
Accompaniment: Yigit Kolat
Children's Ministry: Anita Featherston

Reader: Sandie
Usher: Christian
Coffee Hour:  O'Neills
Families: Every Week:  Children start the morning in worship with you, amidst opening hymns & voices of community announcements. Once the scripture is read, teacher Anita will lead children down to the classroom for the sermon time, to do a craft, hear a Bible story, and engage in creative play. All ages spend the time together. 

Anita will usher children back up to sanctuary for Communion to sit with you, & join us for closing hymn!

*Also find the basket of Activity pages & books on the welcome table by the front door every week!

This all-ages children/youth faith formation with Anita = Class every Sunday 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. More info at http://www.keystoneseattle.org/children-youth/
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Happy Listening Anytime:  Miss a Sermon?  Down at Classroom? Audio Available Online: Click on a file for a listen HERE, and share! 
Sunrise Movement Launch @ Keystone 
Thank you Paisley for leading us Wed. Feb. 26!  Here are two videos Paisley showed at the presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH0iprVQ&cc=on

https://vimeo.com/387893182/5416765c2f

And an email to follow up directly with Paisley:  ms.paisley at live dot com

One of several things we learned is that Paisley is a lead organizer at Roosevelt H.S. of proliferating strike circles.  (Building skills in organizing, canvassing, demonstrating, non-violence, etc.)  And Keystone folks are invited to lead a support strike circle (those over 35 are utilized in this youth-led movement!)


Please hold time on Earth Day April 22 to join a youth-led day to raise our voices in support, as we call on our WA Senators to support a Green New Deal.

And watch for the Sunday in the next 7 weeks, when we get to all commission Paisley as our extension of Keystone in her work for our world.
 

(*Keystone UCC is always non-partisan, never endorsing any one candidate.  We have a moral call to act on our faith for issues.  And in church we grow our passionate support of all our active youth.)
Our prayers of support and solidarity are with Jenn Hagedorn, whose ordination interview is March 12 with the Committee on Ministry of the Pacific Northwest United Church of Christ!  (* more below)

Raising up cheers of love and congratulations to Sybil Besheer & Andrea Myers, who were married at Keystone on Feb. 20, at 4:30 p.m.! Sybil and Andrea have been joining Keystone for worship in the weeks leading to their wedding, and we've had the joy of getting to know them as they planned their wonderful day.

*Jenn Hagedorn grew up at Northshore UCC, and after college and work in Ghana, Jenn was in Keystone's inaugural young adult (year 2012-13) of Justice Leadership Program interns.  She went on to lead Seattle's living wage campaign at the end of her placement with Church Council of Greater Seattle.  She then did her Master of Public Health in Seattle and led the No New Youth Jail movement of accountability churches when she was studying.  She joined our JLP staff.  She then went with our cheers to Union Theological Seminary in NYC.  She interned at the Riverside Church, and the national UCC with Pres. John Dorhauer, and at the Middle Church.  She is now doing further CPE Residency in Atlanta Georgia at a care facility, and undertaking these last steps toward her ordination for local church ministry!  Pastor Lauren has been serving in support with her process.  We will be adding our prayers March 12!


FOR ADVOCACY

Thank you again Barbara, our tireless liason this season- preparing us each Sunday!  & Today: can you choose one that speaks to you?  These last push calls, come from Barb's week of updates, with SKCHH in Olympia, Alison Eisinger testifying yesterday.  Please Take 5 for Advocacy actions! Speak out online by going to the Bills page on the Washington State Legislature web page, or by calling the Hot Line at 1-800-562-6000. Can you do one today, or this weekend/ Monday?

