Thanksgiving will be here before we know it. Once again Church of the Redeemer is supporting our neighbors experiencing housing insecurity at Hopelink Kenmore Place. With your donation, each family receives a $100 gift card to buy food. To donate, please make your donation online today. Select the following button to make your donation.
Church of the Redeemer will use any funds donated over the amount needed for this project and earmarked for Outreach-Hopelink Kenmore Programs to our other projects with Kenmore Place.
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Hopelink and housing
For families experiencing homelessness, transitional and long-term housing—as well as emergency family shelter—may be available through Hopelink.
Hopelink’s transitional and long-term housing programs in King County include comprehensive support to help families move from crisis to stability. Transitional housing units provide a secure home for up to two years. Families in long-term housing can stay longer, as long as they meet their lease requirements.
While families are living in Hopelink housing, they will work closely with a skilled case manager to identify strengths, overcome obstacles, and set and meet goals designed to find and maintain permanent housing.
If you require assistance with eviction prevention, or with moving-in costs, please visit their Financial Assistance page.
Individuals and families experiencing homelessness may seek assistance through Coordinated Entry for All. To access Coordinated Entry for All, please contact one of the Regional Access Points on the Regional Access Points website.
For more information, including information about emergency family shelter, visit Housing on the Hopelink website.
Church of the Redeemer
Welcome to Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.
Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. We are a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.
Eat dessert first! Join us on Wednesday evening, November 27, 2024, for a Pie Social from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Let’s celebrate with gratitude all that we have been given, and especially each other. We’ll provide the coffee. You provide the pie.
Come to the parish hall at Episcopal Church of the Redeemer for the Pie Social. This is on the ground floor of the main building. All are welcome.
Church of the Redeemer
Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world around us. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.
Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.
The holiday season is upon us! This time of year is about practicing gratitude and giving to others. Hopelink Kenmore Place, just around the corner from Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, is a transitional housing community for 11 families experiencing housing insecurity.
Throughout the month of November, we are collecting monetary donations to purchase a $100 gift card for each family. These cards will be given to the families before Thanksgiving.
If you would like to donate towards a gift card, you may do so on the Giving page on the Redeemer website. By selecting this link, your gift will automatically go to Outreach – Hopelink Kenmore Programs. You won’t need to select that from the menu.
The families facing housing insecurity at Kenmore Place appreciate the help you provide.
Stay tuned for more ways that we will be helping these families in the month of December.
Hopelink
Since 1971, Hopelink has provided programs for people experiencing poverty, immigrants and refugees, and people with disabilities in north and east King County. Its Transportation programs services the entire King County and into Snohomish County. The agency’s programs work in tandem to fill gaps, supporting each family or individual’s unique needs as they gain stability and build skills to exit poverty.
Hopelink’s mission is to promote self-sufficiency for all members of our community to help people make a lasting change.
Welcome to Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.
Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. We are a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.
Praise God from whom all blessing flow Praise God all creatures here below Praise God above the heavenly host Praise God and Word and Holy Ghost.
The Right Reverend Thomas Ken (1637-1711), alt.
You probably recognize these words in some form as what we call “the Doxology,” that is, words of thanks and praise to God for everything. Thanks and praise to God is, of course, on my mind as I think about the Thanksgiving holiday.
And in these times of ours, I can’t help but think of teacher and minister Fred Craddock’s sermon entitled “Doxology,” that was delivered on the Sunday following the death of his brother. And so, in what follows, I offer a condensed version of that sermon (told as a kind of story) to you today because it’s meant so much to me over the years as I’ve tried to stay in touch with thanksgiving and praise to the source of all in good times and in bad.
In his sermon, Craddock imagines a kind of companion he calls “Doxology” that tries to accompany him wherever he goes.
It starts with Craddock at his own dinner table with Doxology sitting there along with Craddock’s wife and children one night. Craddock asks his teenage children some of those typical questions that parents ask their teenagers, and the teenagers do whatever they can not to answer the questions. But after a while, everyone relaxes over the food and shares a little bit about their day. Everyone talks and gets reconnected. Based on this, the family agrees. Doxology belongs at their table.
