From the Associate Vicar: Land Acknowledgment Statement
Published on Thu, 6 May 2021 22:42
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear One’s of St. C’s,At Diocesan Convention last October the group in our Diocese, Circles of Color, asked each church to create it’s own Land Acknowledgement Statement. A ...
Worship Information: Bulletin & Prayers of the People Requests
Published on Thu, 6 May 2021 12:45
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Join us for Worship at 9 AM on Sunday on Facebook Live!Click here for our Facebook page- you do not have to have a Facebook account/be logged in to watch, although you will need an ...
Sign up for Our First In-Person Services - May 9th & May 16th @11am
Published on Thu, 6 May 2021 12:15
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We are finally ready to meet in person again! As the staff and all of us together learn how to mitigate risk and be in larger groups again we are going to start with having a ...
Come Join Us On Ascension Day & Walk the Labyrinth: Thursday, May 13th @630pm
Published on Thu, 6 May 2021 11:45
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All are invited to come to St. Columba's on Thursday (May 13th). We will have a short prayer service outside where we will reflect on the ascension of Jesus. As we ...
Bee Update!
Published on Wed, 5 May 2021 20:44
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Spring has come at last (cue Vivaldi)! Aaand then it was gone...and then come back. And so on a couple more times, but now appears to have returned (cue Monty Python). ...
Do you use Amazon? Of course you do! Did you know that St. Columba can benefit by your use? Oh! You did not? Well we can! Use this link to get started! Amazon Smile! ...
From The Vicar: How We Return
Published on Thu, 29 Apr 2021 15:10
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear Ones of St. Columba's, This Sunday we will cautiously re-open for indoor worship for the first time in over a year. I cannot wait to begin seeing some of your (masked) ...
Welcoming Families back to Worship at St. Columba's
Published by Elaine Ogden on Tue, 27 Apr 2021 12:40
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St. Columba's is so excited to begin meeting in-person indoors beginning this Sunday. Families with children have no doubt that you are welcomed too, Elaine has just finished ...
From The Associate for Liturgy and Music: Fifty Days of Rejoicing
Published on Fri, 23 Apr 2021 09:00
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Happy Easter!Wait, what?? Didn't Easter happen four weeks ago?? Actually, Easter is the whole fifty days between Easter Day and the Day of Pentecost. Forty days of fasting and ...
One Service & Town Hall this Sunday, April 25 at 11:00am
Published on Fri, 23 Apr 2021 08:30
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In the cosmology of North and South American peoples, Turtle Island is the geographic region covering Canada, United States, Central America, and South America. Join together ...
Zoom Adult Formation May 2nd @ 1pm : Land Acknowledgment Statement
Published on Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:31
Adult Formation
On May 2nd @1pm Alissa will lead us in a conversation about what our Land Acknowledgement Statement at St. Columba's will be. This will be a statement that will be read ...
From the Associate Vicar: Embodied People
Published on Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:45
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear One’s of St. C’s. Honestly, I was hoping to not write a ”from the Associate” this week. My parents are in town and I am still recovering from Holy Week and from my ...
St. Columba's has a new Platform for Sermons and other audio recordings - as a Podcast
Published on Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:20
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We are experimenting with the platform of podcasts! We will mainly use this to post sermons, but will experiment with putting up other material from the church like ...
Zoom Double Baby Shower for Vibh & Adam AND Michelle & Dave at 11:15am on Sunday, April 18th!
Published on Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:30
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Everyone is invited to a zoom baby shower for Vibh & Adam AND Michelle & Dave at 11:15am on Sunday, April 18th!. Your presence is desired! No gift is necessary to ...
Anyone who is interested in learning more about the Episcopal Church is welcome to join this class. If you are interested in being confirmed on June 27th when the Bishop ...
From The Vicar: Easter is more than one thing
Published on Thu, 8 Apr 2021 13:15
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear Ones of St. Columba's,How are you feeling about Easter, now that Easter Sunday has passed? Perhaps you are still on a high, feeling grateful for the ways in which we were able ...
Free Event Zoom at Pacific Lutheran University April 20th @7pm: `World Balance vs. Personal Salvation: An American Indian Postcolonial Perspective`` Rev. Dr. George “Tink” Tinker
Published on Thu, 8 Apr 2021 10:00
Adult Formation
This event is free to the public. We are encouraging people to go as our ongoing effort to create a Land Acknowledgment statement. If enough people can go we will ...
Published by Becca DeShaw on Wed, 7 Apr 2021 12:27
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The future of Forward Day by Day. ...
First Quarter Donation Statements
Published by Becca DeShaw on Mon, 5 Apr 2021 11:15
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"It's in the mail" ...
From the Associate Vicar: The Cross
Published on Fri, 2 Apr 2021 10:58
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear Ones of St.C’s, On this Good Friday we remember the symbol of the cross as a symbol of death. This symbol that once stood for death, destruction, and fear and control ...
From the Vicar: Make it Holy
Published on Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:00
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear Ones of St. Columba's,I had the privilege of being on a zoom call with some folks who are new to us, this morning, and in answering questions about our community I was ...
St. C's Outdoor Work Day on Saturday, March 20th 8:30am-Noon! & If you plan to watch the Palm Sunday service you cannot pick up your palms as well!
Published on Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:45
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All are welcome to come to our St. Columba's work day on Saturday beginning at 8:30am with donuts and coffee. Social distancing and masks will be required for all people over ...
Come to the last Zoom Book Club this Sunday at 1pm, along with the book we will be exploring the land that our church building occupies and it's complicated history with local tribes
Published on Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:00
Adult Formation
We will be reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer this Lent. At this year's Diocesan Convention our fellow Indigenous Episcopalians asked that ...
From the Associate Vicar: Desert Time
Published on Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:03
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear One’s of St. C’s, As people begin to get vaccinated, I am hearing a buzz of what does that mean now. Is there a “normal” to return to? What from our old life ...
Special Guest Presenter, the Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton, on March 21st @1pm: Occupied Indigenous Land - How Did We Get Here?
Published on Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:00
Adult Formation
The Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton will do a presentation on the Doctrine of Discovery. If you have ever wanted to understand on a foundational level how we ended up on occupied ...
From The Vicar: Reconciliation and Rite
Published on Thu, 11 Mar 2021 20:47
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear Ones of St. Columba's,One of the secret gems of our Episcopal tradition is an often hidden rite that sometimes gets highlighted during Lent - The Rite of Reconciliation. This ...
A common Lenten practice is to be mindful of those who are in need in our community. Our Food Bank is in need of soap and small tubes of tooth paste. We now have plenty of toilet ...
From the Associate Vicar: Our Collective Power
Published on Thu, 4 Mar 2021 22:36
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear One's of St. C's,Last week, I preached about how our power is found in community. I first heard this idea last summer while I was on a walk and listening to a lecture ...
Birth Announcement: Welcoming Benjamin Tutu
Published on Thu, 4 Mar 2021 08:45
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The proud parents Terez and Samuel are excited to announce that Benjamin was born on Thursday, February 25th at 10:37pm. Terez and Benjamin are both doing well. ...
From the Vicar: Good Medicine For Each Other
Published on Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:19
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear Ones of St. Columba's,I wonder how the past year has affected your relationship with nature? For me, the answer to that question is complex. On the one hand, nature is part of ...
