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Are you thinking about retirement? CVNW partners with Guidestone Financial Resources for church staff. Shawn is our primary advocate and consultant at GuideStone Financial Resources. He can be contacted for general questions about the plan or help navigating the plan resources.

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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].

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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

To view a list of all the CVNW Trustees and Executive Committee, please visit our website: churchventurenw.com/en/churches/area_associations.cfm.

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Association Annual Business Meetings 

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

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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

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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.

The major industries in this area are lumber, fishing, farming, tourism, light industrial and technology as well as many service industries. Depending on where one lives, you will find many who are just making ends meet and very few who many would be considered wealthy. There is also many who are homeless or struggling single-parenthouseholds. The housing situation in many parts of this area is not affordable and what is available usually is the worse for wear.

Alcohol and drug addictions are a major problem. Domestic violence is high; as a result, there are single-parent families who have suffered greatly at the hands of an abuser. There is in some a sense of hopeless, a feeling that not only do they lack a voice in decisions, but that no one is listening anyway.

It is into this area that the churches of the Lower Columbia Association have the privilege of bringing the gospel message that can bring salvation, hope and healing for those who are weary and worn.

 -  Pray for the spiritual, mental and physical health of the various pastors and staff members in our churches who are fighting the good fight of faith. Pray that we together will continue to seek to grow in the grace and knowledge of God, leaving a Christlike example for others to follow.

 -  Pray for boldness and clarity of mind and speech as we share our gospel hope in Christ with people who are self-absorbed and independently minded.

 -  Pray that God would grant us wisdom as we minister to the various needs of those in our congregations. Pray also that we would seek God’s wisdom in ministering to families and individuals within our communities.

 -  Pray that our churches will have a desire to meet and encourage one another in spite of the differences in ministry areas and size of ministry, to serve one another as co-laborers in the gospel and strengthen those in the association who need encouragement to keep pressing on in their good work.