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Community of ChristChurch
Faith News 6.17.21 |
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Online Interactive Worship with
Holy Communion
June 20, 2021 at 9:30am
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Sunday Online Worship Logistics:
- The online doors to our Zoom worship will open at 9:00am.
- From 9am to 9:30am, the worship space will be open for folks to gather and get settled in. Our worship service will begin at 9:30am.
- Holy Communion is part of our online worship. We encourage you to prepare by putting together your own communion set from whatever you have handy in your kitchens and pantries - bread, crackers, tortillas, wine, juice, etc. Please have these items nearby when you join us online.
- Ten-week Summer Worship Series: based on the Apostle Paul’s list of the fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control) which he shares with the Galatian church in Galatians 5:22-23. Find out more about the summer worship series on our website here.
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Joining by phone:
If you are not able to join worship via your personal computer, tablet or
smartphone you are welcome to join using your phone.
- Call this number: 1-669-900-6833
- Use the meeting ID: 669 927 281
- Enter password 080114
You will find yourself in our Zoom worship space.
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New Announcements & Reminders |
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Pride Celebration
Please come to church this Sunday wearing LGBTQ+ Pride gear 🏳🌈. There will be an announcement regarding celebrating the Reconciling in Christ vote.
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ChristChurch Classified page
Did you know ChristChurch has a Classified page? The classifieds are designed to be a helpful resource for those within the ChristChurch community.
We accept a variety of postings: job opportunities, free items, yard sales, services, looking for house help, etc.
Other examples:
- If you or a friend/family run a small business this is a great place to post your services.
- Cleaning out your closets or garage and want to offer those items to your ChristChurch friends?
- Have a bounty of flowers from your garden?
- Hosting a virtual event and want to invite the greater ChristChurch community?
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Remembering the Emanuel Nine
As part of the 2019 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, voting members adopted a resolution designating June 17 as a commemoration of the martyrdom of the Emanuel Nine — the nine people shot and killed on June 17, 2015, during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.
You are invited to join Creator and Central Lutheran for the 2nd annual Emanuel Nine Commemorative Memorial Service
Thursday, June 17 at 7:00 pm.
Meeting ID: 861 7099 0327
Passcode: 843483
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Juneteenth Event: Historical Marker Ceremony |
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Join the Oregon Remembrance Project, the Coos History Museum, and the City of Coos Bay in finding justice for historical injustice.
The Equal Justice Initiative (Montgomery, AL) has documented nearly 6,500 lynchings of African Americans between 1865-1950. At least one lynching of an African American occurred in Oregon. His name was Alonzo Tucker and he was lynched in front of a crowd of 300 in Coos Bay, OR in 1902.
Since 2018, the Oregon Remembrance Project, the Coos History Museum, and the City of Coos Bay have worked to memorialize Alonzo Tucker into the collective memory and collective consciousness of Oregon by participating in the Equal Justice Initiative's Community Remembrance Project, which aims to work in the communities where the lynchings of African Americans took place to find healing and reconciliation through a sober reflection on history.
Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, says "truth and reconciliation are sequential."
This truth telling began with a soil collection ceremony for Alonzo Tucker on February 29, 2020, and this truth telling will continue with the installation of an Equal Justice Initiative historical marker in Coos Bay on June 19, 2021
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We have the power to rewrite the ending to history's stories. Join us in rewriting the ending to Alonzo Tucker's story. There were 300 people at the lynching and our goal is to have more than 300 people paying witness to that lynching on this day.
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PRIDE events:
The Portland Pride Parade is virtual this year. You can watch it on Sunday, June 20, 11 am on the Pride Northwest YouTube page. Information on other events during the month can be found here.
Pride Beaverton: Sunday, June 27, 11 am. More information can be found here.
Hillsboro Pride Month includes several different events You can find out more here.
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Wisdom Calls II
Storytelling series from some of the first ordained women faith leaders in Oregon. These events are fundraisers for the Oregon Fellowship Program which lifts up public and faith leaders from marginalized communities needed at the table.
The next part of this three-part series will be June 26 at 7:00 pm.
We will hear stories from Pastors Susan Granata, Susan Kintner, Robyn Hartwig, and Sister Clare Josef-Maier. Register here. You can watch a recording of the first event here. |
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Recurring monthly
online gatherings open to all:
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Crafts. Coffee. Connection.
Saturdays
10am - noon
Meeting ID: 226 185 003
Password: 012822
A weekly online opportunity to share in fellowship, hear how other folks are doing, a chance to share crafts, home improvement projects, cooking tips/recipes, book recommendations, whatever you would like!
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Reconciling in Christ Team
Thursday, July 1, 2021 @ 6:30pm
Meeting ID: 571 159 077
Password: 041672
Reconciling in Christ (RIC) is a program for Lutheran congregations that want to publicly welcome people of all sexual orientations, gender identity, and gender expression into their communities. The team will be discussing upcoming celebrations and next steps now that ChristChurch is officially an RIC congregation.
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Community of ChristChurch
This is Christ's church. There is a place for you here.
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Mailing address:
Community of ChristChurch
3300 NW 185th Ave #224
Portland, OR 97229
(503) 617-9526
www.comchristchurch.org
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Online Directory
If you need someone's contact information it's a great place to start.
Electronic Giving
Since we can't pass our offering basket during online worship, we encourage you to automate your giving. Online giving reduces staff and volunteer processing time. Electronic giving also offers an easy way to give on a recurring basis.
THANK YOU to everyone that has signed up!
Go to https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/comchristchurch and select the checkbox ‘Make this gift recurring’.
You will be walked through the steps for setting
up an account with Easy Tithe.
Submissions for Faith News:
Do you have an article or piece of news to
share with the congregation?
Email your submission for Faith News by 2pm on Wednesday via email.
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