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MPJ Meeting: June 11

This is a monthly post of minutes from the MPJ meeting by Peter Cook that may interest church members.

  • PRIDE Celebration: Elsa described the planning for the PRIDE celebration coming up on June 22, 2013. She, Eleanor and Nancy Welton met to plan the host booth, participation in the parade and cookies for the booth. They prepared a pamphlet for LBGTQI to hand out at the parade.
  • Low Barrier Homeless Shelter: There was a discussion of the talks on low barrier shelter ...
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Categories: News and Events

TUCO & Capital City Pride

Capital City Pride is Saturday June 22. A parade at noon will kick off the celebration followed by a festival with booths and community support in Sylvester Park. And TUCO will be there with kazoos, cookies and lots of love!

Want to join us for the parade? We will be walking in the parade with our kazoo band led by Pat Dickason. We will meet in the upper parking lot (at the intersection of 11th Avenue SE and Capital Way) ...

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Categories: Marriage Equality, News and Events, Serving the Community, Social Justice

Fantastic! Great Fun! All Church Retreat

Fantastic! Great fun! That’s what one person had to say about last year’s church retreat.  Others said they liked: the people; fellowship; laughter; time to get acquainted with others; free time; quite time; game time; activities; singing; vespers; the food; flashlight tag; crafts; the Talent/No Talent show; swimming; canoeing; the outdoors, the weather….

This year’s All Church Retreat, “An Altar in the Woods,” promises to be all that and more. You do as much or as little as you want, but you ...

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MAY
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Categories: Family Programs, News and Events, Retreats, Special Events

Another Great CROP Walk

ending-hungerNot all of the Thurston County CROP Hunger Walk donations for this year are in yet, but it looks like another great year.  We appear to be on track to raise about $45,000.  It will be a couple of months before we know how much will come from the Feinstein Foundation as a partial match for the funds turned in by April 30.  There were approximately 450 walkers and ...

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MAY
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Categories: Caring Community, News and Events, Serving the Community, Special Events, Volunteers

Pictures from Elsa’s Installation

Here is a link to some photos taken by Russ Rose of Elsa’s Installation on May 19, 2013

Enjoy !!  It was an exciting day.

Pictures of Elsa’s installationt: http://www.pbase.com/whiterosephoto/tucoelsa1

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MAY
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Categories: News and Events, Presbyterian Denomination, Special Events, Special Worship Services, UCC Denomination

Planning for Capitol City Pride

Planning for Capitol City Pride

Capitol City Pride is being planned for Saturday June 22 for a ONE DAY Festival & Parade.

Want to bring your faith and love of LGBT folks into this community-wide event? A booth and a spot in the parade have been reserved. Now, all we need is you!

Join us on Tuesday May 28 for a one-hour planning and brainstorming meeting at 5:30 pm in Room 106.

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MAY
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Categories: News and Events, Special Events

Invitation to Elsa’s Installation

The Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Church of Christ and United Churches of Olympia invite your presence and prayers for the Installation of Elsa A. Peters as Pastor to the congregation on Sunday May 19, 2013 at 4:00 pm.

A reception hosted by the Congregational Life Ministry will immediately follow the service.

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MAY
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Categories: News and Events, Presbyterian Denomination, Special Events, UCC Denomination

Pentecost Special Offering

pentecost-logoOn Pentecost Sunday, May 19,  we will celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit as a bringer of  new life. Because of the Spirit’s coming, we no longer need to settle for business as usual, but can know the transforming and creative love of God that makes the impossible possible.

The Pentecost offering is one of the four annual Special Offerings we participate here in The United Churches of Olympia. ...

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MAY
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Categories: News and Events, Presbyterian Denomination, Special Offerings, Stewardship Blog, UCC Denomination

Make the Switch

Take a moment, feel the paper The Voice is written on.
Does it feel different? A little heaver perhaps? Smoother?
Starting in January 2013 the United States Postal Service
implemented some regulation changes for non-profit newsletter mailings. We are required to use a heaver weight paper along with keep within strict page limits and as expected there is was a postage rate increase. All of these new regulations mean that it costs more for us to produce and mail each ...

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MAY
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Categories: News and Events

Memorial Service for Virginia Matteson

Join our church family on Saturday May 4 at 1:30 pm to remember and celebrate the life of Virginia Matteson. Virginia died peacefully on Sunday April 21. Though Virginia wasn’t a member of our church, she is the beloved adopted mother of our members Caren and Russ Rose. She was an enthusiastic supporter of South Sound Habitat for Humanity. Come join us in the Sanctuary for this service of worship celebrating this saint of God.