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July 2021
The Carillon
A Publication of the First Presbyterian Church of Everett
WHAT’S INSIDE:
In-person Worship 3
Class of 2021 4-6
Book Group 7
Library Update 8
Celebrations 12
Session News &
14
Notes
www.firstpreschurch.com
The Carillon
July 2021
Sunday Virtual Worship Schedule:
10:00 am - 11:00 am - Worship
11:00 am - Fellowship
12:00 pm -Adult Sunday School
The First Presbyterian
Church of Everett
2936 Rockefeller Avenue
Everett, WA 98201
Website: www.firstpreschurch.com
Phone: 425-259-7139
Fax: 425-317-8042
E-mail: info@firstpreschurch.com
Office Hours (office currently closed due to
COVID pandemic):
Monday - Thursday 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
We need friends. Friends guide us, care for us, con-
Rev. Dr. Alan Dorway Pastor front us in love, console us in times of pain. Although
Linda Senter Financial Assistant we speak of “making friends,” friends cannot be made.
Friends are free gifts from God. But God gives us the
Sondra Santos Communications friends we need when we need them if we fully trust in
Manager God’s love.
Doreen Solberg Office Coordinator
Friends cannot replace God. They have limitations and
Ari Kohler Custodian weaknesses like we have. Their love is never faultless,
Steve Torrence Director of Music never complete. But in their limitations they can be
signposts on our journey towards the unlimited and
Gary Norris Church Organist unconditional love of God. Let’s enjoy the friends
whom God has sent on our way.
Rev. Dr. Edwin C. Coon Pastor Emeritus
—Henri Nouwen, Bread for the Journey
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Welcome to Worship - In-person Worship Resumes
The First Presbyterian Church of Everett is now on Step 3 of the reopening plan - increasing in-person worship
attendees to 70 people. The online RSVP/registration process continues so that we can monitor numbers and keep a
record for contact tracing purposes. All attendees are asked to sign a Covenant of Care form. In addition, singing of
hymns is permitted with masks and all those in attendance must wear a mask or facial covering while in the
building.
Details regarding registration and reopening can be found on our website at https://firstpreschurch.com/fpce-reopen.
SAVE THE DATE:
The 2021 All Church Picnic is
tentatively scheduled for Sunday,
August 29 at Legion Memorial Park.
More to come!
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Fourth Monday Book Group - July 2021
Fourth Monday Book Group will gather via Zoom on Monday morning, July 26 at 10:00 to share
thoughts about Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novels. All four are widely available in library
collections, including that of our own church. If you need help locating a copy, please contact
me.
As some may remember, the very first book we read for this then fledgling book group was
Gilead. As predicted in the June Carillon, the book group has agreed to continue the legacy. We
will focus on the series, Gilead (2004), Home (2008), Lila (2014), and Jack (2020), at the July
Zoom gathering. Read any—or all of them—in preparation.
Not chronologically but laterally related, they follow similar themes in essentially the same story
from different points of view, a little like the four gospels. If you are able to read more than one
does the order matter? Not really. If only one, probably go with Gilead if you have that option,
although each is a separate, complete novel and can stand on its own, a tribute to a very talented
author.
Themes to note as you read: parent-child relationships and beauties of nature as they affect and
are affected by history, tradition, art, and poetry; church practices of baptism and communion,
prayer and blessing; theological concerns for justice, sin, forgiveness, and grace—well, just Life.
Something for everyone all wrapped in a compelling story told as a series of touching,
surprising, and often humorous vignettes. Words fail me—not so for Robinson.
Her novels, treasures in American literary fiction, have spawned two additional volumes which I
have also found very enjoyable although certainly not essential. A guide suitable for a 6-week
study is Gifts of Gilead by Amy Lignitz Harken and Lee Hull Moses. Written after the first book,
so no mention of the following three, it can be useful in understanding any of them because of
the interwoven themes.
In 2018, Wheaton College chose Marilynne Robinson’s writings for their annual theology
conference. Contributions from Robinson herself, supplemented by nine other participants, form
Balm in Gilead: a Theological Dialogue… edited by Timothy Larsen and Keith L Johnson. That
such a conference and book exist is a tribute to Robinson. Written just before the publication of
Jack, this volume offers many insights as well as both a scriptural and a topical index to themes
in the first three. The topical index includes many references to the doctrine of predestination, a
recurring theme throughout Robinson’s novels—and our Sunday classes.
In short, just read Gilead, Home, Lila, and/or Jack and show up via Zoom July 26 at 10:00 a.m.
??? Shirley Solberg (425-501-1607) or ( shirley.solberg@icloud.com )
For Zoom meeting details and additional Book Group information, please visit our website
at http://www.firstpreschurch.com/book-group
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Church Library July 2021
Summer at last! Possibly a time to be outdoors, have time with neighbors or family, complete
projects, even travel. Whatever these days hold for you there’s always time for a book - or two -
or three.
