The Gift of Connection . . . a note from the Executive Director

I can honestly say that every day in 2015 for the Church Coun-cil of Greater Seattle was like opening a gift-wrapped present from you to our region. Each day an opportunity to connect people: across the Christian spectrum, among faith traditions, with distinct sectors of society.

Our intuition – lived out in 79 events gathering, engaging and acting as Christian community – is that knowing one another leads to trust, which in turn leads to mutual accompaniment toward God’s reign of peace and justice. The divine choir at the Inter-Spiritual Celebration of Gratitude at Thanksgiving at First African Methodist Episcopal Church honored God’s works of faith among us all! A countercultural harmony of good news amidst the fanning of the flames of polarization! A foretaste of the communion of communities we strive to be.

This gratitude report tells what happened when your gift of connection and collaboration was unwrapped during 2015. Again and again faith voices joined to protest gun violence, to lift up refugees and to uphold the lives and dignity of men, women and children experiencing homelessness, lacking living wages and being denied opportunity.

We inherited this legacy from our beloved ecumenical cham-pion, the Rev. Dr. Bill Cate, President-Director of the Church Council of Greater Seattle from 1970 to 1990, who recently passed away. As we remember his legacy, I am inspired by stories of the many branches of community he touched, his leadership in sharing power with others, and his firm resolve to model a faith that does justice. I give thanks for the convic-tion, steadfastness, and landscape-changing accomplishments of this gentle giant.

What a powerful legacy - this council of diverse relationships to build upon. Justice takes place when we renew relationships with people we do not know so well, including those beyond our comfort zones. We are confident that our liberation and that of our brothers and sisters in faith is bound together. Like Saint Paul reaching out to the early disciples, you help us extend the “right-hand of fellowship”: a duty and a gift of con-nection as our nation cries out for ambassadors of hope.

For how you take part in this gift of connection known as the Church Council of Greater Seattle, I give thanks constantly.

Blessings,

Michael RamosExecutive Director

Grounded in faith.Working for justice.

Annual Report

2015

Foundations66%

Religious Organizations

10%Individuals

15%

Businesses & Organizations

5%

Program Service Fees/Registrations

3%Other1%

Personnel68%

Professional Services

10%Office Costs

5%

Occupancy8%

Equipment & Technology

5%Other4%

Revenue and Expense*Public Support and RevenueReligious Organizations 35,621Individuals 52,388Businesses & Organizations 16,925Foundations 230,685Program Service Fees & Registrations 9,309Other Revenue 3,608Total Public Support & Revenue 348,536

ExpensePersonnel 236,494Professional Services 35,340Occupancy 25,915Office Costs 18,709Equipment & Technology 17,725Other 13,212Total Expense 347,395

Net 1,141

*Unaudited

2015 Financial Report

2015 Revenue

2015 Expense

Top: Part of the Cleansing Ritual of Healing and Meditative Walk we co-sponsored with WHEEL/Women in Black.

Above: Executive Director Michael Ramos speaking a word of welcome for and accompaniment with Syrian refugees.

Below: Participants of the Mother’s Day Vigil at the Tacoma Detention Center place rocks in remembrance of all those who have died in immi-gration detention.

Opposite Page Top: A panel of workers share their experiences at the Our Stories, Our Solutions forum.

Opposite Page Bottom: Activist Greg Speltz participates in the Mother’s Day Vigil at the Tacoma Detention Center.

I was greeted with so much love I had a bit of an emotional moment when I first walked in the church. I was so grateful to be with a group of people who care so deeply for their fellow humanity.

Weaving Our Strengths Participant

Much of our personnel expense is devoted to carrying out programs, and supporting our congregations and their members to gather, engage, and act for the common good. Our staff includes the equivalent of 4.2 full time positions.

Let’s Work Together

2015 saw important work in solidarity with others around Living Wage and Immigration.

Each year the Church Council is blessed with Justice Leadership Program staff through the United Church of Christ. These young adults take initiative and “get things done” for justice. During 2015, Emmanuel Mancilla coordinated living wage efforts and brought new energy to the work of immigration.

• Our Living Wage Working Group, guided by stories of work-ing people, continued efforts to shape collaborative responses to economic inequality, most notably at a moving living wage forum at Seattle First Baptist Church in June.

• With our colleagues at Puentes, Emmanuel produced a unique resource guide for immigrant people, Sin Fronteras, for distribu-tion in Spanish and English throughout the state.

