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NOTE: This update is quite personal as Chris and Craig met with Layan’s mother, LeAnn (who is holding the photo below), while in Palestine in 2024.
Last week, Layan Nasir was released from Damon prison in Israel and was reunited with her family and friends in Birzeit after serving a 7-and-a-half-month sentence. 25-year old Layan Nasir, a member of St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Birzeit, was first violently kidnapped and detained in 2021 for months under Israel’s administrative detention policy, which allows military authorities to hold Palestinians for an indefinite amount of time without charge or trial. She was detained on charges of belonging to a student union and organizing student activities at her university in the occupied West Bank.
Holy God, we pray for all-encompassing healing for Layan and her family as they look towards a new chapter in their lives. We pray that your peace, which transcends all understanding, will reach all who are still incarcerated and are experiencing torture and fear. Deliver us from all physical and spiritual prisons of dehumanization and violence.
God in your mercy…hear our prayer.
From the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center
Join us on May 24, 2026 during Virtual Fellowship Hour!
Do you have questions about what’s happening around immigration in Chicago? Want to know more about how Wellington is engaged in these matters? Plan to stick around for fellowship hour this Sunday as members of Wellington’s Immigrant Justice Task Force (IJTF) share reflections during a new quarterly offering: Entertaining Angels.
INVITATION TO A HALF DAY RETREAT
Saturday, May 30
10am – 2pm
How do we cope with the fact that life is always changing – whether we’re 30 or 80?
Join us for half a day of ritual activities and individual reflection on ways to adapt to change, let go of who we were, embrace who we are, and appreciate our unique life chapters.
This retreat is being led by Pastor Ann-Louise, with support from Congregational Life. Invite a friend!
Our June Gathering – formerly known as the Congregational Semi-Annual Meeting – will be on
Sunday, June 14th! This will be an in person service, with an online option. Come reflect on the past year with joy & gratitude.
Like a bridge over troubled waters, I will lay me down… in God’s embrace.
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Victor Boyd, March 19, 2019, The Riverside Church
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