Then Sings My Soul by John T. McLarty, Senior Pastor

In This Issue

Ancora .......................................... 7

Count Your Blessings ............. 3

Green Lake Graduates ........... 6

Northwest Harvest .................. 2

Pastoral Reflections ................ 1

Secretary Position ................... 5

Softball Season ......................... 4

Summer Hikes........................... 5

Vacation Bible School ............ 7

Visitor’s Lunch........................... 3

Volume 52, Number 4 Green Lake Church of Seventh-day Adventists May 2018

June 9

Toward the end of May every year, Sabbath morning worship at Green Lake Church is designated “Choir Festival,” the grand finale of our nine-month-long choir season. In preparation for this year’s Choir Festival, I asked friends on Facebook and the church family email list to tell me about music that stirred their souls. I delighted in their responses. Their words set my own heart to singing. Below are some of the recollections from people’s responses. I’ll offer my own remembrance and commentary at the end.

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Judy Ness: The first year I attended Auburn Academy, I decided to join the choir. I had never experienced choral singing before, and when we started practicing Handel's Messiah, it completely took my breath away. I had nev-er heard it before, and we were encouraged to sing along with a record played by our con-ductor Marilyn Jorgensen. It was so beautiful to hear it and to be in the middle of voices singing it that I couldn't breathe. I started to cry and collapsed into my seat. Much of the soundtrack of my life was laid down during my years of choral singing! (Although the waves and foghorns of my childhood home in Port Townsend also echo in there!)

Ann Hall: I remember my freshmen year at SMC [now Southern Adventist University]. It was the second Friday vespers of the school year (1969). We sang, "For all the Saints." Faculty members read the stories of faithful Christians in World War II. The hymn fit per-fectly. I believe it was the first time I heard that hymn. I still remember the scene and the stories as if it were yesterday. And yes, some of those stories still bring tears to my eyes. It certainly was a God moment for me.

Karen Baker: There was always music in our home growing up: singing, piano, and other instruments. There is something so pow-erful in literally sharing breath and space to-gether in song. Sometimes goosebumps and/or tears come when singing Randall Thomp-son's “Alleluia” surrounded by all the parts. Then there was the sacredness of a hot sum-mer evening in Texas at an outdoor pop con-cert when the third encore piece was "Be Thou My Vision." The band walked off in middle leaving everyone finishing the piece a cappella. We left in silence through the dark as we all acknowledged the holiness of our shared space and song. . . . Other favorites: the sound of rain on a tent, sharing the dawn with the chorus of birds at Able Tasmin Park, New Zealand, bagpipes skirling through the hills on my first day living in Scotland (I mean, c'mon!), or sitting at a pebble beach enjoying the rhythm of waves crashing followed by the light per-cussion of small stones being pulled back into the ocean. . . . And of course the grunts and coos of a newborn!

Jim Learned: My whole being surrenders to the sounds of a jet engine exhaust. I recall standing almost underneath the wingtip of a military jet as it taxied by - hands over my ears and feeling the whole ground shaking.

Jon Reiswig: The sound of a canoe paddle as it’s pulled through water. Being on a sailboat, engine purring, and then to raise the sails, cut the engine, and have nothing but the sound of ocean water hissing and gurgling past the boat’s hull. Wind through trees. The crunch of hiking boots or car tires on a trail or gravel road. The sound of a camera shutter.

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Northwest Harvest—please bring a contribution in May Thanks to you, hunger stops here" is the Northwest Harvest goal. Since 1967,

our neighbors in need of food have relied on Northwest Harvest for help. The next date for Northwest Harvest volunteers will be Wednesday, July 11, from 1:00-3:00. If you would like to participate, contact Lowell Dunston, 425-471-5546 or lowelldunston@gmail.com.

The warehouse is closed in June, but throughout the month of May, Green Lake Church will continue support with it’s food drive. Northwest Harvest needs non-perishable food items: canned fruits and vegetables, soup, pasta, tomato and pasta sauce, baby food. Beans and rice are not needed as they come in bulk. Large NWH donation boxes are in the church entry ways. NWH supplies all the food banks in WA state. When we donate or volunteer, we join in the fight to eliminate hunger. Together, we can provide not only food to hungry families throughout. Washington state, but also respect, dignity and hope.

Denis Casper: Frog mating calls in summer in south Whidby island swamp. The first giggle by four-month-old Sophia. Purple sunbirds cackling in the street in Gujarat, India.

