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The Catch of the Week is a bite-sized update focusing on telling the story of our conference. We do this primarily through interviews with church members, staff, and event leaders. This year we celebrated baptisms, reflected on events, tackled challenges, welcomed new staff, supported outreach projects, checked in on our church plants, and got to know our conference staff. 38 blog posts were added to our website and featured in our Friday newsletter. Visit our blog at the link below to catch up, or click on any of the previous issues links.
Previous Issues:
Hope in the Middle – Thunder 2019 Reflection
By Matt Knapp and Kara Harris, Co-Youth Commission Coordinators, Thunder 2019 Planning Team From Matt: The middle school ministry in the Pacific Northwest is alive and well! For two weekends in October we got a chance to meet around 400 students and leaders from various churches in our conference at Thunder, our fall retreat for…Continue reading→
Journey 2 Mosaic Reflection
By Danielle RiggsBecause of recent experiences in my church community, I have been hungry to learn more about how I interact with different races, J2M has helped to open my eyes and is helping to fulfill this need for me!! Included in these four intense days of travel were scholarly data-filled presentations, intimate time to…Continue reading→
Financial Seminar Reflection
By Mark Swanson, Pastor, Wiley Heights Covenant Church We all know and understand the necessity of proper stewardship of our resources, but we do not all know the best way to accomplish that work. On a Saturday in September several churches were represented in Yakima, Washington, as we heard from Rollie Persson of National Covenant…Continue reading→
Simplicity That Comes From Following Jesus
By Greg Yee, Superintendent, PacNWC What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self? Luke 9:25 One would think that after two major moves that my family would have successfully purged so much of what we’ve accumulated over the years. There’s something deep that happens…Continue reading→
From Rapper to Pastor and Back
By Jelani Greenidge, Co-Pastor of Worship & Proclamation, Sunset Covenant Church You wouldn’t necessarily know this just from examining 21st century pop culture, but hip-hop music has always been a vehicle for protest, even since its very beginning. From the time that emcees (aka MCs or masters of ceremony) and deejays (aka DJs or disc…Continue reading→
Praying for the Power of the Holy Spirit for Witness
By Grant E. Christensen, Pastor, Grace Covenant Church of Bremerton Luke 24:44-49 (nasb95) Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”…Continue reading→
AVA Has a New Home
By Ruth Hill, Interim AVA Activator, PacNWC Advocacy for Victims of Abuse (AVA) is now under the ECC’s Love Mercy Do Justice (LMDJ) ministry priority, a change announced at the AVA Retreat held in Minneapolis in July prior to the I AM Women’s Conference. The three-day AVA Retreat, organized by out-going director Rev. Meagan Gillan,…Continue reading→
I Do What’s Best For Others So That Many May Be Saved
By Greg Yee, Superintendent, PacNWC As I began a ZOOM connection with a few pastors as a follow up to our reading Francis Chan’s book Letters to the Church, I presented these statistics. Behind the Northeast as a whole and specific cities there, Seattle and Portland always rank among the most unchurched in the U.S….Continue reading→
Ministry Opportunities for Your Church at Cascades
By Jessica Palmer, Program Director, Cascades Camp and Conference Center Greetings from your friends at Cascades! We just wrapped up our 30th summer of ministry here a few weeks ago, and we continue to celebrate and bask in all that God did in this place. Between all of our youth programs this summer, 236 campers…Continue reading→
Arlington United Hosts March Against Hate
By Deena Jones, Lead Pastor, Arlington United Church Arlington United Church, in response to recent incidents of racial violence and fear in the nation, organized and sponsored an anti-hate rally in Arlington, WA.The focus was on love, specifically Jesus’ command in John 13:34-35 to love one another. Other churches in town were invited to join…Continue reading→