Building Bridges
Sunday, June 2, 2024, 10:25 am
Online on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620
Passcode: BUF
Zoom by phone, for audio only: (346) 248-7799
Meeting ID: 738 363 620
Passcode: 306220
Gathering Music Kevin Allen-Schmid
Welcome Genia Allen-Schmid, Rev Paul Beckel
Prelude Make Me Cry, song by Jacob Collier
Chalice Lighting Emma Kusick, Jane Epperson
Covenant
Child Dedication for Aubrey and Lars Almskaar-Burke
Parents: Eleanor Burke and Carsten Almskaar
Blessing You and I drink this water / You and I breathe this air
You and I walk this holy ground / You and I live here
{They and we … / All of us … / You and I …}
Announcements
Building Bridges Claire Lending, Eloise Reynolds, Eli Kusick,
Simon Gonzalez-Mackey, Jane Epperson, Emma Kusick
Singing Together #1023, Building Bridges
Bridging Ceremony Noreen Fujita-Sacco for Pam Ives
Jesse Reynolds, parents: Roz and Jed Reynolds
Offertory Donkey Doodle, violin solo, Emma Kusick
Looking Forward Annie Sorich
Singing Together #1059, May Your Life Be As a Song
Singing Together #155, Circle Round
Afterward
If you’re with us on Zoom today, please stay after the service for our online coffee hour. If you’re here in person, please join us downstairs for coffee and conversation. Visitors: you may wish to use a red cup — then we’ll know you’re open to a bit of orientation.
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Building Bridges Topics and Field Trips
2023-24
Introduction to World Religion
– The impulse for religion, polytheism, monotheism, timeline of world religions
Christianity
– The life of Jesus
– Intro to Catholicism, evening Mass at Assumption Catholic Church, talk with Father Jeffrey Moore
– Protestantism, the Great Schism, the Great Awakening
– Sunday service at Northlake Community Church (Evangelical)
Judaism
– Intro to Judaism with Sarah Witte of Congregation Beth Israel
– Friday Shabbat service and potluck at Beth Israel, talk with Rabbi Joshua Samuels
– Hannukah party at Beth Israel
– Passover Seder at Witte’s home with a history of Passover
Islam
– Mohammad and the Koran, the Five Pillars, role of women, Sunni/Shiite divide
– Friday noon prayers at the Muslim Association of Puget Sound Mosque, Redmond, with Oraib Khalifeh and Fatima Emaan
Sikhism
– The Five Ks, reincarnation, karma
– Sunday service and Langar at Sikh Temple with Rose Kaur
Buddhism
– Siddartha, the Four Noble Truths, the Eight-Fold path, reincarnation, karma
– Guided meditation with Karen Fitzgerald
Cults
– “Seeking Safely” with Carrie Koehnline
Unitarian Universalism
– History of Unitarianism, Universalism, merger, Principles and Sources