Wednesday Night: Pause for 25 minutes. Then Listening Hour: come to Brainstorm!

Wednesday Nights at Keystone UCC

Pray, tell stories, study, change the world

Each Wednesday night - come into community for a bit of mid-week fellowship time at Keystone!

Wednesday April 28
@ 6 pm Lectio Divina practice for 25 minutes with Pastor Lauren:

Psalm 1.

@ 6:30 pm Listening Hour: shaping Keystone's future, planning & prep: Come for this brainstorm with Pastor Rich & Pastor Lauren.

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Details:
6- 6:25 p.m. meditative Lectio Divina practice, with Lauren, reading our scripture for Sunday 5/2 with the Pacific Northwest Conference UCC. It's contemplative - no prep or previous Bible study necessary. All welcome! Come for this brief weekly centering prayer practice.

The Psalm 1 theme of re-planting may just run through both parts of our evening. Come to one or both! Re-planting, re-starts, re-opening, what will be re-new? Psalm 1 is for 4/28 Lectio Divina and our Sunday worship with the PNC UCC 5/2.

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Community and fellowship time - meet up
Mid-week Wednesday gatherings
Glance ahead to what is next in our weekly Wed. eves:

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Next week:

Wednesday May 5
@6 pm Lectio Divina with Pastor Lauren

@ 6:30 pm Green Team: Join Keystone’s think tank and action team with Rich V. this hour.

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All our Wednesday night gatherings occur in the same Zoom space we use on Sunday mornings (so you can use a previous link). Email us for all the ways you can enter our online gatherings (by computer, phone, tablet, etc): worship@keystoneseattle.org

Watch 2040 free - links to register!

Meaningful Movies has purchased the screening rights to the film "2040" and makes it available to all to view for free beginning this next week (16April to 23April).  
 
The film "2040" takes a solutions-based approach to how we can mitigate, using the technology we already have, the enormous global issues we currently face. The main themes/solutions looked at in the film are around: empowerment of women and girls; marine regeneration; regenerative agriculture; renewable energy; and circular economy. It’s a story of hope, and a powerful tool to encourage people to take action.

For those of you who missed this movie on April 16th, please see the schedule below.  It is a must see movie! 

Community discussions and the movie are scheduled for:

April 21, 7PM – Meaningful Movies Spokane – Join local activists and experts to learn what you can do to combat climate change in Eastern Washington and the Spokane area. Register here.

April 22, 6PM – Mt Baker Meaningful Movies – Join Neal Anderson and friends to learn more about the “New Rules For Fossil Fuels Campaign.” Register here.

April 23, 6:30PM – Tacoma Meaningful Movies and Kristin Ang, Port Commissioner, Ryan Mello, Pierce Cty Councilman and Pierce Cty Conservation District, and John Doherty, Citizen Climate Lobby. Register here.

Another Climate Conversation this week from Jim:

Consider registering on Meetup for our next Climate Solutions Conversation. John Stafford is our featured speaker for our 25 April Conversation from 3P to 4:30P.  John will speak about legislation requiring the teaching of climate change in grades K-12, a topic he is passionate about. When you RSVP on the Meetup website, then you will have access to a Zoom link for the Conversation. John is a long-standing climate activist; he's on the Steering Committee of the South Seattle Climate Action Network (SSCAN), he's a member of the 37th District Democrats Environment and Climate Caucus, and he's a Board Member of the Environment and Climate Caucus of the Washington State Democrats. Come join in the conversation.

Prayers of the People

~ We Pray in Community ~
~Prayers listed here include, in general terms, some of what was lifted aloud in online worship Sunday April 18 & through this week~  
~Please add your love, as you pray each name, concern, or joy- and reach out to one another!~
(Prayers are listed approx. two weeks, unless you prefer otherwise.)

• Yigit, Sarah, & Anouk, and baby sister Alizée Maya (born on Easter) who peeked in to worship 4/18!!

• Rita

• Sandie

• Gus

• Julia B.

