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的 dedication of the Dr. Ken Tollefson Friendship Bench will be Tuesday, 10月. 11点半.m. near the Story Pole behind Alexander and Adelaide Hall on the 西雅图 Pacific University campus.
的 late 教授essor Emeritus of Anthropology Ken Tollefson spent his life committed to serving indigenous people of the 西北太平洋地区 and Alaska and mentoring colleagues and students. He was given full membership into the Tlingit, 斯诺夸尔米, and Duwamish tribes in gratitude for his advocacy for the tribes’ federal recognition and protection of their aboriginal sites, including naming 斯诺夸尔米 Falls as a natural historic site.
牧师. Dr. 凯蒂•道格拉斯, associate professor of educational ministry and practical theology, and her team have received $1.3 million in grants for the 信仰的形成 Project. This project is all about partnering with congregations and families in the 西北太平洋地区 to help kids grow in faith. If you’re a parent, you know 今天’s fast-changing world is making your job even harder.
香港科技大学剧院演出, 基督教徒, an award-winning play about a megachurch dispute over salvation and damnation, 10月. 26-28日及11月. 2-4.
"Join us at church where Pastor Paul has a major announcement for the congregation that will change them all forever. He thinks everyone will be happy with what he has to say. 他是错的.
A big-little play about faith (and faithfulness) in America — and the trouble with changing your mind. Lucas Hnath’s script is complex — with brilliantly crafted dialogue and multidimensional characters. Hnath won the 2016 Obie Award for excellence in playwriting for 基督教徒."
所有演出7:30开始.m., with a matinee at 2:30 p.m. 11月4日.
SPU's 神学院 and Seminary welcomes church leaders to campus on Nov. 7 for a daylong conference titled "Preaching Forgiveness & 和解." 的 conference will take place at First Free Methodist Church (across from SPU’s campus) from 8:30 a.m.– 4 p.m. with a public lecture following the conference at 6 p.m. 的 keynote speaker for the conference and evening lecture is 牧师. Dr. 快乐J. 摩尔, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and the professor of Biblical preaching at Luther Seminary in St. 保罗,明尼苏达州.
An additional keynote message will be from 牧师. Dr. Scott Dudley, senior pastor at Bellevue Presbyterian Church; preaching from 牧师. Peter Chin, senior pastor at Rainer Avenue Church; and a panel discussion framed by 牧师. Michael Thomas, senior pastor at Radiant Church. Additional breakouts will be led by Dr. 斯蒂芬·纽比和牧师. 阿什利·斯金纳溪.
西雅图 Pacific University will offer a prayer service for Israel and Palestine on Tuesday, 10月. 上午11点10分.m. at First Free Methodist Church, adjacent to campus. (Address: 3200 Third Avenue West, 西雅图, 98119). This service is open to the public.
“Prayers for Peace and 的ological Meditations on Israel and Palestine” will be led by faculty in SPU’s 神学院.
的 event will not be recorded or livestreamed.
西雅图 Pacific University received an affirmation of accreditation through the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. This marks the 90th year the University was accredited by NWCCU.
Pastor Rebecca Worl was born and raised as a missionary kid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After returning to the States, she finished school in Bellingham and went on to receive her undergraduate degree in theology from 西雅图 Pacific. Becca then earned her master’s in 的ological and Biblical Studies at Fuller and subsequently served as associate pastor on staff at Cedar Creek Covenant in Maple Valley. In 2022, she joined the Pine Lake Covenant Church team as student ministries pastor, in addition to being a retreat speaker and itinerant preacher in the ECC.
Join church historian Dr. Priscilla Pope-Levison and biblical scholar Dr. Jack Levison for this annual lecture as they unearth early American women’s fascinating interpretations of Paul’s mandate for women to keep silent in churches (1 Corinthians 14:34-35). Levison and Pope-Levison will explore some of the earliest treatises on this topic written within a generation of the 牧师olutionary War.
的 lecture is Tuesday, 10月. 3, 7 p.m. in First Free Methodist Church.
西雅图 Pacific University received an anonymous gift of $125,000 from two alumni to expand the University’s student ministry outreach program. 的 gift will be directed to the student ministry coordinator and residence hall ministry coordinator programs, as well as provide additional resources for campus Chapel offerings.
For the eighth year in a row, 西雅图 Pacific has been named a “Best National University” in U.S. 好的赌博软件推荐 & 世界报道’s best college annual rankings for 2024. U.S. 好的赌博软件推荐 defines national universities as those institutions offering a full range of undergraduate majors plus master's and doctoral programs and committed to producing groundbreaking research.
Dr. Christopher Jones ’94 hopes the families in his medical practice never need to ask: “Is my kid sick enough that I should pay for a doctor’s visit?” Medical director of HopeCentral, a nonprofit health center, he and his team have adapted the concept of concierge medicine to a diverse 西雅图 neighborhood.
Assistant 教授essor of Philosophy Leland Saunders earned a $10,100 Graves Award in Humanities for his research project, “的 Structure of Moral Judgement: Philosophical Perspectives.” His research responds to recent arguments that human beings’ concepts of morality are just a quirk of evolution and don't connect to anything deeper.