Northshore Visual Arts Community
We want to invite you to join us for a gathering of visual artists and supporters of art visual art. This will be a time to get to know one another, gather information, and exchange ideas. Please bring a piece of your art (if comfortable) to share with fellow artists. We will also discuss various opportunities to serve locally and globally through visual arts.
Thursday, May 24th, 7-9 PM, in room L124/126 at Northshore Baptist Church
if you would like to help set up or bring a snack and for more information please contact:
Marcia Carole
email: marcia2010@swissmail.org
Juanita Bay Park Restoration Project
Description of volunteer effort: Partner with Starbucks to impact Juanita Beach Area
An abundance of wildlife lives in or visits 110 acres of preserved wetlands and marshes at Juanita Bay Park. The animal population within this habitat includes songbirds, waterfowl, raptors, shorebirds, amphibians, turtles, beavers, and other small mammals. The park offers extraordinary views of Forbes Creek Wetland, Juanita Beach, and Juanita Bay. The park features paved trails, boardwalks, open lawn areas, restroom, benches, and picnic tables. Invasive plant species are a problem at the park and volunteers are needed to help restore the natural habitat. The Green Kirkland Partnership will be targeting restoration efforts in the area west of 98th Avenue NE (Market Street) and near the boardwalks.
- When: 04/21/12 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- Where: 2201 Market Street, Kirkland, Washington 98033
- Activity: Environment
- Commitment: 3 hours
- Project Type: Open
- Org Name: EARTHCORPS
- Total partner volunteers needed: 15
- Total volunteers needed: 100
- Volunteers attending: 13
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Help Feed Homeless Kids In Our Community
Northshore, here is an opportunity for you to make a difference by simply bringing food identified on the list below to the church office Monday – Friday 9am to 5pm. We have just this week partnered with “Pantry Packs” to help decrease the number of hungry students in the Lake Washington School District.
What is Pantry Packs?
Pantry packs is a weekend food backpack program that discreetly provides any Lake Washington School District student (identified by their school counselor/staff) with a “weekly backpack of kid-friendly food to take home before school dismisses for the weekend. Currently there are over 200 packs going out each week between 15 schools.
Who can participate in Pantry Packs?
Pantry packs is available to any LWSD student. To enroll in this program you would first need to talk to your school counselor, office staff, or LWSD homeless liaison.
How is Northshore Baptist Involved?
We are a drop off zone for food donations (front office from 9am-5pm Monday – Friday)
What Can I bring to help?
Peanut Butter/ Jelly (in plastic jars only) / Crackers (ritz, saltines, Graham, etc) / Pasta & canned pasta sauce, Mac-N-Cheese / Instant Oatmeal Packets / Carnation Instant Breakfast Packets / Pancake Mix / Syrup / Granola Bars / Protein Bars / Applesauce (snack sized) / Fruit Cups / Microwave Popcorn / Individually Packaged Snack Crackers / Fruit Snacks / Fruit Leather / Canned Fruit / Canned Veggies / Refried Beans / Soup (Chicken Noodle) / Chili / Ravioli / Spaghettios
Who is the Key Contact?
Email: pantrypakcs@gmail.com
Cheryl Chikalla LWSD Homeless Liaison (425) 936-1297
Email: cchikalla@lwsd.org
How do I find current needs?
Friend us on Facebook at “pantry packs” to find out our current needs and latest news!
Love Where You Live Opportunities April 14th or 21st
Here are two great opportunity to serve our community and invest in relationships. Take your family, friends, or small group to any one of these two events to make a difference and love where you live. When you do go please send me an email (timb@nsb.org) about your experience so I can post it on our blog and encourage others. Thanks Pastor Tim
Arbor Day Planting Event- Saturday, April 14th
(All Ages)
The City of Bothell’s annual Arbor Day Celebration will be held on Saturday, April 14 at 10 AM. This year there will be approximately 300 trees to plant along North Creek just north of 228th St. at approximately 29th Drive SE (by the arched foot bridge). If you are bringing a group, please contact us (425.486.7430) so we can be sure to provide plenty of refreshments. If possible bring your own gloves and shovels. A limited number of shovels will be available to share.