• Nathan, Ruth, Teresa

• Increasing our faithful fight for racial justice, no matter how the jury deliberates... our prayers continue to build a kin-dom of freedom, without the continued trauma from George Floyd's murder, for all, especially those most impacted.

• Educators, students, & families, for strength and humor, negotiating hybrid life: returning to partial-in-school-building learning, or continuing remotely.

• Our seniors approaching graduation: Quinn & Vic!

• Lucas Wilson Sabo, born March 18 to James Sabo (Betty's son)!

• To embody God's love to one another

• To live as resurrection people!

Holy God, in your mercy ... hear our prayers!

Continue to send your prayers to Lauren & Rich and as you wish, we can include them in Sunday worship online or Wednesday gatherings online or this weekly Newsletter.

Pastoral concerns: Pastor Rich (keystone5019@gmail.com), & Pastor Lauren:  lauren.cannon@keystoneseattle.org, or text/ call Lauren:  773.501.7382.

For Sunday April 25: Worship 10:30 AM

Join Keystone every Sunday 10: 30 a.m. online Worship

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Wednesday eves online: 6 pm bible reflection &/or 6:30 pm programming

Every Sunday – 10:30 a.m. Worship online

Every Wednesday – online 6 pm Bible Reflection /
6:30 p.m. Gatherings 
(See below- various topics- ex. 6 pm a 20 minute contemplative practice with the coming Sunday scripture.) 

Drop in!  Always- All Welcome!  Interactive, Online

For Sunday April 25: Fourth Sunday of Easter: 10:30 a.m. Worship online - til about 11:15 a.m.
Coffee time online: 10-10:30 a.m. Come in beforehand and say hi! 
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Preaching: Rev. Rich

Liturgist: Rev. Lauren
Host:  Yigit (Elliot off)
Scripture Reader:  Julia S.
Scripture: 
Musicians: Elliot Kraber, vocals, and Yiğit Kolat, piano

After church, share more Announcements approx. 11:20- 25 a.m.

Bring some Birthday Cake this week! Singing to our April birthdays @ 11:20 a.m.!
Break Out Rooms: approx. 11:25-11:35 a.m.

We currently gather for interactive online worship through Zoom. The link to the service is mailed through this newsletter every Sunday morning. To invite someone to worship with us- you can forward them the Sunday a.m. "Cheat Sheet", or invite them to subscribe to our newsletter through our web site by clicking here: http://www.keystoneseattle.org/contact.

Couple Options:
SUNDAY SCHEDULE: When you wish, sign in anytime 10-10:30 a.m. with "Bring Your Own Coffee  (half) hour" to see each other and chat before worship.

Make Announcements after in your own words, then we host Break Out small groups (randomly assigned) for 10 minutes, to connect!

Each Wednesday Pause for Contemplative Prayer 6-6:25 pm

Wednesday Nights at Keystone UCC

Pray, tell stories, study, change the world

Each Wednesday night - come into community for a bit of mid-week fellowship time at Keystone!

Tonight, Wednesday April 14
@ 6 pm Lectio Divina

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Details:
Tonight:6- 6:25 p.m. meditative Lectio Divina practice, with Lauren, reading our scripture for Sunday 4/18. It's contemplative - no prep or previous Bible study necessary.Click here: Luke 24: 36b-48. All welcome! Come for this brief weekly centering prayer practice.

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Community and fellowship time - meet up
Mid-week Wednesday gatherings
Glance ahead to what is next in our weekly Wed. eves:

~ ~ ~

Next weeks:

Wednesday April 21
@6 pm Lectio Divina with Pastor Lauren

Wednesday April 28
@ 6 pm Lectio Divina with Pastor Lauren

@ 6:30 pm Listening Hour: shaping Keystone's future, planning & prep toward Phase 4, etc, with Pastor Rich & Pastor Lauren.

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All our Wednesday night gatherings occur in the same Zoom space we use on Sunday mornings (so you can use a previous link). Email us for all the ways you can enter our online gatherings (by computer, phone, tablet, etc): worship@keystoneseattle.org