Free Robes & Stoles Available

E.R. Moore robes and stoles, purchased in 1995 available at BelPres.

Clean, no tears, no frays. A few nylon zippers do stick, but are easily replaced. Dry cleaned every season. We took very good care of these!  

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Free Hymnals Available

Newport Presbyterian Church has up to 200 copies of  “The Presbyterian Hymnal,” (blue hymnal published in 1990) available for free.   Anyone interested should contact janetdewater@newportpres.org.  Copies will be available to pick up at the Nov. 18 Presbytery meeting at Newport.

Madrona's Julia's Place Shelter featured in local news

Julia’s Place home to many homeless families

By Sarah Radmer, Staff Reporter
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 11:59 AM

When you think of a church’s basement, you probably expect it to be full of old, broken pews or spare Sunday-school supplies. But the basement of Madrona Grace Presbyterian Church (832 32nd Ave.) is full of tents.

On any given night, up to seven families or 22 people are living in those tents as part of the Julia’s Place shelter. 

Keeping families together

The shelter began three years ago after church pastor Mark Zimmerly offered the space to house homeless families through a partnership with Mary’s Place.

Read more at the Madison Park Times site...

Young Presbyterian Scholarship

$74,000 scholarship available at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. 

Westminster College has a 4-year PC(USA) Young Presbyterian Scholarship of $74,000 ($18,500 per year) for qualified students from PC(USA) churches.  However the student must be nominated by their church (pastor, youth director, session).  In a sense this scholarship allows your Presbytery and Congregations to provide a scholarship for their students without ever having to come up with the money to do so.   This scholarship has added to the diversity of Westminster College by providing the means for students from as far away as Alaska, Oregon, Utah, Texas, Kansas, Iowa, and all the states in between, as well as from Puerto Rico to attend Westminster College. 
 
We have found numerous students who have arrived on the campus of Westminster College and would have qualified for the scholarship, but their church never nominated them or never received the information, so we are trying to contact all churches using all available resources to offer this gift to students.

Download nomination form.

Download informational flyer.

Peace Rally For Ferguson

Post by Seattle Presbytery.

Churches partner with Israeli and Palestinian Kids4Peace

Recently, groups from Taiwanese and Sammamish Presbyterian Churches teamed up with Kids4Peace to provide meals for twenty-four Israeli and Palestinian kids during their visit to Seattle.

According to their website, “Kids4Peace is a grassroots interfaith youth movement dedicated to ending conflict and inspiring hope in Jerusalem and other divided societies around the world.” The local Seattle chapter works with local Christian, Muslim, and Jewish faith communities to promote the cause of peace.

Rev. Austin Ashenbrenner, Associate Pastor of Adults and Mission at Sammamish Pres., said, “It is clear that God is doing something at SPC around this topic of Israeli/Palestinian peace.” Combined with a trip to Israel led by Dick Leon last year, classes and more, Sammamish is becoming more involved in regional concerns. As Austin explains, “I’m not sure where God will lead us in our involvement with Kids for Peace or other similar efforts, but it seems that this experience has deepened the sense of connection that our church feels to this region and has also deepened our commitment to helping.”

Anna Quince of Taiwanese Pres., welcomed this chance to do some ministry outside of her comfort zone. Together with ruling elder Eric Tong and deacon Teresa Wu, they served a good lunch with a variety of Japanese dessert snacks. Most importantly they were able to bless the visiting children before their twenty hour flight back to Israel.

After lunch, many of the kids were gathered around a drum, sharing and playing. “They’re insanely good,” Michala Quince, a sophomore at the UW, explained, “Hopefully they can teach me something.”

PC (USA) Mission Worker Northwest Visit

Burkhard Paetzold, PC (USA) mission worker with the Roma people and PC (USA) regional liaison for Central Europe will be visiting the Pacific Northwest, October 15-25, 2014. 

Learn more online.

Prayers for the Middle East

JULY 21, 2014 
Office of the General Assembly

Statement issued by PC(USA) denouncing attacks in Mosul

It is with great sadness and deep concern that we join our voice with the voice of the church in Iraq to cry out against the terrible attack being waged against Christians, Shiite Muslims, and other religious minorities in and around the Iraqi city of Mosul. We condemn all actions seeking to discriminate between indigenous residents and citizens of Iraq based on religion or sect, and actions that threaten the safety and human dignity of innocents seeking to live out their Christian or Muslim faith in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere in the region.

We denounce the fear and hate-based tactics of Islamic extremists being used to force Christians to convert to a particular expression of Islam, pay an unspecified tax (jizya) for their safety, leave with only the clothes on their backs, or stay and be killed. Read more...