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Join us for services
Worship Every Sunday – 10:30am
All Are Welcome!
Sunday, March 4, 2018Rev. Rich Gamble, preachingRev. Lauren Cannon
Pastor Yuki Schwartz, offMusic Leader: Elliot Kraber Accompaniment: Yigit Kolat Theme: Nonviolence Scripture: John 2:13-16
Greeter: OPEN
Reader: Bri
Usher: Dan O.
Communion: Rich & Lauren
Coffee Hour Host: Marilyn
Children's Ministry: Anita - kids are crafting and prepping for Palm Sunday procession.
Families: Pick up Children's Activity pages & crayons on the welcome table every week as you come in to worship (based on the scripture of the day.) There are two types: younger children & older children. Children of any age are always part of worship & welcome!
Children's Ministry with Anita – program every Sunday 10:00am- 12pm. More info at http://www.keystoneseattle.org/children-youth/Sermons Available Online: If you missed a Sunday, were downstairs at Sunday School, or just want to hear a sermon again, our JLP Intern, Hunter Paulson-Smith, has created an online audio archive where you can listen to them or download them. Click HERE to listen, and please share. Thank you, Hunter!
** NEXT WEEK **
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Rev. Lauren Cannon, preaching
Pastor Yuki Schwartz, liturgist
Rev. Rich Gamble, off
Music Leader: Elliot Kraber
Accompaniment: Yigit Kolat
Greeter: OPEN
Reader: Will
Usher: Amber
Communion: Lauren & Yuki
Coffee Hour Host: TBA
Children's Ministry: Anita - kids are crafting and prepping for Palm Sunday procession.
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Upcoming Events
Friday, March 2 – A Woman's Right to a Safe Workplace
Documentary screening and panel discussion of "Rape on the Night Shift"
@ CASA Latina, 317 17th Ave S, Seattle, 98144
5:00-7:00pm
Wednesday, March 7 – Winter Faith Formation & Discussion Group: Forward TogetherSecond of 4 Wednesdays (next: March 14, 21) @ Keystone UCC 6:00pm, Open space, tea & soups; 6:30-8pm, Discussion Group Monday-Wednesday, March 26, 27 and 28 – The NW Pilgrimage Project@ Various sites Follow this link to app: https://goo.gl/forms/fFQAZ8mZ0xWgmtdH2
THIS MONTH: Season of Lent
Monday, March 26 - Table Turning morning action in Seattle.
Thursday, March 29 - Maundy Thursday Supper - doors 5:30 pm- potluck supper & liturgy 6-7:30 pm
Friday, March 30 - Good Friday service- 7 pm Learning Center
Sunday, April 1 - Easter Sunday- 10:30am worship with Easter egg hunt for the little ones
(See below for more information)
** See below for details on these and other events related to life in our community **
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TONIGHT: Our friends at the Interfaith Economic Justice Coalition and SEIU 6 invite us to check out:
A Woman's Right to a Safe Workplace
Friday, March 2
5-7pm
@ CASA Latina, 317 17th Ave S, Seattle, Washington 98144
En solidaridad con todas las mujeres trabajadoras, Casa Latina, SEIU6, UFCW 21, UNITE HERE 8, La Comisión para el Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo de los EE.UU y el Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU.-Oficina de la Mujer les invitan a una proyección del documental y un panel sobre “Violación de un Sueño.” ¡Nos vemos aquà en Casa Latina el 2 de marzo a las 5pm!
In solidarity with all working women, Casa Latina, SEIU6, UFCW 21, UNITE HERE 8, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the US Department of Labor Women’s Bureau invite you to a documentary screening and panel discussion of “Rape on the Night Shift.” We hope to see you here at Casa Latina on March 2 at 5pm!
Tickets are FREE.
Spanish interpretation available.
RSVP to arrange FREE childcare.
Questions? Please contact Meiju Ong at meiju.ong@eeoc.gov or (206) 220-6913
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Winter Faith Formation/Upcoming Discussion Group:
Forward Together
 Keystone Friends,
Come out to study and be together in these weeks of Lent. Wednesday February 28, we began our four-week faith formation series "Forward Together" at Keystone United Church of Christ. This series is team-taught by Rev. Lauren Cannon, Rev. Rich Gamble, Pastor Yuki Schwartz, and Justice Leadership Program intern Hunter Paulson-Smith.
