Events

Composting for Creation: The Climate Change Connection

Join Earth Ministry's Chris Olson, Outreach Coordinator and resident Master Composter, as he explains the how-to's of yard waste and worm bin composting and how this helps curb global climate change. Check out a live worm bin, get free composting resources, and ask him your toughest composting questions.

If you take this free class, you are eligible to go this summer on a field trip to the Cedar Grove Composting facility, which handles all of Seattle's food and yard waste.

Tuesday, July 7th, 7-9pm, Jubilee Hall, Our Lady of the Lake Church
8900 35th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98115

Supper for Homeless Youth

Saturday, June 20, at YMCA of Greater Seattle University District Family Branch,

OLL will be serving supper to about 50-60 homeless young people aged 13-25 at the University Family YMCA's Saturday Drop-In Program, 5003 12th Ave. NE. Menu will be pizza, salad, fruit, homemade desserts, milk and juice. We need servers, food, beverages and cash. Set-up at 5:00PM, meal is served from 5:30-7:30PM (no cooking onsite), and then we clean up. Parking onsite. To help, please contact Maggy Beaver at 525-7030 or Bev Reed at 524-3933.

Collecting Supplies for Tent City 3

The Justice and Peace Committee maintains a collection box in the OLL Jubilee Hall foyer for supplies for the residents of Tent City 3. These include size AA and D flashlight batteries, Band-Aids, dental floss, gauze strips, hand sanitizer, new combs, hairbrushes, toothbrushes, toothpaste and wet-wipes. Donated items will be delivered regularly to the current location of Tent City 3.

Family & Adult Service Center (FASC)

OLL serves a meal to about 100 men, women and children at noon on the following Sundays in 2009:
July 12
September 13
November 8

We are always looking for people to help cook and serve.
Look for the ongoing sign-up sheet in the Jubilee Hall foyer if you would like to participate.

Thank you for your continued generosity and support! As the need increases in these uncertain economic times, so does the gratitude:
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

OLL Parishioners have taken on the praying the following prayers daily for peace:

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for is is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born
to eternal life.

Muslim, Jewish, Christian Prayer for Peace
By Joan Chittister, OSB
From Pax Christi USA/Fellowship of Reconciliation

O God, you are the source
of life and peace.
Praised by your name forever.
We know it is you who turn
our minds to thoughts of peace.
Hear our prayer in this time of war.

Your power changes hearts.
Muslims, Christian, and Jews remember,
and profoundly affirm,
that they are followers of the one God,
children of Abraham, brothers and sisters;
enemies begin to speak to one another;
those who were estranged
join hands in friendship;
nations seek the way of peace together.

Strengthen our resolve to give witnesss
to these truths by the way we live.

Give to us:
Understanding that puts an end to strife;
Mercy that quenches hatred; and
Forgiveness that overcomes vengeance.

Empower all people to live in your law of love.

Amen.