✨2025 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebration ✨
nilh tu o: Weaving the Past, Present and Future
📅 Monday, October 13, 2025
🕠 Doors open: 5:30 p.m. (with dinner service)
🎤 Program: 6:00–8:00 p.m.
💃 Jam + dancing: 8:00 p.m.–late
📍 Location: Lummi Nation School - 2334 Lummi View Dr, Bellingham, WA

🍽️ Dinner, community, student speakers, music, and dancing — come celebrate with us!

Please join our local community in celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This year’s theme is: nilh tu o: Weaving the Past, Present and Future. Nilh tu o (pronounced Neesh tu o) translates from Xwlemi language to “since the beginning/creation".

We will enjoy a community dinner catered by local caterer Seawolf Surf n Turf managed by local business owner Cesarita Ballew.

🌎 All are welcome! This family-friendly, intergenerational community event for everyone in Whatcom County, invites students from: Lummi Nation School, Northwest Indian College, Whatcom Community College, Bellingham Technical College, Ferndale & Bellingham School Districts & Western Washington University to collaborate and plan together. This event is sponsored by the Community Consortium for Cultural Recognition.
Learn more at: wwu.edu/indigenous-peoples-day

Please note we are not the hosts of this event, but supporters and look forward to attending this event together!

Join Echoes for our annual Blessing of the Animals!

We’ll gather for our monthly Wild Church to bless all of the animals in our lives-including the animals we share this planet with!

All animals who seek a blessing are welcome.
If you are unable to bring your pet physically, please bring or send a picture so that we can do a blessing from afar.

Location: St. Clair Park - 2015 St Clair Street, Bellingham WA 98229

(This is a quiet park near the entrance of Whatcom Falls Park so this should work well to have a nice space for all types of pets to come and be blessed!)

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingha.org

Join Echoes for our monthly gathering where conversation IS worship.

We’ll gather for discussion, beverages and community! Light snacks will be provided and food is available for purchase from local restaurants

Dress in Layers! If our group is larger look for us outside under the tent/heat lamps so we can ensure everyone has a seat at the table.

Location: Menace Brewing - 2529 Meridian St, Bellingham, WA 98225

https://menacebrewing.com/

Let Pastor Emma know if you have questions, otherwise see you at the brewery! emma@echoesbellingham.org

We’ll gather for our monthly Dinner Church where all are welcome to the table!

Let’s feast on a “build your own” classic: Tin Foil Dinner packets!

You’ll get to mix and match your meat and veggies with a base and will put it in the oven for a tasty and easy clean up meal.

We’ll provide the basic meat and potatoes and you provide the veggies, cheese and other toppings! We would welcome you to bring sides, drinks and desserts to share. This event is free and open to all, so most importantly bring yourself.

As with all of our Dinner Church experiments, we welcome your help @ 5:45/6:00pm for set up and meal prep as well as with clean up at 8:00pm.

Dine with Echoes and remember your belovedness!

Location: 2750 McLeod Rd, Bellingham, WA 98225

Contact Pastor Emma to let her know what you are bringing or if we can save your seat.

Embrace the beauty of the changing season at Echoes' annual Fall Equinox Wild Church!
Prepare your spirit for Fall as you welcome the new season, savor the vibrant colors, wander the labyrinth, and gather in the lingering light.

Our labyrinth walk will be lined with paper luminaries created at our Creative Church on 9/15.
Join us in the labyrinth in the back of Fairhaven Park at 107 Chuckanut Dr N, Bellingham, WA 98225.

All are welcome to this Equinox gathering.

Let us know if you have questions - Contact Pastor Emma emma@echoesbellingham.org

Join Echoes for a Creative Church and explore your creativity as spiritual practice.

Together we will make paper luminaries out of creative materials for our upcoming Fall Equinox Wild Church 9/22 @ Fairhaven Park!
We will craft paper light holders that will encircle the labyrinth for a special Fall gathering.

FREE - Supplies will be provided, bring your creativity!

Location - 925 Forest street, Bellingham, WA 98225 (downstairs entrance from the doors off Laurel Street) - Parking in the LCSNW Lot across Forest Street or on the street (Free)

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingham.org

We will have No (regular) Monday Gathering as we will be recovering from our Fun RETREAT the weekend before.
Please join us at our Retreat!

