Category Archives: General Announcements

Vancouver Island Subud Gathering

From Dave Hitchcock:

Bethlehem Retreat Center Nanaimo, BC

Dear brothers and sisters

You may have heard that the Bethlehem Retreat Centre in Nanaimo (on Vancouver island) was recently sold. As a result of the pending sale our earlier booking for a gathering in October had to be put on hold. We have now received confirmation that the new owners will continue to run the Retreat Centre and our booking can go ahead as planned. However, we need to act fast to keep our booking! Here are the details:

There are two registration options:

Full Weekend Rate
Saturday Day Rate

The Retreat Centre requires a minimum of 20 overnight registrations to be received (with full payment, or at least a $50 deposit) by August 31, 2015, for the gathering to go ahead.
Once they have this confirmation and deposit, we can accommodate additional bookings (with full payment, or at least a $50 deposit) untilSeptember 15, 2015.
We need to provide all special dietary restrictions to the Retreat Centre by September 30, 2015.

Therefore, as you can see, time is short!

Information about the gathering is set out in the attached registration package.

We ask that you review this information, help to spread the word, and send in your registration as soon as possible, so that we can satisfy the above deadlines.

It would be helpful if you can email hitch@shaw.ca to let us know that your registration and cheque are “in the mail”!

Of course, if you have any questions please contact me at 250 370 1291 or hitch@shaw.ca

We hope that there will be sufficient registrations for this gathering to go ahead and we look forward to seeing you in Nanaimo.

All the best,

Dave Hitchcock

(Western Regional Chair, on behalf of the Regional Council)

2015 Family Camp!

FAMILY CAMP IS BACK! Registration ends soon.

Heather Allen Chapman Memorial Service

Dear Family and Friends,

We would like to invite you to join us at a memorial service for Heather Allen Chapman on Sunday, August 16, from 2-3:30 p.m. at the Woodinville Unitarian Universalist Church in Woodinville, WA (19020 NE Woodinville-Duvall Road). Please bring memories and pictures of Heather if you wish that you can share at the service. Michael has created a dvd of her life that he will show.

Everyone is invited to our house (17615 NE 136th St., Redmond) after the service for a picnic dinner and more sharing of of memories. Please forward this email to anyone who you think may like to attend. Please email us with any questions or if you have anything that you would like to share, read or perform at the service: allentown6@msn.com

Sincerely,

Dalton and Lisa Allen

Potluck Sunday after Latihan

PLEASE COME!!! AFTER LATIHAN. SUNDAY JULY 19.

We are having a Subud Greater Seattle potluck social this coming Sunday July 19. Bring a favorite dish, an instrument if you are so inclined, games, and yourself. It’s also the end of Ramadan. Eat, talk, apologize (again.)

We’ll have some fun!!!!

Looking forward to seeing you.

Potluck Gathering Sunday July 19th

Hello Brothers and Sisters,

This next Sunday (July 19th) after latihan we are having a potluck gathering. Come celebrate the end of Ramadan if you were fasting, or come enjoy the company of your brothers and sisters in Subud. Bring a favorite dish to share.

Thank You

Marston – Chair SGS

Regional Helpers on the Kitsap Peninsula

From Lucia A Ryan:

The Regional Helpers are planning to be here on the Kitsap Peninsula this coming weekend, July 18 and 19. Just a note that they are not going to be in Seattle on those days.

I noticed an announcement in the Greater Seattle Newsletter and thought you wouldn’t mind a note of correction.

I truly appreciate your efforts to produce the Newsletter and thank you so very much.

Cheers,

Lucia Ryan
Olympic Peninsula Neighborhood

No Latihan in B/SV Sunday

We have set the date of Saturday July 18 for the planned Regional Helper visit.

We’ll meet at the Subud house from 10:30 am to 3 pm for Latihan, testing and a potluck lunch.

With this in mind, Sunday Latihan will be cancelled.

Looking forward to seeing you. We hope that as many as possible will join us.

Serena for the Bellingham-SV Dewan

No Latihan Saturday, July 18

There will be no latihan Saturday, July 18 due to a rental event in the reception hall.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

OTHER NOTES:

Latihan happens for Men Tuesday mornings at 10:45am for an 11am start. Great way to beat mid-week blahs. Evan Padilla’s a regular.

Latihan happens Thursdays at 12:45pm for the women for a 1pm start. More details on Latihan times here.

Also, PLEASE LOCK THE DOOR LEADING TO THE NEW RAMP FROM THE INSIDE OF THE CHAPEL CLOSET. It was unlocked again today and has been left unlocked several times.

Finished Handicap Ramp! (Video)

Your humble narrator (& his trusty companion) gives you a tour of the new handicap access ramp at the Subud House, funded by the Muhammed Subuh Foundation and built by Resident Carpenter of Subud Greater Seattle, David Lynch. The ramp now makes Spring Street Center accessible to people in wheelchairs for weddings and other events. Enjoy a video taken today of the new feature of the Seattle Subud House.

And see a video with David Lynch here: https://www.subudgreaterseattle.com/constructing-a-ramp-for-disabled/

Constructing a Ramp for Disabled

Lumber where the ramp will be

A project many years in the making is coming to fruition thanks to the Muhammad Subuh Foundation, the Subud Greater Seattle Dewan and “Resident Carpenter” David Lynch. Grants totaling $16,000 have enabled the construction of a ramp, done to ADA specifications, that would make the first floor of the Seattle Subud House accessible to folks in wheelchairs for latihan, weddings and the other myriad events held in that space. Former Chair of Subud Greater Seattle, David Lynch entered the successful bid for the project and is sleeping in the Men’s Latihan Hall on an airbed with his Brother-in-Law Tom Young until the project is completed. The recent hot spell makes this arrangement not as bad as it might sound.

David gave your humble blog editor a guided tour of the project in this video:

The ramp is expected to take up to two weeks to complete, so stop by the north side of the house, or the Men’s Latihan Hall and give a howdy and a thank you to the resident carpenter of Subud Greater Seattle, David Lynch.