The Bridging Ceremony celebrates the passage from youthhood to young adulthood; these teens are aging out of Youth Group and taking their place in our religious community as young adults. To symbolize this moment, Bridging teens will each receive a blooming rose, thorns intact; these teens are coming into their own, resilient and ready to face the joys and challenges that life will bring.
Our Bridgers:
Harper Coles will graduate from Nathan Hale High School in a few days and will start at Reed College in August. They will spend the summer continuing to volunteer as a Youth Ocean Advocate at the Seattle Aquarium and as a puppy wrangler with Resilient Hearts Animal Sanctuary, working as a dog walker, and petting as many dogs as possible.
Owen Key will be attending Western Washington University in the fall to study computer science. He's looking forward to living in Bellingham, while still being just a train-ride away from home.
Ivan Levy plans to attend Seattle’s free community college program while saving for commercial pilot training and working toward a degree in aeronautical engineering.
Hannah Sears plans to take a gap year to focus on personal development and life skills before considering college.
I’m Alan Van Eaton. I’ve practiced the martial arts since I was eight and I hope to keep practicing for the rest of my life. I’m very much a STEM person, but I like to write stories and draw in my free time, and I speak Japanese conversationally. My favorite animal is the Eastern coyote (coywolf).
I’m headed to Whitman College this fall, where I plan to get a degree in bioengineering, before I return to Seattle to get a graduate degree at UW. I want to study gender-affirming care, particularly permanent or long-term solutions for hormone therapy.
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