September 1, 2025
@ 6:30pm (Gathering)
7-9pm (Trivia)

Consensus said let's gather for an Echoes Trivia night!

We'll create teams for Monday Trivia at Zeeks Pizza/Fountain Brewing! Two rounds, five categories and five questions per category.  Topics include current news, “starts with”, audience requests from previous week, music, sports, history, geography, science, music, general knowledge, and more. 

1-6 person teams. $10 gift card for best team name. $2 buy in per person (all cash from buy-ins paid out to top 3 teams). Pizza and beverages available for purchase. Please join us for a fun, casually competitive gathering in the Fountain District!

Echoes normally takes Labor Day off, but our retreat next weekend (September 5-7) means we are taking next Monday, September 8th off!

Location: Zeeks Pizza Bellingham - 2416 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98229

Contact Pastor Emma so she can know to save you a seat - emma@echoesbellingham.org

“To eat dinner together is to convene, to talk and learn about one another”
– Lynn Barendsen

Join Echoes for our Dinner Church gathering, where all that’s missing from the table is you and your favorite BBQ condiment!

We’ll have hotdogs, veggie dogs, condiments & water! Bring a dish, chips, beverage, dessert or side to share with everyone. But don’t worry if summer is busy just come and bring yourself, we’ll have plenty!

Location: Lake Padden Park Picnic Shelter - 4882 S Samish Way, Bellingham, WA 98229

Together we’ll share in story, prayer, conversation and food AS worship, because patterned in the traditions of Jesus means gathering around the table to eat together is a sacred act and a spiritual practice.

We will be collecting food items for the Birchwood Food Desert Fighters boxes that we fill on the 4th Tuesday of the month. Please bring your shelf stable items and seasonal fruits and vegetables for donations to our neighbors in need.

Contact Echoes with any questions or to let us know what you are bringing! info@echoesbellingham.org

Church doesn’t need to be confined to walls or even a building!

Join Echoes for our monthly Wild Church and wander in one of the beautiful places that we share and call home.

We’ll meet near the picnic shelter past the playground/restrooms. You’ll have time to wander under ancient redwoods, listen to birds, admire the undergrowth and experience Whatcom Falls in the summer.

Together we’ll share in scripture, story and communi-TEA as we relish the summer evening.
Kids, Pets and Wanderers Welcome.

Location: Whatcom Falls Park (parking lot) 1574 Silver Beach Rd, Bellingham, WA 98229

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingham.org

We are grateful to be members of the Wild Church Network We seek to widen our welcome to include seekers and those who are playing with new ways of being human in relationship with the land and creatures as a space to grow and learn together. We need each other in this time of so much breakdown and breakthrough.

Come and get creative outdoors! Join Echoes for some Rock Painting @ Big Rock Garden Park on a summer evening.

Rock painting is a fun and relaxing activity where participants paint designs, messages, or images on rocks to be hidden in public spaces for others to find, or to keep as unique expressions of love. It's a wonderful way to share your creativity and spread a little joy!

This event is completely free, and all painting supplies (and rocks) will be provided.
We will not be collecting rocks from the park, so feel free to bring a rock from your home/past adventures.

Location - Big Rock Garden Park - 2900 Sylvan St, Bellingham, WA 98226
We will meet in the pagoda in the central part of the park. There is a small parking lot & restroom.

Just bring your creativity and ideas to collaborate with natural materials.

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingham.org

“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.” - William Hazlitt

Join Echoes for our monthly Pub Church, where we can converse together in community, beverages help!

Come hear and be heard amongst a community that believes there is room for every topic under the sun (and then some). Bring your thoughts, opinions, ponderings and questions to our Pub Church @ Wander Brewing. There is a food truck on site and we will bring light snacks to share!

Whether you are religious, spiritual, somewhere on the spectrum or just curious, your questions and conversation is welcome!

Location: Wander Brewing - 1807 Dean Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingham.org

Dinner Church gathers monthly around a big table to feast and commune together.

Because eating together, praying together, celebrating each other and acknowledging grief IS worship.

We’ll gather outdoors for a Summer Salad Potluck at a Bellingham Park.

