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Reverend Angela Ying, Pastor || 206-725-7535 || office@bethanyseattle.org
6230 Beacon Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98108 (at Beacon and Graham) || Map
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Welcome to the Beloved Bethany Community
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Blessed PRIDE and JUNETEENTH Month
Red Flower
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Come Join Us
SUNDAY Morning Worship
In Person and Zoom Hybrid Service
10:30 am Pacific (in person)
11:30 am Mountain
12:30 pm Central
1:30 pm Eastern Time
A shared community meal follows.
Bethany United Church of Christ
6230 Beacon Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98108
bethanyseattle.org
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Inspirational Quotes
- “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model‘s size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It’s in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can’t touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can’t see.
I say,
It’s in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Now you understand
Just why my head’s not bowed.
I don’t shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It’s in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
‘Cause I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Maya Angelou is an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist.
She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of
poetry, and a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning 50 years.
Click here to see her incredible performance of “Phenomenal Woman”:
Phenomenal Woman’ written and performed by Maya Angelou
This poem, published in 1978, is from her book “And Still I Rise”.
- Dolores Huerta
We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together.
Why is it that farm workers feed the nation but they can‘t get food stamps?
If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
I think the importance of doing activist work is to engage people and give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow. Hope that change is possible and that they can be a part of that transformation.
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Si, Se Puede! Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can!
Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader
and feminist activist. After working for several years with the
Community Service Organization (CSO), she co-founded the
National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists
Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, later known as the United Farm
Workers (UFW). Huerta joined Filipino leader Larry Itliong in the
Delano grape strike in 1965, managing boycott campaigns on the
east coast and negotiating with grape companies to end the strike.
She is credited with inventing the UFW slogan
“Sí se puede”. (“Yes you can”.)
- “An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from his 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Injustice is not isolated. Allowing it to exist in one place jeopardizes justice
everywhere. It argues to not be indifferent to the suffering of others.
King explained that "whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly,"
and called for collective action against discrimination. The quote has
been a cornerstone of civil rights advocacy,
and social justice movements worldwide.
- Sign of the Times
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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.
Please Give
To donate, click here:
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Accepting Credit Cards, and PayPal
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Rent Church Space
To get rental details, click here, on the Mission Page.
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Welcome
Bethany Sunday Services
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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.
Bethany Ongoing Ministries
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.
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To reach all office@bethanyseattle.org
Further Immigration Resources: Northwest Immigrants Rights Project (NWIRP)
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”
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