After TODAY, February 28th, any bills not passed out of committee will be dead for the session. If a bill is in the House Fiscal, Senate Ways and Means or Transportation committee it must pass through by Monday, March 2nd! You can ensure that key justice bills keep moving this session!
  • HOT TODAY! FRIDAY! ENACT HB 2948: Authorizing counties with populations over two million to impose an excise tax on business. NEW: Cities with populations of 60,000 or more can also be a participating City!
  • This is now HB 2948. If you’ve been following the path of HB 2907 that would allow King County to tax the largest employers to pay for solutions to homelessness, you know that it didn’t make it out of the House before the last week’s cut-off. But a new bill was introduced: HB 2948This bill had a hearing Thursday.  There were 24 people who testified (including SKCHH.)  Please send a note to the House to pass out of the House Finance Committee today Friday!!!!
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  • SB 5144/HB1136 - Implementing child support pass-through payments.  
    This Senate bill 5144 passed on February 14th and went to the House!  There was a hearing on 2/25 in the Civil Rights and Judiciary committee. This bill passed out of committee on the 26th!!  Please send a note to put on the House floor for a vote and pass!  THIS ONE IS HOT!!  We want to get this passed by end of day Friday!!!
  • SB 6351/HB 2456 Concerning working connections child care eligibility: Extends the Homeless Grace Period from 4 to 12 months for Working Connections Child Care to ensure homeless children have access to quality childcare.  This gives families more time to meet the eligibility requirements! House Bill 2456 passed on February 13th out of the House and is now in the Senate! On February 21st it was sent to the Ways and Means Committee. Please send a note to pass SB 6351 out of the Ways and Means Committee!!  We only have til Mon. Mar. 2 to get this through! 
  • HB 2441 -Restore Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Lift Up and Protect poor families by improving access to temporary assistance for needy families: House Bill 2441 passed on February 15th out of the House is now SHB2441.  We got it to PASS out of the Human Services Committee, and now need support to get it thru Ways and Means by Monday March 2!  There is no Executive Hearing scheduled! Push it through!  
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  • SB5947 – HOT TODAY Friday Feb. 28!!! The sustainable Farms and Fields Grant Bill – passed the Senate and is now in the House – HB2095.  This bill is scheduled for Executive Session TODAY Feb. 28 in Rural Development and Agriculture.  Please send a note to pass out of Committee!!!! If questions on this bill please talk with Rich Voget!
COURTS OPEN TO ALL!!    - For You to Know!
Courthouses are places where people go to seek justice, pay fines, and participate in civil society.  Yet today, in both rural and urban areas across Washington, courthouses have become front lines in immigration enforcement.  This bill protects all people from warrantless civil immigration arrests at courts, prohibits court staff and prosecutors from using state and local justice resources to report people for federal immigration enforcement and requires courts to collect data on immigration agents’ surveillance of courthouses in Washington.  HB 2567 Passed in the Senate.  It is now SHB 2567 and passed out of committee today and is going to the House floor for a final vote! Please send a note to pass! 
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  • Support Senate Bill SB 6217: Help Airline Catering Workers at SeaTac Win Wage Equality –  by clicking on the link here. (Pastor Lauren has been our rep with workers on this Bill) 
  • Your calls and letters helped it pass Feb 17th and then out of committee on Feb.  25th and was referred to the Rules Committee for referral to the House floor.   We can get it passed by the Legislature to finally raise wages for airline catering workers at SeaTac Airport.
    Almost 1,000 airline catering workers at SeaTac Airport are currently excluded from the $16.34 Sea-Tac minimum wage, earning a much lower rate than other workers employed at the Airport with the same or similar jobs.

    SB 6217 will allow the Port of Seattle to raise wages for Airline Catering Workers at SeaTac Airport. This legislation is key in lifting up hundreds of workers and their families out of poverty.

    Airline Catering workers are predominantly immigrants and people of color. Many workers live in poverty. They have rallied and provided testimony regarding the impacts of their situation, on their families and their communities. Many are affected by housing and food insecurity.  We can send an email to the Washington House Democrats in support of SB 6217!
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    SB 6309 – WIC Farmer’s Market Nutrition Bill – This bill would increase the WIC/Farmer’s Market nutrition program voucher amount. One in six Washington children do not know where their next meal will come from and that promoting access to fresh foods supports Washington farmers as well as food-insecure families.  
    This Senate bill 6309 passed on February 14th out of the Senate and now HB2262 passed out of the House Human Services Committee on 2/25.  Please send a note to put on the House floor for a vote!  Support this bill! 
Feb. 14: One Job Should Be Enough

Seatac workers & community allies approached Delta, American & United "Open Your Hearts!"

