Celebrate Earth Day at Sunday's Worship

Dear Keystone Community,

Here's your weekend reminder and update for worshipping with Keystone UCC in our on line worship.

For info contact: worship@keystoneseattle.org

Our 4/26/20 worship will have an Earth Day flavor on Sunday, so bring all your stories and witnesses for climate justice from this Climate Week to our table!

We will share Communion. We will celebrate April Birthdays! And have Fellowship time afterwards in Break Out Rooms of small groups, so we can really check in.

Rev. Lauren, Rev. Yuki, Rev Rich, Elliot, Digit & Anita

Our worship and fellowship schedule will be this:

10 a.m.: Storytime with Teacher Anita, begins at 10 a.m. and lasts until about 10:20 a.m. Families can log in a little before 10 a.m. to say hi to everyone and then you can head into the breakout room with Anita for crafts, stories, and together time.

Also 10 a.m.: BYOC (Bring Your Own Coffee ) time. Come visit with one another as we prepare ourselves for worship.

10:25 to 11:15 a.m.: Worship, which will include:

A few minutes of musical meditation to prepare our minds and hearts for worship.
Words of welcome and announcements.
Hymn of Gathering from Elliot and Yiğit
Words of Welcome
A Call to Worship
Scripture reading
Sermon
Prayers of the People
Communion (we invite you to keep some food or drink to represent the elements of communion near you. It can be bread and juice or a donut and coffee, anything that best represents this meal with what you have in your pantry. And if you forget to have these nearby, don't worry, you'll have time to gather them during the Hymn of Communion).
Benediction
Closing Hymn
Fellowship time (this week we're trying out Breakout Rooms! Pastor Yuki will invite everyone into Breakout Rooms of about 10 people, so we can talk with one another more easily).

Please feel free to share our worship email with others who you know are looking for a way to connect with a community of worship on this day. And 2) let Pastor Yuki know who you've invited so they know who to let into our worship space online.

Eviction Moratorium Victory

The Washington Low-Income Housing Alliance is celebrating

the extension of the statewide eviction moratorium that will help keep tenants in their homes if they cannot pay rent during this time, and expands that protection to include transitional housing such as motels/hotels, mobile homes, and commercial properties.

Click here to send Gov. Inslee a thank you note for this support, and to highlight why we need these protections in Washington state.

You can also take action to tell members of Congress that our nation needs rental assistance so that renters can remain in their homes after this pandemic has passed. Click here to tell your members of Congress to ensure the next stimulus package includes:

$11.5 billion in Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funding. This combined with the $4 billion previously provided in the CARES Act will reach the funding level needed to expand access to emergency shelter, short-term rental assistance, and housing stabilization services;
A uniform, national moratorium on evictions and foreclosures; and
$100 billion in rental assistance to keep people housed and ensure landlords, including low-income housing providers, have the income they need to continue to operate.

The Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Church of Christ held a Conference-wide Worship service at 7 p.m. 4/25/20 Come hear a good word from our Conference Minister Rev. Mike Denton and share in some fellowship time with other UCC church members in our Conference.

The Conference is also making parts of the service available, including Mike's sermon, at its new Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/pacificnorthwestucc. The Conference also will be posting some informative videos on this space starting next week to share the work and joys of the Pacific Northwest Conference. See also:

http://pncucc.org