Magnolia UCC

Chair Yoga
2025-04-16 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-09 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-02 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-03-26 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-03-19 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-03-12 10:00 - 11:00 UTC
Interested in maintaining or even regaining strength, flexibility, balance, good posture, inner awareness, and a relaxed body & mind? PHEW…! That’s sure a lot! Well, you can! Just join us each Wednesday a.m. in Pilgrim Hall at 10:00 am for chair yoga. No experience is necessary. Just wear loose clothing and your first lesson is Free. Then a one-time $15 fee is requested to help pay for the great videos on the big screen. Hope to see ya soon!

Lent Bible Study - Walking the Passion
2025-04-15 13:00 - 2025-04-17 13:00, 2025-04-14 13:00 - 2025-04-16 13:00 (America/Vancouver)
Monday through Thursday, April 14th through April 17th, 1 pm via Zoom. Over four days, we will walk with Jesus through those final days using the Gospel of Mark as our guide.
Meeting ID: 865 6709 1590
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Book Group
2025-04-14 18:30 - 20:30 UTC
The book group will be meeting in the MUCC Parlor at 6:30pm. The book discussion this month will be on House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday. Contact Marilee Gibbs at marileegibbs@comcast.net with any questions.

Sacred Silence
2025-04-09 11:00 - 23:30, 2025-04-02 11:00 - 23:30, 2025-03-26 11:00 - 23:30, 2025-03-12 11:00 - 23:30 (America/Vancouver)
Each week we gather in the Parlor at 11:00am on Wednesday for a time of sacred silence, time to still our minds and join together in creating sacred space in silence. Join us for this powerful time of community and prayerful being.

Special Liturgical Dance Worship Experience
2025-04-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Vancouver)
On Sunday, April 6th, MUCC will have a very special and unique worship experience. On that morning, we will experience the scripture story of the raising of Lazarus told through dance. We will be honored to welcome Betsey Beckman. Betsey directs the movement ministry at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Seattle and also offers her artistry to a variety of ecumenical and Interfaith settings. She has a background in dance that includes early foundational studies with the Cincinnati Ballet and danced professionally with the Greg Reynolds Dance Quintet and performed with this company for three years as principal dancer on the East Coast, including at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City.
After moving to Seattle, Betsey continued Modern Dance studies with members of the Bill Evans Dance Company in the Seattle area. Her theological training includes a BA in Theology from Georgetown University, where she also helped to establish the Georgetown University Liturgical Arts Community, directed the Liturgical Dance Ministry and discovered the power of the arts to sustain and inspire the ongoing life of a worshipping community. She went on to earn a Master’s in Ministry at Seattle University, with an emphasis in spirituality. Please plan to attend this special Lenten worship experience on Sunday, April 6th!

Knights of the Square Table (MUCC Men’s Group)
2025-04-02 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Vancouver)
The men of MUCC (known as the Knights of the Square Table) meet monthly on the first Wednesday of every month at 12:30 with a rotating location at various local restaurants. Tom Ranken sends out email notices. The location switches regularly. It’s a purely social gathering! Tom Ranken sends out the email notification with the location and if you are not on that email distribution and would like to be, let Tom know! Contact him at tom@jthomasranken.com

Annual Food Drive with Scouts for Ballard Food Bank
2025-03-30 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Vancouver)
Join us and the Scouts collect food for the Ballard Food Banks!

Great items to donate are non-perishable foods including:

cereal
peanut butter
canned tuna
soup and chili
mac & cheese
rice
beans
pasta
coffee
shelf-stable juice
non-dairy milk

One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) Special Offering
2025-03-30 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Vancouver)
Each year, our congregation holds a special offering in support of the United Church of Christ efforts to support disaster, refugee/immigration, and development ministries throughout the world. This collection supports outreach for when a disaster strikes, or people are displaced or made refugees by violence or extreme poverty. OGHS supports ministries that engage in holistic development programs including health care, education, agriculture, food sustainability, micro-financing, and women’s empowerment. This offering supports the most vulnerable in our world.
You can make donations at magnoliaucc.org/giving and choose One Great Hour of Sharing Special Offering. Or you can write a check to MUCC and note OGHS in the memo. Thank you for your generosity!

Lent Taizé Service
2025-03-30 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Vancouver)
Taizé services are named from the place in which they were conceived by a monastic community of brothers in Taizé, France. Taizé services are usually characterized by three things: song, readings, and meditation. Short songs, often in the form of a single, simple refrain, are repeated over and over, similar to a mantra. It is a simple, meditative form of worship, calling us to dwell deeply on God’s presence around and within us. The emphasis of this sort of service is to help participants “experience” God through sensory-focused music and singing focused on our Lent theme of Abundant Love.
During this special Sunday Service, we will focus our service on the ancient practice of Taizé using prayer and chants to call us forward into worship and preparation. For this special worship, we will be blessed with the musical gifts of Caitlin Kelley and her violin!

Spring Work Party
2025-03-29 09:30 - 11:30 UTC | Magnolia UCC
Each quarter, we hold work parties to help maintain our beloved grounds and building! Plan to attend this Saturday morning work party this month to help keep our grounds looking so amazing! Starting at 9:30 am on March 29th, we’ll meet outside the church and be assigned garden maintenance projects. If we run out of garden projects, we may also be doing some facility projects. Plan to work outside though, bring gloves and garden tools!

Game Night
2025-03-28 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Vancouver)
Join us on Friday, March 28th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm for Game Night in Pilgrim Hall. Games could include scrabble, Yahtzee, monopoly, mahjong, playing cards (Families if you have specific youth friendly games, please bring them!). Feel free to bring your choice of beverage, snacks will be provided.