• The Mother’s Day Vigil at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma is an annual event of great import. Emmanuel took a lead in its preparations, collaborating with the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice and the Washington New Sanctuary Move-ment. Once again, your support shone a light of faith and justice on the unjust system of detention and deportation and the human suffering attached to our federal policies and practices.

Reminded by the Unitarian Universalist participants in May’s vigil to “stand on the side of love,” your presence through the year delivered the message of a solidarity that overcomes fear and binds us together beyond walls.

79Events & Activities

involving

7,566people and

150organizations

GatherWorship, network,

build relationships, & share news

EngageVitalize and equip congregations

through workshops, forums, & an annual conference

ActAct for justice through

organizing, service, advocacy, & public witness

In a crisis for housing, stepping stones of hopeIt takes a village to address the twin crises of homelessness and lack of housing for people with lower incomes. You strengthened the faith community response for encampments, shelter, sup-portive services and permanent housing during the painful realities of 2015. Our united voice was pivotal in the siting of two new city-sanctioned tent encampments, the addition of $2.3 mil-lion for shelter in the City of Seattle budget, the passage of the state-level HB 2263, the local sales tax option for affordable housing and mental health care, and the approval of the King County Best Starts for Kids levy. While raising the issue of displacement and preservation of housing in the public square, we supported the Sacred Lands Conference at Seattle University to demonstrate best practices for using church land at the congregation’s discretion to develop low-income units on their property.

Faith communities came together through our Network of Networks, leading to expanded collab-oration with Muslim housing providers, the Eastside Interfaith Social Concerns Council (EISCC) and REACH (Renton Ecumenical Association of Churches). Your collective voice was felt in shaping the new strategic plan for All Home, formerly the Committee to End Homelessness in King County. Building on the declared States of Emergency in King County and Seattle, your support continues to turn a regional crisis into stepping stones of hope.

Caring for the Community’s CrossroadsHow to connect our lively communities in this fast-moving time? Your support maintains a web of hope-filled communications that provide the most comprehensive avenue into Christian undertakings in King and South Snohomish Counties. Along with information shared, you make it possible to convene a community commons: event and virtual spaces to better know and pray with our neighbors.

• “There is room at the table for everyone,” sang the sublime Quaker song-writer Carrie Newcomer in a concert at University Congregational. Bridging many communities, Carrie’s cultural work opened the heart for justice work.

• Jam-packed e-newsletters, timely action alerts, and other connective com-munications systems make your Church Council the go-to agency for those who want to link into the commons of the Christian community.

Task Force Spotlight: Seattle - St. Petersburg Sister Churches Program Twenty-five years ago, a group of local Seattle church leaders reached out to what was then the Soviet Union with a hope that exchanges of leaders and faithful of many Christian denominations could enhance understanding and friendship. That hope blossomed into 25 years of official delegations, establishment of Russia’s first children’s hospice, seminary exchanges, and untold friendships. The Seattle-St. Petersburg Sister Churches Program recognized its jubilee with the publication of a commemorative book. They also sponsored Nikolai Arinushkin, a Russian seminary student, for Clinical Pastoral Education Program at St. Peter Hospital in Olympia. Nikki has returned to St. Petersburg to continue his studies for the Russian Orthodox priesthood. For information on the Sister Church Program, contact Sister Charlotte Vandyke at charlotte.vandyke@yahoo.com.

I was so uplifted by the fact that there were people there from 15 different denominations; and not once did I hear anyone compare the beliefs of one de-nomination to another denomination. Everyone was focused on the common issues we all face and the need for work-ing together to address them.

Weaving Our Strengths participant

Our homelessness project would not be where it is today if it were not for the help of the Church Council.

Lisa Gustaveson, Faith and Family Homelessness Project of Seattle University’s School of Theology and Ministry

Weaving Our Strengths ConferenceWeaving Our Strengths is a center piece of our annual programming, a con-ference where 60 congregations from 22 cities learn, worship, and network. During 2015 it featured 14 workshops on the topics churches told us they most needed such as facing homelessness, keeping Sabbath, walking with people who live with mental illness, uncovering racial injustice in many ways, and sound fiscal management.

