Evergreen Notes

[Haruo]

Here's a link to the October issue of the Evergreen Region's newsletter:

Evergreen Notes, October, 2008

As you can see, we're having a Painting Party (p. 3) at Fremont this Saturday, and the Region will be putting on Godspell in November (p. 5) to benefit homeless ministries. "What Does This Mean?!"

Unfortunately I will miss this year's Annual Meeting (Esperanto conference in the San Juans that weekend), so I thought I would post this in lieu of attending.

Haruo

[Haruo]

Here are links to the

November 2008

and

December 2008

issues of Evergreen Notes.

[Haruo]

Here's the January 2009 Evergreen Notes

[Haruo]

Here's the February 2009 issue. Highlights:

• White Racial Awareness Process Training (upcoming)
• Building Bridges Event (upcoming)
• Curtis Price on Plans for 2009
• Rev. Walter Heyman Debriefing Paper (after 6 years as our GB rep)
• Troy Jackson on MLK and the Missional Church
• Shalom from Peter Koshi (moving to Colorado)
• Region seeks Young Adult delegates for Pasadena
• Watonga IBC needs hymnals
• Camp Burton approaches its Centennial
• Grace Baptist (San Jose) Coat and Soup Giveaway

[Haruo]

March 2009 issue, with inter alia retrospective articles on both WRAP and Building Bridges, previously mentioned in this forum.

Incidentally, I post the Evergreen newsletter links here because they're what I get in my email, and I often like to refer to them in threads. I would welcome it if people in other regions were to start periodical threads for their Region's newsletter, too. Timothy? David? Mike? Ed?

[Haruo]

April 2009 issue with articles on

• Easter Morning Community Service
• Empowering the Church Conference Scholarships
• Curtis Comments on the Future of the Denomination(s)
• JBC Sukiyaki Dinner / Building Relationships with American Indians and Alaska Natives /
  Groundbreaking on Shepherd's Garden senior housing complex
• Photos sought for display at Biennial
• New Beginnings Cross-Raising
• Lilly Foundation Sabbatical Grants
• Biennial Foreshadowings from Marcia
• Paddle to Suquamish
• Keeping the Leadership Accountable
• CCCU Scholarships
• Diana Butler Bass to present new book at SFBC
• Give to Evergreen
• Youth Council Proposal (to Board)
• Canoe Journey Proposal (to Board)
• Judson Press Rebate Program
• Take Your Pastor to the Ballgame May 18
• Obama Coming to Costa Mesa
• ABSW Thank-You Note
• Job Openings at Camp Bethel
• Walk to Gethsemane at SFBC April 9
• Emergency Evacuation at SLC Child-Care Center
• Global Day of Prayer for Burma
• Bar-B-Q Cookoff coming in July...

[Haruo]

May 2009 Issue of Evergreen Notes, with articles or announcements on:

• Take Your Pastor, Lay Leader, Family to the Ball Game
• Curtis Comments: The Joy of Exercise
• Brief notes
  
  • Open House at Fremont
  • Call for Help at Biennial
  • Rummage Sale at Burien
  • The Heart of Prayer in 3 Acts - Retreat at Seattle FBC
• Pentecost Seattle Ecumenical Discussion Event
• Groundbreaking at Shepherd's Garden

  

• Evergreen's Youth Reps to the Biennial
• Judson Press Rewards (now on phone orders too)
• SLC FBC Childcare Center wins award
• Biennial Corner (Marcia Patton)
• Fremont Open House (5/17/09)
• Building Bridges campaign pledge reminder
• Questions?
• Photos to display at Biennial (reminder)
• Encouraging American Baptist Women (Terri Simpkins)
• Black Caucus Bar-B-Q Cookoff (7/18/09)

  

  Can you tell who's ordained? ;-)

• Easter Morning Worship Service 2009
• Ministers Council Retreat (4/19-21/09)
• What's the Buzz...? (Burien rummage sale)
• Youth Council proposal approved by the Board
• People of Burma Update
• 20th Anniversary of Northwest Tribes' Canoe Journey, August 2009
• Calendar
• Mission Statement

  

[Haruo]

June issue is out

Enjoy.