Become Climate Justice Theologians This Lenten Season

This year for our Keystone Lenten Study, we'll look at how we can work for climate justice as people of faith. Using Naomi Klein's book On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal as our conversation partner in the study, we'll talk about why the issue of climate justice is important to us individually and why it's important to us as a community of faith.

The study will take place each Wednesday in March (March 4, 11, 18 and 25), from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Keystone UCC, 5019 Keystone Place in Seattle, downstairs in Battson Hall. There will be a light supper from 6 to 6:30 p.m., followed by about an hour or so of conversation and reflection. You can read the assigned sections of the book for each study session, or if your time is crunched or you don't want to buy the book, you can read the selected focus chapters for free online. We'll also have a online self-study for folks who can't make it to Keystone on Wednesday nights, found at http://www.keystoneseattle.org/keystoneucclentenstudy2020. The study is led by Pastor Yuki and Pastor Lauren. See below for a weekly reading guide for the study. Also, if you'd like to be part of the study but can't make it physically to Battson Hall and you have Internet access, talk to Pastor Yuki (email: yuki.schwartz@keystoneseattle.org) about the possibility of setting up an online portal through Zoom.

 

Lenten Study Reading Guide

If you're reading along with the study, please have the indicated pages/chapters read before the study, so you can come ready to talk about what you learned and how your thoughts, prayers, and actions plans are forming. You can download a paper copy of this reading guide by clicking here: Lenten Study Reading Guide.
March 4: On Fire: pages 1-69; OR Chapter 1: A Hole in the World (pages 54-69) or read it online at  https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/jun/19/naomi-klein-gulf-oil-spill)

March 11: On Fire, pages 70--148 OR chapter 2: "Capitalism vs the Climate" (pages 70-103) or read it online at https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/capitalism-vs-climate/), AND chapter 6: “Stop Trying to Save the World All By Yourself” (pages 129-136) or read it online at  https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/we-can-only-do-this-together/)
March 18: On Fire, pages 149-206 OR chapter 8, “Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World” (pages 149-168) or read it online at  https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n11/naomi-klein/let-them-drown

March 25: On Fire, pages 207-292 OR Chapter 13 “Capitalism Killed our Climate Momentum, Not Human Nature (pages 243-252) or read it online at  https://theintercept.com/2018/08/03/climate-change-new-york-times-magazine/, AND chapter 15, “Movements Will Make, or Break, the Green New Deal” (pages 259-271) or read it online at  https://theintercept.com/2019/02/13/green-new-deal-proposal/)
Other ways to focus on climate justice during this season:
  • Join the People's Echo singing events @All Pilgrims on Cap Hill, for learning songs we can lead at future demonstrations. The next singing teach-ins are 6-8 p.m March 5 and April 15. 
  • 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!

Outreach to Raise Solar Funds

Christian, Eliza and the Keystone Green Team folks are at work, setting up an online donation system.  We are already receiving electronic gifts from Meaningful Movies folks.  Please invite your contacts to donate to the solar installation.  Within a few short years, we will be giving energy into the grid.

We are asking for participation from our many good groups and people of our extended community of neighbors, renters and visitors.  We have started making visits to users of the building, giving a quick intro at their group, to share the news they can donate to the solar panels.  Maybe you want to be on a team to meet with Taiwanese UCC, or Wallingford Co-op PreSchool, or Seattle Labor Chorus, or Seattle Peace Chorus, and more?  Let us know.  And thank you -- spread the word!  

Communities Rising Explores Drawdown

Join Communities Rising at 7 p.m. March 5th at Keystone to explore ideas with the Drawdown Seattle group (DrawdownSeattle.org).

Project Drawdown (Drawdown.org) provides 100 well-researched solutions to our climate crisis. This participatory "Introduction To Project Drawdown" will help us explore feasible ways to reverse global warming, addressing the energy we use, the food we eat, and the cities we live in.  Each of us will discover the vital role we can play in this movement to reverse global warming!Doors open at 6:30 p.m. You can prepare for the evening by watching a video about Drawdown here

 
Today's news focuses us on Syria - Doctors Without Borders expose how many alerts are occurring at once.
(One example:  https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2020/2/28)
Here, Keystone member Margaret G. invites us to make a very tangible response: you can bring your offering of items this Sunday March 1!

