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Hello My Name Is...
From Saul to Paul:
From Tall to Small
Acts 9:1-20
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BCUMC is Getting a Security Upgrade!
Monday, January 29
In an effort to improve the security of our church building, the Trustees have decided to re-key all of the exterior entrances.
To prepare for the change-over, anyone who currently has a key to the building please call the church office at 425.788.2953 or talk directly to Jim Colquhoun after worship services for more information.
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A Look From Brook
Pastor Brook shares his thoughts
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As I was working on my sermon for this Sunday, the word ‘humility’ came up. For many in our world humility has...
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Collect Your Borrowed
Christmas Trees!
Last Chance - This Sunday
Thank you to those who lent us trees for our Christmas season decorations.
It is time to collect your tree. Please pick it up Sunday after worship. Otherwise we will put the trees into long term storage on Monday, January 22.
Right now all trees are currently securely locked in the E9 storage room, so contact
Dee McMillan and she will assist you.
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Interfaith Partners Blood Drive
Tuesday, January 23, 1:00pm - 7:00pm
Cottage Lake Presbyterian Church
18350 Woodinville/Duvall PL, Woodinville
For an appointment, please call Dewey Millar at 425.867.1781
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BCUMC Visioning Sessions
This January
Bear Creek is hosting several groups to discuss our visions for the future of Bear Creek. You may have heard Pastor Brook mention these in church the last few Sundays.
You are invited to join one of the groups below.
Please contact
Connie Gagnon to let her know what dates will work for you. She will contact the host to let them know you are coming and send you their address.
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Hosts at Home:
Jim and Becky Zimmerman
Sunday, January 14, 4:00pm
(Trilogy, Redmond)
Ted and Marge Kuykendall
Wednesday, January 17, 7:00pm
(Woodinville)
Connie Gagnon
Sunday, January 28, 2:00pm
(Trilogy, Redmond)
Randy and Sonya Garrett
Sunday, January 28, 4:00pm
(Trilogy, Redmond)
Hosts at BCUMC:
Susan Jackson
Sunday, January 21, 12:00pm
Brook Self
Sunday, February 4, 11:15am
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UMC District Training
Saturday, January 27,
9:00am-3:00pm
Pastor Brook encourages all of our leadership to join him in attending the Seattle/Tacoma UMC District Training.
The schedule includes worship, a great speaker, and individual workshops in areas such as: Urban Discipleship, Urban Strategies for Families, Community Organizing, Contemplative Prayer, Earth Justice, and Interfaith Partnerships.
Costs for the training will be picked up by Bear Creek. The event is at the Kent UMC.
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Free Dance Lessons
Wednesdays thru February 7, 7:00pm
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Valentines Day is just around the corner!
Grab your sweetheart and join our instructors, Denise and Tom McMillan, for four free
classes teaching you the easiest, most versatile, and most popular social dances in the USA!
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Pre Super Bowl Cook-Off
Sunday, January 28
Noon - 4:00pm
BCUMC is hosting a chili and chowder cook-off! Beat the January chill and leave the cooking to our talented cooks, dress up in your most colorful team apparel, bring your family & friends (and your entry?) to share, taste, and vote on your favorite eats.
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Volunteers Needed February 3rd in Seattle
SCM's next container will be departing on Saturday February 3rd from our office in Wallingford. We need volunteers to come help load the container with all the donations we have been collecting for the Syrian refugees.
Time: 9:30am to about 12:30pm - we can usually get the container loaded in just a couple hours from the time it arrives. We will have snacks and beverages on hand.
Where: 3806 Whitman Ave. N, Seattle, 98103
Please come help - the more the merrier (and faster the loading goes!). If you have any questions, please call the office and speak to Rita:
206-545-7307
If you are not in the Seattle area but want to help,
donate now
to help with our shipping container fees or other programs. You can also visit our
Amazon Wish List
to order items we need and they will be sent directly to our office. Help us make 2018 a better your for as many refugees in need as possible.
Thank you!
SCM Medical Missions / Salaam Cultural Museum
3806 Whitman Ave. N Seattle, WA 98103
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Bear Creek UMC to Change UMC Districts
July 2018
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Sexual Harassment
and the Church
Below is an interesting article about sexual harassment and the church which shares some of the experiences women clergy have experienced in the church.