[Haruo]

Playing catchup. Here are the missing issues:

July 2009
August 2009
September 2009
October 2009
November 2009
December 2009
January 2010
February 2010
March 2010
April 2010

[Haruo]

May 2010 issue

Lots of good reading: Main Stories:

• Missional Church Learning Experience - upcoming trainings
• Events Upcoming:
  • Labyrinth at Seattle FBC
  • Ordinations at Seattle First, Japanese BCs and United Church of Moscow
  • Open House at Shepherd's Garden, Good Shepherd BC's new senior housing facility
• "The Majority Never Rules in God's Kingdom", Ken Curl's message
• Kaleidoscope Institute Trainings
• Daryl Lavway installed as Pastor at Grace BC San Jose
• PCBA News
• Invitation to Join Haiti Mission Trip
• Challenge (especially the challenges faced by the Burmese refugees)
• First Karenni New Year Celebration in US
• One Great Hour of Sharing
• Take Your Pastor to the Ball Park
• Prepare for Asian Caucus Craft Sale at Annual Meeting
• Spirit of God Moving Panther Lake Community Church: Burmese and Karen Congregations added
• Third Annual Burmese Refugee Picnic July 31
• ABSW thank-you note
• Black Caucus Bar-be-que July 17
• Roy Medley reflects on Community
• ABC Family Conversation on Immigration in Valley Forge May 6

[Haruo]

The June issue, just out, includes

• Plea to sign up for Haiti Mission Trip
• Getting to Know Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. - by Ken Curl
• Black Caucus Fundraiser: Bar-Be-Que July 17
• What a Month Was May! - by Marcia Patton
• Summer Outreach Emphasis at Japanese Baptist Church
• American Baptists Speak Out on Immigration
• Thank you to churches that have returned annual reports
• Shepherd's Garden Grand Opening
• ABSW: Sun Kim graduates and Greg Ledbetter gets honorary doctorate
• United Church, Moscow, ordains Jodie Tooley
• Japanese Baptist Church ordains Woun Kim
• Seattle First Baptist Church ordains Bruce Chittick
• National Ministries Reclaims Names - ABHMS
• Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep - Prayer Retreat for Senior Adults @ SFBC
• Two Ways of Planned Giving by Rev. Rick Barlow
• Experimenting with Faith Identities in an Interfaith Context
• Evergreen Annual Meeting, October 8-9 at New Beginnings in Renton
  
  Liliana DeValle, Rhode Island Executive Minister, Guest Preacher
  Theme: Who Is My Neighbor?
• Cascade Meadows Baptist Camp is available for your church
• Tidbits:
  
  • Refugee Experiences highlighted in exhibit at Wing Luke Museum
  • Judson Press bringing out a book coauthored by Marcia Patton
  • University Baptist ordains long-time music minister Margaret Payson
• Wings to Reading celebrates first program graduates
• PCBA News

Enjoy!

[David Flick]

The June issue, just out, includes

• Plea to sign up for Haiti Mission Trip
• Getting to Know Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. - by Ken Curl
• Black Caucus Fundraiser: Bar-Be-Que July 17
• What a Month Was May! - by Marcia Patton
• Summer Outreach Emphasis at Japanese Baptist Church
• American Baptists Speak Out on Immigration
• Thank you to churches that have returned annual reports
• Shepherd's Garden Grand Opening
• ABSW: Sun Kim graduates and Greg Ledbetter gets honorary doctorate
• United Church, Moscow, ordains Jodie Tooley
• Japanese Baptist Church ordains Woun Kim
• Seattle First Baptist Church ordains Bruce Chittick
• National Ministries Reclaims Names - ABHMS
• Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep - Prayer Retreat for Senior Adults @ SFBC
• Two Ways of Planned Giving by Rev. Rick Barlow
• Experimenting with Faith Identities in an Interfaith Context
• Evergreen Annual Meeting, October 8-9 at New Beginnings in Renton
  
  Liliana DeValle, Rhode Island Executive Minister, Guest Preacher
  Theme: Who Is My Neighbor?
• Cascade Meadows Baptist Camp is available for your church
• Tidbits:
  
  • Refugee Experiences highlighted in exhibit at Wing Luke Museum
  • Judson Press bringing out a book coauthored by Marcia Patton
  • University Baptist ordains long-time music minister Margaret Payson
• Wings to Reading celebrates first program graduates
• PCBA News

Enjoy!

Haruo,

Just now getting around to reading the link. Thanks for posting it. I enjoyed reading it...

