Highland Kids at the Park

If you have kids of any age and would enjoy meeting at a park occasionally over the summer, please join us for some outside fun.  We meet sometime between 9:30 and 10:00 a.m. at the park and stay however long we or our kids can manage.  Bring a picnic lunch if you want to eat before going home.  The parks we are meeting at are listed below.  If you have questions, please call the church office at 425-764-7676.

August 11th	Newcastle Beach Park, Bellevue
August 25th	St. Edwards Park, Bothell

Tent City Volunteer Opportunity

Iglesai Latinoamericana (ILA) helps out at Tent City on the 2nd Sunday of each month by preparing & serving meals for the residents.  The next meal preparing date is Sunday, Aug. 8th.  They start preparing the meals at Highland’s fellowship hall kitchen at 2:00 pm to be ready for the 5:15 pm departure to Tent City’s current location in Kirkland.  If you would like to help, please contact Cecilia Salazar (425-638-2719) and let her know if you would like to help w/ preparing or serving the meals or both.  More info. about Tent City can be found at: http://tentcity4.info/volunteer/.

Jubilee Service Day 2010

Participating teachers have submitted wish lists at nine elementary schools.  They’ll be in their classrooms Saturday, August 14, waiting for the volunteers, followers of Jesus from over 20 churches, to assist completion of opening school tasks.  You can volunteer in the AM shift (8-12pm) or the PM shift (1-5 pm) or both.  Volunteers with sewing machines are needed at Stevenson Elementary to sew the much appreciated chair bags.  There are also 15 approved homes in needed of volunteers to “beautify” their homes.  Every volunteer counts!  There is a second service day planned for Saturday, August 21, from 9-1pm at Ardmore Elementary to unpack boxes and help with classroom set up.  Please contact the church office to sign up or go to http://www.fpcbellevue.org/JubileeServices.ashx?p=1751 for the registration link.

Summer Food Drive

Help re-stock our food pantry.  Extra food will be delivered to Hopelink.

NPC Women's Retreat

There are only a few spaces left for the Sept 17-19 retreat.  If you would like to attend, please sign up as soon as possible at  www.npc-cwm.org. 

Covenant Men’s Retreat

Save the date for this year’s Men’s retreat at Cascades camp from Sept. 24-26.  

Some of the exciting activities are: zip-line, shotgun bowling, cyclocross race, golf chipping contest.  Registration form will be available next week or can be found online at:  http://www.cascadescamp.org/ccacc/inner-90.php.

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