Tearing Down WallsThere is a Christian practice of how to see our brothers and sisters from diverse religious traditions and spiritualities: not as “other” but as neighbor and friend. You made that practice real during 2015. In formal statements to our government, in shared worship, in rallies of support, and in planning together. By raising Christian voices rooted in enduring moral values that cross boundaries and borders. Through formal calls for hospitality for Syrian, Central American, and African refugees and strategizing for their reception.

• Standing with our Muslim friends in public witness at Idriss Mosque and in halls of power -- acknowledging shared faith roots and decrying attempts at scapegoating them, as we did in 2001.

• A rousing Inter-Spiritual Celebration of Gratitude at Thanksgiving at First African Methodist Episcopal, connecting congregations and representatives from Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist, Muslim and Indigenous traditions – as well as a multicultural choir of the faithful.

Thanks to you, people of many faiths are joining our stories together, tearing down walls that divide, meeting heirs of a common future.

Pathways to Address RacismIn a year of increasing outrage at the loss of young, African American lives, sometimes at the hands of law enforcement, you brought faith communities together to speak, listen, pray, act, and grow toward racial justice.

• 14 events throughout the year;

• public dialogue on race and racism hosted by First AME Church;

• multiracial vigils to end gun violence;

• an array of conversations and resources for Taproot Theatre Company’s play Best of Enemies;

• trainings for faith communities on moving from privilege toward mutual relationship and solidarity.

How does the Church Council and all our faith communities make racial justice a way of life? How are matters such as lack of housing, immigration reform, and income equality approached by faith communities using a critical race lens? You are creating ongoing opportunities for churches to accompany one another toward a shared destiny of Beloved Community.

Task Force Spotlight: Youth Chaplaincy Coalition

The Youth Chaplaincy Coalition continues to bring hope and justice to young people caught up in the judicial system. The Rev. Terri Stewart’s leadership has brought an increased emphasis on transforming lives and systems by sitting on Washington State’s Sentencing Guidelines Commission and teaching organizations and churches about racism and privilege. Within the deten-tion setting, My Action Plan (MAP) mentoring has been expanded to include Green Hill Academic School in Chehalis. And the first Muslim prayer service was cele-brated this year at the King County Juvenile Detention Center. This is added to the traditional work of visiting youth, managing ~150 volunteers, intern supervision, retreats within the detention setting, and supplying worship service to the detention center. God does keep us busy! For information on YCC, contact the Rev. Terri Stewart at ycc-chaplain@thechurchcouncil.org.

Opposite page: Blessing of the new tent encampment in Interbay Far left: The Rev. Kelle Brown from Plymouth Church United Church of Christ leads a workshop on Reading the Bible Through the Lens of Justice.

Left: Participants in a “Facing Priv-ilege” workshop led by Angela Davis, co-founder of Seattle Restorative Justice, and Rev. Terri Stewart of the Youth Chaplaincy Coalition play Privilege Monopoly.

We will see the divine in our brothers and sisters who are homeless, ill, refugee, incarcerated, left out and lonely and work to dismantle the cradle to prison pipeline. . . We will honor our diverse religious and spiritual expressions and give thanks for all the wonderful pathways of Wisdom. We will act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with our God.

from Litany of Gratitude, Lamentation and Hope used at the Inter-Spiritual Celebration of Gratitude at Thanksgiving. Written by Michael Ramos, Church Council of Greater Seattle, and Julie Burrell, First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Seattle.

I sat down and lit a candle and said the names of the nine black lives lost and wondered who I could mourn with. I looked up to your email about tonight’s vigils. Thank you, bless you.

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2015 Contributors: These committed partners make great work possible. Thank you. Bless you.