Your library has three new books to feed your mind during the longest days of our year (in this
hemisphere). These are meaty books, not necessarily the light reading sometimes chosen for
summer, but they are worth your time.
The shortest is a memoir by Garry Clark, Jr., new resident of our community. You might
remember reading about him in the Daily Herald’s April 20 insert: “The Business Journal.” Dr.
Clark, new CEO of Snohomish County Alliance, recounts how he came - as it says in the subtitle
- “from the D.C. Projects to Rural Nebraska.” Unlikely Viking brings to life the contrasts between
his boyhood inner city life and his later career as a Nebraskan. Even if the path to Everett must
await a sequel, this brief personal account of his early life gives a fine introduction to a new
community member.
Four Hundred Souls: a Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X.
Kendi is a long book of short chapters. With the meticulously precise design that characterizes
Kendi’s other writings, it is a sweeping history of 400 years, neatly packaged into 10 sections,
each consisting of 8 chapters with a concluding summary poem. That’s right, 80 brief chapters,
each with a different African American author, each dealing with a consecutive 5-year period of
African American history.
Who are these carefully selected authors? A bio for each contributor is part of the concluding
matter. Subject index? Of course—and it is sufficiently detailed to allow readers to locate desired
references easily. Four Hundred Souls is a such a gem of a book you may want your own copy.
However, if you don’t mind taking turns, the library’s is available.
Another meaty title has come our way: Facing the Mountain: a True Story of Japanese American
Heroes in World War II. This timely tome is the work of Daniel James Brown, author of the
acclaimed The Boys in the Boat. I’ll let the gifted Timothy Egan speak for this one: “Daniel
James Brown has done it again. His rich, nuanced re-creation of the dark years when thousands
of our fellow citizens were incarcerated because of their ancestry is a must-read contribution to
the history of the twentieth century. It’s also uplifting. I’ll never look at the World War II story
in the same light.”
Please ask for these or any other titles in our collection. Your email or phone call will make my
day!
Shirley Solberg (425-501-1607 / shirley.solberg@iCloud.com).
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Adult Sunday School 2021
Steve Hammond continues to lead the adult Sunday school series: “Luther: Gospel, Law, and Reformation”, by
Professor Phillip Carey. “This course explores Luther's theology, the circumstances surrounding his conclusion that
the papacy was "antichrist," and major issues and events in the Reformation as it unfolded in Luther's life after he
posted his famous 95 Theses on the door of the church of Wittenberg, Germany, in 1517.” If you’d like more
information about this course, you can visit https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/luther-gospel-law-and-
reformation.
Adult Sunday school continues on the Zoom platform. Please note the following updated Zoom meeting
information for Fellowship and Sunday school:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4319124902?pwd=aWVCbHM1bCs5dTE3Y1I2ZkpLUEZTdz09
Meeting ID: 431 912 4902
Passcode: FPCE21!
One tap mobile
+12532158782,,4319124902#,,,,*8604204# US (Tacoma)
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Special dates in July:
Canada Day, July 1, 2021
U.S. Independence Day, July 4, 2021
10FPCE Welcomes Pastor Bob Nicholson
Sunday, June 27, our friend, Pastor Bob Nicholson, returns to
lead worship and preach. For those who know him, Bob is a
plain spoken, easy going, down to earth messenger with a
sense of humor that according to one church member,
“brightens your outlook on life,” and “strengthens your faith.”
Bob will tackle the Gospel text, Mark 5:21-43, focused on the
healing, life restoring ministry of Jesus especially caring
for children. “Help me, my little
daughter is dying!” Cried out a distraught father to Jesus.
He will quickly draw us into God’s call to be engaged, where
we are today in our community and world. This call comes in
the midst of health challenges, pandemic tragedies, broken
relationships, and a sense of isolation. Will you hear that divine
call to be “a healing person and presence?”
In preparation for worship, please offer this prayer:
O God, in these pandemic times, when our spirits are weary, our hopes have dimmed, our
energies depleted, come to us in fresh and moving ways to awaken us to your love and
wisdom, your power and the possibilities you offer us. Where we have fallen, lift us. Where
we have failed, forgive us. Where we have gone astray, redirect us. What we know not,
teach us. What we can become, empower us. Where we need to go, send us. In all our days
and in all your ways, awaken us to be “the people of promise” and that “healing presence”
this world so desperately needs right now. Amen”
Bob has firsthand experiences in the church’s healing and heath ministries. LOCALLY:
Through his congregation, the first clinic for working Black and Hispanic poor in Lubbock, TX
was launched, and during the same pastorate he was a founder of the Chaplaincy program
at the Texas Tech School of Medicine’s Teaching hospital.
WORLDWIDE: he will document the urgent need to understand and support our church’s
medical mission: Jesus in present and working still in healing settings
today through our mission coworkers in hospitals and clinics especially in
Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Bob has prepared a written take home assignment for you, work
steps, as you follow up worship in your prayers, study, and action. “When
the worship is over, the service begins!”