Shelly Ngo: When I was an intern in Washington D.C., a stu-dent who had come out of the Amish community invited us to spend a weekend with his relatives and family in the Amish country. They put a whole group of us college students up in their homes and fixed a big meal for us. Before the meal, we held hands and sang the doxology and it was a beautiful moment when perfect strangers felt like family. Later, I was at a World Vision international communi-cations conference where we were all singing hymns in our own native languages, and I remember thinking that this must be a foretaste of what heaven might look like.

Karla Ann Walters: Hearing my daughter play the cello (and now hearing her students perform ) always moves me, as I marvel at witnessing the power of music developing in a new generation.

Laura Leeson: Leading "By Faith" (Keith and Krysten Getty) with some of my closest friends for Week of Spiritual Emphasis was probably the most enrap-tured I have ever been. So many biblical truths were being laid out for me in class, the student speakers outlined the covenant throughout the Bible, and having "By Faith" as the theme song was just the perfect cherry on top. It felt like we really were standing with all the other children of the promise-- both past and present.

Rachel Davies: The slow, warm rustling of leaves in trees, especially at night; morning doves; call of the red-winged black bird; summer crickets in golden grasslands; busy lawn-mowers in springtime; the crunching of snow beneath my boots and the muffled silence of the winter sky; heavy rain on rooftops while I'm warm and dry inside; deep, booming thunder and the smell of earth; the jingle of ice cream trucks; people speaking in German, because it's the language of my family and reminds me of childhood; cats purring while I cuddle them.

Margi Dalgleish Roth: The music is right now. A thun-dering chorus of grosbeaks & dozens of other bird species whose concert has pierced my bedroom window.

Bert Williams: The symphony—you know, the one on a stage with violins and cellos and French horns and trom-bones and harps and timpani. Most recently, the San Fran-cisco Symphony offering up “The Planets” by Gustav Holst, which concluded with a wordless women’s chorus completing the final movement a capella from the lobby of the second tier of Davies Hall, finally evaporating into total silence. Or the time on Highway 6 a hundred miles west of Ely, Nevada, when I stopped to attend to a personal matter and discovered that there was simply no sound—no vehi-cles, no jets overhead, no birds, no insects, no breeze in the sage brush. Just. Nothing.

Teresa Rae: Wind moving tall grasses on the prairie. As a teen, I climbed to the top of a pine tree in a ravine, sat in the broken top that had probably been struck by lighting, and swayed in the wind with the forest... there was a whole community up there and the trees seemed to be having a conversation... it was a magical experience!

Beverly Trivett Rawson: Listening to my granddaughter hum along when I sing to her when putting her down for her nap. Nothing makes me happier. She was 18 months old when she started doing this.

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In the words of The Talking Heads, “Born Under Punches “lyrics:

Don’t you miss it; don’t you miss it — Some of you people just about missed it!

Count Your Blessings: Gospel Tune Debut at Green Lake Church

If you missed the choir doing Ken Fairchild’s composi-

tion, you can see it here:

Visitor’s Lunch --An opportunity to

serve and get acquainted. Have you ever wished you could invite a visitor to church home for lunch, but you live far away and have nothing special prepared? This summer we will try a new way to provide a Sabbath meal for visitors to Seattle who prefer not to eat out on Sabbath and want to fellowship with church members. Beginning Memorial Day weekend (May 26), Green Lake hosts will offer a simple “Visitor’s Lunch” in the Fellow-ship Hall. It is an opportunity to make Green Lake visi-tors welcome with food and conversation. What you can do: Invite visitors to the Fellowship Hall after the worship

service and introduce them to the hosts of the day. Assist a scheduled host with food and your presence. Currently our schedule for hosts is filled, but please

watch for times when someone is needed to step in as host of the day.

Visitor lunches are planned for non-potluck weeks from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. If you would like more information, please contact Carolyn Lacy (carolacy@gmail.com)..

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Dana Waters: I recall singing “For All the Saint” in a church service in college. The very powerful bass section (who sat behind us altos) decided to sing the “walking bass” accompani-ment melody instead of singing unison as the hymnal directed. Glorious! Mom, who both sang solos and ac-companied, used to pass the time on the eve-nings Dad was at the hospital and we kids were in bed by playing and singing. I still can hear her voice in my mind singing “The Lord’s Prayer” and “The Twenty-third Psalm”. A sister and I whiled away long and boring Sabbath afternoon by playing (very bad-ly) through the hymnal. Neither of us played well. She would play the treble staff and I the bass staff. There was the accidental-and electri-fying-discovery that if we played “We are Liv-ing, We are Dwelling” (which in the previous hymnal was written in two sharps) without the sharps, it made very ominous and “out of shape” melody. We loved it. Mom would often exclaim, "What ARE you doing?!" Daughter Laurie when a toddler, call-ing the bedtime lullaby a “Love-a-by”. Daugh-ter Liane, when still small enough to sit on my lap, after repeatedly drawing in her breath

Jean McLarty: A little kid’s belly laugh when s/he has played a joke on an adult

Lois Pryor: The sound of water lapping on the shore during the night at Camp Mivoden as a teenager.

