Pentecost Sunday
Invite a friend to come join the Keystone community & Rev. Rich, Rev. Lauren, Elliot, Yigit & all for live interactive worship and time to pray, connect and discuss! Music created each week by Yigit & Elliot!
Scripture: Acts 2: 1-4
Reader: Jess
Zoom link comes out Sunday mornings in email
Email here to receive the link
Come with your coffee to visit: beforehand (starting at 10 AM) or afterwards (come on in about 11:25 AM)
Seventh Sunday of Easter
Invite a friend to come join the Keystone community & Rev. Rich, Rev. Lauren, Elliot for live interactive worship and time to pray, connect and discuss! Music created each week by Yigit & Elliot!
Scripture: John 17: 13-18
Reader: Dan O.
Zoom link comes out Sunday mornings in email
Email here to receive the link
Come with your coffee to visit: beforehand (starting at 10 AM) or afterwards (come on in about 11:25 AM)
On Wednesday eve May 5 & Sunday May 9 we started polling our zoom gatherings. Keystone leaders seek your input.
May Listening Session: We continue our series on the last week of each month, to plan our Re-Opening/ Re-invention/ Not-necessarily-back-to-the-same,-but-post-pandemic-next-creative-sacred-iteration-of-Keystone-Church!
6:30 pm
Tuesday May 25? Wednesday May 26? Thursday May 27?
Send Rich and Lauren your date preference!
Each conversation has articulated Keystone values, built our brainstorms, and we seek to have the good turn out continue! We will map pros and cons of our dream ideas.
On May 16 we decided to hold it :Thursday May 27- thank you everyone! See you 6:30- 7:30 pm
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So, starting in June, mid week church night preference? We also need your input:
try Monday eves for zoom gatherings?
shift to Tuesday eve each week?
stay Wednesday eve each week?
shift to Thursday eve each week?
Send Rich and Lauren your regular-night preference! (Or “why are we doing that mid-western ‘church night’ anyway!? Why the same each week? I vote to have each team and gathering be on various evenings.”
All are welcome- (yes new folks, drop in!) online Wednesday May 12 @ 6:30 pm for Keystone’s Uprooting Racism small group. (Lectio Divina practice -6:00- 6:25 pm: a centering time- is also available beforehand - use the same zoom link).
Readings in: Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel Grab yourself a book: Part II and Part III (pretty-much up thru page 175) as able.
And into Part IV: The Effects of History, if you like (for June.)
Our zoom link Wed. May 12 is the same as Keystone worship, and the Cheat Sheet will arrive Wednesday by email. Contact here if you need it!
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Note: Next meeting: Tues. June 8 or Wed. June 9 or Thurs. June 10 @ 6:30 pm? Bring your preference!
Also: next Quarterly meeting with Admiral UCC and West Seattle UU and more UCC churches: Mon. June 28 @ 7:00 pm (different zoom.)
Friends, check out these links, that Pat mentions in her report back!
PNC Annual Meeting Follow Up Links and Documents
Worship
Friday evening worship, led by First Congregational UCC, Walla Walla
Rev. Nathaniel Mahlberg
Necrology: celebrating and thanking clergy of the PNC who have died in the last two years
Saturday morning worship led by Samoan churches
Rev Kelekolio & Danette (Dawn) Koloi, Samoan Cong. Christian Church (#2)
Rev Nofoaiga & Apaula Moi with their children, Samoan Congregational Christian Church Seattle #4
Rev Rex & Roselynne Gatoloa'i , and their choir, Ala o le Ola. Ala o le Ola Church #5
Sunday worship hosted by Normandy Park UCCand Bulletinand Mike Denton’s Sermon (text)
Rev Amy Hitchins, Pastor; Rev Courtney Stange-Tregear, PNC Minister for Church Vitality; Rev. Mike Denton, PNC Conference Minister and Preacher; Kevin Peterson, Musician.
Votes and Resolutions Items
Supporting General Synod Resolution: Alliance for Associate Conference Ministers
PNC Constitution Change: Antiracism Commitment
PNC Bylaws Change-Committee on Ministry – Manual on Ministry
Budget Directive, Budget Resolution and Budget as Passed
Presentation Videos
Giving Together, Growing Together: Stewardship Video
All PNC Annual Meeting Videos are available at the PNC Annual Meeting Vimeo Site
Plenaries
Videos of the Plenaries from the weekend are also uploaded to the PNC 2021 Annual Meeting Vimeo Site:
Plenary Zoom chats are also available:
Saturday Morning Worship and Plenary
Sunday Morning Worshipand Bulletin
(Psalm 1 reading & Rev. Mike Denton’s sermon at about 23rd minute.)
Gratitude
Deep deep gratitude to the Tech Team: nimble, graceful, organized, helpful, faithful. They made things accessible and made our time together possible. Bless them!
Tech Team: Kyna Shilling, Ed Coleman, Elizabeth Maupin, Eric Wiessner, Izzy Sherwood-Reid, Kelly Cox, Roger Trapp, and Jim CastroLang, Tech Team Lead.
Follow-up
For further information about the discussions and actions of the Annual Meeting, please watch for articles at
Pacific NW United Church of Christ News
Watch for the next edition of PNC News in early June
If you have questions or need other information, please contact us.
Arlene Hobson, PNC Executive Administrator: Arlene@pncucc.org
David Anderson, PNC AM2021 Administrator: David@andersondd.net
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