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Inglewood PC Mission Team's Recent Trip to Help Hurricane Katrina Victims
Thursday, February 28, 2008 (93 reads)
by Rev. Tom Salmon, Inglewood PC
Our mission team recently returned from a week in Gulfport, Mississippi, working with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance to help in the rebuilding not only of houses, but also of the lives of people who were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina. Each day my work team passed through downtown Gulfport, or what’s left of it. Near the beach stands the steeple of a
church building that no longer exists.
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Pastor Truong Ta of Vietnamese PC Featured in Ethnic Impact Article
Thursday, February 28, 2008 (32 reads)
 Pastor Truong Ta had heard of the many young workers from North Vietnam who were finding salvation in Jesus Christ. They were coming to work in the factories in Malaysian cities, and sending money home to their families. The harvest was ripe, but the workers few. Truong heard it once, then twice. And a third time. It was on the fourth hearing that Pastor Truong could not resist any longer.
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Show and Tell
Thursday, February 21, 2008 (125 reads)
 by Rev. Scott Dudley, Bellevue First Presbyterian Church
The past few weeks I’ve been doing a sermon series on how Jesus sets us free from the things that hold us in bondage. Each week I’ve asked you, and I’m going to ask you again this week, to think about the thing you want to be set free from. Maybe it’s anger, or worry, or money issues. Maybe it’s a bad habit, a repetitive sin, an addiction, a health problem or a relationship problem. What is it that you want Jesus to deliver you from? Someone said to me this week, “I hate this sermon series,” which I found very affirming, “It’s making me think!” That’s a good thing, because all of us have some kind of bondage. Jesus can set us free. In the next few weeks I want to get very practical about what we need to do to cooperate with Jesus in being set free. Jesus is the only one that can deliver us from bondage, but we have a role to play as well.
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Synod PJC's Decision on Seattle Presbytery's "Per Capita Resolution"
Thursday, February 21, 2008 (205 reads)
In a decision dated February 11, 2008, the Permanent Judicial Commission (PJC) of the Synod of Alaska-Northwest rescinded Seattle Presbytery's "Per Capita Resolution," adopted in its stated meeting on January 17, 2007. Not all the "specifications of error" alleged in Patten et al v. Presbytery of Seattle were sustained, but the first and overarching specification of error was sustained by a 9-0 vote.
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Free Pianos Available to Churches from Bellevue First PC
Thursday, February 07, 2008 (37 reads)
1st Pres Bellevue is offering two small “spinet/studio” pianos in good condition to churches in the area who might be able to make good use of them. They also have a grand piano that could be perfect for a youth dept someplace that would like to have the kids be able to get their hands on a piano after school or for thumpin’ out some camp songs.
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A Message from Presbyterian Disaster Assistance About Recent Tornadoes
Thursday, February 07, 2008 (54 reads)
To all Presbytery members and friends:
A message from the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.):
Tornadoes
February 6, 2008
A spate of unseasonal storms is continuing to wreck havoc across the south and south-central United States. In the recent wave of storms, tornadoes in five southern states have caused at least 47 deaths. The states most affected are Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, with 24 of the deaths in the state of Tennessee.
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A Letter from the Presbytery of South Louisiana
Thursday, February 07, 2008 (35 reads)
January 31,2008
An open letter to the Presbyterian Church (USA)
Grace to you and peace in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!
We represent the five presbyteries most severely affected by the violent hurricanes of 2005
(Katrina, Rita and Wilma); and we want to share with you our thoughts from the frontlines of
recovery and rebuilding. First, let us affirm that we are witnesses to the Scriptural truth that God's people do indeed gather from the north and south, east and west, and come together around the table. Our table has been filled by the unprecedented generosity of prayer, time and gifts that followed the storms. Your prayers for and with us have supported us; your presence through the many visits, letters, and mission teams have encouraged us; and your gifts given through Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and directly to us have made it possible for continued ministry in areas ravaged by the storms. Truly the partnership we share as people of faith working for the future is a witness of hope.
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Being a Servant of Jesus Christ
Thursday, February 07, 2008 (63 reads)
 by Rev. Ben Lindstrom, Southminster PC
It has come early this year – the season of Lent. The season when we ask ourselves “What does it mean to be a servant of Jesus Christ?”
- what does it mean to think like Jesus?
- what does it mean to act like Jesus?
- what does it mean to respond like Jesus?
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The Modern Pastor
Tuesday, February 05, 2008 (64 reads)
 by Rev. Chet Gean, Interim Pastor, Steel Lake PC
Dear Friends,
Calvin’s Pond has been filled by the winter storms. The sump pump turns on to remind us of the impact. Now the water has receded. The pond is in the front lawn. The daffodils are now coming up. Tulips are pushing green heads in their midst. Could they be signs of coming things? “Expectations” are important for me. Spring and warm weather always lift my soul. They are signs of change and the birth of new events, a new babe or two, or three, new chapters of adventure at Steel Lake, and the call of a new pastor. John Elting’s article “Pastor Able to Leap Tall Buildings….” helps us focus upon expectations: realistic and unfair ones.
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