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• “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

  “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

  “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

  “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

  - James Baldwin, (1924-1987) American novelist, playwright, activist.

• Sunday, February 17, 10:30 am
  Worship and music led by Rev. ML Daniel, Dan Kramlich, Bernice Cade and the Rainbow People of God at Bethany United Church of Christ. A shared community meal follows thanks to our hospitality led by Tate, Theresa, and Bryan Anderson, Steve and Sara Storck, Bernice and Wes Cade, Mell Fuller, Nick Smith, Leah and Moses Reed, and all who welcome everyone into Beloved Community.
  Our Nyema Clark, of BPEC/Nurturing Roots, will share with our sister church, Mercer Island UCC, about the work and ministry that BPEC, and Bethany UCC, do in providing space, support, speaking truth to power, YUIR, and Freedom School on our church campus.
  
  
• Sunday, February 24, 10:30 am
  Worship and the Celebration of Holy Communion. Featuring the Beloved Bethany Singers led by Michele Storms and Dan Kramlich along with Pastor Angela Ying and the Beloved Bethany Church community. You don’t want to miss it! A congregational beloved community meeting and shared meal follows, led by Tate, Theresa, and Bryan Anderson and our amazing hospitality team, with Steve and Sara Storck, Bernice and Wes Cade, Leah and Moses Reed, Mell Fuller, Nick Smith, and everyone who welcomes all into Beloved Community.
  A wonderful Congregational Gathering and Celebration led by Moderator Annaliza Torres follows worship as we speak truth to power. We will also have a chance to celebrate our February birthdays (Michele, Mia, Hana) and Lunar New Year! Gung Hee Fat Choy! The Year of the Boar (aka The Pig).

• Third Saturday Salsa Social - Family-friendly
  Free lesson 3:30-4 pm, or lesson plus dance time 3:30 pm-6 pm for $5
  From our own Suzanne Simmons, who is director at
  My World Dance and Fitness Studio - 206-861-2500
  849 Hiawatha Place South, Seattle.
       = May 18, 2019 - Dance Celebration of My World’s 11^th anniversary,
            Mambo Cadillac live

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.

Prayers for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline that will run through and destroy Native American burial landmarks and sacred spaces of our First Nation People.

Special prayers for our brothers and sisters in Haiti, Cuba, Florida and the Atlantic Coast affected by Hurricane Matthew causing deaths, massive infrastructure damage and numerous people needing to evacuate their homes. Prayers for our sisters and brothers in Syria, especially in war-torn Allepo.

• 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
  Join us preparing our weekly meal.
  Contact: Tate and Theresa Anderson

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.

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.

AA Community Meetings - 7:30 pm

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..

In 2018, 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, and no faith.

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

Church and Community Meetings, Gatherings, Discussions and Public Forums

Marching in Seattle, 2018-01-20 To see this image full-sized, click: Concrete Actions of Faith and Social Justice

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.