Jubilee Reach Volunteer Opportunity

During the pandemic, members of OPPC have been purchasing and delivering groceries and staples to Jubilee Reach for distribution to families in the community in need. In addition, almost 20 members have periodically volunteered, some members multiple times, to work at Jubilee Reach to receive and process groceries and supplies donated by churches like OPPC and other organizations. This is a wonderful way for the OPPC community to get to know and care for our neighbors.

We want to open this opportunity to the whole church community! We hope you will be able to join us.

• When: March 4, April 1, May 6 from 8:30 AM to about noon at Jubilee Reach. Please sign up if you're available. Thank you!

• Work Crew: 8 members of OPPC

• Work activity: Receive bags of groceries and donated supplies like diapers, verify contents, sort through produce donated by grocery stores, organize for future distribution, any other related work that may be required.

Please use the link below to sign up. We are so excited to serve with you!    

If you’re able to provide bags of groceries to Jubilee Reach, please contact Dean Tyler for more information.

Eastside Youth Collective Winter Retreat to Ingalls Creek February 21-23. 

Please contact Lottie to register! 

Seattle-Barranquilla

Colombia Partnership Trip

Feb. 4-11, 2025

Please pray for the Overlake Park PC delegation who will be joining Seattle Presbytery on the annual partnership trip to Barranquilla, Colombia February 4-11, 2025!

f you are interested in learning more about the trip or about the partnership between Seattle Presbytery and the Presbytery of the North Coast in Colombia, please contact Haley Ballast (pastor@wallpc.org) or Eliana Maxim (eliana@seattlepresbytery.org).

You’re invited to sign up to provide a dinner to our friends at the PorchLight rotating shelter! OPPC is  hosting meals 2/1-2/14 while the men are staying at St. Luke's Lutheran. 

Sign up link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0E4FA8A72DA0FE3-54250850-meals#/

Contact Patricia Tuor for more information.

Join us May 16-18 at Suncadia for fellowship and a little R & R!

Our goal is to strengthen relationships between the women of OPPC and RPC. 
We're looking forward to time for prayer and contemplation, walks, pickleball, and great conversation! 
Arrive: evening of May 16th; Depart: afternoon of May 18th 
Cost: ~$200 per person (financial assistance is available!) 

Register here by February 28!

Newport Presbyterian Church is hosting artist and theologian Scott Erikson for a lecture series on Jan 24 and 25.

Want to make more money? Looking to lose weight? Searching for the perfect balance between work and rest? Well, we can’t help with that, but we can offer a space to make art and talk about how to make meaning in the chaos of life right now. Your fire can go out. The drenching malaise of binge-worthy television, destructive news narratives, and body-shaming advertising will slowly weigh you down over time. But wonder, curiosity, imagination, risking, doing, trying, being...these are the warm flames of Life in the coldest of seasons.

SCOTT ERICKSON is a dynamic and energetic speaker who uses humor, honesty, and art to help us all connect with ourselves and the Divine. Scott is full of ideas to motivate us to see things in fresh ways, stretch ourselves to try new things, inspire creative ways of thinking, and fill us with hope that we can co-create a better future. In Scott’s words, the creative practice, or any practice, whether physical, spiritual, or mental, is not so much about accomplishing something as much as it is keeping the Fire of Life alive in oneself. For more information on Scott visit his website here.
This is the spirit we hope to explore together in this year’s community lecture. Let’s talk about navigating meaningfulness and meaninglessness. Let’s talk about turning our pain into something. Let’s talk about finding our spark. Let’s talk about how we are constructing our everyday liturgies.

For more information and to register please visit the Newport Presbyterian Church website. 

Jubilee Reach Volunteer Opportunity

During the pandemic, members of OPPC have been purchasing and delivering groceries and staples to Jubilee Reach for distribution to families in the community in need. In addition, almost 20 members have periodically volunteered, some members multiple times, to work at Jubilee Reach to receive and process groceries and supplies donated by churches like OPPC and other organizations. This is a wonderful way for the OPPC community to get to know and care for our neighbors.

We want to open this opportunity to the whole church community! We hope you will be able to join us.

• When: November 5, December 3, December 31, January 7, February 4 from 8:30 AM to about noon at Jubilee Reach. Please sign up if you're available. Thank you!

• Work Crew: 8 members of OPPC

• Work activity: Receive bags of groceries and donated supplies like diapers, verify contents, sort through produce donated by grocery stores, organize for future distribution, any other related work that may be required.

Please use the link below to sign up. We are so excited to serve with you!    

If you’re able to provide bags of groceries to Jubilee Reach, please contact Dean Tyler for more information.

Join Adult ED for a Psalm study on September 22 after worship! Check out the fascinating YouTube video featuring Bono and Eugene Peterson discussing the Psalms and David Taylor joins them in the last section. 

Please mark your calendars for Sunday, September 22. Dave will be taking the lead and will have plenty of donuts to go around! Pastor HT will also be joining in, so come join the fun and conversation! Hope to see you on the 22nd.

Other upcoming opportunities:

FALL HIKE: Sunday, September 15, Leave RPC around Noon 

We will join the other youth groups to enjoy the mountains at their best! Bring snacks for the trail, and prepare to let back to school anxiety melt away with friends and forest bathing.  

FALL FARM DAY: Sunday, Oct 20, Leave RPC around Noon 

Pumpkin patches, fresh-pressed cider, and a Washington State corn maze! What could make it feel more like Fall? We are pulling out our flannels and spending the afternoon at Swans Trail Farms in Snohomish with our friend from NP, OPPC, and MIPC! Tickets are $20 per person. RSVP by October 6th.  

TRUNK OR TREAT: Saturday, Oct 26

We are partnering with the YMCA this year - yay! They will be hosting the trunk or treat, as well as having other games and activities for kids and families. If you are interested in volunteering or having a "trunk," please register at this link, as we have to all go through the YMCA volunteer process this year. Volunteer Project Page (volunteermatters.org). More details to come!

SERVICE PROJECT—Cooking with YouthCare at MIPC: Sunday Nov 3, 3-5pm, Leave RPC at 2:30  

We will gather at Mercer Island Presbyterian Church to learn about YouthCare. YouthCare works to end youth homelessness and to ensure that young people are valued for who they are and empowered to achieve their potential. There are very few youth shelters in our area and we are excited to learn about their work and help cook meals for them to share with their community!  

PASTOR LOTTIE RETURNS!: November 8

CHRISTMAS PARTY: Friday Dec 6th, at MIPC 

The Christmas Extravaganza you’ve all been waiting for… Gingerbread House Competition, White elephant Gift Exchange, Christmas Carol-oke, Cookies, Hot Chocolate, Your craziest Christmas clothes. We will meet gather together in Mercer Island Pres’s cozy fireplace room to usher in the Festive Season!

Dinner donations for the PorchLight clients in September would be greatly appreciated.

They will be staying at Redmond United Methodist Church. Sign up to donate HERE!