As of 10/06/2021, Vashon Be Prepared is not recommending any inside meetings due to the uptick in cases on the island and the contagiousness of the Delta Variant.

Please give your friend a call and see if the technology aspect of Zoom has them buffaloed.  If so, maybe you could call the person and see if they could be supported using a phone call as they click into the newsletter and use the zoom addresses to join up.  Sometimes our technology gets in … Continue reading Not seeing your buddies at Sunday services? 

Covid brought so much to a halt. It put on the brakes and made us pause. We’ve had time to look around. To notice. And maybe that’s the most important thing we’ve learned about cultivating relationships, the central thing we need to remember when we are finally able to move on: To go slow. How … Continue reading Soul Matters Theme for October:  Cultivating Relationship

All are welcome to join.  Committee leaders are encouraged to join this training and conversation. When you register, please choose a time that is convenient for your schedule. We will not all be attending during the same sessions. https://www.uua.org/pacific-western/blog/leadership-dev In this 3- part series for budding and experienced leaders, participating will ground you in your … Continue reading Leading from the Heart

If you would like  to stand with tribes, to call for restoring wild salmon and re-wilding the Lower Snake River, you can join up with the Backbone Campaign to do so. Both the Affiliated Tribes of NW Indians (ATNI) and the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) have passed resolutions this year calling for the … Continue reading Monday is Indigenous People’s Day

In case you haven’t noticed, VIUF has a new sign on the Burton Church reader board: We wanted to improve VIUF’s visibility in the community, and give us a little street recognition. Happy viewing!

We live in such a beautiful place, don’t we? Do have great photos you’ve taken? We’d love to see them. Let’s share! We are starting a “Photos of the Week” section here on the newsletter later this month (and on the website/facebook, etc.)  If you’d like to share the beauty that you capture, please send … Continue reading We’d love for you to share your photos!  

The VIUF Book Club for October will be held on October 31st after the church service  on the Pulitzer prize winning book: The Overstory by Richard Powers , W.W. Norton & Co, 2018. This is a book about trees, but “it brings to life the greatest problems of our time—climate change and biodiversity collapse—and gets under our skin in a … Continue reading VIUF Book Club – October and November

I want to thank each and everyone of you, along with your congregation, for all the support you have given the people of Vashon during this pandemic. Each of you, in different ways, have made a huge difference and contribution to helping us get through this pandemic. I believe it has changed us all and … Continue reading A Message From the Vashon Subsidized Rent Program

I am one of the leaders of the recently formed Afghan Resettlement Team.  We are reaching out to island groups to see who would like to be involved. We are coordinating with the Office of Refugee Resettlement through the Episcopal Diocese.  They expect about 2,000 refugees settling locally, mostly in South King County, in the … Continue reading A Message from the Afghan Resettlement Team