2018 Leadership Summit PNWC Conference Packet

OregoN. Pacific Northwest. The River.

June 21-23, 2018 Timberlake Church, Redmond 123rd Annual Conference

Table of Contents Campus Map Letter from Supt. Matt PNWC Vision Statement 2018 Leadership Summit Agenda Local Restaurant Guide Leadership Summit Speakers Leadership Summit Partnership Offering Project Ministry Display Table List Standing Rules 2018 Local Church Lay Delegate & 2017 Appointments Ministerial Education and Guidance Board Report (MEG) Memoirs Board of Administration (BOA) Report Motions Log 2017 Annual Report 5-Year Stats Financial Report 2018 Budget/2017 Actuals Profit Loss: Year-end 2017 and Q1 2018 Balance Sheet 2017 and Q1 2018 Seattle Pacific University 2016-2017 Year in Review Warm Beach Camp & Conference Center 2017 Annual Report Free Methodist Foundation Report Free Methodist World Missions Report International Childcare Ministries (ICCM) Missionary Reports Area Directors Delia Neüsch Olver, Paul Over - Latin America Eric & Virginia Spangler, Asia FM Missionaries Kevin Austin, Set Free Movement Ricardo and Beth Gomez, Columbia-Latin America Darin & Jill Land, Philippines Don and Kathy Williams, Thailand Julie Yerger, Rwanda Oakdale Christian Academy Seattle Pacific Seminary SPU Christian Minister Tuition Discount Application PNWC Pastors’ Children Scholarship Application Clergy Housing Allowance Guide Ordained Ministers Housing Allowance Form Important Information for Pastors - Change of Status, LTD/Life Insurance Pension Ministers Card Warm Beach Camp Pastor & Church Opportunities PNWC Upcoming Events General Conference 2019 - Orlando, Florida Pastor & Spouse Dinner PNWC Holy Land Tour 2020

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Timberlake Church, Redmond, Washington June 21-23, 2018 Dear Friends: It is with a sense of great anticipation that for the 123rd Pacific Northwest Conference Leadership Summit we are joining two other conferences, the Oregon Conference and The River Conference, to gather together to worship, to be challenged, to connect with people, to learn and to be inspired at Leadership Summit 2018.

We encourage you to bring your whole family, your ministry team or your whole church! But Please don’t forget to Register!

Throughout our time together, we will hear from excellent speakers on the theme of ​”A great door has opened for effective ministry and there are many who oppose me”, ​from I Corinthians 16:9. ● ● ● ●

Danielle Strickland, Keynote Speaker, Best-selling Author, and Gifted Communicator Ben Sigman, Lead Pastor, Timberlake Church, Redmond Michael Traylor, New Co-Superintendent of The River Conference Peter Chin, Lead Pastor, Rainier Avenue Church, Seattle

Our FMC US Bishops, David Roller, David Kendall, and Matt Thomas will be present to give leadership and participate in the various sessions.

What else can you look forward to? ● ● ●

Powerful worship with the Timberlake Church Worship Team Specific and FUN! programming for kids and teens Opportunities to connect with other leaders and ministries both locally, and from around the world!

As you review this conference packet, I invite you to join us in praying for our time together. You can prepare for Leadership Summit in the following ways: ● ● ● ● ●

Make time to listen to God and to spend time in prayer for this conference.

Commit every part of the agenda and every speaker to God. Lift up the Timberlake Worship team, the presenters, and the volunteers and staff involved in Leadership Summit. Please join us in praying that everyone taking part would be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Ask God to make His presence known to us as we meet, and that each one present would respond in obedience.

Pray for our PNWC staff team (Geoff Smith, Cathy Tastad, Julie Weber, Melissa Whitehead and me) as we make final preparations for Leadership Summit.

I join you in looking forward to seeing what God will accomplish among us. It is a privilege to partner with you!

-Supt. Matt Whitehead

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Pacific Northwest Conference Free Methodist Church - USA VISION Partnering to Impact Eternity

VALUES Sustaining our commitment to serve the local church Raising up and coaching leaders Investing in church planting and revitalization Promoting individual spiritual and church health Establishing and endorsing partnerships Serving at the margins

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Agenda

Thursday, June 21

5:30pm

Doors open/Check-In Main Lobby

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Session One Auditorium SPU Reception

Friday, June 22 8:00am

Check-In Main Lobby

9:00am

Session Two Auditorium

12:00pm

Lunch from Chick-fil-A Newborn - 5th grade will eat lunch in their area 6th-12th grade will leave campus for offsite afternoon activity.

1:00pm

Conference Business Sessions Oregon Conference - K - 5th grade room Pacific Northwest Conference - Auditorium The River Conference - MSM

3:00pm

Session Three

5:00pm

Released for dinner on your own

5:15pm

Women’s Clergy Gathering

Saturday, June 23 9:00am - 11:00am

Ordination Service Auditorium Reception following service

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LOCAL AREA RESTAURANT GUIDE Ooba’s Mexican Restaurant Cuisine: Mexican 15802 NE 83rd St Redmond, WA 98052-3896 425-702-1694 17 minutes from Timberlake

Red Robin Cuisine: American 7597 170th Ave NE Redmond, WA 98052 425-895-1870 10 minutes from Timberlake

Tipsy Cow Burger Bar Cuisine: American 16345 Cleveland St Redmond, WA 98052-5745 425-896-8716 13 minutes from Timberlake

Flying Saucer Pizza Cuisine: Pizza 14712 NE 91st St Redmond, WA 98052-3478 425-376-2700 17 minutes from Timberlake

Sages Restaurant Cuisine: Italian 15916 NE 83rd St Redmond, WA 98052-3873 425-881-5004 14 minutes from Timberlake

Redmond’s Bar and Grill Cuisine: American 7979 Leary Way Redmond, WA 98052 425-558-9800 13 minutes from Timberlake

Yummy Teriyaki Cuisine: Japanese 17218 Redmond Way Redmond, WA 98052-4403 425-861-1010 13 minutes from Timberlake

Bai Tong Cuisine: Thai 14804 NE 24th St Redmond, WA 98052-5533 425-747-8424 16 minutes from Timberlake

Thai Ginger Cuisine: Thai 7430 164th Ave NE, B 225, Redmond, WA 98052-7839 425-558-4044 18 minutes from Timberlake