11JULY CELEBRATIONS!
The First Presbyterian Church of Everett sends greetings to all of our members and
friends celebrating birthdays and anniversaries this month.
Join us in wishing the following members a happy birthday and/or happy anniversary (if
you are a member whose name is not listed, please contact Doreen in the church office to
update your record, so that we can include you in the future celebration listings):
Anniversaries:
7/9 Jay & Julie Kuhnhenn
7/23 Peter & Sharon Danitschek
7/24 Bill & Mary Grosse
7/27 George & Mary Tonn
7/30 Chris & Michole Mattix
Birthdays:
7/1 David Baer-Peckham 7/21 George Lockeman
7/4 Diane Preston 7/22 Todd Morrow
7/4 Emma Scoringe 7/24 Shirley Solberg
7/6 Steve Hammond 7/26 Teresa Good
7/7 Vicky Ahmann 7/28 Jim Roosma
7/8 Cindy Striker 7/28 Alec Sutin
7/11 Martha Clemans 7/29 Marilyn Nalbach
7/12 Rosemary Rheinheimer 7/30 Veronica Bacon
7/15 Peggy Ulvestad 7/30 Laura Little
7/16 Sarah Henricksen 7/31 Bill Grosse
7/21 Rose Capetillo 7/31 Jan Hughes
7/21 Janet Good
12E-Newsletter Submission Deadlines *PLEASE NOTE - During the coronavirus pandemic, distribution of e-newsletters and the Carillon may be interrupted. We thank you for your understanding.* If you have information you would like included in upcoming 2nd and 4th Monday e-newsletters, please send that information to sondra@firstpreschurch.com by the following deadlines: July 8, 2021 (for 2nd Mon- day) July 22, 2021 (for 4th Mon- day) If you have information you would like included in upcoming edition of The Carillon, please e-mail your submission to sondra@firstpreschurch.com by the deadline noted below. The Carillon is distributed on the last Sunday. Upcoming Deadline: July 11, 2021 ALL SUBMISSIONS DUE BY 5:00PM ON DUE DATE. 13
Session News & Notes Prepared by Leslie Sutin The regular monthly Session meeting was held Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at 6:00pm via Zoom. Elders present were David Baer-Peckham, Roy Yates, Elizabeth Nelson, Steve Hammond, John Gebert, Debbie Roberts, Bill Grosse and Marne Larson and Jamie Hunter. Also present – Alan Dorway and Leslie Sutin Call To Order: Alan called the meeting to order at 6:00pm by reading Luke 19:1-10 and prayer. News through Motions: Motion - Move to Step 3 of our reopening plan on Sunday, June 13, 2021. – Approved Motion – To approve singing of hymns (with masks) June 13, 2021. – Approved Motion – Granting the Neighborhood Art Camp permission to use Stocker Hall from Monday, June 28 to Friday, July 2 for their summer program. - Approved Other Notes: Pastor Alan will be on a family vacation June 22 to July 5. Also gone August 22. An all church outside work party is scheduled for Saturday, June 26 beginning at 9:00am. Everyone is invited. The All-Church Picnic is scheduled for Sunday, August 29 at Legion Park. More to come. No stated Session meeting in July unless needed. Next Session meeting Tuesday, August 9th. 14
Lunch with Alan
Prepare a lunch and sign on for a
simple and fun opportunity to
connect with one another. Lunch
with Alan takes place Tuesdays at
noon on Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/
j/82467645829?
pwd=RWVwZnBmeWF4M0xoNG
NRL1pOeHFSdz09
Meeting ID: 824 6764 5829
Passcode: 483855
Virtual Worship - Sundays at 10am on Facebook
All are invited to join us for an interactive virtual Sunday worship service,
Sundays at 10:00am on the church’s Facebook page. Just be on our
Facebook page at 10:00am and wait for the live video to start. If you have
not had an opportunity to like or follow us on Facebook, you can do so by
visiting https://www.facebook.com/FirstPresbyterianChurchofEverett/
You can hear and/or view previous worship services and find worship
guides on our mobile app or by visiting our website at https://
firstpreschurch.com/sermons
You can also watch our worship services on our You Tube channel.
Subscribe today by visiting https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBm4b8eSW9TqN1e1RoFkdag?view_as=public
Worship guides are posted on our website, the Saturday before worship.
15Church Leadership
Moderator – Alan Dorway
Ruling Elders
Class of 2021 Class of 2022 Class of 2023
Steve Hammond Marne Larson Elizabeth Nelson
Jamie Hunter Bill Grosse Debbie Roberts
David Baer-
John Gebert Roy Yates
Peckham
Deacons
Class of 2021 Class of 2022 Class of 2023
Marilyn Minch Lisa Comstock Sonya Beardsley
Doris Pearson Bob Barren Amy Farnham
Ed Pearson Barbara BarrenYou can also read
