Snow Tree Image by AY

• “Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end. I want to share with you my faith and my understanding that this suffering can be transformed and redeemed. There is no such thing as a totally hopeless case. Our God is an expert at dealing with chaos, with brokenness, with all the worst that we can imagine. God created order out of disorder, cosmos out of chaos, and God can do so always, can do so now — in our personal lives and in our lives as nations, globally. … Indeed, God is transforming the world now — through us — because God loves us.”
  
  
  - Desmond Mpilo Tutu, South African Anglican Archbishop,
  theologian, anti-apartheid and human rights activist.
  From his book, “God Has a Dream:
  A Vision of Hope for Our Time”
  
  
• New Day’s Lyric

  “May this be the day
  We come together.
  Mourning, we come to mend,
  Withered, we come to weather,
  Torn, we come to tend,
  Battered, we come to better.
  Tethered by this year of yearning,
  We are learning
  That though we weren’t ready for this,
  We have been readied by it.
  We steadily vow that no matter
  How we are weighed down,
  We must always pave a way forward.

  “This hope is our door, our portal.
  Even if we never get back to normal,
  Someday we can venture beyond it,
  To leave the known and take the first steps.
  So let us not return to what was normal,
  But reach toward what is next.

  “What was cursed, we will cure.
  What was plagued, we will prove pure.
  Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,
  Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,
  Where we weren’t aware, we’re now awake;
  Those moments we missed
  Are now these moments we make,
  The moments we meet,
  And our hearts, once all together beaten,
  Now all together beat.

  “Come, look up with kindness yet,
  For even solace can be sourced from sorrow.
  We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,
  But to take on tomorrow.

  “We heed this old spirit,
  In a new day’s lyric,
  In our hearts, we hear it:
  For auld lang syne, my dear,
  For auld lang syne.
  Be bold, sang Time this year,
  Be bold, sang Time,
  For when you honor yesterday,
  Tomorrow ye will find.
  Know what we’ve fought
  Need not be forgot nor for none.
  It defines us, binds us as one,
  Come over, join this day just begun.
  For wherever we come together,
  We will forever overcome.”

  - Amanda S. C. Gorman, American poet and activist. She focuses on issues
  of oppression, feminism, race, marginalization,
  and on the African diaspora.
  
  

• Sundays, 10:30 am
  Worship and Communion.

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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: Jermecia Jackson
  
  
• Help 80 Seattle Families
  Our Christmas Gifts program, in partnership with our sister church, University Congregational UCC. - Donations Contact: Pastor Angela Ying
  
  
• 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! - Contact: Bernice Cade
  
  
• Post-Worship Services Community Meals (Postponed until safe to meet again.)
  Join us preparing our weekly meal. - Contact: Tate and Theresa Anderson

               Northwest Immigrants Rights Project (NWIRP)

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. No meal shared, at this time.

Refugee Women’s Alliance (ReWA)
ReWA Preschool Headstart Program
     For toddlers to pre-K, Half Day and Full Day
     Sliding scale, based on income.
Black Power Epicenter Cooperative
Rainier Valley Cooperative Preschool
Got Green
     New Campus Partner working with Bethany
     on Climate Justice.

Black Power Epicenter Cooperative (BPEC)
     Led by Senait Brown and Gary Kinte Perry, as well as
     many young community leaders, together with their
     mentors from People’s Institute, Freedom School,
     and Bethany United Church of Christ.

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

Sign of the Times

Welcome by Demian

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About Bethany (in Brief)

Bethany United Church of Christ’s vision in seeking to be God’s Beloved Community on earth, come from the prophetic words of Micah:

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

Refugees and immigrants welcome here. No ban. No wall. Stop the deportations.

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.

Click here for more:About Bethany United Church of Christ

Painting by Kelly Simpson Hagen