Sunday Worship
Universal Worship: “Our Relationship with the Ancestors”
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2024
Time: 10:00 am — 11:30 am
This event is In Person, Live Streaming
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This Universal Worship gathering will focus on our spiritual discernment “Making a Home for the Mystic Heart” (Maintaining an Environment for Spiritual Practice)
Scriptural readings are available here
This gathering is in-person. It will be live-streamed.
You can view this service in real time on our YouTube channel.
Our 2024 Spiritual Discernment:
Making a Home for the Mystic Heart
JANUARY: Making a Home
FEBRUARY: Motivating Ourselves for Spiritual Work
MARCH: What is Our Ultimate Spiritual Goal?
APRIL: Gratitude
MAY: Our Relationship with the Ancestors
JUNE: The Ideals
JULY: Confession and Forgiveness
AUGUST: Compassion
SEPTEMBER: Mindfulness Through Breath
OCTOBER: Concentration
NOVEMBER: Meditation
DECEMBER: Dedication
SHARING OUR WEALTH
Your generous donation allows us to continue offering interfaith worship services, events, classes. Also to continue creating sacred community as well as maintaining a historic building in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Currently we are in the process of recovering from rain water damage.
Thank you for your help!
https://interfaithcommunitysanctuary.org/donate/
You may also mail your donation as a check to:
Interfaith Community Sanctuary
1763 NW 62nd Street
Seattle, Washington 98107
Land Acknowledgement:
We would like to acknowledge that we gather today on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived here from time immemorial. Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude for our Indigenous neighbors, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.
The Coast Salish is a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. They speak one of the Coast Salish languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Salish_languages
Special Events
Dinner with Others ⭐️
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2024
Time: 6:00 pm -
This event is In Person
Dear Friends,
Interfaith Community Sanctuary is Co-sponsoring this free event with Northwest Interfaith and Unity of Lynnwood. Registration is required (below) and seating is limited. Please use the link here to register today for this free vegetarian dinner event!
https://dinnerwithothers.bpt.me
You are cordially invited to Dinner with Others- a cost-free, vegetarian dinner experience, 6:00 p.m., Saturday, May 18, 2024 – sponsored by Northwest Interfaith and Unity in Lynnwood.
The event will be held at Unity of Lynnwood, 16727 Alderwood Mall Pkwy, Lynnwood, WA 98037
Share a story. Shake a hand.
Laugh. Eat. Connect.
Let us Rehumanize each other, as brothers and sisters at a global table, for the greater good of all.
Facilitated by: Dr. Richard Loren Held
Complimentary registration is available by clicking https://dinnerwithothers.bpt.me
Seating at this event is limited to the first 75 registrants
Chant and Drum Circle for World Peace ⭐️
Date: Friday, May 24, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Led by: Isla Ross
This event is In Person
All are warmly invited to bring hand drums and percussion ,songs, chants and prayers to share ! Together we will make a difference. 
The songs and chants will be participatory, simple and easy to follow, from various cultures. Sound carries intention out into the world.
Everyone is welcome to bring a hand drum, shakers, and other hand percussion to play along. Also bring Prayers of Peace to share with the Circle at the end.
About Isla Ross:
Isla Ross is a Devotional Artist and Composer who offers Healing Songs, Interfaith Chants, and Meditative Music, accompanied by an array of exotic instruments. Even as a child , she was fascinated by the spiritual practices and music of many cultures.
In 2002, Isla experienced a transformative year in Europe, including a Sacred Clowning retreat in a Tibetan monastery. The lessons included Sacred chants of India. She continued studying with several sound healers in England and back in the US. In 2005, Isla found her way to the Interfaith Community Sanctuary in Seattle, where she shares music for services and events.
Ongoing Gatherings
SiSiWiss Women’s Medicine Circle
The four color circle is a symbol representing Mother Earth, Kazeeli.
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Time: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Led by: SiSwinKlae Laurel Boucher
This event is Zoom
ID: Contact SiSwinKlae for log-in details.
Passcode: Contact SiSwinKlae for log-in details.
This circle meets every Tuesday evening at 6:30 pm via zoom. Every second Tues. of each month is a hybrid circle(in-person and online).
The in-person circle on the second Tuesday meets in the Fellowship Hall of Interfaith Community Sanctuary(ICS) – the basement of the ICS building. We will have a potluck meal. If your way is open, please bring a prepared or nearly prepared dish to share.
All women, children and youth are welcome.
This medicine circle includes prayers, drum/music, song, stories and more.
Contact SiSwinKlae for Zoom info for all Tuesday circles at touchebooucher@gmail.com. You will be added to an email list that will send out a weekly reminder for Tuesday circles.
This inclusive spiritual practice is called SiSiWiss (pronounced See See Wiss). Ttranslated into English means sacred breath, or sacred life. The SiSiWiss spiritual practice originates from the San Juan Islands and spread as a spiritual practice all through western Washington down to Siletz, Oregon. SiSiWiss traditions also spread to many of the Gulf Islands, including Vancouver Island and much of the NW coastal areas of B.C. The practice of SiSiWiss is understood as a medicine way or path, medicine meaning healing path.
ABOUT SiSwinKlae:
SiSwinKlae shares the knowledge that has been shared with her, with all those of open heart and open mind and willingness to learn the ways of the First People of our beautiful Coast Salish region. SiSwinKlae offers the sharing and learning through SiSiWiss Medicine Circle and various ceremonies.