Zeeks Pizza Cuisine: Pizza 16015 Cleveland St #100 Redmond, WA 98052 425-893-8646 14 minutes from Timberlake

Pomegranate Bistro Cuisine: American 18005 NE 68th St Redmond, WA 98052-6716 425-556-5972 8 minutes from Timberlake

Blu Sardinia Cuisine: Italian 8862 161st Ave NE Redmond, WA 98052-7553 425-242-0024 16 minutes from Timberlake

Five Guys Cuisine: Burgers 15011 NE 24th St, Redmond, WA 98052-5531 425-643-8111 15 minutes from Timberlake

Kanishka Cuisine: Indian 16651 Redmond Way Redmond, WA 98052-0008 425-869-9182 11 minutes from Timberlake

Jimmy Johns Cuisine: Subs 17875 Redmond Way, Ste 124, Redmond, WA 98052-4936 425-869-9500 8 minutes from Timberlake

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LS2018 Speakers Danielle Strickland, Keynote Speaker Danielle has led churches, started training schools, and established justice departments around the world. She spent 22 years as an officer in The Salvation Army, and is an Ambassador for Compassion International and Stop The Traffik. Danielle has a deep calling to empower people. This includes traveling and speaking at conferences and gatherings around the globe and authoring several books including The Liberating Truth, A Beautiful Mess, and The Ultimate Exodus and most recently, The Zombie Gospel.

Pastor Ben Sigman​ is Lead Pastor at Timberlake Church in Redmond, the host church for LS2018. A Washington State native and UW alum, Pastor Ben has a passion for people and a heart to teach God's Word and a vision to lead the church into its next stage of ministry.

Dr. Michael Traylor​ ​and his wife Dr. Amelia Cleveland-Traylor are the new

Co-Superintendents of The River Conference and will assume their roles post Leadership Summit! Dr. Traylor has significant ministry and leadership experience as well as being a Board-Certified Pediatrician.

Pastor Peter Chin​ is the Lead Pastor of Rainier Avenue Church in Seattle, a large, multi-ethnic congregation located in Seattle. Peter is also a writer, speaker, and advocate for racial reconciliation. A graduate of Yale University and Fuller Seminary, he has pastored and planted churches all across the United States. Prior to coming to RAC, Peter and his wife Carol pastored in Washington DC.

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Please make checks payable to PNWC. Offering will be received Friday afternoon

Ministry Organization Displays Christian Karate Association

Marston Memorial Historical Center

Dayspring Ministries

Mission Catalyst

FM Bible Quizzing

MOPS International

FM Foundation - Financial Services

Northwest Urban Ministries

FM - Infuse

Schools for Africa (NGO)

FMC-USA Human Resources

Seattle Pacific Seminary

Free Methodist World Missions

Seattle Pacific University

FMWM - Portugal / Europe

SEED Livelihood Network

FMWM - Asia

Set Free Movement

FMWM - In Better Hands

Sister Connection

Gravitational Leadership

Warm Beach Camp & Conference Center

Heavenly Treasures/Shop with a Mission

Warm Beach Senior Community

Impact Middle East (IME)

Women's Ministries International

International Child Care Ministries

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2018 STANDING RULES Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church (Approved by electronic ballot March 30, 2018)

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Rules of Order.​ The latest edition of ​Roberts’ Rules of Order​ will be the basis of parliamentary procedure.

2.

Bar of Conference.​ ​ The bar of the Annual Conference will be established by declaration of the Presiding Officer of the Annual Conference.

3.

Credentials.​ The Conference Office will review and certify all delegates' credentials and report to the Annual Conference through the Conference Secretary.

4.

Roll.​ ​The roll will be taken through registration/check-in at the start of each Annual Conference day.

5.

Honorary Seats.​ ​Honorary seats in the Annual Conference are automatically granted to the following persons when they are not already voting members: PNW Conference Ministerial Candidates, licensed ministers, pastors and lay representatives of conference-organized Free Methodist Fellowships, chairs of Conference boards, Board of Administration members, Conference Secretary, Executive Director of Warm Beach Camp and Conference Center, and Executive Director of Warm Beach Senior Community.

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Communications.

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All communications received by the Conference Office/Secretary for the Annual Conference will be referred to the proper person, board, or committee.

The Chair of each standing board or committee will prepare a written report, including recommendations, for prior circulation to voting members of the Annual Conference. The report will be included in the book of reports and will constitute the report of that board or committee.

Any committee or board or ministry reporting on matters requiring Annual Conference action must have a committee member assigned to present the motion if called upon to do so and address concerns or answer questions.

All verbal reports must be approved in advance by the Superintendent or Presiding Officer and will be limited to three minutes unless otherwise arranged.

Time will be allotted in the agenda for the presentation of other needful communication and written recommendations.

Ordering of Committees and Boards​.​ The Conference will have the same boards, committees, and ex-officio members, thereof, as the previous year unless otherwise ordered by vote of the Conference.

2018 Standing Rules PNWC FMC

approved by electronic ballot March 30, 2018

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8.

Minutes.​ The minutes will be reviewed and approved by the Board of Administration at its next meeting subsequent to the adjournment of the Annual Conference.

9.

Motions.​ All motions, resolutions, and recommendations should be submitted in writing to the secretary at least 4 hours in advance.

10.

Agenda.​ The agenda coordinator is the Superintendent. After the printed agenda has been adopted, proposed changes should be reviewed with the Superintendent and the Presiding Officer.

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Voting.

11.1.

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11.4.

Voting may be conducted both online and/or at the Annual Conference. Voting at Annual Conference will be conducted by all members present in the bar at the time of voting.

All online voting ballots will be identified with the voter’s name, church and delegate status. To allow for the maximum exposure and voting participation, the initial voting window will be no less than five days long. Any subsequent / additional voting windows will be no less than two days long. The vote tally will be populated via the online voting site and results will be reported to the Conference Superintendent, who will, in turn, report the results to the Annual Conference. The person(s) and/or motion(s) receiving a simple majority of the vote will determine the outcome of the vote.

With respect to the election of General Conference delegates: 11.3.1. General Conference Delegates and Reserve General Conference Delegates will be elected by majority vote on separate electronic ballots for clergy and lay.

11.3.2. In lieu of nominations from the floor and the required provision of submitting more nominees than the number to be elected, nominations may be submitted to the PNWC Nominating Committee for consideration as General Conference Delegates. Write-in voting will be available on the electronic ballot.