Carrol Grady: Wind roaring through the trees on a stormy day. My excited little grandson: "Look at the praying mantis I found, Grammy!" A mighty choir sing-ing Brahm's German Requiem.

Steven Siciliano: The sound of wind in the mountains approaching from a distance and rustling through trees. It feels like eternity.

Glen Baker: How Great Though Art performed by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

John Tangen: The "soft silence" of light snowfall un-der a full moon, the "symphony of bullfrogs" along a farm pond just after sunset. And hearing "Bobwhite, Bobwhite", as I stand center among a whole flock of bobwhite quail calling each other in a wood, unaware of my presence.

Stephen Brothers: Gounod's Sanctus from St. Cecilia Mass. [Stephen sent me a Youtube link to a favorite performance. Karin and l listened to it on Friday night. Magnificent!]

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Softball Season Is Here! For many years Green Lake Church has had a softball team in an informal coed league with five other north-east Seattle churches. All games are at Laurelhurst Park, near 45th Street and 47th Avenue behind Chil-dren’s Hospital. Games are at 3:30 or 5:00 p.m. The practices are complete and the season got underway with our May 20 game. There was a great catch in the outfield by Rose Tuitele and a double play by Marco Ramirez. Still, we lost the first game to Community about 16-10 If you are an experi-enced player and would like to partici-pate, contact Coach Fairchild: ksfchild@yahoo.com

Ken Van Fossen: I enjoy the Holy City, it makes me anxious for Jesus to come and take us all home.

Donna Van Fossen: I like the sound of rain falling on a warm summer night. The music of the old masters also thrills my soul and makes me think it might be the music of heav-en. Among those Bach is my favorite.

Through open mouth at piercingly beautiful mo-ments in the piece of music we were listening to, exclaimed, “It’s so pretty it makes my teeth cold.” Singing under the stars around the campfire at Blue Ridge Youth Camp. We loved to sing “I Come to the Garden Alone.” I’m sure it was not all religious fervor. We could sing the simple harmony, and the words, if divorced from the Bible story, are decidedly romantic. Peter, Paul and Mary was a revelation! I managed to buy a record and play it when Dad wasn’t home (“That music is Junk!” he’d say). . . . On vacation at the beach, a sister and I paced up and down the shore for hours singing, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” and “If I had a Hammer”. Goodness, I must stop after just one more. I hope in heaven to sing John Rutter’s “Gloria” with Mr. Rutter himself conducting the earthly and the heavenly host. We’ll sing it beau-tifully. We’ll even sing that tricky part on page 29 without a flaw. Our voices will not give out on the last pages. “Gloria in excelcis Deo. Amen!”

Kim Goerlitz. Best music EVER: the sound of my children laughing, especially together The music of birds echoing through a Pacific Northwest forest. Pavarotti singing "Nessun Dorma." From my all-girls Catholic boarding school days: singing Jubilate Deo in the round A new favorite: "Intro" by the band XX Any song sung by whales

Carroll Dunston. I grew up to the classics of violin and piano, "Humoresque," "Moonlight Sonata," The Messiah.” The 78 rpm plastic discs transported a preschooler to the heights. No less were the voices of Del Delker and The King's Heralds. And my little mind and heart shared my pastor father’s love of "Big Band" music and Lawrence Welk.

Lowell Dunston: Music that stirs my soul the most is singing with 100+men of the OAMC leading congregational hymns accom-panied by organ and brass. "For all the Saints" is also my favorite. That indeed is a foretaste of heaven.

Curtis Lacy: Very enjoyable -- Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Rachmaninoff. Symphonies, cho-rales, and concerti. American popular music from Victor Herbert to Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, especially as done by some group from the Big Band era, such as Nel-son Riddle.

Bill Roberts: Gabriel’s Oboe performed by Yo-yo Ma. The sounds herons make early in the morning on the Alaskan Coast. Dvorak’s “New World Sympho-ny.” The songs of birds in the forest in the summer.

Mark Dodd: My favorites are hymns and gospel tunes that I know or can read the words to. As for the music of noises, I am greatly affected by the sound of someone going into and coming out of the water at a bap-

Celeste Spencer: The "Whoosh- whoosh" of your baby's heartbeat on an ultrasound.