Then, the next day, Craddock decides to take Doxology with him as he runs his errands around town. He notices that having Doxology with him changes how he sees the world around him. And he thinks to himself: “It’s good to have Doxology around when I’m out doing things.”
Craddock then goes to visit a woman who’s dying in the hospital. Because of the seriousness of the visit, Craddock decides to leave Doxology in the car. Once in the hospital room, though, he finds that the woman he’s visiting is, much to his surprise, filled with thanksgiving for the life she has led. In fact, she ends up praying for him at the end of the visit.
When Craddock goes back to the car, Doxology asks him: “Should I have been there?”
“Yes,” Craddock answers. “I’m sorry. I did not understand.”
Then Craddock takes Doxology on vacation with his family. Doxology is there at the adventures and the meals and the togetherness. After the vacation, the whole family concludes, “There’s no question about it. Doxology belongs on vacation.”
When it’s time to return to his job teaching classes to seminary students, Craddock wonders about whether to take Doxology into the class he’s teaching on the Book of Romans. After all, is Doxology even needed among people engaged in studying and talking about God?
It’s there in his class that Craddock notices something in Paul’s Letter to the Romans. Right in the middle of talking about something else, Paul just breaks off and starts to sing:
“Oh, the depths of the riches and wisdom of the knowledge of God,” Paul croons. “From God, and through God and in God are all things. To God be the glory forever.”
About this, Craddock concludes, “Paul is aware that Doxology is deeply appropriate to (his) task as a theologian. (For) theology begins with words not about God but to God.” And so, “breaking into a song of praise, in any circumstance, at any moment, inviting Doxology into our lives, in any circumstance, at any moment, is appropriate.”
Craddock then says:
“It was from (this very) class on Romans that I was called to the phone.
“My oldest brother had just died. Heart Attack.
“All night, we drove across two states, eyes pasted open against the windshield. Conversation was spasmodic, consisting of taking turns asking the same questions over and over. No one pretended to have answers. When we drew near the town and the house, I searched my mind for a word, a first word, to the widow. He was my brother. He was her husband. I was still searching (for a word) when we pulled up into the driveway. She came out to meet us, and as I opened the car door, still without having found a word, she broke the silence.
“‘I hope you brought Doxology,’ she said.
“Doxology?
“No, I had not. I had not even thought of Doxology since the phone call.
“But the truth is now clear: If we ever lose Doxology, if we ever lose thanksgiving and praise, we might as well be dead.
“For ‘from God, and through God and in God are all things. To God be the glory forever.’”
My best wishes to you, to your family and friends, and to your community on Thanksgiving.
—The Most Reverend Melissa Skelton, Bishop Provisional of the Diocese of Olympia
The Most Reverend Melissa Skelton
The Most Reverend Melissa Skelton is the Bishop Provisional in the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia. The diocese voted to place itself under the authority of Bishop Skelton at the Diocese of Olympia’s 2022 Diocesan Convention.
Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world around us. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.
Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.
Thanksgiving is coming. Church of the Redeemer is collecting monetary donations to give food gift cards for residents at Hopelink Kenmore Place. This is a transitional housing facility near the church campus. The Thanksgiving 2022 goal is $1100. This provides a $100 food gift card to each family, all of whom experience housing insecurity. We need your donation by November 20, 2022.
Since 1971, Hopelink has served homeless and low-income families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities in King and Snohomish counties; providing stability and helping people gain the skills and knowledge they need to exit poverty for good. With service centers in Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland, Shoreline and Sno-Valley (Carnation), Hopelink is the largest nonprofit organization in the area.
Hopelink provides a network of critical social services through a number of different programs—including housing, transportation, family development, financial assistance, employment programs, adult education, financial literacy training, and five food banks. The agency’s service centers, housing, and transportation programs help more than 63,000 people every year.
