April 16, 6:30 pm
This April, the diocese is hosting the annual churchwide AANHPI Leadership Retreat in partnership with Asiamerica Ministries. Over 70 Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Episcopalians will embark on a pilgrimage to sites of AANHPI history and memory in Seattle, Tacoma, and Bainbridge Island. The group will weave these stories with present-day solidarity with migrant communities currently under threat.
All are welcome to join the retreat’s prayer vigil at Christ Church, Tacoma. We will hear from community organizers, listen to testimonies from detainees, and pray together. We will also have a chance to fold tsuru or Japanese cranes as symbols of hope, peace, and compassion.
You and your church are invited to fold tsuru ahead of this event too. We will be hanging strands of solidarity at the NW detention center and other sites along our journey. Feel free to write a prayer if you wish and fold with your community at coffee hour, etc! Cranes can be mailed flat to the Diocesan House or brought to the vigil.