[Haruo]

Fremont and yours truly hit it big in the

July 2010 Issue

on sale (for free) now at a clickable link near you. If nothing else, read Judy Gay's big piece on a little peace.

Here is the lineup:

p.1

• Black Caucus BBQ
• A personal note from Marcia Patton
  
  p.2
• Events and Happenings
  
  • Foot-Stompin' Hymns October 24 (early notice) - Haruo aka Leland!!
  • "A Refugee's Journey of Survival and Hope" at Wing Luke Museum
• Shepherd's Garden Open House June 9
• Explore God Journeys Curriculum from Judson Press
  
  p.3
• Evergreen Annual Meeting October 8-9
• A note from ABSW President Paul Martin
• Hymnologist Leland Ross [Haruo] Shares
  
  p.4
• Renton Community Supper
• It's Unanimous - Manny Santiago is UBC's New Pastor
  
  p.5
• Evergreen at the Mariners-vs-Twins Game (photos)
• ABCUSA Biennial in Puerto Rico June 24-26, 2011
  
  p.6
• Haiti Trip is a go!
• Missional Church Leader Experience - is your church signed up?
• And Then There Was June - notes from Dr. Patton
  
  p.7
• Women In Ministry Gathering
• PCBA News (BLTs etc)
• Congratulations to Pharez Keys
  
  p.8
• From Great Tragedy - A Little Peace, by Judy Gay, Fremont's Pastor
  
  p.9
• On That Day, Everybody Ate (Book Review)
• News From the Nzungas, Missionaries to Haiti
  
  p.10
• Calendar and Mission Statement

[Dave Roberts]

I looked at some and read the June issue. Very interesting publication.

[Bruce Gourley]

OK, I'll confess I've not been reading the Evergreen newsletters, but your jostling of my conscience led me to check out the July issue, and I will be certain to read future editions as well. It is an amazing newsletter, and strikes me as the future of Baptists in America, in terms of diversity and scope. I do not know of any Baptist association in the South that could produce such a compelling newsletter. The Great Tragedy article was indeed interesting, both for the ecumenical nature of the community gathering, and for the fact that 3500 attended!

I'm sorry I will miss you during your sojourn to Samford. I have been down in the South for meetings, but am headed back home this weekend. Perhaps I can sidle over to the Seattle area for the October foot-stomping hymn sing!

[Haruo]

August 2010 issue — sorry this is late, my fault

Headlines:

• Missional Church Learning Experience
• It’s Time to Start Planning to Attend the Annual Meeting
• Events & Happenings Around the Association
  
  • Potluck at FBC Palo Alto for Baptist leaders from India returning home after BWA in Honolulu
  • Seattle FBC and ecumenical partners host boat tour of lower Duwamish River
  • University BC has sold its building and will be moving into space at University Christian Church
  • New Walk Christian Church wants you to save the date—March 6, 2011—their 6th Anniversary celebration
• Evergreen Women- In-Ministry Pre-Annual Meeting Gathering Oct 7
• Grant dollars available: Mission Initiatives and Church Transformation Initiatives
• Annual Meeting Lodging—Holiday Inn & Suites, Kent WA
• Go to the Washington Baptist Convention (WBC) Biennial Meeting
• Annual Meeting Registration Form
• The Nzungas: Eye Clinic Generator and Vehicle
• Café 34:8 @ JBC on Sunday September 12, 2010 (Asian American Baptist Caucus Scholarship fundraising event)
• When the Spirit Moves—A Guide for Pastors in Transition
• Musical Concert Fundraiser—SFBC, November 13, 2020 (Cynthia Clawson in concert)
• Religious Liberty Day Kits Traverse the Country!
• Seeking Musicians for the 2010 Biennial
• A Note of Thanks from SHARE (for the donation raised by my Hymn Sing #3)
• United Mission: The Invisibility of United Mission by Rev. Dr Ron Vallet
• Panther Lake Community Church-The Hands and Feet of Christ w/Karens
• New Friends and Old Meet at Panther Lake Community Church
• Fall Sunday School Curriculum Available (from Judson Press)
• Bar-B-Que Fundraiser a Success—July 17, 2010
• Obituary: Albert Herman Harrington
• Reminders & PCBA Reminders
• NW Kaleidoscope Training—August 16—20—Rainbow Lodge

[Bruce Gourley]

August 2010 issue — sorry this is late, my fault

Headlines:

