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How Did I End Up Here?
08/27/2019 2:41 PM

How Did I End Up Here?

08/27/2019 2:41 PM
08/27/2019 2:41 PM

How did I end up here, in Ellensburg working for Mercer Creek? It didn’t go exactly as planned, but God does things a little differently than we think they should go. Proverbs 16:9 says,

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Lora Mickelsen

It began with a simple surgery. I had had some serious complications the first time this surgery was done, so I was referred to a well-known specialist in Seattle to try it again. 

The day of the operation began with a light-hearted conversation with the doctor.  She laughingly assured me that the problem could be easily fixed.  The surgery seemed to go well, and two days later we made the six-hour drive back home to Lewiston.    

The next day I began to have increased pain. By that night...

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Changes & New Neighbors

Kerry Hansberry

In the Fall of 2017, I was grateful to be sent by Mercer Creek Church to attend the Academy of Spiritual Formation. God had so much in store for me in this eighteen-month journey. I learned about my personality type and my enneagram type. God invited

Sep. 18, 2019

How Did I End Up Here?

Cameron Tyrrell

How did I end up here, in Ellensburg working for Mercer Creek? It didn’t go exactly as planned, but God does things a little differently than we think they should go. Proverbs 16:9 says,

Aug. 27, 2019

No Longer Theory

Barb Bailey

In spite of the gray hair and drastic affects of gravity, I am seeing some good in this process of aging.  Things that were once theory to me have become places of certainty—solid ground. If you had asked me in my twenties, “Do you really believe that God...

Oct. 2, 2019

A Nudge Over Cocoa

Jon Coats

I grew up in a Christian church but my faith wasn’t my own till high school. I went on a mission’s trip to the Tenderloin district of San Francisco where my church teamed up with YWAM to minister to the homeless population. One night we were handing out hot cocoa to the homeless and the group I was with accidentally went out of the boundaries determined by the organization. That’s when we met a man that would challenge me in a significant way.

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God's Provision

Jojo Hahn

In my mid-twenties, I moved out of my home state to help with a ministry to which I felt God calling me. It was right at the start of the financial recession that began in 2008. Finding work proved to be a little more difficult than expected, but

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Dear Younger Me

Lewis Clark

I’ve been a volunteer at the Global Leadership Summit (GLS) for the past three years, which allows me to hear world class leadership speakers. During the 2018 GLS, Marcus Lemonis, host of a TV show called “The Profit”, left a huge impression on me. He encouraged leaders to share their stories, the things

Sep. 25, 2019

True Love

Duke Senter

Early in marriage with my wife, Sara, we had some unspoken expectations on the division of responsibilities. She was to cook and do laundry - that’s what my mom did. I was to take out the trash and kill any mice - that’s what her dad did. The problem was we didn’t communicate these expectations to each other. So when I saw

Aug. 27, 2019

Practicing the Sabbath

Paul Remington Jr.

I am a Central student going into my Junior year of the college studying Elementary and Early Childhood Education and if there is something that God has taught me it has been that I need to rest or Sabbath. Freshman year I was sure that college was a time for late nights and cramming before tests . Now I have done those late nights and cramming sessions or essays last minute to meet deadlines, but the idea of a Sabbath was never in my thought process until last year when God shared what he has already told me.

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God's Fingerprints

Lisa Johnson

Just over 20 years ago, I was pregnant with my 3rd child. 9 months along, to be exact.

My husband at the time had met someone and informed me that he wanted to separate. He said, “You are free to date. I care for you but I’m not in love with you.”

I remember looking down at my very pregnant belly and saying ‘You’re telling me to go date?’

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