Eastside Emergency Services

 

For a more complete list of services specific to your needs, you can call King County

2-1-1 or 800-621-4636 or use Community Resources Online at www.crisisclinic.org

 

 

ABUSE/ASSAULT

Adult Protective Services (60+)

206-341-7660

Child Protective Services 

1-800-609-8764

Children’s Response Center 

425-688-5130

Domestic Violence – Eastside 

425-746-1940

Domestic Violence – WA State 

1-800-827-8440

King County Sexual Assault

425-226-5062 or 1-888-998-6423

Youth Eastside Services (Y.E.S) 

425-747-4937

 

ALCOHOL/DRUG PROBLEMS

Al-Anon 206-625-0000

Alcohol/Drug Helpline 

206-722-3700

Teen Helpline            

206-722-4222 or 1-877-345-8336

Alcohol Rehab Bellevue 

1-888-512-4610

Alcoholics Anonymous 

425-454-9192

King County Mental Health

206-722-3700 or 1-800-562-1240

Bellevue Addiction Recovery Centers 

1-888-896-6172

Youth Eastside Services (Y.E.S) 

425-747-4937

WA Recovery Help Line 

1-866-789-1511

TeenLink

(6PM-10PM PST)

1-866-TEENLINK or 866-833-6546

866TeenLink.org

 

MEDICAL CARE

Medical Emergency Dial 911

Snoqualmie Valley Hospital

9801 Frontier Avenue SE, Snoqualmie, WA 98065

425-831-2300

Swedish Issaquah751 NE Blakely Drive, Issaquah, WA 98029
425-313-4000

Overlake Hospital   

425-688-5000

Overlake Emergency

425-688-5116

Overlake Urgent Care

425-688-5777

Evergreen Hospital            

425-899-1000

Evergreen Hospital Emergency

425-899-1700

RotaCare Clinic

Sat. 9:30am-11:30am

425-828-4304

WA Poison Control Center

1-800-222-1222

 

EMERGENCY SHELTER

Friends of Youth (Ages 17 to 23)

425-298-4846

Community Information Line

(Mon-Fri 8am-6pm)

Dial 2-1-1 or 206-461-3200 or 1-800-621-4636

Crisis Line (24 hr)

206-461-3222 or 1-866-427-4747

Severe Weather Shelter Bellevue Community Services

425-614-8544

Congregations for the Homeless

(Men Only)

Intake Coordinator: Barrett Compton

425-614-6506

Sophia Way

(Women Only)

463-6285 ext 102

Angeline’s Eastside Women’s Center

(Day Center, Showers, Hot Lunches, Referrals)

425-451-8519

New Horizons Belltown

(Ages: 18-23)

2709 3rd Avenue, Seattle 98121

206-374-0866

The Orion Center – Youth Care

(Ages: 18-24)

1828 Yale Avenue, Seattle 98101 (Downtown)

206-622-5555

ROOTS – Rising Out Of the Shadows

(Ages: 18-25)

1415 NE 43rd Street, Seattle 98105 (University District)

206-632-1635

PSKS – Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets

(Ages: 18-29) 

1609 19th Ave., # 100, Seattle 98122

206-726-8500

Arcadia – Auburn Youth Resources

(Ages: 18-24)

915 H Street SE, Auburn 98002

253-740-7189

The Landing – Friends of Youth

(Ages: 18-24)

16225 NE 87th Street, Suite A-1, Redmond 98052

Phone: 425-449-3868

Youth Haven – Friends of Youth

(Ages: 7-17)

Kirkland

206-236-KIDS (5437)

Safe Place

(Ages: 12-17)

1-800-422-TEEN (8336)

Friends of Youth

(Ages: 11 to 17)

206-236-KIDS (5437)

Teen Link

(M-F 6-10pm – Staffed by teens)

206-461-4922

Teen Runaway Hotline

206-236-5437

 

EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM

Bellevue First Congregational

425-454-5001 (Mon.-Fri. 9am – 12pm)

Inglewood Presbyterian Bothell

425-823-9334 (Mon.-Thurs. 9:30am – 12pm)

Kirkland Congregational Church

425-822-3811 (Mon.-Fri. 9am – 12pm)

Newport Covenant Church

425-747-0515 (M,W 8:30am – 12pm)

Saint Andrew's Lutheran Church Bellevue

425-796-2529 (Mon.-Fri. 12:30 – 2:30pm)

