Please join us for upcoming events at Blaine Memorial UMC!
By the Rev. Karen Yokota Love
Summer Music Ministry Sunday
On Sunday, June 22, we will celebrate Music Ministry Sunday as we kick off the season of Summer! We’ll hear tunes from the Blaine Memorial Choir, the Blaine Praise Band, the Blaine Ukulele Group of Seattle (B.U.G.S.), and music from different church members! We will also recognize the hard work of our Church School Superintendent Sai Hanaoka and our Church School Teachers during worship. In addition, we will commission our Asian Camp campers, adult chaperones, and counselor who will depart for Asian Camp at the end of the week.
Pastor Job to be Commissioned at PNW Annual Conference
Blaine Memorial’s incoming associate pastor, Job Pangilinan will be commissioned as a provisional candidate for ministry on Saturday, June 28, 2025, at Bothell United Methodist Church at 10:30AM. The service will be livestreamed, and I will send out a link closer to the date. If you’d like to join in the festivities, you are more than welcome to come to witness this in person!
Celebration of the Re-appointment of Pastor Karen, Welcome Pastor Job!
On Sunday, July 20, SPRC will host a Summer BBQ to celebrate the beginning of the new appointment year for Rev. Karen and for our incoming associate pastor, Pastor Job Pangilinan!
Scholarship Sunday
On August 3, 2025, we’ll celebrate, honor, and learn more about this year’s Blaine Memorial UMC scholarship recipients. Some of our recipients will participate in worship. Scholarship Committee Chair Michelle Vaughan will present our recipients to the congregation.
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Our Story Continues!
- Senior Pastor Reflection: Embracing Summer Celebrations!
- Please join us for upcoming events at Blaine Memorial UMC!
- In Photos: Mother’s Day
- In Photos: Holy Week, Easter unite community
- Blaine’s 120th Anniversary Aprons & Sling Bags
- BYG Update: To New Beginnings
- Spiritual Formation Center: A Time to Transition, It’s a New Season
1,000 Paper Crane Project • Due July 20, 2025
The Archives Committee is asking church members to come together to pray for peace by folding 1000 paper cranes as we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the end of World War II, and the closing of the World War II US incarceration camps which imprisoned Japanese Americans.
The folding of 1000 origami cranes has come to symbolize a prayer for peace.
We would like members to fold the origami cranes during social hour after service, in Sunday School, in your small groups, and at your homes and other spaces. We can give you some origami paper or you can use your own origami paper (6-inches by 6-inches).
Please give or send your origami cranes to the church office as soon as you finish or by July 20, 2025.
35th Annual ACRS Walk for Rice @ Seward Park • June 28, 9:00 am
This year ACRS will hold the Walk for Rice at 9:00 am on Saturday, June 28, 2025 at Seward Park. Team Blaine raised over $11,000 last year (2nd place) and this year’s fundraising goal is $8,000. We’re off to a great start, but still have a way to go to reach our goal.
Help ACRS feed AAPI community members who are experiencing food insecurity by donating to and/or registering to walk with Team Blaine:
Donate Online through Team Blaine:
Team Blaine at ACRS
Mail your donation to the Blaine office:
Checks to “Walk for Rice”, memo: “Team Blaine”
Thanks for your support!
Justine I., Team Captain
View the June 2025 Calendar