Streamkeeper Restoration Event- Saturday, April 21st
Event will take place from 9 a.m.- 12 p.m. along the Sammamish River Trail in between Blyth Park and the 102nd Ave bridge. Park in the gravel parking lot just after the bridge, and walk to your left along the trail. Equipment and water will be provided but please bring your own gloves and dress appropriately (long pants, etc.). Please register by responding to this email or calling Janet Geer at 425-486-2768.Come and be a part of National Green Volunteering Day!
Love Where You Live – Interuptions
Interuptions,
we never plan for them, we don’t like them, but could God use them? What if you started to look at the little or big interuptions to your day as God’s way of giving you an opportunity to influence someone around you with the love of Jesus? When Jesus went to the cross on his journey he encountered many different interuptions. This week we looked at Luke 9:51 where Jesus on his journey to Jerusalem is interupted. However, he uses this time as an opportunity to have compassion on those around him. What about you, maybe someone interupts you in the office while you are hard at work or during your work out, could God be giving you an opportunity to show compassion and love? This week Look at interuptions as opportunities to influence others with the compassion of Jesus. Here is a 1 minute video on how to pray and prepare for those interuptions:
with Kindness Tim
(Colossions 3:12-13)
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Volunteer With City of Bothell
Northshore here is a great way to “Love Where You Live” this Saturday. Take your kids with you for 3 hours and make a difference on the Sammamish River Trail. Rub shoulders with others in the community and use this point of connection as a bridge Jesus can walk across from your life to theirs. Remember “Good Deeds develop Good Will opening a door for the Good News”.
This events happens Saturday, March 10 from 9 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. along the Sammamish River Trail. Volunteers will help twist down reed canary grass, clip back some blackberry, and take monitoring photos for our Streamkeepers project.
We meet along the Trail across from the 102nd Ave bridge parking lot (from Main & 102nd Ave turn towards East Riverside Drive and park in the gravel parking lot along the Trail just past the bridge over the Sammamish). The site is along the streambank in between the parking lot and Blyth Park.
To sign up, please contact Janet Geer: janet.geer@ci.bothell.wa.us or 425-486-2768
Thank you!
Pastor Tim – Outreach and Local Mission
Love Where You Live
Do you need a hand? Recently I sat down with Ron Payne who attends Northshore Baptist. He shared with me that he had just retired from his position at AeroJet and believed God was calling him to make a difference in Kingsgate, the community where he lives. Ron said he wanted to use his time and talent helping others with simple, short term projects where a second person is needed to accomplish the task; for example, holding a ladder, replacing a light bulb, moving a piece of furniture, or even a ride to an appointment.
What was impressive about Ron is he didn’t stop with the concept. He went home and created a flyer called “NEED A HAND” which he plans to distribute to his 300 neighbors in the next couple of weeks. On his flyer you will find a brief paragraph about Ron, how he can help, the fact that his labor is free, and contact information.
I am thankful for Ron and his passion to make a difference for Jesus. However, something in me wants to ask the question, What if every attendee at Northshore Baptist Church wanted to make an impact like Ron? How much greater would the good news of Jesus be felt in our community?
So, how about you? What is God calling you to do? If you have an idea or a way you believe you could make an impact please contact me timb@nsb.org . I would enjoy sitting with you and helping you take your passion for an idea to a ministry making a difference in your neighborhood. Now mind you I can’t execute your passion for you but I can help you think it through and use what church resources are available to help you be successful.
“Love Where You Live”
Pastor Tim Burke
Outreach and Local Mission
Northshore’s Externally Focused Small Group’s
We are excited to annouce the piloting of some new externally focused small groups through Northshore Baptist. These small groups are focused on walking through life togehter, experiencing transformation in community, and making an impact in their city. Last Saturday Leah McLain and Vange Honegger with the desire to make a difference in the community went down to the Eastside Fill and Feed in Redmond, Washington. They spent their time packaging meals called MannaPacks which is a special formula that is easy to digest for severely malnourished children. These meals have been formulated to be to be culturally acceptable worldwide. The meals are distributed in nearly 70 countries through more than 60 different missionary partnerships at orphanages, schools, clinics, refugee camps and malnourishment centers.
