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Join us for Easter Breakfast!

Good Friday service with Mt Baker Presbyterian Church Church and First Japanese Presbyterian Church at 7:00 at Madrona Grace Presbyterian Church.

Join us for dinner and service starting at 6:30.

The Washington State Poor People's Campaign, in conjunction with their sibling campaigns across the nation, will gather in our state capital on Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 at 12pm for a Mass Poor People's & Low Wage Workers' State House Assembly to shift the narrative and demand public policies that fully address the interlocking injustices of systemic poverty, systemic racism, militarism, and ecological devastation. More than 2.5 million Washingtonians experience poverty or low wealth here in one of the wealthiest states of the nation and we cannot and will not be silent!

We will be meeting at the church in the morning to caravan down to Olympia for this event.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Minority Studies at the University of Washington, community leader Janet Jones Preston served Seattle Public Schools for more than 30 years as a classroom instructional assistant, one of the first 10 family support workers and later as a program supervisor, finishing her district career as interim program manager. A recipient of a Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Education, one of Janet’s proudest accomplishments was the founding of the Kasoa, Ghana Peoples School for Positive Education, which opened its doors in 2006 and expanded to serve 260 students in grades K-9. Today she provides support for Grandparents as Parents, advocacy for the Foster Parents Association of Washington State, and is a sponsor and advocate for the Black Prisoner’s Caucus at Monroe Reformatory.

Born and raised in Seattle’s Central Area, Cliff Holland graduated from Garfield High School and later become known as a Safeway manager and community activist. Today Holland is known for what he learned and experienced from what he calls lessons from “The Negro Motorist Green Book.” A guidebook for African American travelers, the Green Book listed hotels, boarding houses, taverns, restaurants, service stations and other establishments throughout the country that served African American patrons. Victor H. Green published the book from 1936 to 1966—a time of widespread discrimination. Information found in the Green Book helped increase the safety and treatment of Black Americans.

Gather at Madrona Grace for a jazz and blues concert by a group of local and internationally known artists, including saxophonist Darryl Barber, who has performed and taught in the United States, Denmark and Norway; saxophonist Lonnie Williams, considered a legend in the Pioneer Square jazz; and bassist Mark Dalton, who played on the Billboard Top 10 hit “2525” and has accompanied Charlie Musselwhite, Eddie Taylor, Lazy Lester, Hubert Sumlin, and J.B. Hutto, among others. More information about the concert to follow.

A Seattle resident since 1966, Earline Alston became a self-taught, impressionistic landscape artist after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke in 2014. Inspired by the Pacific Northwest terrain, Alston’s landscapes are stylized, anthropomorphic and ethereal. Colors, shapes, detailed patterns and textures continuously morph, creating movement and multiple perspectives. Alston’s awards and recognitions include 1st Place at Gallery Onyx in 2018 and Honorable Mention at Shoreline Community Art Festival in 2015. In 2017 Alston’s Spirit in Nature collection received critical acclaim in two separate art reviews by The Seattle Times. The Northwest African American Museum, Harborview Medical Center, Bellevue Art Museum and the Seattle Art Museum have displayed Alston’s work.

Lawrence Edward Gossett is an American politician and activist who served as a member of the nonpartisan King County Council, representing District 10 from 1994 to 2006 and District 2 from 2006 to 2020. Born in Seattle to two former sharecroppers, Gossett graduated from Franklin High School and the University of Washington. As a UW student and activist, Gossett helped create a minority recruitment program and was a founder of the Black Student Union. He also helped organize nearly a dozen high school and middle school Black Student Unions throughout Seattle and was instrumental in bringing about a minority recruitment program on campus. Gossett was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was involved in the occupation of the former Seattle public school that became El Centro de la Raza. After working on the successful 1977 mayoral campaign of Charles Royer and serving in the Royer administration, Gossett led Seattle's Central Area Motivation Program (CAMP). He later worked on Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns. Gossett was a longtime member of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party. Madrona Community Presbyterian Church, as Madrona Grace was once known, was one of a handful of sites for the Panther’s Free Breakfast Program, which existed to address needs of children in Seattle’s Black community. In 1999 Councilmember Gossett spearheaded the campaign to change the King County logo from an imperial crown to an image of Dr. Martin King Jr. The King County Council unanimously adopted the change in 2007.

Seattle-born Michael Woo is a Chinese American who attended the University of Washington and worked in the airline industry before joining the United Construction Workers Association. There he organized workers of color to advocate for themselves, specifically helping Black employees enforce the court-ordered desegregation of Seattle’s construction unions, a transformative experience that led Woo to do organizing work for the UCWA throughout its lifespan. He later served as the founder and executive director of the Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing. Better known as LELO, the nonprofit organization works to empower low-income workers of color, recent immigrants and women workers to assert their rights, improve their working conditions and gain a voice in their workplaces, trade unions and communities. Woo also helped publish “No Separate Peace,” a radical publication created to organize and give voice to Seattle’s workers of color.

Portland-born Harley Bird grew up in Wichita, KS and moved to Seattle in 1959. A graduate of Garfield High School, he earned a Track & Field scholarship to Eastern Washington State College. After two years of college, a summer job at Boeing changed the trajectory of his life and he became Boeing’s first Black supervisor of production in Seattle. Bird’s introduction to activism took place as business manager for the Central Contractors Association, later the United Construction Workers Association. The organization brought lawsuits against discriminatory practices in building trades. As a contracts compliance officer for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Civil Rights Division, Bird developed a national policy for inclusion of minority workers. He also received a national silver medal for guidelines and regulations created through his work to ensure minority employment and contracting opportunities on EPA projects. As vice president of the Black-owned Sphere Management, Bird helped Black families in Seattle earn a living wage.

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