By Greg Yee, Superintendent, PacNWC
We are saying farewell to Keith Tungseth as our PacNWC Mission Advancement Coach after five years of faithful and fruitful service. We are deeply indebted to Keith for his leadership in helping move us forward with Spanish-language ministries and steadily move into our vision to become a mosaic of churches working interdependently together.
We began with only Iglesia Lationoamericana in Bellevue eight years ago, then along with Keith’s leadership went onto plant two more churches and work with another adoption. More recently Keith’s vision has been instrumental for developing partnerships with host churches like Bethany, Creekside, Grace Olympia and Faith along with exploratory conversations with several others. Leadership also organically developed during the pandemic at Renew for a Spanish language outreach. The conference goal was to commit ourselves to making sure all of our Spanish-speaking pastors become permanently credentialed and that all of their ministries would become member churches. Keith was uniquely gifted and qualified to help with this and be the effective bridge-person that was needed. He also became a significant liaison to Centro Hispano de Estudios Teologicos, the Covenant’s Spanish-language Bible school.
What the staff team loved most about Keith was his contagious passion for the gospel and church. He inspired us all and we remain ever grateful for his service. Though Keith is concluding his role officially, we will continue to contract some work with him going forward. Please be sure to thank our dear brother. On behalf of a grateful conference, thank you Keith!
