Announcements for May 9, 2021

Announcements

  • We will hold our first in-person Lord’s day meeting this Lord’s day (May 9th). A Zoom option will be available. Our next in-person Lord’s day meeting will be June 6th.
  • The Puget Sound Blending Conference will be May 14-16, 2021; the meeting links and outlines can be accessed by going to the same conference website we used last fall:  https://pugetsoundblending.org which will be updated for the Spring conference.
  • The Puget Sound 6th Grade Retreat will be open to both 6th graders and 5th graders this year and will be held at Camp Lutherwood, Bellingham. The boys retreat will be June 5-6. The girls retreat will be June 26-27.
  • The prayer meeting will continue both online and in the meeting hall. A mask is required for meeting at the meeting hall.
  • We are continuing monthly cleaning of the meeting hall. The Kirkland/Bellevue College group will coordinate cleaning the first floor in May. The Somerset Chinese-speaking group will clean the second floor.
  • The website https://beseeching.org/ is a great resource to support our prayer; you can sign up to receive email notifications with prayer burdens.
  • Bellevue children’s meetings are being held via Zoom. Please refer to the weekly email for details. Please email [email protected] with any questions or fellowship you may have.
  • Saints can mail their donations to the meeting hall by check (1835 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA 98004) or electronically via Zelle, which is a funds transfer system that nearly all banks provide. To use Zelle, you need to log into your online banking system (e.g. Bank of America, BECU, Chase, etc.). You can use the church email account ([email protected]) as the recipient.
  • We will start volume 2 and continue with week 7 of the Holy Word for Morning Revival “Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes”.  Saints can acquire a copy of the Holy Word for Morning Revival in one of the following ways:
    • Copies will be available in the meeting hall
    • For the older saints who are unable to pick up a copy, please contact the service office at [email protected] with your home address and someone will drop off a copy.
    • You can order directly from Living Stream Ministry (https://www.livingstream.com/en/)
    • You can subscribe to Living Stream Ministry’s Direct Mail Service (DMS) (https://www.lsm.org/dms.cfm)
    • You can order an ebook (Kindle) on Amazon
  • We will continue our church ministry reading in the Ministry Digest from Volume 3, Number 3 (third week out of four weeks). We strongly recommend that all the saints order the Ministry Digest directly from Living Stream Ministry (https://www.livingstream.com/en/) or via DMS (https://www.lsm.org/dms.html)
  • The Life-Study of the Bible radio broadcast is every Lord’s day at 8:30 pm, KGNW 820 AM

Burdens for Prayer

  • Various trials of the saints (health, economic, family, isolation, spiritual attacks, etc.)
  • Transitioning back to in-person meetings
  • Bellevue College
  • GTCA (www.gtca.us)
  • The Gospel to All the Nations
  • Germany
  • Summer activities for the children (6th graders) and young people