Prayers of the People (including Sun. Aug. 22)

~ We Pray in Community ~
~Please add your love as you pray each name, joy or concern--and reach out to one another!~

• People of Afghanistan; strength to families facing danger. As we examine our militarism. Budgets. Move our hearts to be of aid, in and from Seattle.

• For the people of Haiti following the earthquake, upon more challenge; for local direction on how to help.

• Strength to Rita in this transition time.

• Strength to John and Barb in prep for treatment to begin September 1.

• To Joe, sharing his Seattle Public School teaching retirement, to invite our support of Neuvo Amanacer!

• Safe renewing travels for Dick and Pat to loved ones & Jersey Shore time.

• For continued surprise losses in covid-19 ongoing times.

• For continued arm mobility recovery for Sandy.

• Prayers to lift Betty's sister and brother.

• For summer’s bounty of fruit among our trees and bushes.

• Parents, teachers, staff, our faith community, immersed in navigating school start back and spreading delta.

• Holy god, make us instruments of your peace!

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

To have your prayers included in Sunday or Wednesday gatherings online or the weekly Newsletter, please send them to Lauren or Rich (see Reaching Keystone UCC Pastoral Staff at the bottom of the page).

Sunday August 8 Worship online with Keystone 10 :30 AM (or 10 AM for zoom coffee hour!)

Worship this and every Sunday

Invite a friend to come join the Keystone community & Rev. Rich, Rev. Lauren, Elliot, Yigit & the gathered community, for live interactive worship. We hold interactive time to pray, connect and discuss! Music created each week by Yigit & Elliot!

(Video of Scripture Reading and Sermon can be found on sermons page of this website. Click the hamburger lines in the upper righthand corner.)

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)

This Week: Congregational Meeting after worship- approx. 11:20 AM

Sunday August 1 Worship online with Keystone 10 :30 AM (or 10 AM for zoom coffee hour!)

Worship this and every Sunday

Invite a friend to come join the Keystone community & Rev. Rich, Rev. Lauren, Elliot, Yigit & the gathered community, for live interactive worship. We hold interactive time to pray, connect and discuss! Music created each week by Yigit & Elliot!

(Video of Scripture Reading and Sermon can be found on sermons page of this website. Click the hamburger lines in the upper righthand corner.)

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)

Saturday June 5th Meridian Park outside gathering 4:30 pm BYO picnic

Saturday June 5th: 
4:30 pm

BYO Picnic -
Keystone community gathering
Meet outside by Keystone playground (in the back), walk over to Meridian Playground (4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98103). Bring your own picnic and blanket or folding chairs for Covid-safe social time just to catch up--in person! Contact Lauren for questions or more details:

4:30pm- 5:30 pm:  This is a casual first meet up outside this spring!  Come by the pretty church grounds and head over to Meridian Park (across 50th from Keystone in Wallingford).  We won't be sharing food, but bring your own early supper snack! 

Park your bike or car at Keystone as you like.  Children, families and Anita & Lauren will meet at Keystone playground and walk over. 

Parking at Good Shepherd offers a shorter walk.  Or ask to be dropped off at 50th & Meridian, and there is a ramp under the stone archway. We will find a space for our picnic blankets at that end of the field, near the arch. Come for an hour of covid-safe-outside, masked & physically-distanced, time to catch up!  There is lots of space for kids to run, a playground, & bathrooms.  (Same park we gathered June 2020 to cheer Paisley's graduation.)  Anita may read kids a story if we get a little group!

More outdoor chances to visit can come, if you are not around for this one!

Rain date for this first in-person BYO picnic:
Tuesday June 8 at 5-6 pm.

3 areas of Research: Volunteers sought: Help Gather info for Keystone-future conversations

Over the months we have been having good conversations about Keystone's future. We are at a point in the conversation where more information would be helpful. 

Though Lauren and Rich may be able to provide some ideas, the research work will need leadership from members of the congregation. Here is what is currently needed:

Keystone is looking for volunteer(s) to research what other churches are learning from their various responses to post-Covid worship. (Ex. sanctuary worship + zoom or FB live, video recording of worship + posting, outdoor worship, etc.)

We are also looking for volunteer(s) to research the viability and zoning for selling our corner of land & buildings to redevelop the church buildings to become low income housing, a worship space, community renters, offices, etc.

And we are looking for volunteer(s) to talk with those who would not be able to attend Keystone for worship, if we worship in the sanctuary. 

Please let Lauren or Rich know if you are interested in one of these opportunities. 

Other areas of research have been well underway all year and continue. For example, how Keystone/ STCC/ PreSchool/ +all our cherished renters can safely come back-in-person. If you are vaccinated, WA State and King County continue to have encouraging words. But Keystone’s process through our winter and spring Listening Sessions have especially kept an ear tuned to whom may still be vulnerable. What do you need? (Ex. how can children safely worship, with singing, with communion, with their class, with hugs at coffee hour? What are the needs of those with particularly compromised immune systems?)

We are thankful for all the participation in the Listening Sessions, held at the end of each month. Next up: this month: Wednesday June 23, 6:30 pm. Save the date- thank you!