Faith & Spiritual Life: Outreach
Published 10:17 pm Friday, December 26, 2008
Concerts
Snohomish Arts Guild seeks choir teams and soloists to sing in 2000 Voices, a gospel choir scheduled for 7 p.m. June 12 at Everett Memorial Stadium, 3802 Broadway, Everett.
Registration is required by Jan. 31.
Cliff Verhoeff, director of Snohomish Arts Guild, hopes at least 2,000 people will join the choir, making it the largest gospel choir in the Northwest. Sam Townsend Jr., a McDonald’s Gospelfest 2008 winner, plans to direct.
Rehearsals are set for June 10 and 11.
Music ministries may sell tickets with 50 percent of proceeds going to their group.
Call 425-303-1848 or e-mail sagpro@hotmail.com.
Programs and Classes
Church of Bethel and Anchor Children’s Ministry invite the public to Great Gift of Love, a Christmas program with guest speaker Bill Wilson at noon today at 7505 Hardeson Road, Everett.
Admission is free.
The program is designed for children ages 7 to 12. Organizers plan to give each child who attends a free gift.
Wilson, who experienced homelessness as a child, is the president and founder of Metro Ministries International, one of America’s largest ministries to children in the U.S. and around the world.
Call 425-343-6315, go to www.churchofbethel.com or e-mail svetlana59@gmail.com.
Naval Station Everett offers a Christian devotional service from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Sundays at Howlett Chapel, Barracks Building 2028, Room 120, Naval Station Everett.
Call 425-304-3342.
Naval Station Everett Smokey Point Chapel offers holiday and New Year’s Catholic Masses.
A Solemn Christmas Mass of the Holy Family is set for 5 tonight. Sunday services are set for 5 p.m. A New Year’s Eve Solemn Mass is set for 5 p.m. Wednesday. A Holy Mass visit of the Magi to Christ Epiphany service is set for 5 p.m. Jan. 3.
Smokey Point Chapel is at the Navy Support Complex, 13914 45th Ave., Marysville.
Call 425-304-3342.
The Catholic radio program “Conversations with Father Bob” presents an encore presentation today. The show broadcasts from 8 to 9 a.m. today and from 7 to 8 a.m. Sunday on KKNW (AM 1150). It also airs from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and from 9 to 10 p.m. Thursdays on Sacred Heart Radio (KBLE AM 1050). Camuso is to speak with Robert Stackpole, theology professor at Redeemer Pacific College in British Columbia, about his book “Divine Mercy: A Guide from Genesis to Benedict XVI.”
Also joining Camuso is Matthew Loukes, pastoral assistant for music and liturgy at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Seattle.
Call 206-546-2451 or go to www.conversationswithfatherbob.com.
Advent Lutheran Church in Mill Creek concludes Yoga for Food from 9 to 10 a.m. Monday at 4306 132nd St. SE, Mill Creek.
Admission is free with a donation of food or cash for the Volunteers of America Everett Food Bank.
Call 425-481-1607 or go to www.yogaforfood.org.
Advent Lutheran Church plays host to The Longest Night Worship Service at 7 p.m. Jan. 4 at 4306 132nd St. SE, Mill Creek. The service, originally set for Dec. 21, was rescheduled due to the snow.
The Blue Christmas service is designed for those who have experienced a loss. It includes time to light a candle, sing and enjoy music.
Donna Vande Kieft, a hospice chaplain and a pastor at Trinity Episcopal Church in Everett, plans to read from Isaiah, the Psalms and the Gospel of Matthew, books in the Bible that talk about God’s comfort. Stephen Ministers plan to give out fleece prayer shawls.
Call 425-337-5373.
Mill Creek Christian Women’s Connection offers a Hearts and Dreams luncheon from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Jan. 15 at the Mill Creek Country Club, 15500 Country Club Drive, Mill Creek.
The cost is $20.
Julie Reynolds, a Snohomish Close to My Heart scrapbook consultant, plans to talk about how to create artwork to honor special relationships.
Jerry Goodman plans to provide music.
Guest speaker Cathy Mogus, a freelance writer from British Columbia, plans to discuss “Mending Broken Dreams.”
Reservations and cancellations are required by Jan. 13.
Call 425-337-6335.
Volunteer Opportunities
Recovery for Life Training Center seeks help for its semiannual “Queen, It’s a New Day” event scheduled for Feb. 16 and 17 at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 20610 44th Ave. W., Lynnwood.
At each event, roughly 150 “Queens,” women from local shelters and transitional homes in Snohomish, Skagit, King and Pierce counties, receive makeovers, career clothing, vocational training and information about education and housing.
Organizers seek volunteers, financial help and career clothing year round to help with the two events.
Call 425-252-6484, 425-252-6484 or 425-252-6484.
