"Mennonite Church USA received requests across the denomination to provide an Anabaptist grounded resource for clergy and congregations to engage in learning about the call for police abolition. When we confess 'Jesus is Lord' we are leaving behind systems that operate by coercion, violence and punishment. Mennonites have long recognized that following Jesus occurs in our bodies and with our lives. We remove ourselves from military service because we refuse to harm or kill people at the direction of the state. We affirm that all people are made in the image of God. We believe that it is incumbent upon the church to discuss and discern policing as another form of state-sanctioned violence"
Defund the Police? An Abolition Curriculum by Mennonite Church USA, Tuesdays at 7pm: A group of us will gather to engage this together (curriculum linked here). We will initially meet only by zoom: Join Zoom Meeting (Meeting ID: 835 8601 2963 - Passcode: 329384 - Phone: 253-215-8782). All meetings @7pm on Tuesday: Sept 7, 14, 28, Oct 12, 19, Nov 2, 16, 30, Dec 14. Before the first gathering next week, please watch the 18-min video and listen to the 1-hr podcast listed as "pre-work" on the "Introduction" page, on the link above (just scroll down!). Contact: Pastor Megan Ramer, megan@seattlemennonite.org.

"Mennonite Church USA received requests across the denomination to provide an Anabaptist grounded resource for clergy and congregations to engage in learning about the call for police abolition. When we confess 'Jesus is Lord' we are leaving behind systems that operate by coercion, violence and punishment. Mennonites have long recognized that following Jesus occurs in our bodies and with our lives. We remove ourselves from military service because we refuse to harm or kill people at the direction of the state. We affirm that all people are made in the image of God. We believe that it is incumbent upon the church to discuss and discern policing as another form of state-sanctioned violence"
Defund the Police? An Abolition Curriculum by Mennonite Church USA, Tuesdays at 7pm: A group of us will gather to engage this together (curriculum linked here). We will initially meet only by zoom: Join Zoom Meeting (Meeting ID: 835 8601 2963 - Passcode: 329384 - Phone: 253-215-8782). All meetings @7pm on Tuesday: Sept 7, 14, 28, Oct 12, 19, Nov 2, 16, 30, Dec 14. Before the first gathering next week, please watch the 18-min video and listen to the 1-hr podcast listed as "pre-work" on the "Introduction" page, on the link above (just scroll down!). Contact: Pastor Megan Ramer, megan@seattlemennonite.org.

Join us for forty-five minutes of contemplative practice followed by another forty-five minutes of discussion around Philip Newell’s book, “Listening for the Heartbeat of God – a Celtic Spirituality.” The book grew out of Newell’s time as the Warden of Iona Abby where he was ‘awakened to the great treasury of Celtic spirituality’ and ‘the mysticism of St. John the Evangelist.’ The small group will meet four times from 7 to 8:45 p.m. at the home of Pat and Pete Lagerwey on the following dates: Sept. 20, 27; Oct. 4, 11. Please let us know if you’re interested by contacting us at raney3@msn.com or 206 200-9535.  Everyone is welcome.