Prayers

~ We Pray in Community ~
~Prayers listed here include, in general terms, some of what was lifted aloud  online in worship Sunday May 23~  
~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.)

• Moments of insight, that change our lives forever.

• The path of love.

• To a brighter future.

• Awaken to our callings.

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.

Listening Hour- Visioning our Building-use; Making our Plan: Re-Opening

Thursday, May 27

6:30pm: Listening Session Come for this hour to share your hopes as we build our vision and plan for ‘re-opening’ with Pastor Rich and Pastor Lauren. Same zoom link as Wednesdays and Sundays!

Readings for Uprooting Racism for Thursday June 10

All are welcome- (yes new folks, please feel free to drop in, and check out the conversation!) online Thursday June 10 @ 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 IV The Effects of History (pretty-much up thru page 242) as able.

Our zoom link for Thurs. June 10 will be the same as Keystone worship, and the Cheat Sheet will arrive Wednesday by email. Contact here if you need it!

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Also: next Quarterly meeting with Admiral UCC and West Seattle UU and more UCC churches: Mon. June 28 @ 7:00 pm (different zoom.)

Prayers of the People, these weeks of May 5/2, 5/9, 5/16

~ We Pray in Community ~
~Prayers listed here include, in general terms, some of what was lifted aloud  online in worship Sunday May 2, 9, 16 & over these weeks~  
~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.)

• God we hold your people in our hearts, you hear our voices singing hymn to you:

• All people of Palestine, dear God of many names, be with our faith siblings, may your presence be known, that you do not abandon… amidst this horrific suffering. We pray for the seismic in-breaking of your love to prevail across the mid-east, and to move our own actions in the U.S.

• For your students across Seattle finishing their second year remote.

• For Barb’s sister, Marsha recovering after successful surgery.

• For Mothering God. For the women in Sheri’s life over the years.

• For sabbath. For health. For healing. For resting. For shovels!

• For God having the place next to the river already waiting for us.

• For all who have embodied fierce mothering love to every margin.

• Jessica and Journie (Sojourner), in this time of loss, our thoughts are with all of Nicholas’ family. And for Jess’ additional sudden loss of friend Lynn, in this time.

• For Connie’s friend’s family in Europe in this tragic loss of their loved one to Covid.

• For Sheri for the continual path of growth you offer us in life, O God.

• For Betty’s daughter in law in this new professorship!

• For Sandie & Bill’s move to Everett.

• Self giving agape love. For each action of justice to be our seeds for a better world.

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.

Wednesday eve May 19: 6-6:30 pm Lectio Divina practice; 6:30- 7 pm: Concerns of the World; THURSDAY eve May 27: Listening Session: planning Re-Opening

Wednesday Night at Keystone

Pray, tell stories, study, change the world

Join us for mid-week fellowship. Meet up--at Keystone! All meetings are online.

Wednesday, May 19
6:00pm: Lectio Divina with Pastor Rich. 25 minute reflective scripture reading practice: Acts 2: 1-4.
6:30pm: Concerns of the World with Pastor Rich. Come let your laments rip, and come build hope as we share moments of prayers for our work and world.

Thursday, May 27

6:30pm: Listening Session Come for this hour to share your hopes as we build our vision and plan re-opening with Pastor Rich and Pastor Lauren. Same zoom link as Wednesdays and Sundays!
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You can use the “About Us” and “Contact Us” page of this website, to sign up for zoom link, or newsletters, and each Wednesday you will then receive the 'Cheat Sheet' in your email. It gives the zoom link for clicking in to that evening's events. Most gatherings occur in the same Zoom space, so you can use a previous link. Let us know if you have any questions!

Uprooting Racism
Next discussion: Thursday, June 10, 6:30 pm

Curious what Keystone members studied in January and then for the Lenten Study in February & March? Didn't get to join either of those series?  (No worries, now is a stellar time to tap in. The discussions paused in April after Easter, but has resumed.) Grab a book; read through Part IV History. 

There is also a way to join our ongoing year-long course: Uprooting Racism:  
3 more Monday nights: Quarterly: with Keystone folks @ Zoom with Pastor Lauren & other UCC churches, including Admiral UCC & West Seattle Unitarian Universalist. Next meeting: Monday June 28 @ 7:00-8:30pm. Email Lauren for more info (Mondays are a different zoom link than our Keystone zoom gatherings link.)