Beverly Matiko (English professor at Andrews University): The music that moves me most is the music of the speaking voice--its cadences, its melodies, its shades, its dips and peaks. The voice of a loved one-moves me more than the sight or even the touch of that person. I've been known to cajole, "I don't care what you say, just string some ran-dom words together. I want to hear your voice." Because of the power of speech, we each have our indi-vidual soundtrack. We breathe to stay alive, and we breathe to speak. My logic professor may find fault with my syllogism, but to me that suggests speech = life.

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Green Lake Church Summer Hikes

This summer’s hiking schedule is taking shape, and our

first hike for June 9 is settled. Watch for more details in

coming weeks. Everyone is welcome to join the hikes.

If you have questions, contact Ken Fairchild:

ksfchild@yahoo.com.

Current Schedule

June 9 - Hike around Green Lake after potluck with ice cream after the hike

June 30 - TBD

July 14 - Bike Hike

July 21 - Cherry Creek Falls. 5 miles round trip, very level. Near Duvall. Potential for swimming at the falls.

July 28 - TBD. Probably a challenging hike August 4 - Walk around Discovery Park with ice cream party after

Secretary position available

Cypress Adventist School

The Secretary position is available for this sum-

mer and next year at Cypress Adventist

School. For more information please contact

Jody Bower:

secretary@cypresssda.com or call 425 775-

3578.

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John McLarty: When we lived on our farm in Enumclaw, the first sign of spring was music, frog song. Before the sun gained any strength after its winter journey to the south, Long before the roses bloomed and the barn swallows and violet greens arrived, even before the crocuses raised their flowers--while the back pasture was still a colorless swamp and the calendar warned of months of rain and possible snow—in February al-ready, I would come home late at night, turn off the radio, climb out of the car, and step into darkness made rich and sweet by the music of frogs singing in the ditch. The music always evoked a smile. Spring was coming. Love was in the air. The heart of our faith is a singing conviction that the Eternal Spring approaches. Alas, sorrow, injustice, catastrophe, and heartache are still very much with us. Not yet does justice roll down like the great river. Not yet has death been vanquished. Not yet do we see the unhindered glory of the Kingdom of Heaven. Still, in worship we sing of the glorious future, and in our united voices we taste already the advent of our God and the triumph of love. Music is far more essential to faith than is theology. Note how so many of the statements in the recollections above link music with some important detail of the person’s story. Music takes us so close to God that many religious distinctions are effaced. Even the most sectarian among us—those who imagine that we should read only books written by people who share our de-nominational pedigree—even these radical sectarians gladly sing hymns and anthems written by people of all sorts of reli-gious persuasion The final line of Psalms is “Let everything that has breath, praise the Lord.” Amen.

Walt Koehn: The first time I heard Sunny Lui sing "I dreamed I searched heaven for you " it really spoke to my. I have never forgotten it. That was in the 50s

Lester Keizer: Widor’s 5th Symphony Toccata played on the pipe organ at the conclusion of Christmas midnight mass at St Peters Basilica!

Ione Brunt: The sound of geese. First you hear a honk or two in the distance, then as they get closer, you can hear more and more of them. Then they are passing overhead in full chorus and the sound starts to fade as they move away. I love it. I've made my husband stop the car on a freeway and pull over just so I can hear it better

Susan McCullaugh: The sound of the ice cream truck going through an inner city neighborhood and the sound of any mu-sic floating on the breeze from a distance. Both give an atti-tude of summer. . . . “His Hands” by Tennessee Ernie Ford.

6 May 2018

Green Lake Church has a long-standing tradition of honoring educational pursuits and accomplishments. We want to include you or your child as one of the 2018 graduates! Graduates will be noted in the June Gazette as well as during the June 9th church service. We need information ASAP, or by May 27 at the latest, please. Even if your graduation occurs later in the year, please respond now. We typically highlight graduations once a year, and we don't want anyone to be left out. The groups are:

Middle school students entering high school

High school students who switch to a university following their sophomore year into a program for high-achieving students (to take some college courses)

High school graduates

College/university graduates

Postgraduate and professional school graduates (master’s and doctoral degrees)

To assist us in composing graduate profiles, please respond to the following questions. Type your responses directly

into this form — Graduate Information (greenlakesda.org/bulletins/2018/graduates.doc) — and send back to Kim Goerlitz: kimgoerlitz@gmail.com

Graduate’s name:

Date of graduation:

Name of institution/school:

Degree or diploma granted:

Major/minor fields of study:

Honors earned:

What is next for you? Next school? Next job? Next step? Your goals?

