Cans of Soup for "Soup Bowl" Sunday - February 3, 2019

February 3rd is "Super Bowl Sunday". Not to be outdone by the football game, Faith will make February 3rd a winning Sunday for Fishline Food Bank with an ingathering of cans of soup. This will be the fifth annual Sunday for Faith to have designated this "Super Bowl" Sunday as "Soup Bowl" Sunday to help out our local food bank. Please bring your cans of soup for this special Super Bowl Sunday. Let us help fill the some shelves of the food bank and insure our brothers and sisters in the local community are helped! Thank you for your support and your generosity!

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Hospitality

Greetings Faith Family!

At our Annual Meeting, we introduced Sheri Bredesen ((360) 930-4370 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to the congregation.  She graciously volunteered to organize our special events and after Sunday service hospitality.  We all enjoy that time together.  Here’s a bit about the history of this ministry and its traditions.

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Living Well, Dying Well: Planning the Last Chapter of Your Life

How will you and your loved ones make decisions that respect your autonomy and enhance your human dignity in the last chapter of your life?

Explore these questions with Bishop Rickel, Dean Steve Thomason, health professionals, attorneys and area clergy. They will share stories, and provide medical, legal and spiritual tools and guidance. Bishop Rickel will lead a reflection after showing the film "Speaking of Dying." Everyone who attends will receive the Life Planning Manual, a very good tool developed by our diocese. Join us!

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Parents of Autistic Children Support Group
An Update on the North Kitsap Autism Group

The North Kitsap Autism group is a new formed group. We have our meetings the third Tuesday of every month in the parish hall of Faith church at 10:30am. For the month of February, we will be meeting on the fourth Tuesday, February 26, 2019.

We are looking for more families to join in and be part of this community. 

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Pastoral Letter from Bishop Rickel

(Spanish version)

This past summer, at our General Convention in Austin, Texas, the Episcopal Church took some historic and much needed steps in addressing past abuses by clergy toward lay persons and toward other clergy in the church.   For far too long there has been too much silence, and often misdirection, when persons in our church were brave enough to bring such allegations forward.   I am writing this letter, and asking that it be read in every congregation, on Sunday January 6th and/or January 11th,  in order to make you aware of the implementation of one specific resolution from General Convention, namely, D034, which called for the lifting of the statutes of limitations as spelled out in Title IV.19.4 of the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church specifically as it relates to sexual misconduct of clergy. That three year period of suspension begins on January 1, 2019 and will run until December 31, 2021.  

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