Bible Study: The Gospel of John
2025-03-25 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Vancouver)
Join us for a deep dive into an amazing Gospel! This week we will be discussing the Book of Glory – 20:1-21:25 (Resurrection and Wrap-Up).
Access the bible study here.
Meeting ID: 820 0571 5457
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Lent Music Sunday
2025-03-23 10:00 - 11:45 (America/Vancouver)
We turn to music on this special Lent Sunday to call us deeper into the meaning of the season of Lent and our theme of Abundant Love! You will hear familiar Lenten tunes and some unexpected popular music woven together to explore these themes. Pastor Marci will be presiding and offering some sacred readings interwoven with our special music. All donations made on this Sunday go to the MUCC Music Fund in support of our Music Program!

Notable Exceptions
2025-03-22 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Vancouver)
Saturday, March 22nd 6:30 pm, Sanctuary
$20 Suggested Donation

Notable Exceptions is a tidy bundle of energy, talent, experience, and musical joy. The Notable Exceptions sound is a potpourri of Folk, Western, and novelty tunes. From house concerts to concert halls, Judy Coder and Jennifer Epps are known in the world of western music for their finely crafted vocal harmony. Their original tunes are lighthearted and conversational. For accompaniment, Judy’s tasteful rhythm guitar is right on the button; Jennifer sweetens the sound with tidbits of harmonica, rhythm instruments, flutes and whistles. The result is fun, fresh, bold Americana. This delightful pair has been recognized by the International Western Music Association with the 2017 Marilyn Tuttle “Best of the Best” Harmony Award, and the 2015 Harmony Duo of the Year Award.
From their home “way out west where the sun sinks low,” these troubadours live on the road, touring for 6 months of the year. Notable Exceptions is driven by a commitment to spreading joy and laughter through song. Follow their adventures on Facebook and catch them live when they blast through on Saturday, March 22nd at 6:30pm. You’re in for “Rootin’ Tootin’, Nose-Flutin’ Fun!”

Book Study - White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
2025-03-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver)
Called ‘one of the most empathetic and visionary approaches to American poverty in decades’, White Poverty uses story and astute historical analysis, to content that tens of millions of America’s poorest earners, the majority of whom don’t vote, have much in common. White Poverty lifts the hope for a new “moral fusion movement” that seeks to unite people. This is an incredibly timely book as our country looks for ways that we can unite around common challenges.
We will gather in the Parlor and via Zoom on Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm on March 19th. Come join us!
Week 3: p.149-225
Zoom link
Meeting ID: 824 8230 9695, Passcode: [REDACTED]

Bible Study: The Gospel of John
2025-03-18 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Vancouver)
Join us for a deep dive into an amazing Gospel! This week we will be discussing the Book of Glory – 15-19:42 (Jesus Final Hours and Death).
Access the bible study here.
Meeting ID: 820 0571 5457
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Lenten Spiritual Retreat: Abundant Love
2025-03-15 09:00 - 14:00 (America/Vancouver)
Most of us have had moments or seasons in our lives where we have experienced both abundance and scarcity in our lives – in finances, in work, in retirement, in health, in relationships, and in love, etc. Some moments or seasons might feel like scarcity because, for whatever reason, we just don’t notice or see the abundance that is present. In this retreat, we will explore abundance – what it means to us, what it looks like or doesn’t look like in our lives, and how we might cultivate more abundance in our lives regardless of our current circumstances. This retreat will allow us to intentionally reflect on abundance in ways that help us experience more abundant love and to live into a more abundant life!
Registration is now open! Save your spot here.

Book Study - White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
2025-03-12 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver)
Called ‘one of the most empathetic and visionary approaches to American poverty in decades’, White Poverty uses story and astute historical analysis, to content that tens of millions of America’s poorest earners, the majority of whom don’t vote, have much in common. White Poverty lifts the hope for a new “moral fusion movement” that seeks to unite people. This is an incredibly timely book as our country looks for ways that we can unite around common challenges.
We will gather in the Parlor and via Zoom on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 pm on March 12th and 19th. Come join us!
Week 2: p.65-147
Zoom link
Meeting ID: 824 8230 9695, Passcode: [REDACTED]

Learning Forum - Women’s Experiences in the Criminal Justice System: What we Can Learn
2025-03-11 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver)
Plan to attend our March Learning forum on Tuesday, March 11th at 7:00 pm via Zoom. Our speaker will be Stephanie Covington, a leading authority on addiction and on trauma, particularly as these affect women in prison. Stephanie trained as a social worker and therapist specializing in recovery from substance abuse. Among other things, she designed the Betty Ford program and has written more than a dozen books for men and women in recovery. Her most recent book, Hidden Healers: The Unexpected Ways Women in prison Help Each Other Survive, makes incarcerated women’s experiences palpable and provides an uncommon perspective on a seldom-discussed subject. Please plan to join us for this important learning opportunity!
Access the Zoom here.
Meeting ID: 872 5748 7842
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Bible Study: The Gospel of John
2025-03-11 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Vancouver)
Join us for a deep dive into an amazing Gospel! This week we will be discussing the Book of Signs – 12:8-14:31 (Entry into Jerusalem, the Foot Washing, The WAY and the Holy Spirit).
Access the bible study here.
Meeting ID: 820 0571 5457
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Book Group
2025-03-10 18:30 - 20:30 UTC
The book group will be meeting in the MUCC Parlor at 6:30pm. The book discussion this month will be on Reading the Glass: A Captain’s View of the Weather, Water and Life on Ships, by Elliot Rappaport. Contact Marilee Gibbs at marileegibbs@comcast.net with any questions.