From Margaret:  magraham4 at comcast dot net

Hello all, a local non-profit group called Salaam Cultural Mission Medical missions www.scmmedicalmissions.org is collecting warm clothes, blankets, shoes, etc. to send to Syria. They will send a shipping container off the first week of March. If you have itmes to donate, please bring them to church this Sunday March 1 and I will drop them off Monday. If you’d prefer to deliver things yourself, they are located in Fremont at 3806 Whitman Ave N. 206-545-7307. M-TH 8-5. I’m happy to give more info.  Thanks!

Keystone spent a year immersed in the Poor PEople's campaign.  Here, we can find FaceBook connection to the powerful Ash Wednesday service Rev. Barber held at his GreenLeaf Christian Church on 2/26 with Bernie Sanders, who came to eastern North Carolina (as two other candidates have so far.  No campaigning: but the church helped to amplify people's issues of poverty.)  Moving testimony from low wage workers.  From doctors of patients who cannot afford the meds they prescribe.  With Rev. Jonathan Wilson- Hartgrove.  Find it on FB!

Poverty Forum with Senator Bernie Sanders and Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II: 2020 Presidential Candidate Senator Bernie Sanders visits the home church of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II to listen to the concerns and moral agenda of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, of which Dr. Barber is co-chair.

The Poor People's Campaign also invites folks in Seattle and Western Washington to join them during their We Must Do More National Tour: Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering, Educating People for a Movement That Votes, when it comes to Seattle on Friday, March 20.

The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a march that will begin at the Seattle Public Library Central branch, 1000 4th Ave. It will be followed at 6:30 p.m. with a mass meeting at Plymouth Congregational Church, 1217 6th Ave
RSVP for this march and meeting at bit.ly/SeattleMORE
This march and mass meeting is leading folks down the road to Washington D.C. on June 20, 2020. For more information or to register, check out the new national site and register to attend in June!
Keystone is ministering to families in temporary shelter at Sacred Heart Shelter (as they prepare for stable housing).  Look what some of our Keystone team just shared:

As folks know, we provided the rocking chair a few weeks ago for the Sacred Heart Nursery and on Thursday afternoon the rug was delivered.  From Selena, the Resource Coordinator:

"Thank you for the thoughtful donations of rocker and rug which create a peaceful space that is encouraging to parents."

....And, according to Selena, the unsolicited feedback from families has been very positive!  Two direct quotes from mom & dad from two different families:

 "This amazing, I can't believe what you all have done to this room." 

"Wow! This is really nice!"

"Let's See What God Can Do": Sacred Heart Family Shelter Update

During worship on Feb. 26, Rita described the delivery of the first "Ready for Home Kit" to one of the Sacred Heart families. Rita told us she discovered the family had hung the colorful potholders that she and Connie had picked out, on the wall.  The Kit we brought = their only equipment.

