This year’s Seattle CROP Hunger Walk at Green Lake will be October 3, 2010. Registration begins at 1 p.m. at the Green Lake United Methodist Church (6415 1st Ave NE).  At 1:30 p.m., walkers will leave the church and head down the street to the 2.8 mile Green Lake loop. A program of the Church [...]

A new spiritual center and community space is coming to the neighborhood.  Green Lake Spiritual Center, located at 125 NE 52nd St, is opening its doors this Sunday (August 1, 2010), 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. India Holden, who co-directs the center with her husband Steven Holden, says the center is “loosely organized around spirituality, [...]

There was a tense community meeting last night (Wednesday, July 14, 2010) at Green Lake’s Bethany Lutheran Church (7400 Woodlawn Ave NE). Members of the church congregation and residents of the surrounding neighborhood came together to hear from eight men representing SHARE (Seattle Housing and Resource Effort).  SHARE plans to establish a homeless shelter for [...]

An indoor homeless shelter is coming to Green Lake’s Bethany Lutheran Church (7400 Woodlawn Ave NE). The church will provide night-time shelter to twenty homeless men.  The men are participants in SHARE (Seattle Housing and Resource Effort), King County’s largest shelter network. The church and SHARE will be working together for a one-month trial period [...]

This week Green Lake United Methodist Church (6415 1st Ave NE) welcomed Katie Stickney, pastoral counselor, who began offering sliding-scale and low-income counseling to the Green Lake neighborhood.  Katie is a United Methodist clergy person who works full time as a counselor. “Pastoral counselor” is not an incredibly common term.  Simply put, a pastoral counselor [...]