From the Associate Vicar: Can You Visualize a Better World?
Published on Thu, 4 Aug 2022 20:07
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear One's of St. C's, In the foreword to the book, “The Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler, N.K. Jemisin writes, “I hadn’t yet figured out how limited my own ...
August 7th at 12:30pm: Parenting in Violent Times: Managing Fear and Talking to Kids About Scary Stuff
Published on Thu, 4 Aug 2022 13:31
Adult Formation
In the wake of continued violence around the globe and here at home in the USA, it's becoming more and more difficult for parents to 1. manage our own fears, and 2. know how to ...
August 10th & 17th: Fun Night at St. Columba's Featuring D&D!!!
Published on Thu, 4 Aug 2022 13:20
News
Save the Date: August 10th & 17th Fun Night at St. Columba's Featuring D & D!!! 5:30 Games and Crafts for kids and kids at heart including instructions for creative/art ...
Come spend the afternoon on LakeTapps, at Mother Whitney and Craig DeVine's home right on the lake. Take an afternoon to rest, recreate, and just be with St. C's. Where: ...
Funeral Service for Samuel Benjamin Tutu (Khamis) July 30th @2pm
Published on Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:19
News
The St. Columba's Community is invited to attend the funeral service for Terez's late husband, Samuel Benjamin Tutu (Khamis) on Saturday, July 30th at St. Columba's. ...
Dear St. C's, Due to inflation and high gas prices there has been significant need from parishioners and our neighbors. If you have some extra cash to give during this ...
Casual Feminist Book Club: The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Published on Mon, 25 Jul 2022 12:58
News
Join others at St. Columba as we read The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Read it as you can over the next couple of months. We will plan a time to discuss it ...
REVISED 2nd Quarter 2022 Donation Statements
Published by Becca DeShaw on Fri, 22 Jul 2022 01:00
News
REVISED Second Quarter 2022 Donation statements have been emailed. ...
From The Vicar: Grounded
Published on Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:21
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear Ones of St. Columba, I am writing you from the state of Indiana, home of race cars and corn fields and lots of good people who like us follow Jesus in the Episcopal ...
From the Associate Vicar: Getting Better at Fear
Published on Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:15
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear One’s of St. C’s, A theme we are exploring at St. C’s right now is getting better at fear. This past Sunday a member of our congregation, Dr. Vibh Forsythe Cox, who ...
Financial Support for Terez, Grace, Moses, Joyce, and Benjamin
Published on Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:31
News
On Friday, July 8th beloved community member Terez Loyuk lost her husband, Samuel Tutu, to an unexpected and untimely death. Samuel leaves behind Terez and their four children: ...
Holy-Waste-of-Time Retreat for Young Adults
Published on Wed, 13 Jul 2022 11:44
Adult Formation
Holy-Waste-of-Time Retreat for Young AdultsYoung adults in their 20s & 30s from across the Diocese of Olympia are invited to the Holy Waste of Time Retreat, an annual weekend of ...
The Next Walk in Celebration Park is on July 28th and August 4th @9am
Published on Wed, 13 Jul 2022 11:04
News
All are welcome to join Mother Meghan on a walk that usually happens on the last Thursday of every month at 9am. Because of the heat this week we are going to walk on July ...
An Important Message from Bishop Rickel About His Future
Opportunity to Support the Food Bank: Bring Canned Fruit Through August!
Published on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:30
News
We are going to try a new thing with food bank. We still have amazing people in the community who doing grocery runs for food bank each week and steady donations coming into ...
From The Vicar: Re-creation
Published on Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:08
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear Ones of St. Columba's,Here we are at what those of us who have been around the Pacific Northwest for a while tend to think of as the first weekend of summer. "June-uary" is ...
From the Vicar: Carry The Best Forward
Published on Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:44
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear Ones of St Columba’s,As many of you know, I have just returned from two weeks away teaching Congregational Development. One week was in the Diocese of Maryland, the other in ...
From the Associate Vicar: Juneteenth
Published on Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:16
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear One’s of St. C’s, This Sunday, June 19th is known as Juneteenth in our country. Many people in the United States who are not black did not know what this day ...
Upcoming Work Party! June 18th 9am-Noon
Published on Thu, 16 Jun 2022 06:39
News
Help us get our property beautiful for our St. Columba Day (June 26th) celebrations! We will be mowing, picking up trash, trimming, and more on June 18th! Let ...
St. Columba Day Weekend Celebrations June 25th & 26th
Published on Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:28
News
Sunday, June 26th: On St. Columba Day we will have a special liturgy with live Congolese music and Sudanese food to follow the 11am service. All of the different communities ...
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,We love our people, we love our building, we love our grounds. – Micah KurtzThese eloquent words were a concise summary of the St Columba’s ...
A Meal Train for Whitney and Craig DeVine
Published on Sun, 5 Jun 2022 19:45
News
Many of you all have heard by now that Whitney has a brain tumor that has been removed. The brain tumor is not expected to be cancerous and surgery was successful. ...
From The Vicar: The Challenging Spirit of God
Published on Thu, 2 Jun 2022 20:29
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear Ones of St. Columba's,Safety feels so hard to come by right now. Like many of you I have been feeling so many things in the wake of the several mass shootings in our nation. ...
Pentecost Sunday - All Are Invited to Wear Red!
Published on Thu, 2 Jun 2022 10:09
News
On Pentecost Sunday everyone is encouraged to wear red, if that sounds fun for you! We do this to collectively remember the fire of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is ...
Masking Optional
Published on Sun, 29 May 2022 09:35
News
This coming Sunday we will not make masking required, but strongly encouraged for indoor worship at St. Columba's. Clergy will continue to test regularly before ...
From The Vicar: Why Do You Stand Looking Up?
Published on Thu, 26 May 2022 08:00
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear Ones of St. Columba's,On Thursday was one of my favorite feast days of our church year - the Ascension. It's the day we remember what happened to Jesus after ...
Join Alissa and Meghan on May 29th after the 11am service to help us vision for the next phase of children, youth, & family ministry here at St. Columba's. This meeting will ...
Bishop Rickel's Statement on the Shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX
Published on Mon, 23 May 2022 12:25
News
Dear Ones,216 lives. Over the past decade, 216 children and their teachers have died in school shootings. Since 2012, 216 innocent lives have been lost in these horrific acts of ...
From the Associate Vicar: Difficult News
Published on Fri, 20 May 2022 13:13
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear One’s of St. C’s, In sitting down to write to you this week a flurry of news headlines went through my head. There is so much violence, so much injustice, so much ...
From The Vicar: Organized Chaos
Published on Fri, 13 May 2022 07:00
From The... - Letters to the Congregation
Dear Ones of St. Columba's,Last week was Good Shepherd Sunday, otherwise known as the Fourth Sunday of Easter. I love our St. C's tradition around this day, which is to let ...
