You're invited! Join us in celebrating the Spring Equinox on our beautiful East Shore Campus. Sign up to come to East Shore' March Soul Saturday Festival - a COVID safe, drive-thru only option for saying hi and connecting with our church community.
Join East Shore’s COVID Food Relief project, partnering with Backpack Meals for Kids on Thursday March 25 at the Bellevue School District Warehouse starting at 8:30 am. Each session, we pack nearly 850 snack packs for PreK children to be able to feed themselves easily at home.
On the last Saturday of every month, in February, March, April and May, join us for outdoor Saturday youth adventures. Each month will feature a different activity at a different location. And, on the second Sunday of each month, from 6-7pm, there will be an online planning session with volunteers and participants to get ready as a team. We ask that all interested youth attend the planning session. We'll talk about equipment requirements, transportation, location, meals, and such. These events are open to any youth in our immediate and extended community, so you can invite a friend whether they've been to East Shore forever or haven't been yet.
Come help with East Shore’s garden. Plant seeds, veggie starts, and perennials being relocated from the old P-Patch. We will practice safe health precautions by wearing masks and distancing.
Please join us outside, at East Shore, next to the Sanctuary, or virtually for a look at some of what we’ve collected over the years from our church partner in Torockószentgyörgy. We’ll have conversation about the items and images we have and make some decisions about what we want to keep, what we’ll let go of, and how to preserve or display it at East Shore. If you’ve pilgrimed there or participated in past partnership events, please join us.
Celebrate our children and youth and the programs that support and nourish them at the congregation. We’ll hold our annual high school senior bridging, volunteer recognition, and the Flower Communion together on this special Sunday. The Flower Ceremony is one of our beloved Unitarian Universalist annual rituals that celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community. Originally created in 1923 by Unitarian minister Norbert Čapek of Prague, Czechoslovakia, the Flower Ceremony was introduced to the United States by Rev. Maya Čapek, Norbert's widow.
Please bring a flower to have with you in the worship service and have it with you online. We will bless the flowers, offer gratitude to the beauty and diversity of nature in human, animal, and plant forms.
Beginning September 12, we will have in-person RE from 12:00-1:30 p.m. twice a month, which will allow families the opportunity to log into service before coming to RE. Children will be grouped by grade (K-3, 3-5, MS & HS). Classes will be held outside and masks required for everyone. Volunteers are required to be vaccinated. While children are in RE, parents are welcome to sit in the class or visit with other parents on the North Room patio. If you child is not feeling well, or if you have been notified by your child's school of an outbreak, please do not bring your child to RE that Sunday. Children MUST register before attending their first RE.
Join the East Shore RE students and Volunteers for a Halloween Party. Come by East Shore on Sunday October 31 between 12 and 2 for games, music, and fun. Try your hand at an apple grab; Play a Halloween Bingo Game; Enjoy a warm drink; Come dressed in costume; and Get a chance to trick or treat! This event is open to everyone.
Kids and families, please join us on Christmas Eve at 3:30pm for a pre-service scavenger hunt. You’ll have some fun wandering the campus grounds searching for UUnique items! Be sure to come so you can get your warm cocoa and prizes! Check in at the Sanctuary Courtyard Landing.
World building and imaginative play: Join us in the Sanctuary to construct a new world. Bring a pillow and a blanket. What can we learn about community, individualism, and cooperation from building an epic pillow fort? Join us to play and see.
Please come for a information and conversation session about our winter programs, reopening the campus for worship, and an opportunity to social and connect as an RE community. Lunch Provided. Movie “Howl’s Moving Castle” will be shown in the North Room for kids to hang out while adults talk some!
Please bring proof of vaccination for you and your children (over age 4) for us to check! We’ll have registration available for RE classes as well. While parents are registering and providing proof of vaccine, children and youth will continue planning the Blessing of the Animals worship service, a short story telling of “The Great Kapok Tree”.
Middle and high school youth outdoors, along with youth advisor Mark Norelius, on a fun adventure into the wild woods of I-90. We would leave from ESUC and return by 8 pm. This youth outdoors program will include snowshoeing, sledding and dinner cooked over an open fire in the snow. You can bring your own equipment or check in with the church about borrowing equipment. We have snowshoes to share.
Register youth online and you'll receive the link to the parent orientation after signup. Learn more about OWL and how it will help your teen grow. You'll have an opportunity to reflect on your own experiences of learning about sexuality and meet the trained teachers ready to help your teens navigate sexuality in a values-centered class!
Join on the 2nd and 4th Sundays thru June for online and in person religious exploration. We’ll be learning about some of the foundational stories that help govern the wisdom of our Unitarian Universalist identity and have time for connection and sharing.
