Rick Vinther, Pastor, Woodinville Community Church, Woodinville, WAĪndrea Austin, Seattle Hill Community, Seattle, WA Keith Carpenter, Senior Pastor, Kent Covenant Church, Kent, WAĭan Hamer, Senior Associate Pastor, Overlake Christian Church, Redmond, WAĪaron Thompson, Lead Pastor, Marysville Foursquare Church, Marysville, WAĭwayne Smith, Lead Pastor, Shoreline Community Church, Shoreline, WA Todd Puckett, Pastor, Revive Church, Redmond, WA Ryan Falls, Senior Pastor, Westminster Chapel, Bellevue, WA
Russell Schlecht, Senior Pastor, Eastside Church, Bothell, WA Kent Mankins, Lead Pastor,Valley Assembly, Spokane Valley, WA Vince Armfield, Pastor, Lakeside Christian Church, Kirkland, WAĭr. Steve Jamison, Lead Pastor, Eastridge Church, Issaquah, WAīill Berger, Lead Pastor, All Saints Church, Puyallup, WAĮric Irwin, Senior Pastor, Covenant Presbyterian Church, Issaquah, WAĬhristian Lindbeck, Lead Pastor, Hillcrest Church, Bellingham, WA Scott Harris, Lead Pastor, Brooklake Church, Federal Way, WAīill Walles, Pastor, Hope Church, Everett, WA Phil Rasmussen, Northwest University, Kirkland, WA Jeff Neuenschwander, Lead Pastor, Central Community Church, Seattle, WAīrian Dolleman, NWLife Church, Renton, WA Laurence Guisinger, Lead Pastor, Granger Assembly of God, Granger, WA Robin Porter, Lead Pastor, Eastgate Bible Fellowship, Bellevue, WAĭan Neary, Pastor, Northshore Church, Kenmore, WA Scott Mann, Pastor, Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Bellevue, WA Rosalind Renshaw, Pastor, Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Bellevue, WA Rich Gingrich, Pastor, Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Bellevue, WA Rich Leatherberry, Pastor, Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Bellevue, WAĬolin Robeson, Pastor, Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Bellevue, WA Michael Vederoff, Pastor, Hope Bible Fellowship, Seattle, WAĪlec Rowlands, Pastor, Westgate Chapel, Edmonds, WA Jeff Vanderstelt, Lead Teaching Pastor, Doxa Church, Bellevue, WA Nik Baumgart, Lead Pastor, Grove Church, Marysville, WAĭave Veach, District Supervisor, Northwest Foursquare District, Tacoma, WAĬhris Manginelli, Lead Pastor, Mill Creek Foursquare Church, Mill Creek, WAĬheryl Ann Manginelli, Pastor, Mill Creek Foursquare Church, Mill Creek, WA Troy Jones, Lead Pastor, New Life Church, Renton, WA Jeff Lincicome, Senior Pastor, Sammamish Presbyterian Church, Sammamish, WA George Hinman, Senior Pastor, University Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WAĪnnie Duncan, Executive Pastor, Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Bellevue, WA Richard Dahlstrom, Senior Pastor, Bethany Community Church, Seattle WA Scott Scruggs, Senior Pastor, Northshore Community Church, Kirkland, WA Joseph Castleberry, President, Northwest University, Kirkland, WA Scott Dudley, Senior Pastor, Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Bellevue, WAĭr.
We add our prayers to yours for the achievement of true community, love, justice, and reconciliation, and for the salvation of our beloved country. To every African American man, woman, boy, and girl, we express our deep pain and sorrow and join you in this time of grief. Jesus is our peace and he has destroyed the dividing walls of hostility (Ephesians 2:14), and we are called to work toward that better day. We recognize the special suffering of African Americans, as such atrocities represent an unconscionable continuation of a long litany of injustice that stretches back to the origins of slavery in America and seems to have no end in sight.įurther, we repent of the silence of evangelical leaders on this issue, and we commit ourselves to continuing and increasing our efforts to put an end to this original stain on our nation’s history in Gospel, hope for a better future for all Americans.
As White, Evangelical Christian pastors and leaders who seek to emulate Jesus Christ in love for people of all nations, tongues and tribes (Revelation 7:9), we stand beside African Americans to lament this interracial violence and all expressions of hate, and we call for justice for Ahmaud Arbery and all people of color. The unjustifiable killing of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man in Georgia, has shocked the conscience of millions across America. Published in the Seattle Times and Seattle Medium today is the following letter signed by 192 pastors expressing repentance after the devastating killing of Ahmaud Arbery, including our Senior Pastor, Doug Kelly, and Associate Pastor, Danielle Merseles.