4 Wednesdays, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Feb. 28, Mar. 7, Mar. 14, Mar. 21.
Series held in Battson Hall,which will be open each Wednesday at 6 pm, with tea and soups available so that you can warm up. Then, 6-6:30 pm, the Fireside Room offers you a place to browse the short book chapters.
Each evening includes:
some Bible study/activity
some story telling or discernment
book discussion
prayers & music
The book is simply our springboard. Here is the flavor, and Reading List:
Feb. 28- Why we show up. Our moral call. Discussing what is our moral foundation.
Read: Introduction, Chapters 1 & 2. "The Need to Know Who We Are in Times Like These."
March 7- Who will show up? Our fusion politics. For what we stand. How we stand together.
Read Chapters 5 & 6, watch Ted talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality
"Education, Economic Justice, and Voting Rights."
"Labor, Women, and Economic Justice."
March 14- How we will show up? What gifts we bring to this movement. How might Keystone community offer our gifts, skills. Our faith.
Read Chapter 11
"Our Alliance with LGBT Rights."
March 21- When and where we show up. When are you led to contribute individually in actions? Then come fortify and share in worship, week by week? Are you seeing Keystone Church on the move en masse? Keystone as action generating base? Called to witness as Keystone church to support groups in existing actions?
Read Chapter 13 & 14
Beyond Protest to Voter Mobilization.
Lessons from the Movement.
Let us know any questions (lauren.cannon@keystoneseattle.org)
RECAP: February 28 -our Bible study portion bounced off the scripture from worship February 25, and Rev. Rich's discipleship theme. We were invited to think about our own stories of moral call, as we studied Mark 8:31-36.
8:31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
8:32 He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
8:33 But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things."
8:34 He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
8:35 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.
8:36 For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?
The book is simply our springboard. No one need sweat the reading. We gather to be together in study. Group discussion format. Drop in any week. See you Wednesday!
- Rev. Lauren Cannon
Forward Together
A Moral Message for the Nation
by Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Barbara Zelter
In the spring of 2013, seventeen people gathered at the North Carolina state capitol to protest extreme legislation passed by the General Assembly. Thousands joined the “Moral Mondays” rallies, making this sustained moral protest one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in U.S. history. Rev. Dr. William Barber II, a pastor and president of the North Carolina Conference of the NAACP and an architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement, tells the story of a new fusion civil rights movement, a “big tent,” in which black and white, gay and straight, rich and poor, old and young, Republicans and Democrats are all welcome.
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2018 Lent & Holy Week Calendar
Forward Together book discussion 4 Wednesdays:
Dates: Feb. 28, March 7, 14, 21
Time: 6:30-8 PM
Team taught by Yuki, Hunter, Lauren & Rich.
Fireside reading room opens for teas and soups @ 6-6:30 pm.
Palm/Passion Sunday:
Date: Sunday, March 25
Time: During Service (10:30am)
Children will do a procession of the palms, facilitated by Anita and Bri (so plan to bring the kiddos on any of our Sundays in March when the kids will be crafting and practicing each week!)
Table Turning Monday:
Date: Monday March 26
Table Turning action in morning: Tacoma Detention Center, and local Seattle action on immigration.
The Northwest Pilgrimage Project:
Dates:Monday-Wednesday, March 26, 27 and 28
Through Seattle to lean about the roots of homelessness crisis.
Maundy Thursday Supper:
Date: Thursday, March 29
Time: Doors open for set up @ 5:30pm; 6-7:30 pm- serving oneanother ritual
Potluck supper. Communion. Dessert potluck. Children's activity. Prayer Stations.
Good Friday Worship:
Date: Friday, March 30
Time: 7pm in the Learning Center
Easter Sunday:
Date: Sunday, April 1
Time: 10:30 worship
Easter egg hunt for the little ones at Coffee Hour (bring a few filled eggs to hide on lawn!)
