Stories coming this summer

 

Hello everyone,


Some of the stories I'm working on over the summer are below. Contact me if I've missed anyone.

1. Next weekend, I'll be at the Toutle River Campground with youth from St. Paul Lutheran Church of Castle Rock, who by then will have devoted body and soul to a week's worth of work serving the local community under the Community Shepherds Program. I'll see what they've been up to. St. Paul is led by the Rev. Bob Sinclair. He and Lucas Myers, youth director, are overseeing the week. That's the Toutle River, pictured.

2. Patrick Cudahy is the synod's newest Young Adult in Global Mission. I'll be meeting with him in coming weeks between trips to Costa Rica and Malaysia, where's he is headed to perform his global service. Cudahy is the son of the Rev. Sigi Helgeson of Family of God Lutheran Church of Bremerton.

3. I'm planning a visit with Kathleen VanBeek of the youth ALYVE board, and we'll see what she has in mind for the group.

4. Just heard from the Rev. Steve Ray of Elim Lutheran Church of Port Orchard and director of Chinaconnect. He's given me an update of the organization's work in Nanchang, China, where he is now.

5. We'll be hearing from Allison Ramsey about Resurrection Lutheran Church of Tacoma's community garden, as well as fro the folks in South Bend about a big celebration of the expanded food bank initiative undertaken by First Lutheran Church.

6. We're going to look at a $100 million environmental remediation effort just getting started at Holden Village, the Lutheran retreat center in the Cascades. It's a former copper mining camp and some of the byproducts continue to migrate into a creek there. I think I'll be doing this for The Lutheran.

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— Rachel Pritchett, communicator