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RE: Outdoors

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Join on the 1st and 3rd Sundays thru June for outdoor programs. We have offerings for ages 5-8, 8-10, and 11-13 led by volunteer parents and teachers. We continue to wear masks and social distance at all times. Our core curricula center on Unitarian Universalist principles and the sources of wisdom from which those derive: world religions, our own direct experience, and the natural world of which we are a part.

Grounds Clean Up

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Enjoy the outdoors and our wonderful grounds, as well as being with other members, with safe spacing and other guidelines set up by the church. There are jobs for all levels of skill and ability—general clean up, raking, weeding, light pruning, spreading wood chips, etc.

The Kissing Bandit

Online Event

A sermon and pean to the power and beauty of romantic love. The day before St. Valentine’s Day is a fitting moment to the consideration of the values and virtues exemplified by amour.

RE Community Service with Camp Kindness Counts

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Join us as we practice LOVE this month with your friends and families by making dog and cat blankets for animals in shelters waiting to be adopted! Once you have signed up for our event below please sign up to donate materials as well! Our goal is to make 50 blankets and your help is needed to reach this goal. All blankets will be made with material donations provided.

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Learn to be a Zoom Worship Tech

Online Event

Ever been curious about what goes on behind the scenes the make virtual worship services happen? With our upcoming plans to make our services multiplatform and accessible, we’re looking for some volunteers to learn the ins and outs of running Zoom for worship services. We need your help!

Women’s Perspective Hike

Off Site WA, United States

Please join us to hike the Trillium Trail in Redmond Watershed Preserve. This is a 1.8 mile (3.6 mi round trip) easy hike through beautiful deep forest. It is out and back so one may turn around at any point. No pets allowed, other than horses. We will meet up at the trailhead at 21760 Novelty Road.

Community Circle: Let’s Talk Money!

Online Event

We’re starting important conversations about money at East Shore. We surprise ourselves at how strongly we feel about its uses, and our needs and wants. Where did those opinions and feelings come from? How do they shape us now? Come! Share! Listen! You may be changed by what you hear.

The Gift Must Always Move

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Lessons from our Coast Salish neighbors on how to think of our upcoming Annual Mission Fund Drive—and how to make it both successful and remarkably FUN! Reverend D. Furrer preaching on the soulful appreciation of money.

Meaningful Movies: Connectivity Project

Online Event

Join Meaningful Movies Bellevue for the three-part series entitled Connectivity Project. Each of these programs examines the ripple effects of our actions in an interconnected world.

Fourth Wednesday Book Club: Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie

Online Event

Join us as we discuss Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR by Lisa Napoli. In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or locked out of jobs entirely. But when a pioneering nonprofit called National Public Radio came along in the 1970s, and the door to serious journalism opened a crack, four remarkable women came along and blew it off the hinges.

Blessing of the Animals

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Join us for a family-friendly, all ages worship service featuring accomplished Seattle actor and storyteller, Eva Abram, who brings folktales and myths of American history alive with masterful performance skills. This morning, our worship will focus on the stories of animals and will show us how powerful animal characters can convey so many things. Eva Abram writes that she grew up collecting rainwater for household use and that experience taught her that water is essential for life and so is the same is true of stories. Stories nourish human beings, as rainwater nourishes the earth’s plants and animals.

Youth Bike Riding

Rainbow Lodge 46820 SE Mt Si Rd, North Bend, WA, United States

East Shore Middle and High School Youth & Families, At the request of some of our January snow shoe outing participants, we are planning a bike ride around East Shore!

Fat Tuesday’s Lure & Kicker

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Mardi Gras precedes Lent as a splurging overindulgence in preparation for repentance and purgation. We all enjoy both, often unconsciously. How to reconcile our natural inclination to extravagant display and indulgence with our ESUC covenant to “become the best people we can be?” 

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Ritual In Our Lives

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Rev. Furrer was a thespian in his youth and has long felt that dramatic training was a wonderful readiness regimen for parish ministry. Not just training for the roles of toastmaster, impresario, and chief storyteller, but as the principal tribal ritual master every Sunday Morning. Come participate, in-person or online, in a five-part analytical, emotionally engaging study of ritual in our (1) every day and (2) Sunday lives, led by Grace Colton and Reverend Furrer. Must register.

Climate Change/ Personal Change

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Reverend Furrer preaching on the need for radical measures in each of our personal lives if we are to faithfully succeed in arresting and healing global warming.