Please bring a potluck salad or salad topping to share. We’ll provide drinks and the lettuce base and you are invited to bring something to top a salad (vegtable, dressing, fruits, meats etc.) We can’t wait to dine together with you

Location: Cordata Park - 4510 Cordata Pkwy, Bellingham, WA 98226
(Please note this is near the picnic shelters and the playground use the 4510 Cordata Pkwy entrance - see map below)

We will also be collecting food for the boxes we fill with the Birchwood Food Desert Fighters. Please bring non-perishable foods, drinks, snacks and waters for our neighbors in need. We fill 4 boxes on the 4th Tuesday of the month, and appreciate any and all donations.

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingham.org or to say what you will be BRINGING!

Join Echoes for our monthly Wild Church!

We’ll gather where the sand meets the sea at Bellingham Bay - Wandering our watershed, embracing the summer breeze and listening to the sounds of Creation & the Sacred sharing our shores.

All are invited and welcome to share in story, reflective walking, prayer, seasonal fruit & community. We’re not just bringing worship outside, we are engaging nature as our sanctuary!

Location: Locust Beach (Parking) 3199 Locust Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225

Please note the parking lot is before the trailhead/beach access. We will meet in the parking lot at 6:30pm and promptly walk down to the water at 6:40pm. To access this beach there is some trail walking and stairs to navigate. Come and find us even if you are coming later, as there is no late at Echoes!

Humans/Children/Dogs Welcome.

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingham.org

Echoes is grateful to be a member of the Wild Church Network.

Learn more about accessing Bellingham’s beaches here - https://www.bellingham.org/top-5-bellingham-bay-beaches-near-downtown

We’ll gather for fun IN community at Flatstick Pub Bellingham!

On the Monday after Pride in Bellingham we’ll come together to putt-putt on the mini golf course in downtown Bellingham as we share drinks laughter and JOY!

Because Queer Joy is RESISTANCE
and Having Fun in Community is SACRED

Putt-Putt is $!5 per person, and we can provide a small discount, so try to bring cash or a donation to Echoes to help us provide gatherings like these for ALL!

Location: Flatstick Pub https://flatstickpub.com/bellingham/

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions, or to RSVP! emma@echoesbellingham.org

We are looking forward to the annual celebration of PRIDE in Bellingham on Sunday, July 13th!

As a church that was founded at Bellingham Pride, we know how important it is to be OUT authentically in all of your wonderful expressions.

Mark your calendars for a Pride and note we’ll try to have a brief worship before marching in the parade, so you wont have to choose between church or pride, because at Echoes we believe there is no separation!

More details coming soon!

https://prideinbellingham.org/

The world is rough out there….come converse.
Join Echoes around a big table to commiserate, regroup, and reflect IN community on things that matter. Having discourse that includes theology is a way not only to express our faith, but explore what we actually believe about topics that are not always easy to talk about.

All are welcome.

Location: Larrabee Lager Company - 4151 Guide Meridian Rd #100, Bellingham, WA 98226

They have a full pizza menu including gluten free and vegan options along with beer, cider, wine and non alcoholic options. Kids are welcome.

Find us at the big tables at the back!

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingham.org

We’ll honor Pride month/season with a special Pride Movie Church!

Come for snacks, popcorn and a special pride documentary that helps us honor the history of why its important to celebrate ALL of God’s beloved children.

We will be watching the PBS documentary “Stonewall Uprising” from PBS American Experience series.

“When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.”

It is important to know your history and celebrate the “third spaces” that make space for everyone. Come and watch with Echoes!

We will also use this time to work on assembling our Pride Zine! Just come for some relaxed and comfortable community that seeks to be a place for authenticity and wholeness.

Location: 2116 Walnut Street, Bellingham WA 98225

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingham.org

We’ll gather outdoors to welcome summer for a special Wild Church. Together we’ll mark the start of summer honoring the solstice, long days, lingering sunsets and fruits of the season! Come and join us for a Wild Wander!

Location: Little Squalicum Park - 640 Marine Dr, Bellingham, WA 98225 (corner of W Illinois ST)

The seasonal shift welcomes not only warmer days in the western hemisphere, but also a chance to thaw our hearts/emotions and prayers that perhaps need to be given a space for release.