Elections that occur during the Annual Conference meeting will be reflected publicly and acknowledged by the Presiding Officer.

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Ministerial Appointment Committee Election.​ In addition to the Superintendent, one elder and two lay members will be elected to three-year terms by majority ballot. Elected members will not be from the same church. PNW elders and full adult members of PNW Conference churches are eligible for election. The Conference Nominating Committee will present to the Annual Conference a ballot for the Ministerial Appointments Committee election.

13.

Election of the Conference Superintendent.​ ​ A Superintendent’s Nominating Committee will be formed in accordance with paragraph 5110.A1(A-C) in the latest edition of the ​Book of Discipline​, in the last year of the Superintendent’s term.

2018 Standing Rules PNWC FMC

approved by electronic ballot March 30, 2018

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Nominating Committee.​ ​The Nominating Committee is composed of 12 members elected by the Annual Conference, serving three-year rotating terms. The Board of Administration presents one nomination for each position on the Nominating Committee, giving due consideration to gender, lay/ministerial status and area representation.

15.

Warm Beach Camp and Conference Center Board of Directors.​ ​Board of Directors for Warm Beach Camp & Conference Center are nominated by the PNWC Board of Administration and elected by the members of the PNWC Annual Conference.

16.

Warm Beach Senior Community Board of Trustees. ​ ​Trustees for Warm Beach Senior Community are nominated by the PNWC Board of Administration, endorsed by the members of the PNWC Annual Conference, and elected by the Warm Beach Senior Community Board of Trustees.

17.

Seattle Pacific University Trustees.​ ​ Trustees for Seattle Pacific University are nominated by a Regional Nominating Committee, endorsed by the Seattle Pacific University Board of Trustees Trusteeship Committee, approved by the PNWC Board of Administration, and elected by the Seattle Pacific University Board of Trustees.

18.

Ex-officio Members.​ The Superintendent is an ex-officio member of all boards and committees, except where such board or committee is required by civil law to elect specifically identified persons. All ex-officio members are eligible to vote unless otherwise designated.

19.

Limitations.​ No person may serve on the same board or committee for more than two consecutive three-year terms. Ex-officio membership is not included in this limitation. The Conference Board of Administration may make an exception to this term limit provision by allowing a one-term extension to serve on the Board of Administration, Ministerial Appointments Committee, or the Ministerial Education & Guidance Board. Also, trustees elected by the Conference to Warm Beach Camp and Conference Center, Warm Beach Senior Community, and Seattle Pacific University are not included in this limitation, but rather, their election is guided by limitations established by the bylaws of the respective institution. A person may not chair more than one board or committee.

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Board and Committee Procedures.​ ​The Conference office will notify all new persons of their election and see that members are duly notified of all meetings. Each board and committee will elect a Chair. Accurate minutes will be kept including date, meeting place, members present and actions taken; filing them with the Conference office within ten days of the meeting. The Conference office will see that each board or committee member receives a copy of the minutes. The members present and voting will constitute a quorum unless a board chooses to set its own quorum​.

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Annual Conference Delegates.​ ​ In addition to appointed pastors who are full members of the Conference, the Annual Statistical Report (as of December 31 of the previous calendar year) will be used to determine the number of delegates a local church will send to Annual Conference according to paragraph 5010-B in the latest edition of the ​Book of Discipline​.

Terms of office will coincide with the calendar year.

2018 Standing Rules PNWC FMC

approved by electronic ballot March 30, 2018

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Conference Budget. ​ ​The Board of Administration is responsible for approving the conference budget, which shall be recommended by the Conference Financial Task Force.

23.

Interim Business.​ ​ The Board of Administration will be authorized to transact any business overlooked by the Annual Conference, fill vacancies on boards and committees, and act as the Executive Committee of the Conference, as authorized in paragraph 5200 in the latest edition of the ​Book of Discipline​.

24.

Legal Business.​ ​ As the Conference Trustees, the Board of Administration is authorized to purchase, transfer, sell, or encumber any and all property held by the Conference, according to paragraph 6500 in the latest edition of the ​Book of Discipline​.

25.

Adjournment.​ When the Conference adjourns, it will adjourn to meet at the call of the Chair or Presiding Officer.

2018 Standing Rules PNWC FMC

approved by electronic ballot March 30, 2018

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PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2017​ Appointments (including post-conference changes) & ​2018​ Delegates Church Name ~Anchorage, Redemption Church Arlington Free Methodist Auburn, New Day Christian Fellowship Bothell, Canvas Church (CPP) Bothell, Living Hope Burien Free Methodist Centralia, Cooks Hill Community Church Dupont, The Rock Eagle River, Skyline Family Fellowship East Wenatchee , Eastmont Community Church Hoquiam, Light & Life Community Church Issaquah, Mountain Creek Christian Fellowship Lake Stevens, LifePoint Longview, Exodus Christian Fellowship Lynnwood, New Life Marysville Free Methodist Moses Lake, Journey Mt. Vernon, Hillcrest Church Omak, Cornerstone Christian Fellowship Oroville Free Methodist Quincy Free Methodist

Redmond, Timberlake

Renton, International FMC (Affiliate) Renton, Living Hope Seattle, Ballard Seattle, First

PNWC Appointed Lead & Staff Pastors

Primary Delegates

Reserve Delegates

*Tyler Underwood Chuck Shocki Daniel Keane Ron Kocher *Jared Hughes *Angie Hughes Kyle Welstad Mark Morrison Jon Cortese Mitchell Dietz

Stacey Boulton Phil Stringer Dave Clark

Debbie Tibbils

Larry Rogers Bryan Sallee

Frank Gant Vicki Monroe Samuel Onih Eric Brasher Michelle Ecklund Ken Springer Robert Moreland

Eric Barnes Paul Drewer

Monica Tun Jeremy Williams

Brad Gill (LP)

Lance Whitbeck

Patti Whitbeck

Vanessa Chitwood

Debra Johnson

Mike Birdsall

Rusty Gerhart Trevor Lee

Mike Flathers Don Garberg Mark King Tim Watson Dylan Shulda Don Holt Irma Fairchild Heather Lundberg Dan Staple Kacie Rollins Joelene Meckstroth

