The Presbytery of North Puget Sound
Washington
Festival participants try out a Personal Energy Transport, a simple and inexpensive form of mobility for disabled people.
The Presbytery of North Puget Sound has a vision for congregations to be “connected in Christ-like ways for shared mission all to the glory of God.” In February 2008, the presbytery joined in a Festival of Congregations in Mission in which the congregations’ mission work was publicly displayed and celebrated as the mission of the presbytery.
Participants joyfully discovered that God is doing more in and through this presbytery than they had realized. The thirty-nine projects on display represented only a small fraction of the mission work they engage in. Through the mission of its congregations, the presbytery is doing justice by supporting a Rwandan pineapple plantation and fighting human trafficking; loving kindness by enabling the mobility of people who have lost legs to land mines and by supporting a Jamaican school for the deaf; and walking humbly with God in partnership with Native Americans of the Makah and Nooksack tribes and with the Khmer of Cambodia.
The great potential for shared mission work was celebrated in listening to stories of lives changed by relief work after Hurricane Katrina. Located far from the Gulf Coast, more than a dozen churches have made twenty-six trips, sending over three hundred workers to help. These relief efforts will continue, with congregations truly “connected in Christ-like ways for shared mission all to the glory of God.”
The presbytery is home to 35 churches, 2 worshiping fellowships, 7,547 members, and Tall Timber Ranch camp and conference center.
Presbytery Staff
Dr. Corey Schlosser-Hall, executive presbyter
Rev. Dean Strong, stated clerk
Sarah Beard, communications coordinator
Joan Hill, financial coordinator
PC(USA) General Assembly Staff
Elder Catherine Cottingham, GAC
Audrey Cotton, OGA
Jennifer Cox, PPC
Clarence Antioquia, member, GAC
Gracious God, as you teach us how to walk with you in mission, open our eyes to see what you are doing in congregations other than our own so that we may welcome your work of connecting us for shared mission, all to your glory. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Ps. 27, 147:12–20 Ps. 126, 102
Deut. 7:6–11
Titus 1:1–16; John 1:29–34
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