• Missional Church Learning Experience
• It’s Time to Start Planning to Attend the Annual Meeting
• Events & Happenings Around the Association
  
  • Potluck at FBC Palo Alto for Baptist leaders from India returning home after BWA in Honolulu
  • Seattle FBC and ecumenical partners host boat tour of lower Duwamish River
  • University BC has sold its building and will be moving into space at University Christian Church
  • New Walk Christian Church wants you to save the date—March 6, 2011—their 6th Anniversary celebration
• Evergreen Women- In-Ministry Pre-Annual Meeting Gathering Oct 7
• Grant dollars available: Mission Initiatives and Church Transformation Initiatives
• Annual Meeting Lodging—Holiday Inn & Suites, Kent WA
• Go to the Washington Baptist Convention (WBC) Biennial Meeting
• Annual Meeting Registration Form
• The Nzungas: Eye Clinic Generator and Vehicle
• Café 34:8 @ JBC on Sunday September 12, 2010 (Asian American Baptist Caucus Scholarship fundraising event)
• When the Spirit Moves—A Guide for Pastors in Transition
• Musical Concert Fundraiser—SFBC, November 13, 2020 (Cynthia Clawson in concert)
• Religious Liberty Day Kits Traverse the Country!
• Seeking Musicians for the 2010 Biennial
• A Note of Thanks from SHARE (for the donation raised by my Hymn Sing #3)
• United Mission: The Invisibility of United Mission by Rev. Dr Ron Vallet
• Panther Lake Community Church-The Hands and Feet of Christ w/Karens
• New Friends and Old Meet at Panther Lake Community Church
• Fall Sunday School Curriculum Available (from Judson Press)
• Bar-B-Que Fundraiser a Success—July 17, 2010
• Obituary: Albert Herman Harrington
• Reminders & PCBA Reminders
• NW Kaleidoscope Training—August 16—20—Rainbow Lodge

I note that at the October Association meeting, the men (appropriately, I guess) meet at a steak house for their lunch meeting, while the women's lunch location is incognito ...

But on a more serious note, a few months ago I had the joy and privilege of hearing a Karen choir in Boise. CBF churches in the Western region are very involved in ministry with Karens. You are blessed to live in a region where the congregations are so ethnically diverse.

[Haruo]

The Karen choir I've heard (that performed at Evergreen's 2009 meeting) was wonderful. Karens (and other Burmese peoples, including Karenni, Chins of three major varieties, Shans, and Burmese (Bama) proper) are arriving in large numbers all over the country, and many of them are already Baptist (especially the Karens) and just waiting for a Baptist church family to present itself. Go for it, locals.

[Haruo]

The September Evergreen Notes has been published:

September 2010

I particularly encourage you to attend (even if you have to fly in from Down South) the Cynthia Clawson concert (p. 8 ) and to look at the wonderful montage of Seattle Baptist Union clergy, spouses and staffers (p. 9).

[Stephen Fox]

Haruo:

Please go today before it leaves town. Take a party on the Church van if you have to.

Me and Kate Campbell will be proud of you if you do

[Haruo]

Haruo:

Please go today before it leaves town. Take a party on the Church van if you have to.

Me and Kate Campbell will be proud of you if you do

Thanks, Stephen, it's in town through Thursday, at least. I work evenings, so I can't go. If it's still here on Friday I'll go, I've got that evening off for my AA hall's birthday meeting (I'm 26 this year) and I can hit the matinée. Otherwise I'll just have to hope it makes it to the Crest or one of the other $2 houses. I would like to see it.

[Haruo]

Haruo:

Please go today before it leaves town. Take a party on the Church van if you have to.

Me and Kate Campbell will be proud of you if you do

Thanks, Stephen, it's in town through Thursday, at least. I work evenings, so I can't go. If it's still here on Friday I'll go, I've got that evening off for my AA hall's birthday meeting (I'm 26 this year) and I can hit the matinée. Otherwise I'll just have to hope it makes it to the Crest or one of the other $2 houses. I would like to see it.

[Haruo]

Missed a few here. Rather than reading my summary of the October 2011 issue, read the much prettier real thing for yourselves:

Evergreen Notes, Oct 2011

and notice the color picture of myself in the montage on p. 11 (from the installation of Rev. Guadalupe Vasquez as Pastor of Confraternidad Cristiana Eben-ezer).

[Haruo]

March 2012