For families experiencing homelessness, transitional and long-term housing as well as emergency family shelter may be available through Hopelink.
Welcome to Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.
Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. We are a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.
For us as Christians, every day is Thanksgiving Day. There’s nothing wrong with all of us setting aside such a day once a year to shine a light on our need to be thankful, but we should never do that blindly, and we would do well to tell the truth about this day, and then after telling that truth, to remake it as we can into something that truly befits what we are called to be and do in our thankfulness.
Bishop Rickel shares his reflections this Thanksgiving and his wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving to each of you.
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An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortizoffers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.”
Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.
Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.
In March 1621, when Plymouth’s survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth’s governor, John Carver, declared their people’s friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the “First Thanksgiving.” The treaty remained operative until King Philip’s War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end.
400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags’ ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day.
This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Landshows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday and day of thanks. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. This custom is based on the celebration of three days of prayer and feasting by the Plymouth, Massachusetts, colonists in 1621. There was also a Thanksgiving celebration with prayer by members of the Berkeley plantation, near what is now Charles City, Virginia, in 1619.
The first national Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in 1789. Under President Abraham Lincoln, Thanksgiving Day came to be celebrated annually on the last Thursday of November. Thanksgiving Day was celebrated on the third Thursday of November in the three years 1939-1941 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, the Thanksgiving Day commemoration was moved back to the fourth Thursday in November by Congress in 1941.
Thanksgiving Day is a major holy day and a national day in the Prayer Book calendar of the church year (pp. 16-17, 33). The Proposed Prayer Book of 1786 included “A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the Earth, and all the other Blessings of his merciful Providence.” The first American Prayer Book (1789) replaced the four national days of the 1662 English book with propers [lessons and collect of the day] for Thanksgiving Day.
The collect for Thanksgiving Day gives thanks to God the Father for the fruits of the earth in their season and for the labors of those who harvest them. It asks that we may be faithful stewards of God’s great bounty, providing for our own necessities and the relief of all who are in need (BCP, p. 246).
Hymns for Thanksgiving Day in The Hymnal 1982 include “Praise to God, immortal praise” (Hymn 288), “Come, ye thankful people, come” (Hymn 290), and “We plow the fields, and scatter” (Hymn 291). The Hymnal 1982 Accompaniment Edition, Vol. 1, provides musical settings for a “Litany of Thanksgiving for a Church” (S 391; see BCP, pp. 578-579) and a “Litany of Thanksgiving” (S 392; see BCP, pp. 836-837). The Litany of Thanksgiving may be used on Thanksgiving Day in place of the prayers of the people at the Eucharist, or at any time after the collects at Morning or Evening Prayer, or separately.
Almighty and gracious Father, we give you thanks for the fruits of the earth in their season and for the labors of those who harvest them. Make us, we pray, faithful stewards of your great bounty, for the provision of our necessities and the relief of all who are in need, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
A Litany of Thanksgiving
For optional use on Thanksgiving Day, in place of the Prayers of the People at the Eucharist, or at any time after the Collects at Morning or Evening Prayer, or separately.
Let us give thanks to God our Father for all his gifts so
freely bestowed upon us.
For the beauty and wonder of your creation, in earth and
sky and sea. We thank you, Lord.
For all that is gracious in the lives of men and women,
revealing the image of Christ, We thank you, Lord.
For our daily food and drink, our homes and families, and
our friends, We thank you, Lord.
For minds to think, and hearts to love, and hands to serve, We thank you, Lord.
For health and strength to work, and leisure to rest and play, We thank you, Lord.
For the brave and courageous, who are patient in suffering
and faithful in adversity, We thank you, Lord.
For all valiant seekers after truth, liberty, and justice, We thank you, Lord.
For the communion of saints, in all times and places, We thank you, Lord.
Above all, we give you thanks for the great mercies and
promises given to us in Christ Jesus our Lord; To him be praise and glory, with you, O Father, and the
Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.