She also let us know that the family called, grateful to be in the apartment, but they quietly conveyed they have no furniture (no beds, table, etc etc), and Rita promised to float that with us, as she did in worship: "Let's see what God can do!"  So there has been much scurrying about this week!  Let Rita know if you want to discuss furniture.
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This is one part of several supports we extend with Sacred Heart Family Shelter. Here are a few other ways our Keystone Community can serve. You can join or lead one of the teams, or invite family and friends to take part: 
TWICE-A-MONTH FOOD & SUPPLY DELIVERY TO THE SHELTER (Team Coordinators: Barbara Anderson & Michelle Hebner)   
Please contact Barbara if you would like to help with our on-going food/supply delivery and/or if you would like donate funds. Currently it is a Costco routine.  Barbara’s Email: gepreston@msn.com
“READY FOR HOME KITS” 
Providing a basic kit of house-hold items for shelter residents who have procured housing 
(Team Coordinator:  Rita Peterson) If you’d like to help, contact Rita at:  smithcrossing@gmail.com
Current Goal: Have advance supply inventory on hand so we can build kits as soon as they are needed
Current Needs:  Ideas to help make this new project run smoothly / Willing shoppers, & packagers
PROVIDE CLEANING RAGS AS NEEDED 
(Team Coordinator: Arlene Hobson, and maybe you are another who has a sewing machine?) 
Goal: Collect and hem old towels to be re-purposed as cleaning rags AND/OR provide funds & shop for bulk ready-to-use bar towels.  Arlene’s email: rleen206@gmail.com
Contact Pastor Lauren to help with the youth service project: learn-to-sew party at church, then deliver towelettes to shelter:  lauren.cannon@keystoneseattle.org
HELP WITH PACKAGING DIAPERS AND LAUNDRY SOAP
(In Need of Team Coordinator and a group willing to have a packaging party on a regular basis.  @ coffee hour?)
Contact Barbara Anderson for details:  gepreston@msn.com
SHELTER FIX-IT PROJECTS
(In Need of a Team Coordinator)     
Sacred Heart needs on-call maintenance volunteers to help keep the shelter looking good and running in tip-top shape.  Share this with someone you know?  
“POTTERY NIGHT  ACCOMPANIMENT”     
(In Need of a Team Coordinator)           
Northwest Pottery, located near Sacred Heart Shelter by Seattle Center, opens their doors for Sacred Heart on occasion so people can learn to make pottery.  Sacred Heart would love to have volunteers who would occasionally come along to help “break the ice,” interact, and support a welcoming atmosphere during these events.  Bring your vibrant spirit and try out your creativity!
PERIODIC DESSERT NIGHT FOR THE RESIDENTS 
(In Need of a Team Coordinator)      
Do you like to bake?  Or could you provide dessert items?   A dessert night at Sacred Heart is a new idea put forth by the shelter staff as a possible way for residents to come together for fun and socializing. It can provide an additional & effective avenue to serve and interact with the residents. One idea from our Feb. 5th meet-up: how bout bring treats to the monthly meeting of staff & residents (a time everyone is required to be in the same place at the same time!)
PROVIDE A MEAL   (Would you like to organize a hot meal for the residents once a year?)
Holy Week planning info for Keystone families:

Plan to share these special times with your children & youth this year again @ Holy Week.

Sun. April 5 - Palm Sunday (w children's procession).  Help your child to voice what they are passionate about-- they will create posters in the classroom- to lead our procession of palms.

Monday Table Turning Action- tbd @ site of those most directly impacted.  Carve our time to start Holy Week in a family-friendly action, to witness to our faith.

Thurs. April 9- Maundy Thursday supper (w children offering hand washing station).  Before our kids help us prepare for our meal, they will hear the story of Jesus caring for the disciples before his Last Supper.

Sun. April 12- Easter egg hunt on lawn- after worship.  Youth hide them; littler children get first go!

All friends, young and especially not so young, are warmly invited to share the joyful spirit, and bring in a couple filled eggs on Easter morning.  Place them in the box by the coat rack when you come in to worship.  (Little treasures, toys, treats, stickers, erasers?)

Thanks again to our youth helpers/hiders on the lawn!

Meaningful Movies Wallingford: Dolores

7 p.m. Friday, March 6 @Keystone

Release Year: 2017
Running Time: 96 minutes
Director: Peter Bratt


Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century—and she continues the fight to this day. With intimate and unprecedented access to this intensely private mother to eleven, the film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social change. As she wrestles with raising 11 children, three marriages, and is nearly beaten to death by a San Francisco tactical police squad, Dolores emerges with a vision that connects her new found feminism with racial and class justice.
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/doloresthemovie/
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for snacks and conversation. Film starts at 7 p.m. After the film, please join us for a community discussion.
** All events are Open to the Public. Admission is by Donation **
We help communities organize, educate, advocate & build community around social justice documentary film and conversation. 

See Elliot in Little Women!

Tickets going!  Lets go!  We are heading to support Keystone's Music Coordinator Elliot Kraber, & enjoy his upcoming show!

Little Women, the musical, is based on Louisa May Alcott's 1869 novel. Book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland.

