2nd Time Sale - September 19-20

Donations are accepted at the backdoor of Fellowship Hall the following dates/times:

  • 9/9, 10am - 7pm

  • 9/10, 10am - 7pm

  • 9/11, 10am - 7pm

  • 9/13, 1-3pm

  • 9/14, 10am - 7pm

No donations will be accepted after 9/14.

For a list of items that cannot be accepted no matter the condition, click here.

School-Supply Drive

Public schools in West Seattle cannot purchase enough supplies to equip every student for learning but your donation can narrow the gap. From July 12 through August 2, we are partnering with West Seattle Rotary and the West Seattle/Fauntleroy Y on a school-supply drive. Find the list of high-priority supplies HERE and look for donation boxes in the narthex and church/Y lobby. Online cash donations are also welcome HERE.

New Members Joining on 5/31

In worship on May 31, we'd love to welcome anyone feeling the Spirit nudging them to join Fauntleroy Church! Is that you? It is the same day we will be celebrating our confirmation youth and their mentors. It will be beautiful to welcome you into membership alongside those youth who decide this is the time to enter into that covenant of community. Let the pastors or Sarah Ackers (sarah.ackers@fauntleroyucc.org) know by May 24, and we’ll include you in the joy. 

Guatemala Mission Trip 2026

On Thursday, May 21st, four people from our congregation will travel to the rural village of Blanca Flor in Guatemala to work on the installation of 120 water tanks. We installed stoves in this village in 2024 and are returning because these villagers must hike two hours per day to collect water from a muddy spring during the dry season. They pleaded with us to return to help them and so we are! A generous team member and his family also funded a new medical clinic as part of our previous trip. We will be bringing medical supplies to help with childbirth, injuries and illnesses, as well as school supplies, eyeglasses, and books for the schoolchildren.

Please pray for the safety and success of our combined Fauntleroy Church/West Seattle Rotary Team.

Budget Meeting with the Treasurer

In advance of the annual meeting the Treasurer will host two meetings to present an overview of the draft 2026-2027 budget and a status update of how our 2025-2026 budget is looking. The content of each meeting will be identical. The first meeting will be in person on Sunday, May 24th after church in Fellowship Hall. The second will be on Wednesday, May 27th at 7 pm via Zoom. Please contact the church office for the Zoom link.

Holy Week and Easter 2026

MARCH 29, 10AM, PALM SUNDAY WORSHIP*

Worship will begin with joyful palm waving. We welcome all children (and their parents with child-like hearts) to join in a palm processional with the choir. We process down the center aisle with joy, leaving our palm branches on the chancel steps. Then children can return to join their parents in the pews until Sunday School. Children who would like to be involved should look for Carol Gilderoy in the Narthex about ten minutes before worship.

 

APRIL 3, 8PM, HOLY FRIDAY WORSHIP (in-person only)

We will gather in the sanctuary for a contemplative Tenebrae service to remember the moments surrounding Jesus’ crucifixion. This is a worship of readings and songs, and candles will be extinguished as the service progresses to signify Jesus’ death approaches. Many say that the experience of community in the deepest shadows of this moving worship is what causes their hearts to soar on Easter morning.

 

HOLY WEEK VIGIL

The sanctuary will be open for a Vigil from 9PM on Friday, April 3 (Holy Friday) to 3PM on April 4. You are invited to choose an hour to “keep watch” during this stretch of time before Easter morning’s resurrection. Materials to help guide some reflection will be available, and someone will be at the church all night for security. Look for an opportunity to sign up during the coffee hour or reach out to Sarah Ackers.

 

EASTER MORNING WORSHIPS, APRIL 5

Three opportunities to celebrate Easter!

·      6:15AM, we’ll join Alki U.C.C. and Admiral U.C.C. for a sunrise service on Alki Beach (look for a bonfire near 59th Ave SW). A simple communion will be served. Rain or shine! Dress warmly. 

·      9AM* and 11AM, identical Easter worship services will take place, with the 9AM livestreamed. We’ll transform a simple wire cross with beautiful spring flowers at the start of worship, so bring a favorite flower to add. Both services will include a Time with Children, and we’ll conclude with a joyous rendition of the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah. Sunday school is available at the 11AM service for elementary-age children, and childcare is provided at both services for infants thru age 3.