Scott Hemberry Keith Light Victor Rodriguez Harvey VanderGriend Greg Zook Ed Burns Ryan Beagle Mike McCune Rod Brown Shaun McNay Daniel Castillo Jose Castillo Zoila Castillo Ben Sigman Owen Jacobsen Cindra Patterson Brice Sanders

Debbie Dibble Eric Hein Dick Sass Jerry Elmore Ron Huxtable Heath Wilson

Suzan Combs Joyce Olsen Mitzie Dotson Keith Thuline Christa Looney Karen Sallee Connie Hughes

David Thelin Eli Weaver Craig Quimby Todd Roebke Fred Safstrom Justin Rollins Terry Schaberg Eric Schmidt Steve Lamb Linda Guzman

Keith Beeman Glenn Hasslinger, Sr. Louise Hasslinger Mark Kaushagen Yong Chae Lee Rick Weber

Phalla Son Jesse Champers Allison Coventry *D. Matthew Poole Janice Box Bonnie Brann

Barbara Warner Andrew VanNess David Dickerson Jeanette Fiess Corey Hays

Josh Walker

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PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2017​ Appointments (including post-conference changes) & ​2018​ Delegates Kimberly Castelo Joe Culumber Clay Utley Heather Utley

Ken Hall Rosemary Kneeling David Simmons Nancy Walker

Seattle, Iglesia de las Americas

Jorge Guti​é​rrez Phyllis Guti​é​rrez Emily Norton

Melissa Gramajo Teresa Tubac

Seattle, Lakeview

David Banks Jodi Gatlin Brain Lahti Peter Chin Mark Nsimbi Anna Schoenhals-Kalepo Travis Lohman

Susan Fenner Clark Jennings Kevin Lauder Leonetta Elaiho Philip Kane David Leong Kathy Henderson

Gerard Duguay Eric Siverson Goffe Torgerson Tina Chang Billy Vo

Steve Fish # Shon Bentley Emily Faley Bill Stone Stacy Stone Jeffrey Horton # Jarad Bivins

Hayden Blackwood Jeff Mitcham Andrew Treadway Jerry Vance Kenny Wright Gary Karns Joe Lince Cyndi Tefft Paige Buurstra Char Seawell Tom Wier Evonda Morehouse

Anna Kitchener

Seattle, Rainier Ave. Sedro Woolley Day Creek Chapel Sedro-Woolley North Cascades Christian Fellowship Shoreline Snohomish, Cross View Tacoma, Light & Life Tonasket Tukwila, House of Oaks Ministries (EMP) Stanwood, Warm Beach Wenatchee, Sage Hills

Yakima, Mountainview Christian Fellowship

Jon Swanson David Haslam Jada Swanson Lance DeLarme Trudy Read Ryan Willson Deryl Davis-Bell Joshua Brooks Spencer McDowell Morgan MacPherson Mike Wilson Stephen Bishop Michael Henry Kay Kolde Jim Harbour Kelly Boyle Julee Lenderman Zachary Martin

Virginia Learned

Hanna Rodli

Sue Johnson

Norm Edwards Darlene Hartley Tom Kauffman Kristi Ahrens Lisa Drohan Tonya Griffith Dan Lewis Heidi Loewen Greg Lovercamp Andrea Torres Matt Wight Kurt Walker

Doug Darwood

Post Conference Changes​: Key​:​

* ​ Post conference appointment # P ​ ost conference resignation ~ ​Church Name Change

​+ Post conference change of status # Church Closure

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Pacific Northwest Conference 2018 Ministerial Education and Guidance Board Report The Pacific Northwest Conference Ministerial Education and Guidance Board recommends: 1. That the following persons be received as Conference Ministerial Candidate: Ingrid Marie Carlson Devin Matthew Casey Analicia Harrell Luizane Chiv Tracy Collins Gerardo Cornelio Steve Cowman Michael Flathers Patrick Herzer Bridget Anne Myers Rodney S. Nordbye Genesis Parker Jesse Parker Leticia Rubio Cassandra Wilson Lucas Woodason Robi Woodason 2. That the following persons be continued as Conference Ministerial Candidates ​: (4) Debra Davis-Bell Tukwila, House of Oaks Ministries (4) Ryan H. McLaughlin Warm Beach FMC (4) Fain Randall Marysville FMC (4) Marcus A. Soler Sedro-Woolley, North Cascades CF (3) Matt Lambert E. Wenatchee, Eastmont Community Church (3) Holly Moe Snohomish, CrossView Church (3) Sepehr Nafezi Puget Sound Farsi Ministry (2) Tyler Underwood Anchorage, Redemption Church

3. That the following persons be admitted into full membership and ordained elder: Mary E. Combs Bothell, Living Hope Janine C. DeLarme Tacoma, Light & Life Christian Fellowship Steven Drohan Wenatchee, Sage Hills Church Vanthong Manivanh Seattle, Rainier Ave Church Geoff Smith Pacific Northwest Conference Troy Smith Wenatchee, Sage Hills Church

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4. That the following be received by transfer from another conference: David Lindner Oregon Conference 5. That the following be received by transfer from another denomination or independent church: Christopher Artis Fellowship of Evangelical Churches David J. Choi Evangelical Church Alliance Donald Perry Garberg FourSquare Church, Northwest District Mike James Northwest Ministry Network, Assembly of God D. Matthew Poole The United Methodist Church, Baltimore-Washington Conference Bryan David Rees NewGrace Church, Bellevue, Washington Nathan Brice Sanders Harris Creek Baptist Church, Waco, Texas

Further, the Pacific Northwest Conference Ministerial Education and Guidance Board reports: 1. That the following persons have been granted a Certificate of Standing with view to transfer: José Castillo Elder The River Conference George Houston Elder Southern Michigan Conference Sheila Houston Elder Southern Michigan Conference Scott Moore Elder Jacob’s Well Community Church, Normal, Illinois Brenda Nagunst Elder The River Conference 2. That the following persons have completed Transfer: George Houston Sheila Houston Brenda Nagunst 3. That the following persons be withdrawn from the conference and denomination at own request: Daniel Butcher Mike Hagen Robert Stewart 4. That the following persons be discontinued as a Conference Ministerial Candidate at own request: Trinity Bernhardt Josue Cruz Raoul Perez 5. The following persons continue to be Located: E ​Clarence Bishop Seattle, First D ​Roger Ensign Dupont, The Rock E ​Shawn Hall Centralia, Cooks Hill Community Church D ​Ginger Kauffman Warm Beach FMC E ​Steve Lee Shoreline

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D E E E E E E E E

​Hoyt Morris ​Milende Msoshi Abigail Nelson ​Dana Osborn ​Colleen Rankin ​Kenneth Rankin ​John Silva ​Robert L. Stanton ​Wrayburn Whitesell

Seattle, First Warm Beach Mount Vernon, Hillcrest Marysville Arlington Arlington Warm Beach Tacoma, Light & Life Seattle, First

The Ministerial Education and Guidance Board has given due consideration to the character of and performance of each ministerial member of the Pacific Northwest Conference. Based on the information available to the MEG Board through the ministers’ annual Confidential Report and input from the superintendent, to the best of their knowledge, the MEG Board recommends passing on the integrity and Christian discipleship of the ministers in accord with paragraphs 5300-5310 of the 2015 Book of Discipline​.

