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All Are Welcome! Interactive, Online
This Sunday, May 3, 2020
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Preaching: Rev. Rich Gamble
Worship leaders: Rev. Lauren & Rev. Yuki
Music Leaders: Elliot & Yigit
Scripture Reader: Arlene
Text: Acts: 2:42-47
Theme: Compassionate Transformation
(Want to spend some time in reflection over this text before Sunday? Click here for some seeds for spiritual meditation from the UCC).
We are continuing to meet online for interactive worship through the Zoom Meetings platform.
SUNDAY SCHEDULE: Our Sundays together begin with Sunday School & Storytime with Teacher Anita at 10 a.m.. Children and families spend 20 minutes in a Zoom Breakout Room with Teacher Anita, then return to for worship, which begins at 10:30 a.m. Also at 10 a.m., folks can hang out for a "bring your own coffee ☕ (half) hour" where we have some time to see each other and talk before worship. After worship, we'll also have time for fellowship together in Breakout Rooms.
Pastor Yuki emails the Zoom access information (which remains the same for every worship or study meeting each week) via the newsletter every Saturday, and also on Sunday mornings.
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Our prayers keep going out:
- Please keep the family of Pastor Yuki's partner, Clint Collins, in your thoughts as they grieve the loss of Clint's Uncle Dana Collins, after a long battle with cancer.
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The most recent COVID-19 congressional relief package was signed into law last Friday and will begin to go into effect this week. As conversation begins for the 4th relief package, we need your voice to urge your members of Congress to prioritize funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). As we are seeing the exponential rise in unemployment, hunger in our state and nation has skyrocketed and food lines continue to grow. FAN is joining with our anti-hunger partners in Washington and across the country in calling Congress to provide four things in the next relief package:
- Increase the maximum SNAP benefit by 15%
- Increase the minimum SNAP benefit from $16 to $30
- Suspend the Administration's rule changes that would terminate or cut benefits
- Temporarily suspend the SNAP rule requiring eligible students to work 20 hours per week to receive benefits. A survey last fall found that 41% of students attending community and technical colleges were food insecure.
Email or call your Congress members using your own words inspired by this template:
As your constituent and a member of Faith Action Network, I urge you to ensure the SNAP program is protected and strengthened to address the food insecurity and hunger people in our state are experiencing during COVID-19. We ask you to include the following provisions in the next relief package:
- Increase the maximum SNAP benefit by 15%
- Increase the minimum SNAP benefit from $16 to $30
- Suspend the Administration's rule changes that would terminate or cut benefits
- Temporarily suspend the SNAP rule requiring eligible students to work 20 hours per week to receive benefits.
Thank you for your public service.
Click each link to send a message to your two Senate and one House members:
Don't know your Congressional District? Find your Representative at house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative. |
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#ClimateWeek Update
On Sunday morning before worship, Paisley gave us an update of the Sunrise Seattle Youth Movement's actions during #ClimateWeek. On Wednesday of Climate Week, the team released a video that Paisley and Caleb were part of asking Washington officials to do more to help change our economies and policies to protect folks from the damage that climate change is causing, especially in Black and indigenous communities, and among unsheltered people, and to lay the groundwork for a society based on Green New Deal principles. You can see the video below or click here to watch it on YouTube and then share it on your social media platforms.
On Friday, they also participated in a "phone zap" where they helped inundate the phone lines at the offices of Sens. Cantwell and Murray to ask them to support the Green New Deal.
The team also put out a petition that asks US leaders to start implementing Green New Deal policies NOW. The petition is only for young people under the age of 19, so if you know of a young person who wants to raise their voice, send them this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaoqUl-pWc_K7xGttFAanFGsH8Q6BX2zeugUYsCV7RfDrmCw/viewform. |
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The Green Team Wants Your Input
 One of the things that came out of our Lenten Study on Naomi Klein's book On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal was the revitalization of Keystone's Green Team. Some of the things the Green Team are working on are ways to connect Keystone to other climate justice organizations in Washington State, such as 350.org and Earth Ministry, and also to how to talk to others about why climate justice is important to us as people of Christian faith.