Together we’ll have time for simple readings and reflections with the bulk of our time spent wandering, listening to the waves, the hillsides, the seabirds and rocks, calling to us to listen to the spirit in all things. We will gather at Little Squalicum Park (and walk down to the beach) to get closer to the gorgeous waters. Wild Church includes a .38 mile walk one way to the beach for our service.
Please see the map below for walking instructions.

We encourage you to bring a chair, wear comfortable shoes and clothing, including layers in case it gets chilly, and a journal or art supplies for personal reflection. Bring your friends, kids, pets and full selves for this experiential service!

We will walk to the beach promptly at 6:40pm. For those arriving later, otherwise please just head on down and meet us at the beach for Wild Church!

Check out the newly opened Little Squalicum Pier that was originally built in 1912, but only in 2025 has become publicly accessible! Come take a wander out over the water!
https://cob.org/news/2025/pier-opens-to-the-public

We’ll gather for a TACO BAR with the staff of Lutherwood Camp & Retreat Center to feed/pray and encourage them before the summer camp season!

We will provide the taco meat and vegetarian fillings and salad/taco shells we can use your help with toppings!

Bring toppings, sides and drinks to share: Cheese, Salsa, Hot Sauce, Lettuce, Chips, Sour Cream, Onions, Tomatoes, Lettuce or your favorite topping or dessert

You Can Sign Up For What You Will Bring Here! -
Since we are feeding summer camp staff we will need servings for around 30 people, so you will see options to sign up for one portion (1/3 enough for 10ish people)

We can use your help with Set Up 6:00pm & Clean Up @ 8:00pm!

Location: Faith Lutheran Church - 2750 McLeod Rd, Bellingham, WA 98225

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingham.org

Join us for a unique Creative Church experience this June!

Together we'll be explore the intersection of our creativity and spirituality through the art of oyster shell crafting. This creative workshop is perfect for those seeking a hands-on way to connect with nature materials, community and nature materials of the beautiful Pacific Northwest. You’ll get to create your own oyster shell trinket dish either with paint, decoupage, gold leaf or other materials that speak to you!

Just bring yourself, your hands and your unique creativity. This will be fun, come play!

All supplies provided. This event is free; donations are accepted!

Location: 2116 Walnut Street, Bellingham WA 98225

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingham.org

“God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change.”― Richard Rohr

Join Echoes at Bellingham’s newest Brewery (location) - Together, we’ll check out Beach Cat Brewing’s South Paw Location along the waterfront- 1010 C St Suite 107, Bellingham, WA 98225

Join us for conversation IN community around tasty beverages. Even when difficult.

Let’s take time to ponder the bigger questions, wonder about what we CAN do in the current state of the world, and find hope in community remembering there is power avoiding isolation!

We will provide simple snacks, but please bring something to share or there may be a food truck on site with food for purchase! Look for our question sheets, markers and listen for laughter to find us as we sit outside along the waterfront (weather permitting).

Please note this one is in Bellingham and not in the Blaine location - https://www.beachcatbrewing.com/

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingham.org

Echoes has been a proud supporter and encourager of the Whatcom Youth PRIDE Parade and Festival - since its inception in 2019. WYP is an opportunity for LGBTQIA+ youth and youth allies to walk together through a short parade route while the community stands along the sidelines and cheers them on! 

The parade culminates in a festival at Bellingham High School where there will be tables for community organizations to share their resources, music and performances, and food trucks for lunch! 

​With an average attendance of 1,500 people, the Whatcom Youth Pride Parade and Festival continues to be a huge success! We're looking forward to gathering again this year!  Come join us!
 

SCHEDULE
10:45 AM - Allies & Adopt-a-block Participants Line Up * Echoes Line up @ Commercial & Flora St- (Youth Marching Line Up on Hallec)ksee route map below

11:00 AM - Parade Start (corner of Cornwall & Halleck)

11:30 AM - Festival Start (Bellingham High School)

12:30 PM - Festival Performances

2:00 PM - Festival Ends

We have adopted a block this year #16. Please find us on the Corner of Flora St & Commercial St. with signs and banners! (near 187 North Commercial Street, Bellingham WA 98225)
We will update with details for meeting up beforehand soon!

https://www.whatcomyouthpride.com/

This month’s Dinner Church will take the opportunity to meet outside for a Potluck Picnic Church!

