QuadW-Portland: The summer internship program with community missional service
Gresham, Oregon: Gresham United Methodist Church is excited to partner with QuadW for a second year. QuadW Missional Internship is a mission oriented experience...
An April Fools Walk in Solidarity with our Kenyan Prayer Partner
Rev. Jo Dene Romeijn-Stout shares that she is building stamina for distance walking as a Lenten discipline this year.
On April 1, she'll be walking 19 miles to the church she serves, Sunrise UMC in Federal Way, in solidarity with the pastor of a Kenyan church they are in prayer partnership with.
What does it mean to “take up your cross and follow me”?
By Pastor Lyn Rush
Lyn Rush serves Pinoy Van-Port Ministries in Vancouver, Wash. This new church start serves Filipino Americans and immigrants with a keen...
Interpreting a Silent Bible
Edmonds, Washington – What would it be like to live in a silent world? Wind would play in the trees, but the rustle of...
How have ERTs fulfilled its mission of service in 2017?
By Kathy Bryson
For the PNW Early Response Team program, 2017 was a year kaf firsts. We hosted our first annual weekend “Spring Training” at...
Tiny Community, Enormous Hearts
Tiny Community, Enormous Hearts
Our Walk of Faith at Coupeville UMC
By Suzanne Loomis
Additional photos by The Rev. Jin Ming Ma and Wikipedia
As of the 2013...
Here’s how Conconully UMC raised $4000 for Rebuild Up from the Ashes
By Marilyn Church | Images courtesy of Jesse N. Love, Wikipedia*
"In 2015, Conconully was evacuated for a week; the fires never came into the town...
The Well: Prophetic Speech in Our Public Commons (Video)
Katie Ladd welcomes Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood to experience The Well – a place for great conversation in an intimate sharing space.
Today, famed author,...
Of Bread, Fish, and Socks
As pastor of Community UMC in Port Hadlock, Wash., Scott Rosekrans has encouraged his church to engage in mini-missions like their current "Socktober." This year, that project delivered big with a unexpected, maybe even miraculous, donation.
Art of Community | First Methodist Church steps up big for Columbia Elementary
Wenatchee First UMC has long supported nearby Columbia Elementary but its collaboration with the PTO and school's principle has benefitted from a renewed focus on face-to-face relationship building. Tracy Faulkner shared with The Wenatchee World that pastors John and Joanne Coleman Campbell helped to prompt this shift which has energized the congregation.