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• “The Summons” by John Bell
  
  “Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
  Will you go where you don’t know and never be the same?
  Will you let my love be shown, will you let my name be known,
  Will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?
  
  “Will you leave yourself behind if I but call your name?
  Will you care for cruel and kind and never be the same?
  Will you risk the hostile stare should your life attract or scare?
  Will you let me answer prayer in you and you in me?
  
  “Will you let the blinded see if I but call your name?
  Will you set the prisoners free and never be the same?
  Will you kiss the leper clean and do such as this unseen,
  And admit to what I mean in you and you in me?
  
  “Will you love the “you” you hide if I but call your name?
  Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same?
  Will you use the faith you’ve found to reshape the world around
  Through my sight and touch and sound in you and you in me?
  
  “God, your summons echoes true when I but call your name!
  Let me turn and follow you and never be the same.
  In your company I’ll go where your love and footsteps show.
  Thus I’ll move and live and grow in you and you in me.”
  
  
  - John Lamberton Bell (b.1949) is a Scottish hymn-writer and Church of Scotland minister.
  A member of the Iona Community, a broadcaster, and former student activist.
  Responding to the suicide of Lizzie Lowe, who was afraid to tell her parents
  about her sexuality, John Bell came out as gay during an address at
  Greenbelt Festival. Since 2021, he has been a patron of the
  Open Table Network, an ecumenical Christian
  community for LGBT people and their allies.

We pray for peace amidst war, love amidst hate, compassion amidst despair, courage amidst fear. We pray for all of our sisters and brothers here and around the world, especially all who are sick, lonely, anxious, fearful, struggling, homeless, unemployed and healing and wholeness, grace and strength for the day.

“Lead us from death to life,
from falsehood to truth,
from despair to hope,
from fear to trust.”

“Lead us from hate to love,
from war to peace;
let peace fill our hearts,
let peace fill our world,
let peace fill our universe.

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• South and Central Migrants Rapid Response Network
  Faith and community leaders from around the city gather monthly at Bethany United Church of Christ to teach “Know Your Rights,” and to support immigrants, refugees, and migrants by standing up to every day injustices.
  
  
• Standing Alongside Our Muslim Sisters and Brothers
  Bethany Partners with Muslim Association of Puget Sound
  #Repeal the Ban. No Ban Act!
  
  
• Creating Cards
  To send cards to our thousands of asylum-seeking neighbors who have recently fled extreme violence in Central America, to build new lives in the United States. - Contact: Jared Howe
  
  
• Collecting Blankets, Gloves, Hats
  Please help fill our boxes with new and lightly-used warm clothing, for our homeless sisters and brothers. - Contact the Church office for donations and delivery: 206-725-7535, or write to office@bethanyseattle.org
  
  
• Hundreds of Families and Neighbors in Need
  Together we support our neighbors and community with food, clothing, supplies, resources, mutual aid. Go to the “Donate” page and make a contribution, as we sponsor Tiny House Villages, individuals and families, youth, immigrants and refugees through out the year and holidays.
  
  
• Renewing Pledges and Financial Support
  Help promote justice, loving kindness, and to walking humbly with God, here in our church, communities, and around the world!
  
  
• Post-Worship Services Community Meals

               Northwest Immigrants Rights Project (NWIRP)

Sunset on Water

Worship and Music followed by a shared meal in the church sanctuary and hospitality room. Be renewed, refueled, reinvigorated for the week, by the grace of God in growing Beloved Community. All are welcome. - We meet via the computer program, Zoom. For Zoom instructions, please email office@bethanyseattle.org during the week.

Refugee Women’s Alliance (ReWA)
ReWA Preschool Headstart Program
     For toddlers to pre-K, Half Day and Full Day
     Sliding scale, based on income.
Rainier Valley Cooperative Preschool

Leadership Training for Youth and Young People
Youth Undoing Institutionalized Racism (YUIR)
Ending the Prison Industrial Complex (EPIC)
     Meets in the church annex.
     YUIR and EPIC are led by Senait Brown,
     community leaders and mentors..

Bethany United Church of Christ continues to work in community
partnership with our Muslim brothers and sisters of Muslim
Association of Puget Sound (MAPS), alongside our Buddhists
brothers and sisters, and all people of faith, as well as no faith.

Falun Gong, Buddhist and Taoist teaching and meditation.
Samoan Choir practice

Church and Community Meetings, Gatherings, Discussions and Public Forums

Staying Healthy in Body, Mind, and Spirit Community Support.
Racial, Economic and Environmental/Climate Justice.
Make a Sandwich for Our Neighbors.
Sponsoring our Tiny House Villages in Georgetown, Othello, and True Vine in the CD.

What does God require of You? To do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with your God.

You are Beloved! I am Beloved! We Are Beloved! All Are Beloved of God!

Each and every one is needed in growing Beloved Community. Please support our social justice and ministry at Beloved Bethany with a donation of any amount to: Bethany United Church of Christ. You and your generosity and kindness are making a difference in our community and around the world. Thank you for giving generously.

NOTE: Throughout the year, Bethany Church will be leading in “Share the Gift of Love,” providing for our neighborhood children. Please bring new, or lightly used, men and women’s gloves and scarves. Please let pastor Angela Ying know if you are willing to participate and help.

Thank you.

Painting by Kelly Simpson Hagen