Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore

The Sock Box has returned to the Undercroft at Redeemer, where it awaits your donations of new, clean socks!
The socks will be given to homeless men and women who visit the foot-washing station at the United Way of King County’s Community Resource Exchange on September 24th. When you’re on your feet outdoors all the time, [...]

In an earlier post we mentioned how energized the Outreach program is at Redeemer, and how a flurry of new projects have been launched in recent weeks. Recently Emily Austin shared some details about this year’s upcoming foot-washing event to help the homeless.
United Way of King County’s Community Resource Exchange is a part of its [...]

Episcopal Church of the Redeemer’s Outreach program has been massively re-energized, with new proposals coming in all the time from members of the parish and outside organizations. We’ve asked the Redeemerites who are leading those projects, or are heavily  involved with them, to share the details.
Today, John Earley tells us about the Early English Learners [...]

[ July 1, 2010; 9:00 am; ]

HAVE SEWING MACHINE WILL TRAVEL: There will be a sewing party to make book bags for the Page Ahead summer reading program in the Undercroft on Thursday, July 1 at 9 a.m.

Those with portable sewing machines, extension cords, rotary fabric cutters, cutting mats, good scissors, and ability to use sewing machines are encouraged to [...]

Volunteers from Redeemer are working with Page Ahead and Feed Your Brain in a summer reading program, and several Redeemerites will be sewing book bags for participants using your donations of fabric.
Two types of fabric are being collected – clean blue jeans (various colors are good) and colorful cottons in a minimum size of 12″ [...]

[ April 17, 2010; 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] Join Bishop Rickel for the second Diocesan Day of Volunteering, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Saturday, April 17 at Northwest Harvest’s Kent Warehouse

To R.S.V.P. e-mail Heather Kmitta, hkmitta@ecww.org, or call 206-325-4200/800-488-4978

Last year, nearly 40 Episcopalians from local congregations joined our bishops to show our solidarity with those in need. We had such a good [...]

We have been asked to support an outreach project organized by the local chapter of Kairos, a nationwide charity that brings Christian ministry to people in prison.
The Washington chapter has put together a pilot project to bring Christian support to teenage children of people in prison.  The project involves a summer camp experience (for about [...]

A catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on January 12. At least three million people are estimated to have been affected, innumerable homes have been destroyed and major structures have been damaged including the Diocese of Haiti’s headquarters.
Episcopal Relief & Development is in contact with the Diocese of Haiti to both address immediate needs and prepare for long-term rehabilitation work.
Your help is critical in [...]

[ January 19, 2010; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] We’ll be hearing our second round of Outreach proposals on Tuesday, January 19 at 7:00 pm. As always they will be presented to the church in the context of the evening Eucharist. Please come and hear the presentations and ask any questions you may have. The vestry will then consider the proposals at their next [...]

[ November 10, 2009; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] To all members of the Redeemer community: Please attend this Tuesday’s Eucharist on November 10, 7:00 p.m., during which three Outreach proposals will be publicly presented.

As described in the Outreach Toolkit, the presentations will be part of the evening’s liturgy. After an opportunity for questions and clarifications, they will be presented to God with [...]