 

EASTER BREAKFAST Enjoy some wonderful Easter fellowship and a delicious breakfast from 9:30-11 on Easter morning in Fellowship Hall! Pancakes, egg casseroles, fruit, ham and sausage…! ($10/adults & $5/children suggested donation.)

 

EASTER EGG HUNT

After the 11AM worship (about 12:20) children are invited to enjoy an Easter Egg Hunt! Our youth will hide lots of eggs filled with treats around the church property. We’ll set aside the narthex/patio area for younger children and the front of the church for older children to enjoy this fun. (Dress for rain or shine!)

 

EASTER FLOWERS IN MEMORY/HONOR OF LOVED ONES

If you would like to give toward flowers used to fill our outdoor flower cross and supplement flowers brought for our wire cross, you can do so online or with a check marked “Easter flowers” + “In memory/honor of NAME.” These names will then be shared in our Easter bulletins if submitted by March 30. 

 

* = Streamed on https://www.youtube.com/@FauntleroyChurchUCC

Meeting with The Treasurer - 2/15/2026

After service on Sunday, February 15, 2026, come join the Treasurer, Bill Zoellner, for an informational meeting to cover three important financial topics:

  1. A mid-year update on the status of our operating budget.

  2. Our cash plate giving

  3. Seeking input for 2026-27 budget priorities financial topics and ask questions.

Significantly, we are seeking input and suggestions from the congregation regarding next year’s operating budget – areas you want the church to focus on, support for outside groups, and any other thoughts people may want to offer. We will be meeting in the lounge at the back of Fellowship Hall.

2026 Guatemala Trip- 5/21-31/2026

The village we served with stoves in 2024, Blanca Flor, followed up with a plea from 120 families to help with a water catchment system for each home. These families, mostly woman and children, must hike for two hours each day during the dry season to collect water from a muddy spring. Would you consider joining this year’s team? Please contact Greg Dirks, gmdirks@gmail.com, to learn more!

Celebrate the season with music!

Music Director Zachary Fitzgerald has an exceptional lineup of handbells, choirs, instrumentalists, brass and vocal ensembles, and singalongs in store for two performances of our annual free Christmas concert at 7 pm on Saturday, Dec. 20, and 4 pm on Sunday, Dec. 21. The Festival of Trees in Fellowship Hall will open at 6 pm on Saturday for a pre-concert reception and again following the Sunday performance.

Christmas Eve Worship

Join us on December 24, Christmas Eve for one or more of our evening services.

  • 4PM – A shorter, engaging service offered for all, but especially with the energy and joy of families and young children in mind. We'll end singing “Happy Birthday” to the Christ Child. Then, all are welcome to enjoy birthday cake at the reception that follows in Fellowship Hall.

  • 7PM* – A worship with the traditional Christmas readings, carols and and choir singing. Worship ends with beautiful candlelight and “Silent Night.”

  • 11PM – A more contemplative worship with communion. We’ll end with candlelight and singing “Silent Night.”

*= Offered in-person and live streamed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/fauntleroychurchUCC

Festival of Trees

A forest of 16 creatively decorated trees will be open to the public in Fellowship Hall at Fauntleroy Church (9140 California Ave. SW) Dec. 1-Jan. 8 (9 am-noon Monday-Thursday). Also during a 6 pm pre-reception before the 7 pm Christmas concert on Saturday, Dec. 20, and during the reception following the 4 pm concert on Sunday, Dec. 21. Bring non-perishable food items when you come to vote for your favorites.

Giving Tree 2025

This year’s Advent giving tree focuses attention on three community needs our shared giving will address: supplemental food for low-income families over long school breaks, bond support so detained immigrants can await hearings with their families, and Christmas gifts bags for every child whose family depends on the free weekly Welcome Table in White Center for meals and other essentials. The West Seattle/Fauntleroy Y is again joining us in this effort. Tags to remind you of these needs will be on trees in the narthex and lobby Nov. 23 until the Dec. 14 donation deadline.

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