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Seattle, WA, 98104
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communications@seattlepresbytery.org
The mission of Seattle Presbytery is to participate, in word and deed, in God’s transforming work through the Gospel of Jesus Christ: by strengthening the witness and mission of our congregations and members and by building strong partnerships with each other and the larger Christian community.
Seattle Presbytery's Stated Clerk, Kathy Lueckert, has accepted the position of Director of Finance and Administration at Village Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, Kansas. She and her husband, Don, will be relocating to Prairie Village in early August -- closer to family and into a new and exciting season of life and ministry. Kevin Nollette will serve as temporary Stated Clerk.
Read MoreThe Louisville Institute offers pastoral leaders the gift of time and the resources to investigate issues related to Christian life, faith, and ministry. Through its Pastoral Study Project program (PSP), the Institute enables pastoral leaders to bracket daily work routines in order to pursue a pressing and significant question for the life of faith.
Read MoreMake your summer all about food and fun! Join the One Million Meals Campaign to feed hungry kids in our neighborhoods.
About 99,000 children rely on free or reduced-price lunch during the school year. But only 1 in 7 takes part in free summer meal programs. Last year, One Million Meals Campaign volunteers served 490,000 free summertime meals to kids and teens all over King County. Our goal this year is to reach 1 million meals. Read more online.
Theological student advisory delegate Kari Olson speaks from the floor about how encouraging the assembly has been during a speak-out session.
Dear Friends of Seattle Presbytery,
We want to share some resources and encourage you as you consider the work of the 221st General Assembly of the PCUSA. It was a blessing to watch our six commissioners, YAAD, and TSAD, in action as they served our church this past week in Detroit. They represented Seattle Presbytery so well.
The assembly itself was calm and respectful throughout even while dealing with issues on which we disagreed. As you are well aware, the decisions that were made brought joy to some and grieving to others across our communities. However it should be noted that the commissioners also sought to find common ground during their deliberations - a truly hopeful sign and a practical expression of the theme verse, Romans 15:13: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
Emphasis throughout the assembly was on the success of the 1001 Worshiping Communities initiative being undertaken in many presbyteries across the church and to renewed missional efforts abroad. The move toward fostering new Christian communities wherever God is planting them, continues to be breathe new life into churches and presbyteries across the PCUSA. The presbytery staff continue to deepen our connections with this national movement.
Resources for the commissioners’ actions on marriage and divestment are contained among the links provided. Regarding marriage, the key issue going forward is that councils (sessions) and pastors have discretion in discerning who may be married in their churches (building). No session or pastor shall be compelled to act in any way that goes against their conscience. Though that is consistent with our polity as a church, it was reiterated around the issue of same-sex marriage.
I pray that despite the opportunities and the challenges that are ahead of us as a presbytery, we might remember to lift one another up and encourage one another in the ministry of the Gospel; that we might listen with ears to hear how God is speaking through the hurts and pains as well as the joys and triumphs of our friends, congregants, and fellow colleagues in the PCUSA.
The presbytery entrusts to our Seattle Presbytery commissioners the duty of interpreting the actions the 221st General Assembly as we prepare to vote on GA recommendations in 2015. Presbytery staff who also attended (Scott Lumsden, EP; Kevin Nollette, Associate EP, and Eliana Maxim, Associate EP, Kathy Lueckert, Stated Clerk) are available and willing to serve as a resources for interpreting GA actions and presbytery process going forward.
May God bless you and guide you as your serve Christ’s church,
Rev. Scott Lumsden
Executive Presbyter
GA Recap Resources:
Other Links:
Rev. Mansour Khajehpour (Seattle First PC) has received a new call as the Executive Director of Sat-7 PARS (a Christian satellite television ministry broadcasting in the Persian language).
Read MoreGiving to the Pentecost Offering makes it possible for the church to encourage, develop, and support its young people, and address the needs of at-risk children. A large portion of this offering can be retained by individual congregations wanting to make an impact in the lives of young people within their own community.
Read MoreQueen Anne PC is looking to give away a beautiful, small, old foot/"pump" organ. Please contact Pastor Doug Early if you're interested.
Madrona Grace PC has 70-80 Presbyterian Hymnals available to donate.
Read MoreBread for the World invites churches to write letters to Congress this Spring. This year's focus is "Reforming US Food Aid", asking Congress to make changes that would allow food aid to benefit 17 million more people each year, at no additional cost to taxpayers.
Read MoreHelp Wellspring win a video contest! The PC (USA)'s 1001 New Worshiping Community is running a video contest from May 1 through May 14. The first place winner will receive $10,000. Online voting will help determine the winners!
Read MoreThe Spiritual Exercises in Everyday Life is a nine month retreat format of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, with retreat communities meeting in Seattle and Tacoma, beginning in September and running through May.
Read MoreTwenty-five Seattle-area churches, including BelPres and Redmond PC, are raising thousands of dollars for Oso relief.
The group Churches For Oso has pledged money from their own churches' budgets plus donations from congregation members to Oso victims. The group has launched a fundraising website and produced a video that’s spreading online.
Read MoreSeattle event featured on GeekWire. Hacking for Jesus: Top projects from ‘Code for the Kingdom,’ a faith-based hackathon for spiritual geeks.
Read MoreFollowing their assessment of the Oso mudslide and the initial response, Rev. David Alger and Morella Larsen of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) met with 25 Presbyterians at Mountain View PC in Marysville, WA on March 29th. This disaster, when all is said and done, may be the most costly natural disaster in the last century in Washington State in terms of human life.
Read MoreYouth from your congregations are invited to participate in a Mass Youth Choir for Opening Worship at General Assembly on Saturday, June 14 at 11 AM at First Presbyterian Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Youth will meet for dinner and their first rehearsal at the church on June 12. Churches in Ann Arbor will open their buildings for youth and chaperones (for a minimal fee). There is no fee for participating in the mass choir itself. Dr. Jerry Blackstone, director of choral activities at University of Michigan, will conduct. 50 spaces are currently available for singers (rising 8th grade & up).
Contact: Tom Granum, Director of Music Ministries, First Presbyterian Church, Ann Arbor.
Rev. Debbie Blane, Mission Co-Worker in South Sudan
Rev. Debbie Blane, Mission co-worker in South Sudan (serving at Nile Theological College) will be returning to Seattle from May 20-June 12 and is seeking housing for part of that time. Please contact her directly via email if you can help. Learn more online about her ministry.
Debbie was ordained in the Seattle Presbytery at Woodland Park Presbyterian Church in 2002.
Boston University School of Theology is conducting a national research project on how people come to faith as adults in the U.S. The project will include those who have become adherents of all major religious traditions in the U.S.
Read MoreMatt and Allison Klump.
Seattle Presbytery is pleased to celebrate the announcement of Sound View's new director, Matt Klump. You probably recognize Matt from his familiar presence at our Presbytery gatherings. Congratulations! Read more.
Join Team World Vision. Run a race. Change the lives of children in Africa and Haiti and your team members. As you train for a race and ask others to make donations on your behalf, you help communities in need by enabling World Vision to provide access to things like clean water. You don't have to be a runner! Read more about Team World Vision.
Read MoreCWS has recently received a request from a partner agency for 52,500 CWS School Kits to travel to Cameroon, Syria, and Romania to provide supplies that enable children to be successful in school.
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