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Worship Every Sunday – 10:30 a.m.
All Are Welcome!
This Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020
Preaching: Rev. Rich preachingWorship leader: Rev. Yuki
(Rev. Lauren off)
Text: Deuteronomy 30:15-20
Theme: The Choice
Music Leader: Elliot Kraber
Accompaniment: Yigit Kolat
Children's Ministry: Anita Featherston
Reader: Eliza
Usher: John
Coffee Hour Host: Arlene
NEXT WEEK
Sunday, Feb. 23: 10:30 a.m. worship
Preaching: Rev. Yuki
Worship leader: Rev. Lauren
(Rev. Rich off)
Text: 2 Peter 1:16-21
Theme: Proclamation
Music Leader: Elliot Kraber
Accompaniment: Yigit Kolat
Children's Ministry: Anita Featherston
Reader: Dan S.
Usher: Marilyn
Coffee Hour: February birthdays celebration
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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! |
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Our joy is with our Keystone loved ones, who always have home in our hearts here in Seattle, even as they are called to set up lives in new locations. We celebrate with Hannah & Nick and their new baby girl this year. Her name is Clara! Happy with big brother with Ollie in St. Paul MN area!
Please keep the family of Yuki's partner, Clint Collins, in your prayers as they grieve the passing of Clint's uncle, Don Collins, on Feb 10. Clint will be traveling to Fort Worth, Texas, next week to join his family as they celebrate Uncle Don's life.
Our thoughts have been with Nell Townsley, as her dear friend Mary of her North Haven community, was approaching hospice time last week. Mary passed away on Monday Feb. 10. Nell is thankful, in this time of loss, that she could go visit and spend time Sat. Feb. 9.
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FOR ADVOCACY
Thank you, Barb, for these Take 5 for Advocacy actions we can take this week. You can 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. Here are some bills to speak out for:
- ENACT HB 2907 and ALLOW FOR PROGRESSIVE REVENUE to address homelessness in King County. - This bill authorizes counties with populations over 2 million to impose an excise tax on business. (Note: Ask your senator and reps to give King County a necessary local option to raise new progressive revenue to address the homelessness crisis in the county with the biggest problem.)
The next items here are just budget asks. Please comment to your Senator and Representatives this week.
- CREATE more HOMES and SHELTER: This is a budget ask so please continue to speak up for these!
- Add $15,444,000 in permanent supportive housing for people who are homeless and need intensive supports in the supplemental operating budget.
- Invest in new SHELTER and ENHANCE existing shelters with $66,395,667 in the supplemental operating budget and $30,000,000 in the supplemental capital budget.
- Raise the ABD cash grant significantly for low income adults who have mental illnesses or physical disabilities. Nobody can live on $197 a month! Send a note to raise the grant to $363.00/month to better support low-income people with disabilities.
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Share Blessings & Love Today,
Feb. 14, at SeaTac with
Airline Catering WorkersKeystone members & pastors are joining brave workers today & members of Unite Here Local 8, which represents workers in the hospitality industry in the Pacific Northwest, to gather for a National Day of Action for Airline Catering Workers at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, at IBEW 77, 19415 International Blvd, SeaTac WA 98188. (If you were at church on Sunday, you might remember Pastor Lauren linking to this in her sermon).
This Day of Action is to call on Delta to "Soften Their Hearts" as they pay out $1.6 billion in profit sharing to direct employees, but give our catering workers nothing. It is to challenge United to "Open Your Hearts" to bring these workers to a living wage. It is to tell United "Don't Break our Hearts" as they sub-contract this food work, and dodge their responsibility, for these families to have enough to live on.
Airline catering workers are majority people of color, and most are immigrants and refugees. Most earn less than $15 an hour. Only 34% of workers at the two largest airline subcontractors were covered by employer-provided health insurance in 2018. As American, Delta, and United made a combined $7.4 billion in profit in 2018, 20,000 US airline food workers refuse to continue to accept lousy wages and substandard healthcare. Workers are standing up to say, "one job should be enough."
You can also help by telling your state senator to vote yes on SB 6217, which could help to raise wages for airline catering workers. You can use Unite Here Local 8's online portal to send your message to your senator by clicking here. You can also 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.
Text Pastor Lauren to meet up with our interfaith group, in support today!
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Start Your Lenten Journey With the Sunrise Movement Launch
 Come learn with Paisley Maschmeier, Keystone UCC member & Roosevelt High School student, who is part of the youth-led environmental justice Sunrise Movement. Paisley will lead a Sunrise Movement Launch Party on Feb. 26, Ash Wednesday, from 7 to 8 p.m., at Keystone.