Upon recommendation by the various pastors and local boards of administration of the churches where they are located, the Ministerial Education and Guidance Board affirms the integrity and Christian discipleship of located deacons and elders.

Ministerial Education and Guidance Board Members: Trish Beagle, Steve Fish, Jim Harbour, Darlene Hartley, Shelley Henry, Van Manivanh, Diane McNay, Mark Morrison, Mark Nsimbi, Henriet Schapelhouman, Geoff Smith, Rick Weber, Kyle Welstad, Matt Whitehead, and Bishop Matt Thomas.

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In Loving Memory Elayne Audrey DeMille, 88, was born August 6, 1929 in Little Chicago, MN to Sigurd and Katherine Sjulstad, and passed away on August 22, 2017. She graduated from Newark High School in Illinois, and later attended the Lutheran Bible Institute in Chicago. Elayne worked as a court clerk for many years and spent a lot of her time volunteering for various organizations including local food banks, and most recently the Pregnancy Resource Center. She attended bible study every week and was very devoted to her faith. In her free time she loved gardening, cooking and entertaining friends and family.

Elayne is preceded in death by her parents, six siblings, and her husband, Rev. Richard DeMille. She is survived by her children, Melanie Masinelli, Kirk Pierson, and Dr. Kim Pierson, as well as her three grandchildren, James, Virginia, and Dominic.

Elayne DeMille Dorothy (Thompson) Jeffery (98), wife of deceased PNWC Elder Wesley Jeffery, passed away December 28th. Wes and Dorothy pastored several churches in the PNWC. Dorothy attended Yakima, Mountainview Christian Fellowship.

Dorothy was a loving & dedicated mother of seven children: David (Rose) Jeffery of Phoenix, AZ; Patricia (Milt, deceased) Haworth of Normandy Park, WA; Harold (Deceased) VernaRae Jeffery of Yakima, WA; Lauralinn (Greg) Sents of Camano Island, WA; Anthony (Sondra) Maier of Federal Way, WA; Merrilou (Steve) Harrison of Yakima, WA; Dennis (Coleen) Jeffery of Lakewood, CO. Dorothy was a devoted Grandmother of 19 Grandchildren and numerous Great Grandchildren.

Dorothy Jeffery

Dorothy’s ministry was first to her family. Her meals are legendary! Her grandchildren are still attempting to duplicate her cinnamon rolls & donuts. She was always teaching and loved to read and stay current on elementary & secondary educational learning trends. A host of women point to Dorothy as their mentor & counselor as well as caring friend. The family continues to carry out the Servant-Heart life styles demonstrated by Dorothy & Wesley.

Darleen L. Wiley 94, wife of deceased PNWC Elder Forrest Wiley, passed into the arms of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on April 24, 2018, at Warm Beach Senior Community. She was born on May 8, 1923, in Ottumwa, Iowa, and was the second child of Glenn and Florence Leasor. Darleen lived most of her childhood in Chicago, graduating from Hyde Park High School.

She recalled riding the street car, without her parents knowing of this adventure. On February 20, 1943, she married the love of her life, Forrest Wiley. Together they pastored churches in Hannibal, MO, Hoquiam, WA, Burlington, WA, Port Angeles, WA, Quincy, WA, and Vancouver, BC. They retired to Stanwood, WA, where they built their dream home and lived there for over 30 years. Darleen was preceded in death by her parents, Glenn and Florence Leasor; husband, Forrest Wiley and sister, Estelle Sloan.

Darleen Wiley

She is survived by brother, George (Carol) Leasor, Stanwood; sons, Stan (Lindi) Wiley of Boise, Idaho; Glenn (Lana) Wiley, Burlington; and Chuck (Diana) Wiley, East Wenatchee, WA; four grand-children and nine great grandchildren.

Beverlee Overland, spouse of retired PNWC Elder, Norman Overland, passed to her Lord in heaven on November 24, 2017.

Beverlee and Norman went to Japan as missionaries with the Free Methodist Church in 1951, a ministry they were privileged to serve for over 20 years. After returning from the mission field, they pastored PNWC congregations in Everett, Ballard and Renton. Prior to her death, she wrote: "I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one. I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, Of happy times and laughing times and bright sunny days. I'd like the tears of those who grieve to dry before the sun. Of happy memories that I leave When my life is done."

Beverlee Overland

Beverlee will be remembered as an encouraging, caring and giving mother, a devoted wife, loving grandmother and trustworthy friend. Beverlee is survived by her husband, Norman, sons and daughters-in-law, Steven and Lorine Overland, Paul and Lorie Overland; four grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Dixie Tremaine, wife of PNWC Elder Chet Tremaine, passed into the arms of Jesus on August 29, 2017. Born near Tonasket, Washington, on January 2, 1923, to Elmer and Carlene Colbert, Dixie attended a one room school house and graduated from Tonasket High School at age 16. She continued her education at Seattle Pacific University where she met her husband, Chester Tremain. Chet and Dixie were married on October 22, 1943. For 42 years Dixie was a minister’s wife in the Free Methodist denomination serving in Oregon and Washington. Her willingness to be of service was valued by all who knew her. Chet passed away in 1986.

Dixie Tremaine

In the years since the death of her husband, Dixie lived in Marysville, Snohomish and finally in Warm Beach Senior Community. She traveled, did volunteer work, was involved in her church and used her talent for any type of hand crafts which she enjoyed. Dixie was predeceased by her parents, Elmer and Carlene (Umscheid) Colbert; her siblings, 18 Roy (Barie), Mark Colbert and Marlyn Colbert and her husband Chester Tremain.