Saint Margaret’s Episcopal Church Bellevue

425-746-6650 (T, Th 10am – 2pm)

Other Emergency Food:

Bellevue Lifespring – Overlake Service League

425-451-1175

Salvation Army/Eastside

425-452-7300

 

CLOTHING

Bellevue Seventh - day Adventist

425-746-1763 (Wed 9:30 am-noon)

Bellevue Goodwill

425-289-0040

Hopelink (Redmond)

425-869-6000

Hopelink (Kirkland/Northshore)

425-889-7880

Issaquah Clothing/Food Bank

425-392-5836 (T, W, Th. 10am-1pm; 1st & 3rd. Tues 5-7pm)

Kirkland Clothing Bank

425-822-7922

Overlake Service League

425-451-1175

St. Vincent de Paul

206-767-6449

YWCA Working Wardrobe

425-556-1350

 

EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE

Bellevue Goodwill

425-289-0040

L.D.S. Employment Resource Center

425-687-6942

Millionaire Club

206-728-5627

YWCA (Eastside Employment)

425-556-1352

Lake Washington Technical College Worker Retraining Center

425-739-8119

Bellevue College Workforce Education

425-564-4054

Bellevue College WorkSource

425-564-2279

 

HOUSING ASSISTANCE

Hopelink

425-869-6000

Attain Housing (Kirkland)

425-576-9531

Salvation Army-Eastside

425-452-7300

St. Vincent de Paul

206-767-6449

Jewish Family Services

206-461-3240

 

UTILITY ASSISTANCE

Hopelink Energy Assistance

1-800-348-7144

Overlake Service League

425-451-1175

Salvation Army – Eastside

425-452-7300

St. Vincent de Paul

206-767-6449

 

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

DSHS Bellevue

877-501-2233, 425-401-4600

Hopelink Bellevue

425-869-6000

Overlake Service League

425-451-1175

Salvation Army

425-452-7300

St. Vincent de Paul

206-767-6449

 

FOOD BANKS

Hopelink Food Banks:

·        Bellevue 425-943-7555

·        Kirkland/North-shore 425-889-7880

·        Redmond 425-882-0241

·        Sno-Valley 425-333-4163

Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

(Distribution on Wednesday)

122 E 3rd St, North Bend, WA 98045

425-888-7832

Mt. Si Food Bank

(Distribution on Tuesday)

1550 Boalch Ave NW, North Bend, WA 98045

425-888-0096

Issaquah Food Bank

(T, W Th 10am-1pm)

425-392-4123

Renewal Food Bank Bellevue

(M, W 9am-12pm M 4:30pm-6:30pm)

425-643-8246

Woodinville Storehouse

(Tue 6:30–7:20pm; Sat 9:30–10:20am)

425-483-5252

 

HOT MEALS

Salvation Army – Eastside

(Mon.-Fri. 6:00pm)

425-452-7300

Issaquah Community Hall

(Mon.-Fri. 5:30pm)

425-679-0342

Holy Spirit Lutheran Church

(Tues. 6:00pm)

425-883-2727

 

IMMIGRATION/REFUGEE SERVICES

Eastside Multi-Ethnic Center

425-643-2221

Eastside Refugee & Immigrant Coalition

425-452-2800

The American Red Cross Language Bank

M-F 8:30am-5pm

206-709-4522

206-323-2345 (After hours/emergency)

Northwest Immigrants Rights Project

1-800-445-5771 or 206-587-4009

Northwest Justice Project

206-464-1519 or 1-800-201-1012

 

LEGAL SERVICES

Catholic Community Services Legal Action Center
206-324-6890

Columbia Legal Services
206-464-1122

Eastside Legal Assistance Program

425-747-7274

King County Bar Association

206-267-7100

Volunteer Legal Services

206-461-3200

 

MEDICAL AND COUNSELING SERVICES

Crisis Line 24hr

206-461-3222

DSHS East King Service Center

425-401-4600 or 1-877-501-2233

Eastgate Public Health

206-296-4920, 1-800-244-4512

Health Point Redmond

425-882-1697

Eastside Salvation Army

425-452-7300

Sound Mental Health

206-302-2200

Lifelong AIDS Alliance

206-957-1717

Teen Link Crisis Line

206-461-4922

Youth Eastside Services (Y.E.S.)

