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2025-2026 Religious Education Programming & Volunteering
2025-2026 Religious Education programming for children and youth from nursery through high school. Our annual registration form is available now. Filing this out helps us prepare for the aged, based opportunities we will offer including OWL, Coming of Age, and middle...
Art & Community Summer Camp
All About Camp We are all about summertime joy! Our camp thrives on fun, storytelling, games, hands-on creativity, and summer adventures. Campers will engage in both collaborative and individual projects. We believe in empowering kids to make their own choices while...
East Shore Auction 2025: Lifting Our Light
We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for East Shore’s Auction! Online bidding will open on Saturday March 8. With 115 items to choose from, including everything from book bags to art works, themed dinners to Mariners and Seahawks tickets, and local...
Parenting as a Spiritual Practice
This was the sermon prepared for Sunday, February 16, 2025. I have always considered myself a spiritual person. I may not have always attended church, but prayer has always been a part of my everyday life. During the most hectic time in my life, which coincided with...
Seabeck 2025: Invoking Joy
The Seabeck Memorial Day Weekend retreat overlooking the Olympic Peninsula, happens from 4pm Friday May 23 to 11am Monday May 26, 2025. We encourage everyone to participate in this inspiring community event. Registrations are already underway and are filling up fast....
ECAM Tours Recycling Center
Did you know that if you clean and dry your Starbucks cup and lid that they can both be put in the blue recycle bin? I didn’t. I also thought that I could put my clean empty bread loaf bag in the blue recycle bin. Not so!! It jams up the sorting machine which they...
Lifting our Light: ESUC Auction March 15, 2025
“"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you." -Walt Whitman We need your contributions by February 12! Some fabulous offerings we want to lift up include a handmade quilt made especially for you, delicious dinners at the homes of...
Share the Plate: Sophia Way
Since 2008, The Sophia Way has offered shelter, safety and stability to women experiencing homelessness on the Eastside. So far, more than 5,000 women have been supported by The Sophia Way and many have found their way to stable housing. The shelter in Bellevue...
Raising Our Hands to the Duwamish!
For the January 26 service, ESUC’s Indigenous Connections (IC) Team invited the Duwamish Solidarity Group (DSG) to come share their experience working with the Duwamish Tribe in Seattle. The DSG is a group of non-indigenous volunteers who work in various ways to...
Climate Action for February 2025
Here is an easy way to support bold, sound, and just climate legislation in the Washington state during this year’s session (Jan 13-April 27). Join the 350 WA Civic Action Team (CAT) who will send you two easy-access emails per week tailored with options for how...
Celebrating a New Year
“Showing up is an act of healing” Sul ka dub/Freddie Lane Beloved East Shore Congregation: As the wheel of the year marks the winter Solstice and announces a New Year, may we welcome this opportunity to reflect upon and express our gratitude for all the blessings we...
Celebrating 75 Years of East Shore
On Sunday, January 19, we will celebrate 75 years at East Shore Unitarian Church! Here is a brief history of East Shore. The Beginning East Shore began in 1948 when the Eddys, the Wensbergs and the Farners decided it was easier to establish a Unitarian Sunday School...
Spirituality is NOT a Spectator Sport
In the early 90s, I was a transplant to Bellevue from the Midwest. I moved to the Northwest to find work after college because we were deep in a recession and this place offered an opportunity for me to make a life for myself. It was a lonely time for me. I started...
Lifting Our Light: ESUC Auction 2025
March 15, 2025 The East Shore Auction is coming! This annual event raises a substantial amount of money for our church operating fund and brings everyone together for a fun evening event. The best part is that many of the items available to bid on are events for you...
Volunteer in Childcare and UU Kids Spaces!
Most Sundays during the worship service, East Shore has FOUR rooms open to children and youth. These spaces help build peer relationships, and if we had just TWENTY active teachers (less than 7% of the congregation), each teacher would only need to volunteer once a...
Little Free Library
Have you noticed a new addition to East Shore? We have a new Little Free Library! Little Free Library is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to be a catalyst for building community, inspiring readers, and expanding book access for all through a global network of...
Centering Comforting Love: hUUgs 2025
Drop off in the Sanctuary Foyer January-February 9 Please join the Outreach Team in creating care packages to send to young, emerging adults who are a part of East Shore and our extended family. We will be packing boxes on Sunday, February 9 and would love your help!...
Earth & Climate Action Ministry Team Celebrates 2024!
Earth and Climate Action Ministry (ECAM) had a banner year. We grew from 6 very active members to 10!! Current members of the Steering Committee are Ann Fletcher, John Chmaj, Mark Norelius, Linda Brown, Marilyn Mayers, Jenny Hall, Richard Gelb, Ron Lovell, and...
“I come to East Shore to be with warm and open hearted people, who care about the world and work to reach out and heal as many people both near and far as possible.” -Amanda Strombom