Please read it and reflect on how we as a church can become more aware as to the effects of sexual harassment in the workplace and in our church.
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Lent to Focus on Barbara Brown Taylor’s Book “An Altar in the World”
Pastor Brook is excited to introduce his sermon series for the Lenten Season. The series will be based on a book by Barbara Brown Taylor called “An Altar in the World”
In this book, Taylor
reviews a variety of spiritual practices with the laudable goal of showing the reader that “
the treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company.” For the author, finding God is not about looking for the extraordinary, but about looking into the ordinary
“bodily experiences of human life on the earth.” She states, “
If you have run out of breath yourself—or out of faith—then this book is for you.”
Her hope for the book is that it will help the reader
“recognize some of the altars in this world—ordinary looking places where human beings have met and may continue to meet up with the divine. More that they sometimes call God
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Pastor Brook would like to encourage the entire congregation to join him in reading this book during the Lenten Season (which starts with Ash Wednesday on February 14
th!) He suggests that covenant groups consider meeting more regularly during Lent in order to study this book. For those who are not in a covenant group, he is going to lead several studies on this book. If you would like to host one of these studies or participate in one of them please contact him by email at
pastor@bcumc.org.
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This is the most completely beautiful book in religion that I have read in a very long time. Gentle, humbly crafted, lyrical, and deeply wise, Altar is Barbara Brown Taylor as she was meant to be, a pastor who understands that knowing God occurs in a place beyond theology.
” (Phyllis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence)
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Bear Hugs
Thanks to Marge Kuykendall
for her work on the CUE giving tree and
Nancy Larson
fo
r coordinating this year’s Alternate Giving. You ladies are amazing!!
Thanks to the generosity of BCUMC,
all our CUE campers received Christmas presents, each of our designated charities
(Mary’s Place, Country Dr. Free Teen Clinic, Matthew House, SCM and UMCOR) received $559.00, and at least 22 baskets of food were delivered to local food banks because of the Reverse Advent Calendars. You are all truly God’s Hands to those around us!!
-Beth T. and God’s Hands mission team
Want to give someone a “Bear Hug”?
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Teach English to Refugee Families
Thursdays
As part of our endeavor to reach out to others in need with our service, and to experience intentional encounters with those from different ethnicities, we are forming an interfaith team to help teach English classes to refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq in the coming months.
Many of you recently met some Syrian families when they visited to share their home made Middle Eastern foods with us. To continue our relationship with refugee families, we will be going to
where they live,
in a lower cost housing area in Tukwila.
We will be teaching English skills to help the refugees learn how to navigate the community and enable them to find jobs. This in turn will help us to find out more about their concerns and needs.
Lesson plans are prepared; volunteers will be assisting the instructor, primarily with conversation practice, and any time commitment is appreciated.
Thursdays, 11:00am to 12:30pm. Carpool leaves the church at 10:00am.
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Friday Feel Good Song!
T.G.I.F! You have survived the grind and hustle of the work and school week. It's time to celebrate with the Friday Feel Good Song.
This week get the groove started with
"Burn" by Ellie Goulding.
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Week At A Glance:
January 21st - January 28th
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Sunday, January 21st
Monday, January 22nd
Men's / Women's Reunion Groups - 7:00pm
Tuesday, January 23rd
Blood Drive - 1:00pm
(Cottage Lake Presbyterian)
Wednesday, January 24th
Thursday, January 25th
Worship Band Practice - 7:00pm
Celebration Choir Practice - 7:45pm
Saturday, January 27th
UMC District Training - 9:00am
Sunday, January 28th
For our entire Events Calendar, click the button below:
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Miss A Sunday Service?
Don't worry, podcasts are posted on iTunes weekly. Search for
Sunday Mornings At Bear Creek.
The weekly message is also available on our website. Simply click the button below!
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Have An Announcement?
Do you have something to tell the Bear Creek UMC community? Send us your announcement (60 words or less) and a preferred graphic (if you want one) and we'll place it in our publications.
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Worship:
Sundays at 9:30am
Office Hours:
Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Wed: 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Closed Weekends & Holidays
Ph. 425.788.2953
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