Sunday Service
Youth-Led Service: Embracing the Gift of Mystery!
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Sunday, December 10th
10:25am
Join us in person or Zoom!
Join us for a playful youth-led service focusing on how we can embrace the mystery that life offers us. as we lean into uncertainty and trust that our values will help us find our way.
Please bring non-perishable food donations to church this Sunday, Dec. 10th. We need: soup, peanut butter, canned meats, crackers, cereal, and pet food! Thank you!
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Sunday Service 12/10 Traffic Advisory
Kirkland City Government has posted a Traffic Alert for December 10: 12Ks of Christmas! Please get an early start Sunday, December 10th and check out the closures in advance so you can make it to our Youth-Led Service.
Drivers should expect traffic delays and restricted parking due to the 12Ks of Christmas run/walk, to be held at Marina Park on Sunday, December 10, 2023. Vehicles parked in restricted areas will be towed. Course maps are available at src12ksofchristmas.com. Roadway impacts will be in effect from 9 a.m. until approximately 11:30 a.m. or when the last runner passes.
Additionally, the following closures will be in place:
- Lakeshore Plaza and Kirkland Avenue between the City dock and Lake Street from 5:30 a.m. until 1 p.m.
- Southbound Lake Street/Lake Street S from Central Way to 7th Avenue S from 8:45 a.m. until 9:45 a.m.
- Marina Park boat launch from 8:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.
- Kirkland Avenue between Lake Street and Main Street from 9:15 a.m. until 10:00 a.m.
- Eastbound Kirkland Avenue from Main Street to 9th Street from 9:15 a.m. until 10:00 a.m.
- Southbound Market Street from 13th Avenue to Central Way from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
- Eastbound 12th Avenue from 6th Street to 110th Avenue NE from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
- Northbound 110th Avenue from 12th Avenue to NE 96th Street from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
- 6th Street between 12th Avenue and 10th Avenue from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
- Westbound 10th Avenue from 6th Street to Market Street from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
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Pub Theology
Saturday, Dec. 9th
6pm
Maelstrom Brewing (11014 120th Ave NE, Kirkland, WA 98033)
The topic of the evening: Theology of Evil.
What is evil, and how do we relate to evil in the world?
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Soul Matters Small Group Drop-In Discussion
Sunday, Dec. 10th
11:45am
Zoom and/or Theodore Parker Room
Pick up a cup of coffee and a bite to eat, then join us downstairs at 11:45am (after the service) on Sunday for the Soul Matters Drop-in Discussion on this month's theme: The Gift of Mystery. We will be in the Theodore Parker room and online (using the same zoom link as the Sunday morning service).
You can get the resource packet online here or pick one up in the Foyer Sunday morning.
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Zombie Apocalypse Team
Wednesday, Dec. 13th
3 p.m.
Conference Room
If you are interested in learning how we can respond to Climate Disasters, please join us for our monthly meeting. We are establishing a unified plan for the church as we work toward a response to the climate crisis.
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Blue Christmas
Wednesday, Dec. 13th
7 p.m.
Sanctuary
We are not all filled with joy during this season, and sometimes the expectation of "the most wonderful time of the year" makes our disconnection from that feel harder. For many of us this year has been hard, and many are needing more quiet, reflective time together where we can acknowledge what we are living with.
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Solstice Service
Thursday Dec. 21st
7 pm
Sanctuary
This is the longest night of the year. We will gather around to call in the directions and light fire together. As we join in Solstice refreshments, there will be a spiral to walk through as you reflect on hopes for your future self.
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Christmas Eve Service
Sunday, Dec. 24th
7 pm
Sanctuary
Join us for an interactive Christmas pageant on the birth of Jesus, along with many carols and the multi-generational orchestra. We will close with our candle lighting ritual.
Note: There will be no Worship Service the morning of Sunday, Dec. 24th.
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Upcoming Children and Youth Events at Northlake!
This year our RE Sunday will be a youth-led service on the theme of mystery! We will be co-creating the service, choosing songs and readings, sharing music and a short message on how we manage uncertainties and lean into the mystery that life offers. Children and youth can also participate as chalice lighters, celebrants, and musicians!
- December 10 - Youth-Led Service “The Gift of Embracing the Mystery”
- December 17 - December Crafts and Games during RE class time
- December 21 - Solstice Celebration, Main Sanctuary @ 7pm. There’s an opportunity for youth and adults to help set up for the Solstice celebration, and also to participate in its creation! If you have time and are interested, please contact Margaret at DLRE@northlakeuu.org by December 10th.
- December 24 - no morning service! Join us for Christmas Eve service at 7pm.
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EIM: Eastside Introductory Meditation Class Series
7-9PM
Sanctuary
For six Wednesday evenings, starting Jan. 17, we will develop the path of mindfulness meditation, also called insight meditation, and how it can benefit you. As described in the link, the series will include teachings, periods of meditation, plenty of discussion, and follow-ups at home. The series, which will start at 7 p.m. each day, will be online and in person, the latter in the sanctuary at Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church in Kirkland.
Here's the link, from the Seattle Insight Meditation Society website: https://seattleinsight.org/event/introductory-meditation-class-series-in-person-online/2024-01-17/
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Taproots: A National BIPOC Space
The work of spiritual community is complicated in the 21st century. The need for faithful leadership that is grounded and resilient is imperative. This is all the more true for leaders within our communities and congregations who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC). All too aware of this need, Congregational Life is excited to explore and co-create a network with congregational leaders that support them in this time in emergent ways through Taproot: A National BIPOC Space. BIPoC Leaders rooted in the Unitarian Universalist congregations are invited to take part in this monthly, virtual gathering. Second Thursday of the month. The last gathering of the year will be Thursday, December 14th at 8p ET/7p CT/6p MT/5p PT.
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UPLIFT Trans/Nonbinary+ Monthly Gathering
Trans, nonbinary, and other not-entirely-or-at-all-cis UUs are invited to join our monthly gathering, which we hope will feel like a cozy cup of something soothing (in virtual meeting form!). This intentionally multi-generational gathering is open to and welcoming of trans/nonbinary elders as well as children, youth, and young adults.
Register here
This is a closed event specifically for trans/nonbinary+ people. Anyone who is trans, nonbinary, metagender, multigender, genderfluid, agender, demigender, genderqueer, questioning, and otherwise not wholly or entirely cis is welcome to attend.
NOTE: There may be cisgender people present as parents supporting their 13-and-younger-child's presence in the space, as tech support, or as captioners. However, if you are completely cisgender and not trans/nonbinary, please join other spaces supporting trans/nonbinary+ people that are open to all, such as our Side With Love Monthly Mixer or our monthly Faithful Grounding (click here for more info on each event.)
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Staff vacation!
The Northlake Board has granted the NUUC Staff a week of vacation between Christmas and New Years. This is in recognition and gratitude of the extra hours and work the staff have dedicated to Northlake during the past 4 years of the pandemic.
Please congratulate and thank Bug, Stephanie, Margaret, Maria and Rev. Nancy, and don't expect to hear from them the week between the holidays!
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