Contributors to Core Operations: Gather, Engage, Act

Foundations: The John C. and Karyl K. Hughes Foundation • Seattle Foundation • The Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Foundation • Thomas & Sharon Sherrard Family Fund • Faith Organizations - Denominations & Schools: Catholic Archbishop of Seattle • Community of Christ - Greater Pacific NW • Episcopal Diocese of Olympia • Evergreen Association of American Baptist Churches • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Northwest Washington Synod • Pacific Northwest Annual Conference United Methodist Church • Seattle University – School of Theology & Ministry • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • Organizational Supporters & Sponsors: Gold Sponsors: Dignity Memorial: Acacia Memorial Park & Funeral Home • SEIU Healthcare 1199NW • SEIU Local 6 • United Food and Commercial Workers UFCW 21 • Silver Sponsors: SEIU Healthcare 775NW • Bronze Sponsors: Center for Courage & Renewal • The Dancing Word • Faith Action Network • IAM Machinist’s Local 751 • Puget Sound Sage • Team-sters Local Union 117 • Additional Sponsors: Horizon House • Beth Amsbary • Andrew Himes • The Rev. Tamara & Jeff Roberts • Faith Organizations - Congregations: All Pilgrims Christian Church • Bear Creek Methodist Church • Bellevue Christian Church • Christ Our Hope Catholic Church • Church of The Ascension • Community of Christ Crystal Springs Congregation • Com-munity of Christ Rainier Congregation • Eastgate Congregational United Church Of Christ • Eastside Friends Meeting • Edmonds United Methodist Church • Fairwood Community United Methodist Church • Fauntleroy Church United Church of Christ • First Church of Christ, Scientist • First Lutheran Church of West Seattle • Gethsemane Lutheran Church • Haller Lake United Methodist Church • Immanuel Lutheran Church • Keystone Congregational United Church of Christ • Lake City Christian Church • Magnolia United Church of Christ Congregational • Newport Presbyterian Church • Our Redeemer’s Lutheran Church • Plymouth Congrega-tional Church United Church of Christ • Prospect Congregational United Church of Christ • Queen Anne Christian Church • Red-mond Presbyterian Church • Renton First United Methodist Church • S K Y Center for Spiritual Living • Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathe-dral • Sand Point Community Methodist Church • Seattle First Baptist Church • Seattle Mennonite Church • Sisters of Saint Dominic of Tacoma • St. James Cathedral • St. John United Lutheran Church • St. Patrick Parish • St. Paul’s United Church of Christ • University Baptist Church • University Christian Church Disciples of Christ • University Congregational United Church of Christ • University Lutheran Church • University Temple United Methodist Church • Woodland Park Presbyterian Church • In Kind Support: Central Coop • QFC • Employee Matching and Workplace Giving: City of Seattle Employee Giving • Combined Federal Campaign • Costco Wholesale • King County Employee Giving • Microsoft Giving Campaign • State of Washington Combined Fund • Individ-uals: Anonymous (15) • Rev. Jim & Louise Abbott • Dorlene Agenbroad • Inez Allan • Nancy Amidei • Brian Anderson • Christopher L. and Megan Anderson • Leonard & Judith Andrews • Jo Anthony • Lynne and Harold Armstrong • Loren & June Arnett • Diane Baer • Hazel Bauer • The Rev. Dr. Phyllis Beaumonte • Betsey Beckman • Jean M. Bell • David Bennett • Jeff Berner • Rosemary Blakemore • Dick & Betty Blakney • The Rev. Jan Bolerjack • Joy Borkholder & Rich Stolz • Dr. & Mrs. Scott and Annette Bowen • The Rev. M. Christopher and Constance Boyer • Pamela Bradburn • The Rev. Ruth Brandon • Carl Brandt • Berlena Brock • The Revs. Susan & Red Burchfield • Robert W. Burnham • Kelley Burroughs • Peggy Campbell • Amelia Canaday • The Rev. Dennie Carcelli • Frances Carr • The Rev. Dr. William & Jan Cate • Terry Chadsey • Ming Chen • Jan Cherry • Steve Clagett • Allen & Donna Clark • Jim & Elaine Clark • The Rev. Jack Coates • Truman Coggins • Berta Cohen • Sally Sue Coleman • Catherine Colwell • B. JoAnne Conard • Richard Conlin & Sue Ann Allen • Tony Copes & Trish Rogers • The Rev. Dr. Marilyn & Bob Cornwell • Dr. Chris & Debi Covert-Bowlds • The Rev. Gail & Ed Crouch • Kathleen and Thomas Cunningham • Verlene & James Davis • Kathy Dawson and Wayne Daly • The Rev. Donna Frey and Robert Decou • Elise DeGooyer • Doneen & Wayne DeMeester • Lisa Dennison • The Revs. Michael Denton & Lauren Can-non • Elizabeth Dickinson & Joe Merrill • Laurence & Nancy Dobson • The Rev. Lisa Domke • Susan Donaldson • Lisa Dunn • Emily Easton • Betty Eberharter • Marjorie Edwards • The Revs. Joanne Engquist and Kari Lipke • Ann Erickson • Thomas Ewell • Yousif Farjo • P Steve Faust • Virginia Felton & Jeff Hancock • Al & Joyce Ferkovich • Lois Fish • Jerry & Joanne Flagel • The Rev. Paul &

