On June 7, the Seattle Church of Christ met together for a congregational missions service, and witnessed God work in miraculous ways! The church set a goal of $180,000, the biggest target we’ve set in years. The church responded by giving $319,000! It was truly a missions miracle.
The Seattle church has been engaged in local and global missions. We are helping to support the church in Bellingham, Washington, which is being led by Ben and Jess Sanders. God has blessed them tremendously this year, as they have seen numerous students baptized into Christ at Western Washington University. The church is happy and growing! 
We have also been helping to support Scott and Lynne Green, who are currently in Berlin, Germany building the church. They went there as missionaries after leading the Seattle church powerfully for 17 years! On Sunday, Lynne shared about the work God is going there, transforming hearts, strengthening families and multiplying the campus ministry through an endeavor they call “Hammer.”
Finally, the Seattle church has been planning to send a church planting to Pullman, Washington in July of this summer. For two years, we’ve been praying and planning to send a team to Pullman, home of Washington State University, the second largest university in the state. It will be led by Brian and Katie Dailey, who have been in training in Seattle for the last year. On July 19, they will take 16 courageous disciples with them over to Eastern Washington to begin bringing God’s word to a very open mission field.
We also appointed Matt and Jenn Rollins as evangelist and women’s ministry leaders. They were both baptized in the Seattle church, Matt as a student at the University of Washington, and Jenn as a teen. They have served the church faithfully in many areas, most notably leading our youth and family ministry full time. Matt and Jenn have been trained and will be sent out to help strengthen our sister church in Vancouver, British Columbia this summer. It was incredible to see one of our best young couples appointed, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with them as they lead in Vancouver.
God is truly working in the Seattle church, as we continue to grow to nearly 600 disciples. We are working hard to raise up new leaders that can inspire the next generation, to plant churches in every corner of Washington state (currently six churches), and to see God glorified both locally and globally. Please pray for us as we labor for him in the Great Northwest!