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Synod Events This Week:
Mon, Dec 9, 1pm - Rostered Synod Staff Members Meeting
Mon, Dec 9, 4:30pm - Synod Finance Committee Meeting
Tues, Dec 10, 10am - 2:30pm - Synod Staff Meeting / Holiday Gathering
Thurs, Dec 12, 12noon - STAD meeting
Thurs, Dec. 12, 4:30pm - Synod Executive Committee Meeting
Thurs, Dec 12, 6:30pm - Evangelical Outreach Team Meeting
Sat, Dec 14 - Lay Minister Formation Cohort Meeting
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Prayers arising for the Unti Family
We continue to hold in prayer former NWWA Synod Bishop Kirby Unti and his family following the tragic death of his wife, Kim, November 27. Surround Kirby and their daughters, Briana, Carmen, Seong & Vanessa - and all who grieve - with your comfort and peace.
We give thanks for the many ways Kim has shared the Good News of Jesus - as a former synod vice president, local church leader, and community work. We are grateful for her compassion, generosity, creativity, and zest for life.
A celebration of life service is planned for Saturday, January 4 at 1pm at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle. The family asks that you come ready to celebrate and wear red. A reception will follow. (1245 10th Ave. E. in Seattle)
In this time, rather than phone calls or texts, the family welcomes your notes of care via email or mail: kirby.unti@comcast.net or Rev. Kirby Unti, 4102 NE 22nd Place, Renton, WA 98059
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Please share this position opening in your circles - ASAP!
This essential accounting management role supports the ministries of the six synods of Region One of the ELCA with financial administration. Based in Mill Creek, WA this is a full time position - with excellent benefits.
Learn more about the role and how to apply here: https://www.lutheransnw.org/news/financial-services-officer
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A Christmas Greeting from
ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton
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Reconciling in Christ (RIC) Sunday
This is an annual worship celebration created to share in the commitment our organization and partnering faith communities have in the ongoing work of welcome, inclusion, celebration, and advocacy for LGBTQIA+ people in the life of the church. While historically this day is celebrated on the final Sunday in January, many RIC partners will celebrate on their date of affirmation, or on other days meaningful to their communities rooted in this commitment to radical hospitality. We hope you enjoy Resilient Community as we join collectively with our 1,140+ partners across the United States and Canada through this celebratory service.
GO HERE to download this free resource in English and Español.
(https://www.reconcilingworks.org/ric/ricsunday/)
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ELCA Fund for Leaders
Are YOU or someone you know interested in attending seminary?
ELCA Fund for Leaders scholarship application is open now until Feb. 21! This is the perfect time to reach out to promising, gifted people you know who may be discerning a call to rostered ministry, and to encourage them to apply for a full-tuition scholarship.
Learn more about the scholarships and how to apply here:
https://www.elca.org/our-work/leadership/elca-fund-for-leaders.
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A PLU Christmas: In excelsis Deo
Join us for our beloved series of PLU Christmas Concerts as the Choir of the West, University Chorale, and University Symphony Orchestra present “In excelsis Deo”, featuring John Rutter’s exhilarating setting of Gloria. Other works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, David Willcocks, and Brian Galante mix with traditional carols and other seasonal favorites as we celebrate beauty and joy in this Christmas season.
Tickets still available for TONIGHT's concert!!
Monday, December 9 at 7:30pm in Benaroya Hall
Learn more - and purchase online here: https://www.plu.edu/christmas/
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Experience Hygge
Mondays in December & January
at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Issaquah
From Advent through Epiphany, we invite you, your families, friends and neighbors, to experience Hygge Hygge is a Northern European concept which aims to uplift coziness, contentment, comfort and conviviality. One opportunity for this will be our weekly knit-ins every Monday, 4-6PM in December and January. You are welcome, even if you don’t knit. This is meant to be a time of rest and relaxation.
(These knit-ins provide opportunity to produce covers for the tall trees in the front of our property. One by one, we are aiming to transform half of the trees into signs of color, coziness and warmth by “Yarn Bombing” them. Yarn Bombing is a form of street art, that employs colorful displays of yarn and fibre art in public spaces. The other trees will be illuminated by strings of light. This project is a partnership between the church and Issaquah Arts.)
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FREE LiVE Project Weekly Online Bible Study
Abide: Going Deeper
Tuesdays Dec 10 via Zoom, 7pm-8pm
We invite you to abide curiously in God's Word together. The LiVE retreats and courses are not meant to be stand alone offerings. Go deeper into the Biblical grounding of the course/retreat themes in this weekly synod-wide FREE Bible Study. No need to pre-register. (after the 10th, we will take a break for the holidays and begin again in January)
Join us any week! More info and Zoom link here.
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Blue Christmas Winter Solstice Worship Service
presented by the Center of Addiction & Faith
Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024 at 5pm (Pacific)
ONLINE
In the midst of this long dark season when much of nature seems dead and lifeless, we look for the light of hope. "A light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it." And yet, sometimes the light of hope can seem pretty dim and the darkness very real. We offer this virtual candlelight service designed for those who may not be feeling the happiness and joy that this season calls for. For some of us, the Christmas season is more than difficult. We gather to acknowledge the pain you may be feeling and to plead for help and hope and light from out of the darkness.
The link to register for the service is here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIufuqvrTsoGtGznxZ5QHwO26EReaJNbO0e#/registration
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A NORWEGIAN CHRISTMAS DINNER
The Outreach Committee at Kent Lutheran Church together with Pastor Tormod Svensson will be putting on a Norwegian Christmas dinner (Pork meatballs, ribs, sausage, sauerkraut and potatoes) in their Fellowship Hall, Saturday, January 4 at 5 PM. The cost is $20 for adults and $10 for children 10 and under. The proceeds will go to support Lutheran Community Services Northwest.
Please RSVP to office@klclutheran.org or (253) 852 2057) no later than December 22.
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Want an item included?
Email Susan Berg, Dir. Communications & Events
All items due by 2pm on the prior Thursday
Northwest Washington Synod / ELCA
5519 Phinney Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98103
206-783-9292
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