Kathy Forman • Roxanne Fowler • Karyn Frazier • Yvonne Freitas-McGookin • David & Nancy Gillespie • Emily Goertz • Vicki Grayland • Alan Greenbaum & Laura Thorne • Wayne Griffen • Fay Griffin • Darel Grothaus • G. Gump • Catherine Gunstone • Linda & Tom Hagedom • Yuji Hakuno • James & Louisa Halfaker • Gerard and Jeanne Hall • Holly Hallman and Fred Dunlap • Carol & Earl Hamilton • Darlene Hamilton • Margaret Hammack • Elizabeth M. Hansen • Gordon & Roxana Harper • Tom and Barbara Hawksford • The Rev. Dr. Darryn Hewson • David & Carol Heywood • Elaine Hickman • Patrick and Elizabeth River Higgins • Mark & Mary Hillman • Joan Himmes • Ronald & Lois Hines • Vennie & Roland Holloway • Cherie Holman • Judith Hooper •

Nancy Horman • Kathleen Hosfeld • Robert and Yolanda Houze • Lois Huseby • Jean & Robert Hutchison • The Rev. Peter Ilgenfritz • The Rev. Staci Imes • Betty Lucas & Gordon Jackins • Bernita Wilson Jackson • Anna Jenkins • The Rev. Carol Jensen & Ron Young • The Rev. Ronald and Wilma Johnson • Sarah & Richard Johnson • Selma Johnson • Fred and Marian Karpoff • The Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon & Mardine Davis • Alan and Margaret Klockars • The Rev. Scott Kramer • The Rev. Katie Ladd • Steve Lansing & Bonnie Valiton • Vince Larkin & Ray Nutter • George Lawson • Judith & David Leblanc • Jean & Roger Leed • Ann Lev & The Rev. Kathleen Morgan • Lynne Lew • Patricia Lewis • The Rev. Dr. Hubert G. Locke • Kaisa London • The Rev. Delmas & Roberta Luedke • Pat Lund-gren • Frederick and Sandra Mabbott • Sally Mackey • The Very Rev. Paul Magnano • The Rev. Joyce Manson • Ann Marchand • Abbot Genjo Marinello • The Rev. Wim Mauldin • The Rev. Elizabeth Maupin • Mildred May •

Board Members Serving in 2015

President: Ms. Jan Cherry, Diaconal MinisterVice President: The Rev. Jim PattenTreasurer: Ms. Kathryn SharpSecretary: The Rev. Dr. Marilyn Cornwell

The Rev. Dr. Phyllis BeaumonteMr. Robert HaynieMrs. Ruth HaynieThe Rev. Dr. Darryn HewsonThe Rev. Staci ImesMr. Vince LarkinMs. Nora J. PercivalMr. Steve PomeroyThe Rev. Dr. Rick RussellThe Rev. Dr. Linda Smith