We’ll have a simple liturgy, outdoors celebrating Spring and the joy of feasting TOGETHER!

Bring something to share, like a side dish or snacks you prefer. We welcome sides, vegetables, fruits, desserts, drinks, bread, salads and what you love to eat OUTSIDE!

A vegetarian main dish & simple beverages will be provided.

Location: Outside the Fairhaven Park Picnic Shelter - 107 Chuckanut Drive, Bellingham, WA 98225

The picnic shelter is in the back of the park past the tennis courts to the right hand side. Once you enter, keep driving until you encounter parking spots at the north end of the park.

You can also bring food donations to help us fill the Birchwood Food Desert Fighters (BFDF) food boxes in north Bellingham. We fill 4 boxes, so if you bring 4 of each item it helps make separating items for boxes, or just bring what you can contribute and we can do our best to distribute equally.

Contact Pastor Emma with more information emma@echoesbellingham.org

No Gathering as its Memorial Day. Take time to be with yourself and your household as you need to and tend to the things that allow you space for reflection.

Wild Church communes in a special Bellingham park to explore the sacred spaces that inhabit the wild even in our urban parks & spaces!

Join Echoes for a slow spring saunter. Together we’ll listen to story, song and honor the sacred seeds being planted in our world, even during these tumultuous times. We’ll wander under the canopy of big and small branches pondering questions like:
-What spring buds are sprouting for you?
-What flowers are preparing to bloom in your heart?
-What role can we play in tending the soils of our community to encourage mutual flourishing?

We’ll gather under the old trees of Elizabeth Park, no matter the weather so dress in layers and bring what you need to be comfortable like a blanket or chair to sit on. Look for our Echoes sign to find us!

Location: Elizabeth Park - 2205 Elizabeth St, Bellingham, WA 98225
Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingham.org

We look forward to connecting with you in nature.

Join us for our monthly Creative Church creating ZINES.

For years, zines have given individuals and communities a voice, providing a way to resist, feel empowered, and share stories. These small, hand-made magazines spread information, personal experiences, and inspire action.

At Echoes we have our own history of creating zines for Pride, for Encouragement, for History and now for creative resistance. We will provide the simple supplies and you provide the creativity for a powerful COMMUNAL activity in JOY and RESISTANCE.

What words, images, stories, poems and photos need to be archived in an Echoes’ zine?
What messages do WE want to share with Bellingham/our community during THIS moment in time?
How can we use simple print media to inspire creative resistance in our own backyard?

This month’s medium is paper. You are welcome to bring materials that can be utilized, cut up or collaged for this Creative Church experience.

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions emma@echoesbellingham.org

“This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.”
-Alice Waters

Join Echoes for our monthly Pub Church where we can have authentic conversations about things that matter. May we find space and time to be more thoughtful and alive together, not because we all agree, but because we all seek to hear one another, compassionately. Come & Converse

Location: Menace Brewing - 2529 Meridian St, Bellingham, WA 98225

We likely will be sitting outside on the patio (under cover with heat lamps), so plan on dressing in layers for the evening cooler temperatures. Let us know if you are planning on coming so we can save you a seat!

Contact Echoes with any questions info@echoesbelllingham.org

Come Eat with Echoes! We will have our monthly culinary journey in community with Baked Potato Night!

We provide the SPUDS and you provide the toppings, sides and drinks!

Your help is needed to create the toppings bar & potluck the rest of our meal!
Toppings: Sour Cream, Cheese, Bacon, Green Onions, Croutons,
Sides: Salads, Vegetables (broccoli, corn, onions), Dips, Desserts
Drinks: Lemonade, Sparkle Water, Juice, Pop

As with every dinner church, the whole experience IS worship. So we can use your hands with set up @ 6:00pm & clean up @ 8:00pm.

Following in the patterns of Jesus we believe where two or three (or 20) are gathered is a sacred moment. We’ll have simple prayers, reflection, conversation and communion incorporated into this experience, so please come as you are (no religious experience necessary).

Contact Pastor Emma with any questions or what topping or side you are bringing emma@echoesbellingham.org!