Bishop Greg Rickel
The Rt. Rev. Gregory H. Rickel was elected bishop on May 12, 2007, and became the eighth Bishop of Olympia in September 2007. He embraces radical hospitality that welcomes all, no matter where they find themselves on their journey of faith. He envisions a church that is a safe and authentic community in which to explore God’s infinite goodness and grace as revealed in the life and continuing revelation of Jesus Christ.
Church of the Redeemer
Welcome to Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.
Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. We are a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.
We had a strong start for Thanksgiving food donations for Hopelink Kenmore Place this November. People have already fully subscribed turkeys, pies, pie toppings, and butter.
Now we need a strong finish for those facing housing insecurity at Kenmore Place for Thanksgiving.
As of noon on Wednesday, November 17, we still need the following subscribed for delivery to Redeemer this coming Sunday, November 21.
Item
Remaining
3-pound bag of apples
9
3-pound bag of mandarin oranges
11
5-pound bag of potatoes
6
Bunch of celery
11
Large bottle of juice
4
Large onion
9
Small or medium jar of mayonnaise
6
We are almost there! Please go and tell us what you are donating now for Thanksgiving at https://bit.ly/CORHolidayDonations2021. This works like an online store to tell us what you are donating.
We need to know as soon as possible what you are donating. If not, we need make other arrangements to buy these items.
Please remember to bring your Thanksgiving donations to Redeemer next Sunday, November 21, 2021.
Thanks for caring.
Hopelink
Since 1971, Hopelink has served homeless and low-income families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities in King and Snohomish counties; providing stability and helping people gain the skills and knowledge they need to exit poverty for good. With service centers in Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland, Shoreline and Sno-Valley (Carnation), Hopelink is the largest nonprofit organization in the area.
Hopelink provides a network of critical social services through a number of different programs—including housing, transportation, family development, financial assistance, employment programs, adult education, financial literacy training, and five food banks. The agency’s service centers, housing, and transportation programs help more than 63,000 people every year.
For families experiencing homelessness, transitional and long-term housing as well as emergency family shelter may be available through Hopelink.
Welcome to Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.
Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. We are a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.
Thanks to a number of people, the annual Thanksgiving food donation for those experiencing housing insecurity at Hopelink Kenmore Place is going great. The needed quantity for some of items have already reached their goal.
However, we need people to show some love for potatoes, carrots, celery, and a few other items.
Since 1971, Hopelink has served homeless and low-income families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities in King and Snohomish counties; providing stability and helping people gain the skills and knowledge they need to exit poverty for good. With service centers in Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland, Shoreline and Sno-Valley (Carnation), Hopelink is the largest nonprofit organization in the area.
Hopelink provides a network of critical social services through a number of different programs—including housing, transportation, family development, financial assistance, employment programs, adult education, financial literacy training, and five food banks. The agency’s service centers, housing, and transportation programs help more than 63,000 people every year.
For families experiencing homelessness, transitional and long-term housing as well as emergency family shelter may be available through Hopelink.
Welcome to Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.
Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. We are a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.
The annual Christmas gift and food basket collection for Hopelink Kenmore Place at Church of the Redeemer was adapted this year because of COVID-19. We could donate money towards a $100 Safeway gift card for the 11 residences at Kenmore Place. We could also donate money to a gift fund for all Hopelink locations. The giving continues.
Michelle Henderson, who organized Redeemer’s giving efforts this Christmas, said “Thank you to everyone who donated and looking forward to 2021 when we can once again gather to do the shopping trip and prepare the gifts and food baskets.” She also said that Hopelink raised about $75,000 to help families in need all over the region.
Any extra money raised for the special Safeway gift cards for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays goes towards the regular Safeway gift cards purchased through the rest of year for Kenmore Place. To donate for these cards, go to Giving on the Redeemer website, select the Give button, and then select Outreach from the To list.
What is Hopelink?