Staff Members in 2015Michael Ramos, Executive Director

Emmanuel Mancilla, Justice Leadership Program Intern

Ann Marie Do, Justice Leadership Program Intern

Ann Erickson, Office Manager/Program Associate

Beth Amsbary, Philanthropy Manager

Janet Deters, Accountant, part-time

Char Davies, Chief Financial Officer, part-time

Louise McAllister • Mark McDermott • Mildred McHenry • The Rev. Dr. David Meekhof • Joan and Richard Merritt • Antonio and Mary Ann Micale • Dr. Donald and Pamela Mitchell • Jo Bennett Mitchell and Bob Mitchell • Dr. Cynthia and Rev. Ron Moe-Lobeda • Perry Montgomery • Hans and Mary Mueller • Jim and Ruth Mulligan • Mark Murphy • George & Elizabeth Naden • Kathleen Nelson • Jonathan and Melanie Neufeld • Cheryl Nichols • Virginia Nielsen • Weldon and Margaret Nisly • The Rev. Roger O’Brien • The Rev. Eric O’del • Paul and Nancy OldenKamp • The Rev. Dr. Eldon and Marcia Olson • Mark & Beth Oppenlander • Roy and Joyce Oster-gren • The Rev. James & Jackie Patten • The Rev. Dr. Marcia Patton • Julia Paulsen • Anastasia Pechenkina • Nora J. Percival • Henry & Janet Perry • Robert Petersen • The Rev. Tim Phillips & Patrick Green • Steve and Mary Ann Pomeroy • Bruce & Virginia Pringle • The Rev. Meighan Pritchard • The Rev. Paul and Mary Margaret Pruitt • Blake & Vicki Puckett • The Rev. Thomas and Jane Quigley • Katherine & Tracey Ramirez • Kathleen Randall • Deena Randolph • Rick & Lorri Reynolds • The Rt. Rev. Gregory Rickel • Dr. Alyson Rieke • Jayne Riggs & Stan Sivesind • Ed & Marjorie Ringness • Doris Rolander • George R. Rolfe and Lois Gamble Duncan • Jack & Sharon Roos • Kelle Rose • The Rev. Dr. Rick Russell • Francie Rutherford • Rebecca Saldaña • Chris and Lee Sargent • The Rev. Dr. Charles & Pamela Scalise • Annette Schley • Gary & Judith Schwab • Dic & Rita Selin • Marie Sever • Kath-ryn and Lynn Sharp • Elizabeth Sheppard & Bill Badgeley • George Shuman • Christian & Christie Skoorsmith • The Rev. Dr. Linda Smith • Mamie Smith • Mary Ellen Smith & Nancy Hannah • Jane Soder • Katherine Sodergren • Marilyn Soderquist • Greg Speltz • Thad Spratlen • Marilyn Stahl • Allene Steinberg • Jane and Alec Stevens • William and Lois Stewart • Doug and Joan Stewart • James & Patricia Stockdale • Eleanor and John Sundqvist • The Rev. Terry and Martha Teigen • Christopher Thomas • The Very Rev. Steven & Katherine Thomason • The Rev. Edwin & Marian Towle • Gay Townsend • Herbert Tsuchiya • Janice Tufte • The Revs. Greg & Kathy Turner • Robert & Rozella Van Meter • Valerie Van Osdel • Sr. Charlotte Vandyke • Shirley S. Vaughn • Venus Wang • Ginger Warfield & Rosh Doan • Laurie Weckel • Marjorie Weiss • James & Donna Weller • June and Roger Whitson • Olga Willman • Kathy Wilmering • Gail & Jay Winberg • Susan Wineke • Richard & Susan Winslow • Paul and Boots Winterstein • Alice Woldt • Imad Yanni • Joyce & Randall Yates • Judith Zeh • Dr. Farhat Ziadeh • Vera and Jerome Zimmerman Legacy Society: A gift for tomorrow. These forward-thinking individuals include the Church Council of Greater Seattle in their will or other estate planning: The Rev. Dr. David Aasen • The Rev. David Bloom • Paula Kathleen Dawson • P. Steve Faust

2015 Contributors to Church Council Task Forces and Programs

Youth Chaplaincy Coalition: Organizational: Pacific Northwest Annual Conference United Methodist Church • Bear Creek Methodist Church • Church of the Ascension • Seattle First Baptist Church • Microsoft Giving Campaign • Individuals: Anonymous (2) • Nancy Barr • Stephen & Mary Petrina Boyd • Patricia Chouery • Georgia Dedeoglou • Melinda Giese • Ellyn Martin • Robert Stewart • James & Barbara Warberg • Jan Warden • Laurie Weckel • St. Peterburg Sister Church Program: Peter Anderson • Dick & Jane Carter • Diane Divilbass • Rosh Doan & Ginger Warfield • Sr. Charlotte Vandyke • Cuba Friendship: David Batchelder • Maureen Somemslie Bo • Beth Brunton & Dwight P. Pelz • Michelle Jacobsen • Kathryn Keller • Vernon Olsen • Christine Rousseau • Susan Southerton • Anne and William St. Germain • Joan & Louis Truskoff • Alice Woldt • Elizabeth Yates • Judith Zeh Other Task Forces: Yousif Farjo • Roberta Ray • Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral

Our aim is to appropriately recognize each donor. Please let us know if your acknowledgement needs to be changed by contacting Beth Amsbary, Philanthropy Manager, at 206-525-1213 ext. 103 or BAmsbary@thechurchcouncil.org.

Thank you for your service to the Church Council of Greater Seattle and to the greater ecumenical community.

We need groups like the Church Council. It is a great work of our time to come together for understanding and compassion.

Quaker singer/songwriter Carrie Newcomer

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