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Christ Episcopal Church
Seattle, WA
4548 Brooklyn Ave NE 98105
(206) 633-1611
www.christchurchseattle.org
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All in-person operations are suspended at Christ Church until further notice during the outbreak of Covid-19 in order to keep the community healthy, including Sunday services.
We are trying out Zoom services! An email like this one will have the Zoom link on Saturday afternoons along with the service leaflet - no RSVP necessary. After the liturgy concludes, hang around and chat for as long as you like for coffee hour!
With our switch to a Zoom service we will once again have an opportunity to hear voices other than the clergy. We need readers and intercessors again! Each week we’ll need two readers and one intercessor and you get to do it from the comfort of your own home as part of our Zoom meeting/worship. If you would like to read, please contact Becky Haver.
We are also holding weekly hangouts at 7pm on Wednesdays on Zoom! Generally there will be different things every week; email Cara if you are interested.
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This week's Contemplative Evening Prayer podcast is posted! You can listen along at any of the links below:
Anchor
Apple Podcasts
Spotify
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Hello friends,
We had a moving, hard, honest Vestry retreat on Saturday morning. Key takeaways include the fact that we simply don't have the information we need in order to make a decision to move ahead with the capital campaign, the remodel, or the organ. We don't know where pledging will be in the fall. We don't know who will be here when we regather, or even when we can regather. We have had three resignations from the capital campaign team, at least one objecting on conscience to spending this much money on a building in a time of economic devastation.
I know this is disappointing news, and it can cause some feelings of defeat. We have spent many years dreaming about our music ministries and an elevator. There has been a sense of discouragement, that Christ Church just can't seem to ever accomplish these goals, or that we're "bad" at decision-making. I want to strongly encourage us to resist falling into this way of thinking. I believe completely that God calls particular communities for particular purposes. We have gifts and a call upon us, actual us - not a fantasy us in the future, with more people or something else that is intangible. We had an amazing amount of communal energy about these projects - every person chose to commit to the good of the whole community in a beautiful way. That is still within us. The Spirit has placed it there. We just need to discern how to use it when faced with this new reality. I believe in us.
Your Vestry is committed to spending this in between time working on our own leadership skills. We are going to be working with materials from the College for Congregational Development and the work of Adrienne Marie Brown, among others. We are going to be preparing ourselves to be able to make the decisions that are coming, learning what kind of buy-in we need, how to ask, how to get input, when is it time to make a call. I am going to be spending some time this next week working on curricula for both the Vestry and the parish - book group coming soon. We have been given some time for introspection as a local body and as a nation, and we are prayerfully going to use it well.
We will be sending out a survey soon to check on you! And to check in on how you have been accessing worship, and which summer options appeal to you (some of which involve small outdoor gatherings). Please, please fill this out - we are all hungry for connection right now and your clergy really want to see you and serve you!
Bea Jackson let me know that former rector Henry Jesse died in Arizona. You can find an obituary here.
An excellent Task Force on Regathering has been assembled and will begin meeting next week. I am grateful for each person, with a wide range of interest and experience, who has committed to this work: Don Willis, Jeanne Cawse-Lucas, Joslin Harris-Gane, Wes Ono, Mary Lou Hatcher, Liz Osborne, Kathy Chamberlain, Rev. Chris, and Mary Herdell.
I was thrilled to be able to present Natalie Johnson (via Zoom) at their ordination on Tuesday evening! It was a holy event, though quite unusual. If you missed it, the livestream was recorded and is available here. We are so extraordinarily proud of Natalie! They are continuing as curate at St. Paul's Seattle in Queen Anne. I am hoping we can get Natalie to come preach and preside sometime this summer, and eventually we will have a grand party to celebrate them.
Please keep in mind that my Sabbaths have moved temporarily to Mondays as it fits best with the times Aaron is working on the coast and I am at home with Moses. I am working Fridays during COVID.
I will be off work July 15-July 22. July 15 is my 40th birthday, and I'm going to spend a few days just resting at home playing with Moses without constant Zoom meetings or calls, and then am hoping for a few days on the Oregon Coast. Revs. Carla and Chris are always around to help and counsel you.
With great love,
Shelly
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Christ Church acknowledges that we gather on the land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish people, who are a people still living.
Christ Church discretionary money has gone and will continue to go to pay rent to the Duwamish, to acknowledge that our institution participated in the removal of ancestral owners of this land, and to begin to make material repair to those who have been harmed.
Christ Church encourages individual worshippers to likewise offer this form of confession and sacred amends at realrentduwamish.org. All funds go directly to Duwamish Tribal Services (DTS) to support the revival of Duwamish culture and the vitality of the Duwamish Tribe.
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This computer desk needs a new home! It measures 31" by 23". and the shelf extension adds another 12". Great condition. Contact Pat Hyland if interested!
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Joys of the Week is meant as a medium to keep connected with each other during the Covid-19 outbreak, when we cannot share fellowship with each other in person. No joy is too small! If you have a joy you would like to share, please email a photo or a story to Cara at office@christchurchseattle.org.
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Hello everyone,
I hope you all have had a decent week.
I have had an unusually eventful, but good one: an old friend from college of mine with whom I had not spoken to in person for about ten years - because of some weird drama neither of us remembers clearly - moved from the east coast to the Pacific Northwest this week after a particularly rough spring. I have been pleasantly surprised (and a little relieved) that they have taken to the area so much - and the best thing is, this is the safest they have ever felt in their life, and for that I am immensely grateful. I have also not seen anyone quite so enthusiastic about barnacles - without having a marine biology degree, anyway!
Please enjoy our joys this week - and yes, as always, please continue to send me yours!
In love and service,
Cara
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John made a tin woodman Little Free Library and a neighbor left a daisy on the shoulder. (Mary Lou Hatcher)
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Quince and cherry tree photos from Liz and Paul Osborne!
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Staff at Christ Church
The Rev. Shelly Fayette, Rector rector@christchurchseattle.org
The Rev. Carla Robinson, Associate Priest revcarla@christchurchseattle.org
The Rev. Chris McPeak, Curate curate@christchurchseattle.org
Henry Lebedinsky, Music Director and Organist music@christchurchseattle.org
Cara Peterson, Parish Administrator office@christchurchseattle.org
Heidi Hansen, Director of Children and Youth kids@christchurchseattle.org
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