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Celebrate Easter!

Posted by on Mar 26, 2013 in Church News & Events

You are invited to come and renew your hearts and minds in worship this Holy Week.                   Child-care is provided at all worship services.

Maundy (Holy) Thursday, March 28:                                                                           7:00pm This worship celebrates the new commandment Jesus gives us: to love one another.  We do this by participating in hand washing and communion. We end in silence and the stripping of the altar.

Good Friday, March 29:                                                                                           6:00pm Enjoy food and fellowship with a simple meal together in the Social Hall.                 7:00pm We welcome the Japanese Baptist Church as we worship and reflect on the passion and death of Jesus Christ.

Easter Sunday, March 31:                                                                                                 8:30-10:00am, 11:00-12:00pm: Enjoy a wonderful Easter Breakfast by the Youth Group.     10:00am: Celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ at our Easter worship!                         You are invited to decorate our flower cross with flowers from your home.                               Sunday School for children (Pre-K-5th grade) and an Easter Egg Hunt.

 

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Blaine Memorial Receives Community Voice Award from the International Examiner

Posted by on May 22, 2012 in Church News & Events

On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at the Tea Palace Restaurant in Renton, WA, Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church received a Community Voice Award for Outstanding Organization by the International Examiner. The International Examiner was established in 1974 ad is the only non-profit Asian American publication in the country, serving the Northwest Asian American community.

We learned that Blaine Memorial was the first Church to ever be given a Community Voice Award. We are deeply humbled by this honor.

To read more about this award please see: http://www.iexaminer.org/community/cva-awardee-spotlight-2012-blaine-memorial-united-methodist-church/

Reverend Derek Nakano, senior pastor, offers these words and reflections. “In accepting the award for all of you, I said that I was accepting this award not just for us in our present day ministry, but that I accepted the award for the 108 year history of Blaine memorial and its very important work not only with Japanese American and Asian American communities in the Pacific Northwest, but also with our global communities as well. For what is most important for us to remember, and what I was thinking as I stepped up to receive the award for all of you, is that we stand on the shoulders of generations of faithful men, women and children who built, sustained, supported and sacrificed, that they might have a ministry and a legacy to pass on to the future, and to us in 2012.”

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