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East Shore’s Auction: Building a New Way
Online: November 6-14 Register Now to Participate! We’re so excited to bring you East Shore’s Auction, Building a New Way! The Auction Team has been hard at work preparing everything, and we’ve been overwhelmed with the generosity and creativity of East Shore members...
From the Minister: Trust
The radical center of Universalism comes down to this: Trust. Trust yourself; you’re okay. Trust nature; it’s basically benevolent. Trust each other; human nature, when left to unfold naturally, will do so with love and creativity. This attitude of respectful trust...
New esuc.org Now Live!
On October 26, the new East Shore website, esuc.org, went live! Thank you to David Langrock, Grace Colton, and Bill Austin who all put in work to develop the new site. The new website reflects the need to prioritize having a website that attracts first-time virtual...
Spread Some Holiday Cheer!
One of my favorite traditions I have brought to East Shore is the signing and sending of holiday cards. I love reaching out to our homebound members and those who are currently unable to attend East Shore services in person. Of course this year, that’s EVERYONE! To...
Want to Join a Game Group?
As the shorter, grayer days of winter approach, we will all need ways to connect with other humans, to keep busy, and to feel challenged and enriched. At ESUC, we are organizing a series of Game Groups to meet these needs. Here's how it will work: a scheduled Zoom...
RE-Flections: Rites & Passages
As we continue to explore and grow with one another, learning about our inner and outer worlds, I want to lift up some of the ways we are working to create meaning and opportunity for our children and youth. It starts with our flaming chalice. Worship By providing...
East Shore’s Winter Altars
Throughout the summer, we’ve been blessed to have a Black Lives Matter Altar just outside our Sanctuary walls for members and neighbors to deepen in reflection and mourning. For our winter months, we invite you to join us in building two: one outside and one inside!...
Shop AmazonSmiles
Many of you are at home, and having items delivered. When you do, you can also help East Shore! AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support East Shore every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, it’s the same items you...
COVID Food Relief Project
East Shore’s Annual Auction Fund-A-Need DONATE NOW! This year, the Board of Trustees and Auction Team approved a unique Fund-A-Need item, focused on connecting and equipping East Shore with the ability to give, serve, and learn with the local community beyond our...
East Shore’s Get Out the Vote Wraps Up
Wow, what a project this has been! Our postcarding effort is now finished, and we’ve distributed more than 15,000 postcards to encourage marginalized voters in Southern states such as Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama, via members and friends of East Shore. Eighty...
Congregations for the Homeless Says Thank You!
East Shore has just participated in our 26th year of serving homeless men at ESUC through Congregation for the Homeless (CFH). This program is part of the year-round rotating shelter program giving the men a safe place to sleep, obtain meals (including a hot dinner),...
Giving Tree Goes Virtual
Annual Giving Tree is Coming! YOU Can Still Participate in this wonderful program. The holidays will soon be upon us! Plans are underway for another wonderful Giving Tree season at ESUC. As with most things – it is going to “look different” this year as we are not...
Affirming Access to Comprehensive Sex Ed for All Ages
You most likely have received your ballots at the time of reading this brief. Please notice Referendum 90, which will decide whether Senate Bill 5395 — colloquially known as Washington’s sex-education bill — will be enacted into law. At East Shore, we support SB 5395...
From the Minister: The Election
This Sunday, and for the month of October I will be preaching on the issues and shared concerns many of us have on the cusp of the 2020 national election. And I’ll also be trying to share my fundamental approach to leading worship. Regarding my sermon selections and...
Board Buzz: Conversation, Connection and Community Under COVID
I would like to start a conversation with you…actually, with as many of you as possible. You see, I am new to East Shore, and in fact new to the PNW. I came from a beloved UU community in White Plains, NY, where I was active for 27 years. That was the hardest thing...
Religious Exploration and Children and Youth Visioning and Planning Team
Wednesdays Weekly at 10 a.m. on Zoom The RE visioning and planning team is a diverse team of congregants, parents, teachers, and RE staff. This summer and fall, our team includes Leta Hamilton, LeAnne Struble, Alex Langrock, Doug Strombom, Signe Rose Lalish, and Grace...
Seeking Religious Education Volunteers
Our fall programs for children and youth are up and running, but we need some more adults to volunteer to keep them going. For each of our online Zoom rooms, we need two safe and loving adults over 25. Offline, we need your help organizing materials for classes and...
Building a New Way – East Shore’s Auction 2020
Contributions for the Auction have been flooding in. We have dinners and outdoor events to be held next summer, food to be delivered to your door, fun online events, home services and much more. But we could still use some more contributions. We’d love to get...
“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