Monk pays visit to Trinity Lutheran
Trinity Lutheran Church welcomes the Very Rev. Igumen Tryphon, an orthodox Christian monk, raised Lutheran, and of Norwegian heritage, on Saturday, April 24.
He has been a monk for almost 30 years and is co-founder and abbot of All Merciful Saviour Monastery, founded in 1986 on Vashon Island.
All are welcome to this event, and are asked to bring a potluck food item to share.
For information, call the church office at 331-5191.
Pastor Wedeking speaks on Sunday
Sunday morning, Pastor Ron Wedeking will speak on the topic, “The Practice of Discernment,” based on Matthew 7:6, at South Whidbey Community Church.
SWCC provides a smaller church experience in a historical setting, yet with traditional worship and hymns in a friendly, informal atmosphere.
Morning worship begins at 10 and is preceded by an adult learning forum at 9 a.m., with Stan Walker leading a study into Paul’s Letter to the Philippians and Art Angst leading a study into the Gospel of Luke. These are open classes where everyone is invited.
SWCC is a local independent, non-denominational church that adheres to the National Association of Evangelical’s Statement of Faith. It is open to everyone and gathers for worship each Sunday at the Deer Lagoon Grange, 5142 Bayview Road, Langley. For details, call 221-1220.
‘Living on the Edge’ is topic at UUCWI
We live on the edge of land and water, the edge of nature and development, the edge of change. At the Sunday service for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Whidbey Island, speaker Frances Wood will share spiritual inspiration from Native American myths, and the congregation will look for ways to find a place on this fragile, wonderful planet.
Wood is a writer, naturalist and lover of all things avian. She is author of “Brushed by Feathers: A Year of Birdwatching in the West,” a frequent writer for public radio’s Bird Note and columnist for the South Whidbey Record.
All are welcome. Values-based children’s religious exploration classes and childcare will be provided. The service is at 10 a.m. at 20103 Highway 525, just north of Freeland.
Check www.whidbey.com/uucwi for more information.
Christian Science hosts joyful service
Death looms like a great shadow, seemingly as inevitable as the night; yet when the night comes, you light the lamp, and the night is light around you.
Jesus came to light the way for all people to stop fearing shadows. All have the inalienable right — as the children of God — to walk in light, displacing shadows of fear of all sorts.
“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.” (Isaiah 9: 2.)
“The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.” (Matthew 4:16.)
Come join a joyful service on Sunday, April 25 at the Christian Science Church, beginning
at 10:30 a.m., at 5910 Highway 525 (just north of Bayview and across from Useless Bay Road).
Celebration of love at Unity of Whidbey
Unity of Whidbey will have a musical celebration of love at the Sunday service.
The church’s talented musicians, Tadd CharetteNunn, Talia Toni Marcus and Lynn Parr, with their rich expression through guitar, violin and piano, will take Unity on a musical journey to explore the power and healing energy of love in and throughout our lives.
There will also be singing by the Unity choir. After the worship celebration, a Heart Circle will meet from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Unity meets at 10 a.m. Sunday at 5671 Crawford Road, Langley. All are welcome.
Greenbank church hosts youth event
Whidbey Evangelical Free Church will host a National Day of Prayer youth event from 7 to
9 p.m. Friday, May 7.
All youths in grades six through 12 are invited to share in a night of prayer, worship, fun and food.
The church is at 840 Plantation Drive, Greenbank. For more information, e-mail Alycia Jones at alyjones@sprintblackberry.net.