Since 1971, Hopelink has served homeless and low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities in north and east King County. They provide stability and help people gain the skills and knowledge they need to exit poverty for good.
Hopelink also provides transportation services throughout King and Snohomish Counties. With service centers in Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland, Shoreline, and Sno-Valley (Carnation), Hopelink is the largest nonprofit organization in the area.
Each year they help more than 64,000 people through programs that provide stability and the skills and knowledge needed to exit poverty through these programs:
Food assistance
Housing
Financial capabilities
Employment services
Transportation
Energy assistance
Emergency financial help
Adult education
Family development
Read about the various housing programs offered through Hopelink.
Welcome to Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.
Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.
Because of COVID-19 restrictions, we cannot do the typical things to bring holiday cheer to people at Hopelink Kenmore Place in 2020. We cannot donate physical items, such as food or gifts. However, we can still donate to those experiencing homelessness. We can do holiday giving.
This is what Church of the Redeemer is doing for this year. Your gift of any size is welcome, whether large or small. Let us all join to make for happy holidays for those experiencing homelessness.
Thank you very much.
Thanksgiving holiday gift card for use at Safeway
Instead of collecting food items to give for a Thanksgiving meal, Church of the Redeemer will give the 11 Kenmore Place residences a $100 gift card to Safeway. Then, the families may shop for the foods they want or need.
This collection continues through Friday, November 20, 2020. They will receive the cards on Monday, November 23.
To donate online, select Giving on the Redeemer website menu, and then select the Give button. When the window opens, enter your gift details. To route the donation to the right place, from the To list, select Shelter-Thanksgiving.
If you send a check, send it to PO Box 82677, Kenmore, WA 98028, so it arrives by November 20, 2020. Add “Kenmore Place Thanksgiving” to the memo line.
We will apply any extra money collected to the Christmas holiday gift card collection in December or for grocery cards purchased in later months. It will be used so Kenmore Place residents can buy food.
Holiday gifts for residents
This is where the biggest change this year. We cannot hold a holiday party. We cannot buy gifts for residents.
Hopelink is collecting money from their website for residents at all their housing locations, not only Kenmore Place, so residents to buy their own gifts.
This collection is now through December 4, 2020.
To donate, go to the Donate page on the Hopelink website. To route your donation for holiday gifts, do these two things while filling out the rest of the form:
Under Designation, from the list, select Greatest Needs. This may be selected already for you.
Under Billing Address, in the Leave a comment or note for your donation (optional) box, type Holiday Gift Program.
Holiday gift card for use at Safeway
This will be like the Thanksgiving collection. Church of the Redeemer will give the 11 Kenmore Place residences a $100 gift card to Safeway. Then, the families may shop for the foods they want.
This collection starts Tuesday, December 1, 2020, lasting through Friday, December 18, 2020. They will receive the cards on Monday, December 21.
To donate online, select Giving on the Redeemer website menu, and then select the Give button. When the window opens, enter your gift details. To route the donation to the right place, from the To list, select Shelter-Christmas.
If you send a check, send it to PO Box 82677, Kenmore, WA 98028, so it arrives by December 18, 2020. Add “Kenmore Place Christmas” to the memo line.
We will apply an extra money collected to grocery cards purchased in later months for Kenmore Place residents.
What is Hopelink?
Since 1971, Hopelink has served homeless and low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities in north and east King County. They provide stability and help people gain the skills and knowledge they need to exit poverty for good.
Hopelink also provides transportation services throughout King and Snohomish Counties. With service centers in Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland, Shoreline, and Sno-Valley (Carnation), Hopelink is the largest nonprofit organization in the area.
Each year they help more than 64,000 people through programs that provide stability and the skills and knowledge needed to exit poverty through these programs:
Food assistance
Housing
Financial capabilities
Employment services
Transportation
Energy assistance
Emergency financial help
Adult education
Family development
Read about the various housing programs offered through Hopelink.
Welcome to Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.
Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.
