Grow in Justice and in Love

• Reflections from Dolores Huerta

  “Honor the hands that harvest your crops.”

  “Why is it that farm workers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?”

  “If people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.”

  “Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.”

  “Sí, se puede.” (“If possible.”)
  

  - Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) American
  labor leader and feminist activist. Co-founder
  of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA).
  
  
• Reflections from August Wilson

  "Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing."

  "I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities."

  "All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other."
  

  - August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr., April 27, 1945–October 2, 2005).
  American playwright who has been referred to as
  the “theater’s poet of Black America”
  
  
• “I am the Light of the World”

  Chorus:
  “I am the light of the world.
  You people come and follow me!
  If you follow and love, you’ll learn the mystery,
  Of what you were meant to do and be.

  “When the song of the angels is stilled,
  When the star in the sky is gone.
  When the sages and the shepherds have found their way home,
  The work of Christmas is begun!

  “To find the lost and lonely one,
  To heal the broken soul with love,
  To feed the hungry children with warmth and good food,
  To feel the earth below, the sky above.

  “To free the prisoner from all chains,
  To make the powerful care,
  To rebuild the nations with strength and goodwill,
  To see all God’s children everywhere.

  “To bring hope to every task you do, to dance at a baby’s new birth,
  To make music in an old person’s heart, and sing to the colors of the earth!

  “To bring hope to every task you do,
  To dance at a baby's new birth,
  To make music in an old man's heart,
  And sing to the colors of the earth!”
  

  - Jim Strathdee
  Song written in response to a Howard Thurman poem.
  “I Am the Light of the World” by Jim and Jean Strathdee.
  
  
  
• “God Will Stay with You” by John Legend
  
  “You’ve been faithful for a while now
  Faith growing stronger everyday now
  It feels so good and there’s no doubt
  God will stay with you
  
  “As each morning brings sunrise
  And the flowers bloom in springtime
  On God’s love you can rely
  And God will stay with you
  
  “Oh God will stay with you through the ups and the downs
  God will stay with you when no one else is around
  And when the dark clouds arise
  God will stay by your side
  God knows you’ll be alright
  God will stay with you
  
  “Though Life’s troubles can get old
  And our hearts tend to grow cold
  God has something like miracle
  God will stay with you”
  

Sign of the Times

Welcome

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

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Sunset on Water

Bethany Sunday Services

In Person: 10:30 am Pacific

Via ZOOM:
10:30 am Pacific, 11:30 am Mountain,
12:30 pm Central, 1:30 pm Eastern
For Zoom instructions, please contact us at office@bethanyseattle.org

We are excited to come and gather together in God’s love
in worship and community whether it is in person or Zoom.

Our Worship is followed by a shared meal.
Be renewed, refueled, reinvigorated for the week,
by the grace of God in growing Beloved Community.

All are welcome.
All are Beloved of God.
Peace, Shalom, Salaam.

Racial, Economic, LGBTQ+ and Environmental/Climate Justice ministries.

Natural Health and Wellness Community Support and Organic Juicing.
We keep ourselves and one another staying healthy in body, mind, and spirit, for good.

Make a Sandwich for Our Neighbors.

Tiny House Villages in Georgetown and in the CD.

Beacon Hill Mutual Aid and Neighbors, Refugees, Immigrants.

Refugee Women’s Alliance (ReWA)
Our beloved Bethany Church community shines by standing in solidarity with our migrants, who have the human, and legal right, to seek refuge in America.

• 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, to build new lives in the United States.
  
  
• Collecting Blankets, Gloves, Hats, Bottled Water
  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: 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 walking humbly with God, here in our church, communities, and around the world!
  Please DONATE! Go to the “Donate” page and make a contribution. Thank you for your generosity.

Painting by Kelly Simpson Hagen Beloved Community Pray without ceasing. Bethany Church prays, as we grow beloved community, for all in our community of faith, our neighborhoods, city and country, others countries and all of God’s Creation. 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. adapted from “The World Peace Prayer”