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THE NORTHWEST PILGRIMAGE PROJECTDive into the issues of inequity and homelessness on a 3-day journey through Seattle
The Justice Leadership Northwest Pilgrimage Project is a three-day journey to explore the roots and contributing factors to the crisis of homelessness in Seattle. We will hear from experts and visit various relevant sites and organizations. Each of the three days will be full of information and experiences that will bring about an understanding of the causes and realities of homelessness. Participants will end the pilgrimage with a greater understanding of homelessness and the ways social justice leaders have worked to bring about its end. It is our hope that participants will utilize the information and experiences gained to participate in the ongoing work of ending homelessness.
The program is on March 26, 27, and 28. The total cost is $150.00, food and transportation is provided. Follow this link to apply: https://goo.gl/forms/fFQAZ8mZ0xWgmtdH2
Questions? For more information, contact Rev Rich Gamble or outreach intern Hunter Paulson-Smith at (206) 632-6021 or at Keystone5019@gmail.com. |
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** NOW RECRUITING INTERNS FOR 2018/19 **
Justice Leadership Programs Northwest is now accepting applications from change-makers of all ages who are looking to deepen their faith while doing the work of justice. The Justice Leadership Program, affiliate of the national Young Adult Service Communities Network, seeks motivated young people ages 21-35 for an 11-month internship beginning in September 2018. Interns learn community organizing and political advocacy working full time at a Seattle-based nonprofit, while living in intentional community and serving a local congregation. Direct inquiries to justiceleadership@gmail.com, and apply online today. Priority deadline is February 15 -- please spread the word! ** NOTE: JLP Alums go on to do great things! We lift up aluma Briana Brannan, who is now serving as Immigrant and Refugee Accompaniment Organizer, at the Church Council of Greater Seattle **ALSO: Justice Leadership Jubilee is filling its next cohort of volunteers, who serve part-time for six to nine months at a local organization working for structural change toward social justice.. Jubilee is a program for individuals seeking a deeper analysis of systemic injustice, and a desire to strengthen the connection between faith and justice in a cohort of their peers. Previous year's organizational partners included Puget Sound Sage, 350 Seattle, and the Church Council of Greater Seattle. Reply to this message with any questions; find our application online here. JLPNW is based at Keystone Congregational UCC in Seattle, and grateful for the support of our partner congregations -- Northshore UCC, Plymouth Congregational UCC, Prospect UCC, All Pilgrims Church, University Congregational UCC, as well as the PNW Conference.
Please forward widely! Help us spread the word about these exciting opportunities to Be the Church and build a robust, faith-based movement for justice in the Northwest. In joyful resistance, Claire Claire West Outreach Coordinator Justice Leadership Programs Northwest justiceleadership.org(206) 909-8758 Pronouns: she/her |
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Gus Wall - 3/9
Eliza Penick -3/10
Rev. Mike Denton - 3/18
Ruth Little - 3/21
Connie Voget - 3/25
Margaret Graham - 3/28
Here's wishing each of them the happiest of birthdays, from all of us at Keystone UCC!
Keep an eye out here for upcoming Keystone Birthdays!
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Reaching Keystone UCC Pastoral Staff & JLP Interns:
Reach us at your Keystone church office: (206) 632-6021. This phone is also checked remotely since all staff and interns 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 rich.gamble@keystoneseattle.org
Pastor Lauren works Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays. & Wednesday eve classes. (Off Friday- Saturday and Mondays). Email Lauren to make an appointment on those days at lauren.cannon@keystoneseattle.org
Pastor Yuki is at church two Sundays a month and is available to meet by appointment. Email her at yuki.schwartz@gmail.com.
Hunter Paulson Smith serves approximately 25 hours/week as well as at Earth Ministry. Find Hunter in the JLP intern/Heifer office at church and connect at: hunterpaulsonsmith@gmail.com
Brianna Little serves 5 hours/week as our Keystone intern with the Justice Leadership Program, and 32 hours at Real Change in Seattle. Reach Bri at: bmlittle@email.wm.edu |
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