425-747-4937

 

SENIOR SERVICES

Senior Services

206-448-3110 or 1-888-435-3377

Elder & Adult Day Services-Bellevue

425-867-1799

Meals on Wheels

(Homebound, 60+)

206-448-5767

Senior Rights Assistance

206-448-5720

Volunteer Chore Services (CCS)

206-328-5696

Volunteer Transportation

206- 448-5740 or 1-800-282-5815

 

TRANSPORTATION

Hopelink

425-869-6000

425-943-6789 (transportation info)

Medicaid transportation

1-800-923-7433

Metro DART reservations

1-866-261-3278

King Co. METRO Accessibility Services

206-263-3113

Holding on to Hostility

"I was consumed by the fire,
But now I'm washed in the blood..."

-Blake Kimble

I used to get angry with the simplest things; traffic, phone solicitors, rude service station attendants, telephone menus, the list was as long as the day. Which meant I spent most of my day being angry. 

Hostility is debilitating. It wears you out and the stress is infectious as well. Your family members will be victims of your fatigue. 

I started losing my anger when I discovered that forgiveness (another form of love) wasn't doing a favor for the person who wronged you. It was about healing yourself. As you forgive others all the bitterness associated with it wanes. Over time, you don't even remember what you were angry about in the first place. It's therapy at no cost. I believe that most psychotherapy and psychotheraputic drugs could be done away with if we were taught the fine art of forgiveness. 

It is easy to get caught up in the heat of a moment, and your perspective disappears. Little things like traffic, phone solicitors, rude service station attendants, telephone menus become disproportionately large. When it's really a few minutes of your day. Those little things pile up over time, being internalized, rather than being thrown away. You're soon cluttered with so much anger, spite, and emotional garbage that you can't function without feeling your anger driving you every minute of the day. Anger becomes your sole motivation and constant companion.

Anger seldom makes good choices for the future, and the frustration found at the consequences of these decisions compounds the anger. It's a negative feedback loop, and you're its primary victim.
It's been a slow process for me, and I confess, an ongoing one. I have made many regrettable choices in the past motivated by anger, and the results lead to only more fuel to feed the fire. It brought me to a point where I had become so utterly broken that I knew that only God was capable of changing my course. It was there and then that I cried out to God and plead between my sobs, "God, make me whole again", and He replied. I know many Christians experienced the depth of this utter and vast emptiness that cannot be filled by the works or words of man. This is when they took their first step in not having to carry the load alone. When they first began to hand over the reigns to the One who Reigns. Haltingly, at first, but slowly with increasing confidence, we allow God to make our choices, choices made in love.

It's not all rainbows and unicorns, there are still all the other choices you already made to deal with, but you can begin to make progress to clean those up when you're not being buried in new more egregious consequences on a daily basis. I suppose, it's learning to understand that the red check marks on your homework aren't something your teacher did to hurt you, but rather that they are opportunities to learn something you didn't know before. The question is, do we avail ourselves of those opportunities or do we clench our jaw at the teacher?

Some day, I will tell you about the reply that God gave me that day when I wept in the woods. As for now, forgive me, forgive others, and forgive yourself. Give up the reigns and stop holding on to hostility, it is only a small part of your burden that you have to carry. Leave the rest to God. 

God is One

Ssss-silence











Today, I'm going to disturb you and quite possibly cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the Fall of Creation as recounted in the Book of Genesis. I also run the risk of being declared a heretic by you and possibly everyone you associate with. If you're a regular reader of my blog, you'll find this to be one of my typical, garden-variety postings. Newcomers may be shocked and I should apologize, but I won't because that's just the way I am.

We all (should) know the Fall of Creation story...

God told Adam and Eve that they may eat of any tree in the Garden except for the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Just one Commandment, the only rule, the sole edict, the solitary restriction laid upon mankind by their Creator, and they blew it.

God apparently turns His figurative back for a moment, and a crafty serpent slithered up to Eve to ask for clarification on the aforementioned dietary restriction imposed by Yahweh and asks,

"Did God say you could not eat from any tree in the Garden?"

To which Eve replied,

"No, God said that we may eat from any tree in the Garden except for the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the middle of the Garden, nor shall we touch it for in that day we shall surely die."

Let's ignore the fact that Eve extended the law to include a specific location (the middle of the Garden) and added merely touching the fruit (nor shall we touch it). Let's just assume that she was allowing for a margin of error. That seems prudent when dealing with Almighty God.

