GOOD NEWS AND WORSHIP UPDATE

MORNING WORSHIP

Sunday, August 20, 2023 @ 11 am



Sermon - "Family Matters"

Scripture reading - Genesis 45:1-15

Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor

both in-person and on Facebook or YouTube (click here)

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ELDER OF THE MONTH - Dick Lura

For Friends and Family

Daniel & Caitlin Smith and newborn, Ham; Marty Shanks; Messina Lyle; Rev. DIana Moore; Theresa Lura; Sue Shanks' friend, Gladys Wiggins; Camilla Lyle's brother, Jeff McFee; Sue Sheffield's sister-in-law, Pauline Frye; Marty Shanks' sister, Judy Hall; Jonathan Sharp; Michelle Browning's brother, Patrick; Don Loughry; George, Jo & Nikki Rolling; Rev. Maggie Lauterer; Sarah Suptin; Kelly Hodges.; Heather Hughes; Edna Campbell.

Prayers for others

Continue to pray for the people in Ukraine as they continue their fight against the Russian Invasion. For the people Sudan as they are caught between an armed conflict between rival factions of the military government of Sudan and continues to be an ongoing humanitarian crisis, as well as the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Prayers of the victims and families of those lost in the Maui wildfires in Lahaina; the wildfires on Tenerife; of Typhoon Lan in Japan; massive flooding in India following rain and landslides; as well as flooding in Norway and China. Prayers for U.S. troops and migrants seeking refuge along the southern U.S. border. And especially prayers for our nation and for strength, endurance, faith and courage for all.



CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY - https://disasterphilanthropy.org/

UN OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (OCHA) - https://reliefweb.int/

INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE - https://rescue.org

US FEMA - DECLARED DISASTERS - https://www.fema.gov/disaster/declarations

GLOBAL DISASTER ALERT & COORDINATION SYSTEM (GDACS) - https://gdacs.org

Millions of wild salmon return to the waters of Alaska's Bristol Bay every summer. For the Yup'ik, Dena'ina, and Alutiiq people, whose ancestral ties to these lands and waters span millennia, the tradition of gathering to harvest wild salmon is a cherished inheritance. Yet for the last two decades, a proposal to build what might have been the largest open-pit mine in North America threatened that traditional way of life and jeopardized the headwaters of Bristol Bay. At stake were some of the last wild salmon runs on Earth, along with a thriving commercial fishing industry worth $2.2 billion a year, an intact ecosystem of lakes and streams, and diverse wildlife.

For more than ten years The Nature Conservancy conducted scientific research to help support local efforts to halt the mine proposal. Finally in January, in response to a 2010 petition from Bristol Bay Indigenous groups, a federal scientific review, and a public process that included 31,000 TNC supporters, the Environmental Protection Agency vetoed the mine by exercising Clean Water Act protections. The EPA action is one milestone in ongoing Indigenous-led efforts to create lasting change in Bristol Bay.    

(GSN #161)

LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK & PRESERVE, ALASKA

Locations Unknown ( August 2022 | 10:00 min.)

Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is a land of stunning beauty. Volcanoes steam, salmon run, bears forage, and craggy mountains reflect in shimmering turquoise lakes. Here, too, local people and culture still depend on the land and water. Venture into the park to become part of the wilderness.

Lake Clark preserves the ancestral homelands of the Dena'ina people, an intact ecosystem at the headwaters of the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world, and a rich cultural wilderness.

Comprised of 4 million acres on the Alaska Peninsula in southwest Alaska, Lake Clark is one of the nation's most remote national park units. Established by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) on December 2, 1980, the park and preserve support an ongoing tradition of subsistence culture in a volcanic and partly glaciated landscape containing habitat for wilderness dependent species of fish and wildlife.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SckPuZ3ZVYA&t=15s

Congregational Concerns / Prayer Requests -  Please contact the church office or Sherry Bailey with information.

Flower List - The 2023 Flower List has been posted on the bulletin board in the side entry. Please sign up to sponsor flowers for our weekly worship services in honor or in memory of loved ones. 

Arrangements are $65 each. 

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