Quest Blog
African Knitting Group: Laurie and Baine Craft, Cameroon
LiveUPDATE: Linda Szeto in Kenya
From Linda's blog:
Cameroon: Laurie and Baine Craft
Questers Baine and Laurie Craft are traveling to Cameroon this Summer, leading a team of 6 SPU students. Come out to their benefit show this SATURDAY JUNE 21 at 7:30 PM to learn more! Continue reading below for more information.
Tanzania: Brian and Nicole Hickory
Questers Brian and Nicole Hickory are set to head for Tanzania this July to partner in setting up long term relationships with people in the village of Chamwino, and to explore God's call to mission on their own lives. Please read their support letter below, and prayerfully consider supporting them through prayer, encouragment, and financial giving.
Our Partnership with World Relief
You will probably be hearing more and more for me as we prepare to host refugee families this summer and fall. I encourage you to pray about how you can get involved with this vital ministry. This past week (on Saturday) Quest participated in the Refugee Project in the International District and then on Monday we had a representative come and teach on the ways in which we can volunteer to bring support to refugees who are moving in the area.
Linda in Kenya
In just under two days, Quester and 5pm service attender Linda Szeto will be heading to Kenya. She will be working in her official capacity as a speech and language pathologist, and checking in with folks she has been in contact with since her last trip to Kenya. Take a look at Linda's blog, and check back for updates here: http://www.neuroplastictravel.blogspot.com/
Here's Linda in her own words:
this poem for me among many other "dramas" and performances. These
girls, whose parents pay high prices for their secondary education
(i.e., equivalent to high school) sleep in the room next to the
classroom. Their outpouring of enthusiasm for education in the midst of
having nothing that we privileged Westerners have (like electricity,
clean water, toilets, sealed windows, adequate textbooks, air
conditioning) was enough to bring me to tears. They marveled not only
at my camera, but also at the scent of my moisturizer, the
spiral-binding of my notebook, the color of my US dollar bill, the
texture of my chap stick.I couldn't fathom how spoiled we are. I couldn't take it. I cried that night.
Intro to Christian Theology
We pray to God the Father, Son, and Spirit, but believe in one God, how does that work? Jesus died and rose, but just how does that accomplish salvation? What do we do with the tensions and contradictions in Scripture? How do we affirm that God is good when we see and hear of so much evil in the world?
These are tough, big questions, but they're also good questions. They are good because they push us to love God with our minds. They connect us with the larger Christian community both now and in the past who have wrestled with the whats and whys of the Christian life. And these are questions for everyday life, because how we think and speak of God influences how we serve God. Here's the lineup of topics for our 3 week series:
The Refugee Project: Walk in my Shoes
It is that time! It is time to start thinking about how we can mobilize our resources to provide support, care and relationship to refugees who are relocating to the greater Seattle area. This is something we've been committed to for years and we feel deeply convicted to follow the call that God has placed on our hearts to be His hands, feet and face to men, women and children who are finding a new home in the states because of their need to flee their home due to persecution, oppression, torture and death.
Global Presence Update: June 2008
MISSIONARY BREAKFAST
Please join us as we welcome the S family (because they serve in Central Asia, we cannot mention their name and location via email. Feel free to call the office for more details) this SATURDAY, MAY 31 in Q Cafe from 10:30 am to Noon. They will be sharing about their work in Central Asia and how we can be praying for them.
SUMMER VISIONARIES MEETING
Community and Growth
As Quest continues to grow at a fast pace, one of our most pressing needs is to continue to invest in community groups as the life and backbone of our church community. From the beginning of Quest, we have always wanted to be a faith community that goes beyond Sundays- a church of small groups, not just a church with small groups.
One of the reasons we believe so strongly in the importance of community groups is that we recognize the reality of our busy and fragmented lives. So much in our culture pulls us away from community and if we're not careful, we can easily become spiritual consumers who show up on a Sunday, go through the motions for 90 minutes, and then return home unchanged.