What is your proudest accomplishment?

What are your major interests?

Any special stories that occurred during your course of study?

Any hobbies of interest?

Anything you'd like to tell your friends at GLC?

Please respond by email--not by phone. We’d also like to include a photograph of the graduate (a digital copy (JPEG) is ideal).

Thank you for helping us celebrate the 2018 GLC graduates!

7 May 2018

Ancora —

Free tickets for Green Lake Church Members From the Director of Ancora: Following our successful January winter concert, Sacred Night, Seattle-based women’s choir Ancora is pleased to return to Green Lake Seventh-day Adventist Church to present its spring concert, Postcards: Songs from the Four Corners, on Saturday, June 2, at 4:30 p.m. Under the direction of Artistic Director Freddie Coleman, and accompa-nied by talented pianist Justin Hansen, the rich poetry and culture of fara-way places will come alive in settings by a variety of international com-posers: Abbie Betinis’ arresting setting of Sufi poems in From Behind the Caravan: Songs of Hafez; Bob Chilcott’s suite Furusato with evocative arrangements of Japanese songs; Finnish composer Einojuhani Rau-

tavaara’s Suite de Lorca on poems by Spain’s Federico Garcia Lorca; and beloved Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Six Choral Songs reflecting the romance and nostalgia of Old Russia. Ancora is offering complimentary tickets to GLSDA congregation members only through advance on-line purchase at the following url before, or no later than, Friday, June 1: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3414619 Ignore the “general” and “seniors” fields. Enter the code postcards in the “Enter a Password or Discount Code” field. A yellow screen area will light up with a new line for free GLSDA ticket ordering. Indicate the number of tickets requested. Proceed to ticket delivery options then to check out. Unfortunately, we are una-ble to provide comp tickets at the door. Prices at the door are $16 general/$13 senior. Students are free. For more information, go to https://ancorachoir.org/calendar/upcoming-events/ We hope to see you on June 2.

Vacation Bible

School — Enroll or

Volunteer …

We are excited to an-nounce our VBS pro-gram for this summer! It will be held July 16-20, 5:30-7:30 p.m., for children ages preschool to elementary school. We are still planning and are looking for volun-teers. Whatever your talents may be, we could use your help -- contact Bryan Carli: MrBryanCarli@gmail.com

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Senior Pastor: John T. McLarty ................ 253-350-1211 Associate Pastor: Hanz Jouissance ........... 347-321-1490 Head Elder ............................................. Stephanie Mays Board Chair ................................. Melody Bennett Gayle

Minister of Music .................................. Wanda Griffiths

Orchestra Director ......................................... Alex Gagiu

Junior Choir ............................................ Shelly LaGrone

Green Lake Ringers ................................. Shelly LaGrone

Office Administrator ....................... Nola-Jean Bamberry

Custodian ..................................................... Elmo Rajah

Weddings ................................................. Church Office

Stephen Ministers Lucille Bertholf Mark Voth Melody Bennett Gayle Simona Vuletic Barbara Jonsen Karla Walters Myrtle Mitchell

Donating Online to Green Lake Church Credit card, debit card, and ACH options are available on the church’s website, www.greenlakesda.org.

AND OTHER EVENTS

Midweek Bible Study .................................. On hiatus until September

Neighborhood Meal ................................................. May 27, 4:30 p.m.

Lamb of God Lutheran Church, 12509 27th Ave NE, Seattle 98125

Family Campout ....................................................................... June 1-3

Worship Planning Committee .................................... June 6, 7:30 p.m.

Hospitality Potluck ................................................... June 9, 12:30 p.m.

Northwest Harvest.................. July 11, 1:00-3:00 p.m. (closed in June)

8 May 2018

May 26 John McLarty

June 2 John McLarty

June 9 John McLarty

May—June

Sabbath School Programs

May 26 India Trip Report Sally Roberts

June 2 Update on my Green Lake Community Outreach Ministries and Youth Work Pastor Hanz Jouissance

June 9 Sacred Songs Seldom Sung Carolyn Lacy

June 16 Book Review: S.N. Haskell: Adventist Pioneer, Evangelist, Missionary, and Editor Joanne Roth

Cypress Adventist School

Constituency Meeting

The Cypress Adventist School

Constituency meeting will be

held at the school on Tuesday,

May 29th. Topics to be covered

are the year in review, approval

of the budget for the 2018-19

school year, and an introduction

of teachers for the 2018/19 school

year. The meeting will begin

at 7:00 p.m.