PNWC BOA Motion Summary June 2017 - May 2018 2017 September BOA2017-9-20

Motion​ to approve the sale of The First Free Methodist Church of Anchorage duplex located at at 4541 E 6th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99508 (Parcel No. 005-041-24-000).

M/S/P

2017 October BOA2017-10-4

Motion ​to accept the proposal for funding the PNWC Church Plant in Bothell/Woodinville in the total amount $173,300. ​M/S/P

BOA2017-10-12

Motion ​to grant approval of the Permission to Mortgage to The First Free Methodist Church of Seattle located at at 3200 3rd Ave W, Seattle, WA 98119, in the amount of up to $400,000 (four hundred thousand dollars), to be held with the Free Methodist Loan Foundation. ​M/S/P

BOA2017-10-30

Motion ​to grant Timberlake Christian Fellowship permission to refinance existing loans with the Free Methodist Foundation. The total amount of all loans to be refinanced is $7,232,756 (seven million, two hundred thirty two thousand, seven hundred and fifty six dollars), lowering the existing interest rate from 4.55% to 3.85%

2017 November BOA2017-11-6

Motion ​to approve financial report of September 30 as presented. ​M/S/P

BOA2017-11-6

Motion ​to approve a $50,000 grant to LifePoint Church for support of their capital building project. This distribution will be from the Church Sale Proceeds fund. ​M/S/P

BOA2017-11-6

Motion ​to approve the 2018 Housing Allowance for Matt Whitehead in the amount of $50,000, and for Cathy Tastad in the amount of $35,000. ​M/S/P

BOA2017-11-29

Motion ​to approve the name change from Anchorage Free Methodist Church to Anchorage Free Methodist Church DBA Redemption Church. ​M/S/P

2017 December BOA2017-12-1

Motion​ to grant approval to Quincy Free Methodist Church for the sale of 40-acres of land. (Location: Legal - FU 178 BLOCK 73 LS RD 18 20 24. Parcel #040411050). ​M/S/P

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2018 February BOA2018-1-17

RESOLVED​, that the Pacific Northwest Conference ​ approves of Lynnwood Free Methodist Church DBA New Life located at at 6519 188th St SW, Lynnwood, WA 98037 obtaining a loan from The Free Methodist Foundation, and of the church granting to the Foundation a mortgage on the Church’s property for up to $50,000​; that the Conference agrees to sign as co-maker the Promissory Note for the loan, recognizing that the Conference is thereby obligated to make the loan payments at any time if the Church does not. ​M/S/P

BOA2018-2-10

Motion​ to approve the December 2017 financial reports as presented. ​M/S/P

BOA2018-2-20

Motion ​to enter into Executive Session at 12:10 pm to discuss staff compensation.

Geoff Smith, Cathy Tastad, and Matt Whitehead left the meeting. ​M/S/P

BOA2018-2-20

Motion ​to convene Executive Session at 12:30 pm. Geoff Smith, Cathy Tastad, and Matt Whitehead rejoined the meeting. ​M/S/P

BOA2018-2-20

Motion ​to approve the 2018 budget. ​M/S/P

BOA2018-2-20

RESOLVED​, that the Pacific Northwest Conference approves of LifePoint Free Methodist Church obtaining a loan from The Free Methodist Foundation, and of the church granting to the Foundation a mortgage on the Church’s property for up to $1,500,000.00; that the Conference agrees to sign as co-maker the Promissory Note for the loan, recognizing that the Conference is thereby obligated to make the loan payments at any time if the Church does not. ​M/S/P

BOA2018-2-20

RESOLVED​, that the Pacific Northwest Conference approves of Marysville Free Methodist Church obtaining a loan from The Free Methodist Foundation, and of the church granting to the Foundation a mortgage on the Church’s property for up to $107,000.00; that the Conference agrees to sign as co-maker the Promissory Note for the loan, recognizing that the Conference is thereby obligated to make the loan payments at any time if the Church does not. ​M/S/P

BOA2018-2-20

Motion ​to endorse the Standing Rules with the changes and approve that the Standing Rules be placed on the 2018 Pacific Northwest Annual Conference ballot.

M/S/P

BOA2018-2-20

Motion ​to approve Leadership Summit 2018 offering to be distributed equally between Northwest Urban Ministries and Impact Middle East for church planting in the Middle East. ​M/S/P

2018 March BOA2018-3-8

RESOLVED​, that the Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church grants Living Hope Christian Fellowship A Free Methodist Congregation of Renton​ authorization to sell the property identified as Parcel "B" located at 16015 116th Ave SE Renton, WA 98058. ​M/S/P

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2018 May BOA2018-5-1

Motion ​to approve the 2017 Year-End and March 2018 financials. ​M/S/P

BOA2018-5-1

Motion ​to nominate to the 2018 Pacific Northwest Annual Conference ballot the following nominees for the Warm Beach Camp Board: David Goodnight, Redmond Timberlake Church (term to expire 2021); Cindy Patterson, Redmond Timberlake Church (term to expire 2021); Terry Schaberg, Mt. Vernon Hillcrest Church, (term to expire 2021). ​M/S/P

BOA2018-5-1

Motion ​to nominate to the 2018 Pacific Northwest Annual Conference ballot the following nominee for the Warm Beach Senior Community Board: Linda Landerdahl, (term to expire 2021). ​M/S/P

BOA2018-5-1

Motion ​to nominate to the 2018 Pacific Northwest Annual Conference ballot the following nominees for the PNWC Nominating Committee: Jada Swanson (clergy), Snohomish CrossView (term to expire 2021); Sharon Dennis (lay), Longview Exodus (term to expire 2021); Emily Lambert (lay), East Wenatchee, Eastmont Community Church (term to expire 2021); Jennifer Willson (lay), Tonasket FMC (term to expire 2021). ​M/S/P

BOA2018-5-1

Motion ​to apply the term limit exception found Standing Rule #19 to allow a one-term extension for Ben Sigman to serve on the Board of Administration for a third consecutive term to expire in 2021. ​M/S/P

BOA2018-5-1

RESOLVED​, that the Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church approves of Moses Lake Journey Church property purchase and obtaining a loan in the amount of $400,000 and of the church granting to Grace Lutheran Church a mortgage on the Church’s property for up to $400,000; that the Conference will not sign as co-maker the Promissory Note for the loan, therefore removing any obligation for the Conference to make the loan payments at any time if the Church does not. ​M/S/P