The team came back to share stories at small group last night of the importance of serving in the community and how much it strengthened their relationships with each other and God. If you would like to make a difference in the community,
start or join an externally focused small group. Feel free to email timb@nsb.org or jonathanw@nsb.org for more information on how to make an impact!
Community in Operation
Below is a letter of thanks and perspective from one of our Northshore School District Principals as we reflects on what was accomplished during last Saturday’s CommunitySERVE Day! Thank you for all who served! The church is being the church in the community and that is what we have been working for!
A school is a product of its community. It seems obvious on its most basic level – the students come to us from the community and are taught by members of the community. But on a more subtle, and more substantial level, the school is also a product of the collective aspirations and dreams the community has for its youngest members. It is both an embodiment of the community’s truest values, as well as an active demonstration of its collective beliefs about itself and its relationship to “others”. In short, a school represents how a community sees the world, operationalized in a single, local touchstone. When 1200 members of a community turn out, in mass, to serve the needs of 14 local schools, it makes a powerful public statement about what it values. It not only telegraphs how that community sees the world, it actively sets out to make that vision a reality.
On a very literal level, the work done on our grounds and in our classrooms this weekend was invaluable. The efforts of so many volunteers saved teachers countless hours of work cleaning, organizing, creating, alphabetizing, collating, sorting, and arranging. Teachers were able to channel the time usually spent in these activities into lesson preparation, curriculum development, and ways to welcome students the first day of school. The experience that students – and their teachers – will have on the first days and weeks of school was directly and significantly impacted by the time, energy, and efforts of our community members.
But on another level, the experiences of students at Maywood and the 14 other schools will be even more deeply impacted by the genuine love and concern demonstrated so publicly for them and for all those who care for them. What we do speaks to our children far more loudly, and sometimes more accurately, than anything we can say. Five hours scrubbing desks, weeding gardens, clearing paths, organizing books, pressure washing sidewalks, alphabetizing ID badges, or prepping emergency buckets conveys your values about education, about children, and about others in a way that a 1000 lectures could never do. (And it’s a much more fun way to say it). One particularly thoughtful teacher went around campus today taking pictures and recording the work being done for our kids. She is going to create a presentation to make sure Maywood students see, first hand, how much they mean to our community. I suspect it is harder as a kid to complain about school when you know your parents and neighbors have spent their weekend making your first day better. More importantly, I suspect it makes it easier for our students to look around and ask what they too can be doing for their school, for their peers, and for others.
Because of our overly-busy lives we often most appreciate the gift of time – time of others given to a cause or devoted to a person, or time we find and cherish for ourselves. We most often thank people for their time, but talk far less about the gift they offer of themselves. Not just their time and energy, but, as Martin Luther King described it, their “heart full of grace, a soul generated by love” that is nurtured first in their thoughts towards others, and then in actions. We were honored to be the recipients of that grace and love offered by so many of our community members. We can’t thank you enough.
CommunitySERVE Day Summary
This weekend 1200 people volunteered to help 14 elementary schools in the Northshore and Lake Washington School Districts. Each volunteer worked 4 hours. If you totaled that up it would be 4800 volunteer hours.
What if one person tried to do this by themselves? If the average person works 40 hrs a week for 52 weeks a year (2080hrs) it would take them 2.3 years to do what 1200 people did in 4 hours. How cool is it to see the power and effectiveness of people serving others to show the love of Christ! Awesome work team!
CommunitySERVE Day was a great success again and we could not do it without the help of all the volunteers, it is so fun to see the local church in action in our community and to hear the response from those we served or gratitude! Thank you to those who served, if you were not able to serve this year watch for more opportunities to get involved and bless our community!
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