Before the launch party, there will be a light supper of soup and bread from 6 to 6:30 p.m., followed by a brief Ash Wednesday service, including the imposition or offering of ashes, to remember and honor our mortality and interrelationship with all other life in God's good Creation.
This Ash Wednesday service and Sunrise Movement Launch will help kick off our Lenten Climate Study: On Fire: Prophetic Faith & the Green New Deal (see more below).
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In March 2020, our Lenten study, On Fire: Prophetic Faith & the Green New Deal, will help us deepen our climate action as a faith community. Using the book On Fire: The (Burning) Case for the Green New Deal by Naomi Klein as our conversation partner, we'll talk together about why climate justice is central to our faith, and the different ways we can put our faith around climate justice into action together.
You can buy your own copy of the book (Check with Pastors Lauren, Yuki or Rich if you'd like to be part of a group order. Cost is $17 or any donation) or check it out from your local library to follow along with the study, or you can read the excerpts that are available online. Pastor Yuki is creating a study guide, which will be available soon.
Dates for the study are the four Wednesday nights in March -- March 4, 11, 18 and 25, from 6 to 8 p.m. in Battson Hall. There'll also be an online component for those who want to follow along with the lessons but can't make it to the sessions in person.
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!
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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.
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Take a Look: New Ways to Engage with Sacred Heart Shelter Ministry!
On Feb. 5, Keystone hosted Sacred Heart shelter staff, and our ministry leaders led a most fruitful round up of planning. This was our monthly Fellowship & Learning Wednesday evening.
Quick out-take example/ invite:
Have your towels seen better days? Bring a couple old ones to Keystone; Arlene will be repurposing them into reusable cleaning 'rag' towelettes for use at Shelter (eliminating paper towel use- yay!) Arlene will cut and fashion them into smaller sizes.
HERE ARE THE MANY OTHER WAYS OUR KEYSTONE COMMUNITY CAN HELP SACRED HEART FAMILY SHELTER
Lead a team! Join a team! Invite your family & friends to participate!
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. 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
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
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)
Contact Barbara Anderson for details: gepreston@msn.com
SHELTER FIX-IT PROJECTS
(In Need of a Team Coordinator)
Are you good at home improvement or small fix-it projects around the house? Do you know someone who is?
Sacred Heart needs on-call maintenance volunteers to help keep the shelter looking good and running in tip-top shape.
“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 be willing to 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. Or: bring treats to the monthly meeting of staff & residents!
PROVIDE A MEAL (Would you like to organize a hot meal for the residents once a year?)
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Los Eternos Indocumentados: a screening by the Seattle Interfaith Migrants Rights Network
Saturday, February 29, 2 p.m.
Where: Washington State Labor Council, 321 16th Ave. S, Seattle, WA 98144.
Admission: Free (but RSVP at the screening's EventBrite site so that organizers know how many people to expect)The Seattle Interfaith Migrants Rights Network's (SIMRN) first-ever film screening, produced together with International Migrants Association. Los Eternos Indocumentados is a documentary exploring root causes of forced migration from Central America and the experiences of people who make the perilous journey to the United States from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. After the film, there will be an audience discussion with support from local experts, and organizers will present ways to take action to provide solidarity to migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and here in Washington State. Donations will be taken at the door to support local migrant justice organizations. Because the goal with this event is to build awareness, community, and solidarity, SIMRN is especially looking to make this event welcoming and accessible for people who aren’t as knowledgeable about Central American migration. The building’s entrance, doorways, and bathrooms are all wheelchair accessible, and front row seating will be prioritized for people who are hard of hearing. Spanish interpretation during the discussion will also be provided. View the trailer here: Los Eternos Indocumentados.
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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!
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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)
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Glance- down- the- Calendar
Fri. Feb. 14: Day of Action to Support Airline Catering Workers, 4:30 p.m. @IBEW 77 in SeaTac
Wed. Feb. 26 (Ash Wednesday): Sunrise Movement Launch Party, 7 p.m. @Keystone (6 pm supper...)
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
Thurs. March 5: Communities Rising Introduction to Drawdown, 7 p.m. @Keystone
Save The Dates:
Fri.-Sun. April 24-26: Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Church of Christ annual meeting in Spokane
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Hannah - 2/19
Caleb - 2/22
Marilyn - 2/22
Paisley - 2/24
Julia - 2/27
Alan - 2/28
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!
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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. (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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To submit content for inclusion, email Lauren & Yuki @keystoneseattle.org addresses above. Content must be received by Thursdays at Noon, for Friday bi-weekly newsletters.
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Next deadline for Newsletter announcement submissions:
to Lauren & Yuki: Thurs. Feb. 27 @ Noon
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