BOA2018-5-1

RESOLVED​, that the Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church grants the First Free Methodist Church of Sedro Woolley, DBA North Cascades Christian Fellowship authorization to sell the portion of the property known as the field east of the existing building located at 3800 Dana Road, Bellingham, WA. M/S/P

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2017 Annual Report

Worship Attendance

Membership

Conversions

Baptisms

Disciple Makers

11800 +11%

5562 +2%

1559 +29%

530 +2.5%

477 +5.5%

Total Local Ministry Local Outreach FM World Other Global Partnerships Church Income Giving Missions Giving Giving 332 +6.75%

$27,404,424 +6%

$662,215 +30%

$488,538 +14%

$691,206 -20%

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Pacific Northwest Conference 2018 Budget / 2017 Actuals

Ordinary Income/Expense 2018 Budget

2017 Actual

Income 4100 · Equal Participation System 4200 · Interest Income 4300 · Misc

1,500,000 11,500 1,500 1,513,000

1,487,958 27,476 6,835 1,522,269

6000 · 6050 · 6075 · 6100 7000 · 7010 · 7025 · 7050 · 7060 · 7070 · 7102 · 7103 · 7104 · 7108 ·

146,700 25,000 130,000 513,304 25,000 3,400 502,549 64,000 88,547 14,500 1,513,000

134,679 33,608 71,756 12,954 509,271 32,944 1,226 477,467 53,775 62,265 14,796 1,404,741

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117,528

Total Income Leadership Development Minister's Moving/Recruitment Church Revitalization/Planting Board Designated Projects EPP (FMC USA) Professional Fees Retirees Subsidies/Other Payroll Expenses Administrative Expense/Travel Conference Office Interest Depreciation Expenses of Property Held Grants: Other Charitable Org

PNWC Budget Allocation Personnel 33%

Vision/Ops 33%

Vision/Ops EPP

EPP 34%

Personnel

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Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church Profit and Loss Statement 2017 YTD 2017 Ordinary Income/Expense Income 4100 · Equal Participation System 4200 · Interest Income 4300 · Misc Total Income Expense 6000 · Leadership Development 6050 · Minister's Moving/Recruitment 6075 · Church Revitalization/Planting 6100 - Board Designated Projects 7000 · EPP (FMC USA) 7010 · Professional Fees 7025 · Retirees Subsidies/Other 7050 · Payroll Expenses 7060 · Administrative Expense/Travel 7070 · Conference Office 7102 · Interest 7103 · Depreciation 7104 · Expenses of Property Held 7108 · Grants: Other Charitable Org Total Budget Expense Net Ordinary Income Other Income/Expense Other Income 8010 - Church Sale Proceeds 8020 · Ldrship Summit Project 8021 · Designated Project 8022 · Olympia Parsonage Project 8030 · Pension 8031 · LTD & Life Insurance 8051 - BQ/Campership Inc/(Loss) 8055 - Pastor's Child Schol Inc/(Loss) 8150 - Global Assoc Income Total Other Income Other Expense 8210 - Sp Proj-Church Sale Proceeds 8220 · Ldrship Summit Proj-Exp 8221 · Designated Project (disb) 8222 · Olympia Parsonage Exp 8230 · Pension 8231 · LTD & Life Ins - Disbursement 8251 · Bible Quiz & Campership Fund 8255 · Pastors Children Scholarships 8350 - Global Assoc Expense Total Other Expense Net Other Income Net Income

YTD Budget

$Over/Under Budget

YTD Last Year

1,487,958 27,476 6,835 1,522,269

1,500,000 11,500 1,500 1,513,000

(12,042) 15,976 5,335 9,269

1,452,435 16,490 2,143 1,471,069

134,679 33,608 71,756 12,954 509,271 32,944 1,226 477,467 53,775 62,265 0 14,796 0 0 1,404,741

191,400 20,000 127,500 0 509,270 30,000 1,435 478,495 58,000 80,900 0 16,000 0 0 1,513,000

(56,721) 13,608 (55,744) 12,954 1 2,944 (209) (1,028) (4,225) (18,635) 0 (1,204) 0 0 (108,259)

120,494 35,146 42,664 283,823 504,072 23,035 780 460,853 52,877 65,441 0 14,693 0 744 1,604,623

117,528

0

117,528

(133,555)

0 42,557 11,555 0 0 0 2,159 12,787 1,300 70,358

204,212 38,809 49,660 145,901 0 0 947 6,188 113,681 559,398

143,403 42,557 11,555 0 0 0 142 3,500 20,514 221,671 (151,312) (33,784)

85,415 38,109 49,660 145,901 0 0 70 4,301 144,488 467,943 91,455 (42,100)

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Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church Profit and Loss Statement March 2018 March 2018 Ordinary Income/Expense Income 4100 · Equal Participation System 4200 · Interest Income 4300 · Misc Total Income Expense 6000 · Leadership Development 6050 · Minister's Moving/Recruitment 6075 · Church Revitalization/Planting 6100 - Board Designated Projects 7000 · EPP (FMC USA) 7010 · Professional Fees 7025 · Retirees Subsidies/Other 7050 · Payroll Expenses 7060 · Administrative Expense/Travel 7070 · Conference Office 7102 · Interest 7103 · Depreciation 7104 · Expenses of Property Held 7108 · Grants: Other Charitable Org Total Budget Expense Net Ordinary Income Other Income/Expense Other Income 8010 - Church Sale Proceeds 8020 · Ldrship Summit Project 8021 · Designated Project 8022 · Olympia Parsonage Project 8030 · Pension 8031 · LTD & Life Insurance 8051 - BQ/Campership Inc/(Loss) 8055 - Pastor's Child Schol Inc/(Loss) 8150 - Global Assoc Income Total Other Income Other Expense 8210 - Sp Proj-Church Sale Proceeds 8220 · Ldrship Summit Proj-Exp 8221 · Designated Project (disb) 8222 · Olympia Parsonage Exp 8230 · Pension 8231 · LTD & Life Ins - Disbursement 8251 · Bible Quiz & Campership Fund 8255 · Pastors Children Scholarships 8350 - Global Assoc Expense Total Other Expense Net Other Income Net Income

