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Salish Sea Music Festival
The Salish Sea Early Music Festival is pleased to present seven contrasting performances journeying back and forth through the 16th through 19th centuries on Mondays at 12:00 Noon on Vashon Island. We are immensely grateful to the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit for assisting us in offering these concerts to the Vashon community. We…
Read MoreFestive Thanksgiving donation to the Vashon Food Bank
Festive Thanksgiving donation to the Vashon Food Bank: Like so many eating places, CHS’ Wednesday Night Dinner was shuttered during Covid. Yet CHS’s good parishioners continued to save their grocery receipts while our kitchen remained closed, and we built up a nice nest egg in our outreach bank account. Learning about the availability of these…
Read MoreA Covenant to Root Out Racism
A Covenant to Root Out Racism We lament the Church’s role in the subjugation, enslavement and genocide of societies of indigenous peoples, including Native Americans and Pacific Islanders. Lord, have mercy upon us. We lament the Church’s role in profiting from the selling, trading, and genocide of people of African descent and the lasting effects…
Read MoreA Covenant to Root Out Racism, Kay Pieringer
Anti-black racism ~~ anti-Asian racism ~~ hordes of desperate foreign families at the southern border of the United States What do they have to do with us here on Vashon Island? What do we have to do with them? It is too easy to tell ourselves that there’s not much we can do here on…
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