Elliot will be playing Laurie, the male supporting ingenu.

Some Keystone folks are going to Sunday 2 pm show.

Dates: March 12-15
Times:  Thursday 8 p.m.; Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. (Thursday and Saturday afternoon are almost sold out!)
Location: The Slate Theater, 815 Seattle Blvd S, Seattle WA 98134; inside the Inscape Arts Building.

Buy tickets at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4522510





The Pacific Northwest Conference has a new home for sharing news and information about goings-on in the conference: GoogleGroups. Previously, the conference has been using a Yahoo!Group as an online center for conversations about PNC happenings. Yahoo!Groups recently shut down, so the conference has a new home on GoogleGroups. If you were a member of the PNC's Yahoo!Group and haven't received an email from the conference notifying you that you have been added to the new Google Group, or if you'd like to become a member of the Google Group, send an email to pncucc@gmail.com.

Keystone Upcoming Events with our Pacific Northwest UCC Conference
  • Annual Meeting 2020 will be April 24-26 at Westminster Congregational UCC in Spokane. (more)  Keystone delegates & pastors attend each year. 
  • UCC's National Youth Event in 2020 will take place at Purdue University in Indiana July 22-25. (more)
Glance- down- the- Calendar

Sat. Feb. 29: Los Eternos Indocumentados documentary, 2 p.m.@Washington State Labor Council.

Wed., March 4: On Fire: Prophetic Faith & the Green New Deal Lenten Study, 6-8 p.m. (light supper from 6-6:30 p.m., study begins at 6:30 p.m.) @Keystone. Pages 1-69 or focus chapter: Chapter 1.

Thurs. March 5: Communities Rising Introduction to Drawdown, 7 p.m. @Keystone.

Thurs. March 5: People's Echo singing teach-in, 6-8 p.m. @All Pilgrims.

Fri. March 6: Meaningful Movies Wallingford: Dolores, 7 p.m. @Keystone.

Wed. March 11:
 On Fire: Prophetic Faith & the Green New Deal Lenten Study, 6-8 p.m. (light supper from 6-6:30 p.m., study begins at 6:30 p.m.) @Keystone. Pages 70-148, or focus chapter, Chapter 2. 

Thurs. March 12: Jenn H.'s ordination interview.

Thurs. March 12-Sun. March 15: Little Women, starring Elliot as Laurie. 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. & 6 p.m. Sunday, @The Slate Theater, 815 Seattle Blvd., Seattle 98134, inside the Inscape Arts building.
Thurs. March 19: Memorial Service for shelter residents and unhoused Seattle residents, 3 p.m. @St. Martin de Porres Shelter, 1561 Alaskan Way South, Seattle, 98134.

Fri. March 20: Poor People's Campaign We Must Do More National Tour, march at 5:30 p.m. @Seattle Public Library central branch, 1000 4th Ave., followed by mass meeting at 6:30 p.m. @Plymouth Congregational Church.


Save The Dates:
Holy Week

April 5- Children lead Palm Procession @ Palm Sunday Worship
April 6- Table Turning Monday action
April 9- Maundy Thursday Supper- @ Battson Hall @ Keystone
April 10- Good Friday evening worship @ Learning Center @ Keystone
April 12- Easter Sunday! egg hunt @ church lawn, after worship


Fri.-Sun. April 24-26: Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Church of Christ annual meeting in Spokane
 
 
 

Hunter - 3/5
Gus - 3/9
Eliza - 3/10
Mike Denton - 3/18
Connie - 3/25
Margaret - 3/28

Here's wishing them each the happiest of birthdays, from all of us at Keystone UCC!  On the last Sunday of the month- we shall have cake at coffee hour

Please let Barb know additions/ omissions! 
 
Keep an eye out here for upcoming Keystone Birthdays!

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.  (Sabbath = Mondays.)  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 Friday half days (Sabbath = Saturdays). Email is a great way to line up a meeting: lauren.cannon@keystoneseattle.org 

Pastor Yuki is at church two Sundays a month and is available to meet by appointment (Sabbath = Fridays). Email them at yuki.schwartz@keystoneseattle.org.
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