However, the serpent may have seen this as a willingness to fudge the facts, an opportunity to be sure and a weakness to be exploited. Perhaps.

The snake makes his move and plants the seed of doubt in the Word of God, saying,

"Surely, you will not die, but you will become like God, knowing good from evil."

Eve takes the snake bait. Then, Adam does likewise. Mission accomplished, let the war between good and evil begin.

After Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God returned from his peculiar absence (He's Omnipresent) and was taking a stroll in the cool of the day when He realized that Adam and Eve were nowhere to be found.

God found them cowering and hiding from their Maker with fig leaves covering their privates, because the First Couple had become aware of their nakedness.

God asks,

"How do you know you are naked? Did you eat of the tree which I forbade you to eat?" 

Adam and Eve were caught red handed and red faced with forbidden fruit pulp stuck between their teeth, juice running off their chins, and the seeds still sticking to their fig leaves. They were busted.

Adam is the first to answer God's line of inquiry, and ingloriously pins the whole affair not only on Eve, but on God, Himself.

"The woman YOU put here, gave it to me and I ate." 

Chivalry hadn't been born yet, evidently, but blaming the victim was already in full bloom.

When Eve takes the witness stand, she pushes the blame onto the Snake. It's all typical human nature stuff here, even at this primordial point in human history. Not much has changed, has it?

Author's Note: Pay attention now, this is where things get particularity weird...

Adam is questioned.
Eve is questioned.
And the snake never testifies!

God asked both Adam and Eve why they had disobeyed Him, but the Almighty never asked the serpent a single question.

The Ancient of Days curses all parties involved; man gets thorns and thissel whilst trying to produce a meal by the sweat of his brow, woman get painful childbirth and is told to heed the word of her failed farmer of a husband, and the serpent goes crawling on his belly.

All bad stuff, really, and that's just for starters; disease, death, poverty, ponzi schemes, tooth decay, halitosis, war, female circumcision, mortgage backed securities, fiat money, demonic possession, the Yugo, and everything else we know to be evil came with that first curse.

Still, God never bothered to ask the serpent his side of the story. You would think that the Maker of Heaven and Earth would want to inquire,

"Hey, snake, I put a lot of work into all this, why did you screw it up with your mischief?"

Wouldn't you have asked? I certainly would have. I would have grilled that snake on the stand like a hostile witness, and then grilled that snake on a skewer with a little butter and lemon pepper, but that's me.

Maybe it's just my sense of fair play, but it leaves the whole motive of the serpent in an awkward silence. It reads to me like the Warren Commission Report, you're shouting at the biblical text,

"Ask the question! Come on! You've got the viper on the ropes, God! Ask the question!"

But God doesn't toss so much as a raised eyebrow at the apparent ring leader of the Fall of Creation plot. Instead, the Supreme Deity proceeds straight to sentencing (and I am foreseeably vexed!)

Then, it occurs to me that God created everything, including the silent serpent. He made the Garden, Adam, Eve, and the forbidden fruit, no less.

God, in His Omniscience, was also inescapably aware that this whole fruit eating force majeure was all in the immediate future of His Creation, as well.

What a blatant and obvious oversight for the Supreme Being, eh? Come on, Ancient of Days, what are you... new?

So, why was this "design flaw" allowed to happen? It's a product liabliability case, as clear as eternity is long. God could have performed a recall as He did during the life of Noah, but here when everything is at stake God knowingly and willingly does nothing. Is He malevolent? Spiteful? Negligent?

Hold on! Before you start chanting,

"Humans have freewill."

Let's see this for where the evidence leads us.... God's engineering "flaw" is allowed to happen, allowed to stand, and allowed to do harm, all of it... to everything and everyone ... forever, or a really long time.

That is what a cursory reading of the text would imply.

Or perhaps there is another possibility:

It's not a flaw. It's a feature.

The Fall was a necessary part of a Perfect God's Will. I'm not saying God is evil, I'm saying that there is really only one team.

We are speaking about an ALL powerful (that's without exception), ALL knowing (that's also without exception, EVER present (once again without exception) God, and there is no other. So, what gives?

We are left with only two possibilities:
1. The serpent outwitted God.
2. The serpent was an agent provocateur of God.

If you can suggest another option, drop it in the comments below, but try first to think about the implications and ramifications of their being only One team.

I find it very comforting, so should you.

God bless. 

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