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Our newest ministry endeavor, Equipping the Saints ministry training is off to a great start! We have 18 participants for around the Portland area who are joining together to be equipped and empowered for ministry in their local church. For more information, please email Sergio Aguirre at [email protected].

Trustees Rotating Off Board

On behalf of the entire Covenant Community of Church Venture NW churches, we’d like to thank the following for their years of service as a Trustee. Your commitment to serving Church Venture NW and your leadership in helping to build community among the churches within your associations has left a lasting impact and is greatly appreciated.

Blue Mountain John Hurty

Central Willamette South Mike Hatfield

Emerald Bob Singer

Evergreen Rob Johnson

Lower Columbia Ray Casper

North Puget Sound David Foster

We would also like to acknowledge and thank Kevin Kruse for his three years as Moderator of the Executive Committee (13 consecutive years of service on the Trustee Board of Executive Committee). Kevin, we have truly appreciated your guidance and leadership over the years and look forward to future opportunities to serving with you.

“I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:3-6

Welcome New Trustees!

During the associations’ Annual Business Meetings, the following people were affirmed as the new Trustee of their associations. Please join us in welcoming them to the Trustee Board!

Blue Mountain Aaron Umpleby

Central Willamette South Mike Sprague

Emerald Micah Page

Lower Columbia Kevin Lewis

North Puget Sound Chris Rich

Association Annual Business Meetings 

Don’t miss your association’s annual business meeting, see the specific meeting times below.

With Church Venture Northwest’s efforts to continue to serve our churches after the Fire Relief fund, James Gleason met with some of those who were affected by the Lincoln City fires in September, 2020. 

“The stories we heard last night were filled with tears of sadness and tears of joy. Each family was able to share their needs and be prayed for. The generous gifts from our CVNW churches will enable these people to rebuild their homes and their lives.

Mary Beth and I sat with Tom and Lisa who shared that they had only minutes to evacuate in the middle of the night and assumed they would be able to go back and retrieve their valuables and keepsakes. They never made it back to their home and as the fires swept through their community every home was lost and burned completely to the ground. The fires were so hot that everything was incinerated, leaving only ashes. Isaiah 61:3 tells us that God can trade our ashes into beauty and this was evident last night.” James Gleason

PRAYING FOR OUR CHURCHES

Lower Columbia

Astoria, OR - Grace Community Baptist Church (Kevin Lewis)  Cornelius, OR - Cornelius Community Church (David Weber) Forest Grove, OR - Old Town (Rudy Tinoco) Gaston, OR - Wapato Valley Church (Josh Morgan) Hillsboro, OR - Hillsboro First Baptist Church (David Fields) Hillsboro, OR - Sonrise Church (James Gleason) Saint Helens, OR - Grace Baptist Church (Dean Christensen) Saint Helens, OR - Yankton Community Fellowship (Rick Worlitz) Seaside, OR - North Coast Family Fellowship (John K. Nagle) Tillamook, OR - Bethel Baptist Church (Raymond Casper) Vernonia, OR - Grace Family Fellowship (Greg McCallum) Warrenton, OR - First Baptist Church (Edward Bussert)

Located in the Northwest, the Lower Columbia Association rep- resents churches strung across four counties. A beautiful area of Oregon, the churches in the association range in staff size from single pastor (full or part-time) to multiple staff pastors.