One of the ways we're doing that is by applying to become one of the United Church of Christ's Creation Justice Churches. Creation Justice Churches are a network of churches in the UCC that go beyond "going green" to make climate justice a central part of their identity and ministry. Help the Green Team with the application and in writing Keystone's Climate Justice Covenant: Check out the Google Doc where we're answering the questions on the application and writing our covenant together, and give us your thoughts and words to help us understand why climate justice is an important part of Keystone UCC.
The next Green Team meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. May 5 in our Zoom online space. We'll be talking about the organizations we want to link to. We're also reading Jim Antal's book Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change, and at that meeting start talking about the Introduction and first chapter. Come join us as we read, learn, and act together for climate justice! |
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Make a Zoom Connection
Keystone member Charles has set up a daily Zoom meeting for anyone who wants to make a connection and have some time for conversation in these times when we're all separated by physical distancing. The meetings will be at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, on Zoom. You can sign up at Meetup.com at https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-LuZNpEwh/events/, or you check with Pastor Yuki or Charles for the Zoom link. Thank you, Charles, for setting up this opportunity!
The next Zoom meetup will be tomorrow, April 30, at 7 p.m.
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The Pacific Northwest Conference has a new home for sharing news and information about goings-on in the conference: GoogleGroups. If you'd like to become a member of the Google Group, send an email to pncucc@gmail.com.
Hear More About Your Pacific NW Conference
Starting this week, the Pacific Northwest Conference begins a weekly series of conversations that will bring the work of the Conference, the successes, the challenges to you in an engaging way. Watch for these videos on the Conference's new Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/pacificnorthwestucc.
In case you missed it ...
There was a Conference-wide worship service on Zoom this past Saturday night, on what would have been the weekend for the PNC's Annual Meeting. If you didn't get a chance to watch the worship service, you can enjoy some of the music, a sermon from Conference Minister Rev. Mike Denton, and the Zoom worship, at the Conference's Vimeo page. You can also watch the service and Rev. Mike's sermon below.
UCC National Youth Event Canceled But ...
The UCC's National Youth Event has been canceled because of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, presenters for the event have put together some online opportunities for UCC youth to share their work and make connections. Go to http://www.uccpages.org/nye2020/?inf_contact_key=996d871a0e8e762a83391fbe770634564dfbc39d7283b2cb89d5189540b69330 to learn more about what events are coming up and how you can support UCC youth in this time! |
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| Annual Meeting Worship 2020 |
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Glance- down- the- Calendar
Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday: Keystone member Charles's Seattle Social Meetup Zoom meetings, 7 p.m. Just come and say hi, and make a connection while we're all apart from each other.
Tuesday, May 5: Keystone Green Team Meeting, 6:30 p.m. on Keystone Zoom. Topics: Linking Keystone to organizations, working on Creation Justice Church application, and reading Jim Antal's Climate Church, Climate World (read Intro & first chapter here).
Wednesdays, May 6 & May 20: Justice Bible Study, 6:30 p.m. on Keystone Zoom. This is a new study where we'll read the Bible and start making links between our justice solidarities and our sacred stories, one Bible chapter at at time. You don't have to read in advance to join this study. Email Pastor Yuki for more info, yuki.schwartz@keystoneseattle.org.
Wednesdays, May 13 & May 27: Keystone Storytelling, 6:30 p.m. at Keystone's Zoom. Continuing the theme: A Small Thing That Had a Big Influence on My Life. Call or email Pastor Rich to tell a story (206.632.6021. or keystone5019@gmail.com). Learn more about storytelling here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bo3dpVb5jw
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgeh4xhSA2Q
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Michelle Hebner - 5/5
Lauren Cannon - 5/7
Dan Smith - 5/9
Sandie Schumacher - 5/14
Barbara Anderson - 5/17
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 (even on line cheer these days!)
Please let Barbara 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 (they/them) 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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Give your gift to support Keystone and its many ministries, including the Sacred Heart Shelter, and the Solar Panel Fundraiser. Click the PayPal button below or send your check directly to Keystone. You can also donate through the Pacific Northwest Conference of the UCC at pncucc.org/donate.
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To submit content for inclusion, email Lauren & Yuki @keystoneseattle.org addresses above. Content must be received by Wednesdays at Noon for the weekly Midweek Update, and 5 p.m. Friday for the Weekend Reminder.
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Next deadline for Newsletter announcement submissions:
to Lauren & Yuki: Friday, May 1 @ 5 p.m. and Wednesday May 6 @ Noon
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