YTD 2018

YTD Budget

$Over/Under Budget

YTD Last Year

162,876 3,060 150 166,086

418,408 3,372 1,876 423,656

385,000 4,370 1,500 390,870

33,408 (998) 376 32,786

399,749 3,668 6,835 410,252

5,017 0 1,882 0 42,775 1,894 0 41,848 7,024 5,137 0 1,327 0 0 106,905

27,669 0 18,989 0 128,329 5,336 314 123,719 13,643 13,723 0 3,982 0 0 335,704

29,095 0 29,500 0 128,330 8,000 875 125,490 15,025 16,965 0 3,600 0 0 356,880

(1,426) 0 (10,511) 0 (1) (2,665) (561) (1,771) (1,382) (3,242) 0 382 0 0 (21,176)

25,413 1,396 14,030 4,783 127,356 5,739 96 125,606 12,051 16,455 0 3,673 0 0 336,599

59,181

87,952

33,990

53,962

73,653

0 0 0 0 0 0 (44) (232) 0 (276)

0 0 1,848 0 0 0 (44) (232) 0 1,572

13,534 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13,534 (13,810) 45,371

37,823 0 1,848 0 0 0 0 0 0 39,671 (38,099) 49,853

0 0 1,555 0 0 0 82 638 1,300 3,575 36,000

1,823

50,000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20,514 70,514 (66,939) 6,714

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PNW Conference of Free Methodist Church USA Balance Sheet As of December 31, 2017

2017

2016

Change

ASSETS Current Assets Bank & FMF Accounts US Bank Free Methodist Foundation Total Bank & FMF Accounts Accounts Receivable Other Current Assets Church Receivables Prepaid Expense Total Other Current Assets Total Current Assets Fixed Assets Conference Office Conference Rm Remodel Accumulated Depreciation Total Fixed Assets Other Assets Office Copier TOTAL ASSETS

83,998 796,796 880,794

226,453 730,042 956,496

-142,455 66,753 -75,702

278

163

115

175,155 17,429 192,585

155,941 13 155,953

19,214 17,417 36,631

1,073,657

1,112,612

-38,956

287,911 12,341 -189,842 110,410

287,911 0 -175,046 112,865

0 12,341 -14,796 -2,455

26,866

26,866

0

1,210,933

1,252,343

-41,410

0

0

0

0 292 292

7 1,445 1,452

-7 -1,152 -1,160

18,814

25,280

-6,466

19,106

26,732

-7,626

27,499 167,818 294,541 0 735,754 -33,784 1,191,827

25,481 158,531 437,943 19,214 626,541 -42,100 1,225,611

2,017 9,287 -143,403 -19,214 109,212 8,316 -33,784

1,210,933

1,252,343

-41,410

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY Liabilities Current Liabilities Other Current Liabilities Accrued Expense Misc Deposits Payable Total Current Liabilities Long-Term Liabilities Capital Lease Payable Total Liabilities Equity Bible Quiz/Campership Fund Pastors' Children Scholarship Fund Church Sale Proceeds Global Associates Confence Undesignated Assets Net Income Total Equity TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY

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PNW Conference of Free Methodist Church USA Balance Sheet As of March 31, 2018

This Year

Last Year

Change

ASSETS Current Assets Bank & FMF Accounts US Bank Free Methodist Foundation

137,167 799,416

192,239 788,165

-55,072 11,251

Total Bank & FMF Accounts

936,583

980,404

-43,821

163 190,102 875 191,140 1,127,723

242 145,150 -700 144,692 1,125,096

-79 44,952 1,575 46,448 2,627

287,911 12,341 0 -193,824 106,428

287,911 0 0 -178,719 109,192

0 12,341 0 -15,105 -2,764

26,866

26,866

0

1,261,017

1,261,154

-137

0 294

0 0

0 294

0 0 230 230 524

0 7 3,541 3,549 3,549

0 -7 -3,311 -3,319 -3,025

18,814 18,814 19,338

25,280 25,280 28,829

-6,466 -6,466 -9,491

27,499 167,818 294,541 0 701,969 49,853 1,241,679

25,481 158,531 437,943 19,214 584,441 6,714 1,232,325

2,017 9,287 -143,403 -19,214 117,528 43,138 9,354

1,261,017

1,261,154

-137

Other Current Assets Accounts Receivable Church Receivables Prepaid Expense Total Other Current Assets Total Current Assets Fixed Assets Conference Office Conference Rm Remodel Alaska Property Accumulated Depreciation Total Fixed Assets Other Assets Office Copier TOTAL ASSETS LIABILITIES AND EQUITY Liabilities Current Liabilities Accocunts Payable Credit Cards Other Current Liabilities Accrued Payroll Accrued Expense Misc Deposits Payable Total Other Current Liabilities Total Current Liabilities Long-Term Liabilities Capital lease payable Total Long-Term Liabilities Total Liabilities Equity Bible Quiz/Campership Fund Pastors' Children Scholarship F Church Sale Proceeds Global Associates Conference Undesignated Assets Net Income Total Equity TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY

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2017–18

S E AT T L E PAC I F I C U N I V E RS I T Y

Year in Review

Report to the Free Methodist Churches

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From the President Seattle Pacific University’s deep roots in faith and place come to fruition in our students and alumni. They are people who can interpret today’s complexity and recognize the gaps, inequities, and needs of our world, and then imagine how life could — or should — be, and work toward that end. They seek change that brings shalom, human flourishing, wholeness, and harmony both locally and throughout the world.

As a community guided by its faith, we are called to be faithful and to reflect the character of God. We are called to love, justice, mercy, and truth; to reflect the optimism of grace. And, we are called to do so within our context, theologically, institutionally, and geographically, in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest, and around the world.

Even as we face news of violence and misguided ideologies within our nation and globally, we, as a university, are dedicated to shining a light on the truth discovered in the Gospel of Jesus Christ — the proclamation of God’s action in the world, the coming of God’s kingdom, manifested in the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Our Christian identity grounds us as a university and provides the foundation for all of our interactions with each other, with our neighbors, and with the world.

As a community, we endeavor to live out our calling in service to our community in tangible ways as an extension of our faith — from our freshmen volunteering through CityQuest to hosting Tent City 3 on campus again. We are called to seek the welfare of the poor, the marginalized,

and the oppressed by building bridges of love, respect, value, and reconciliation.

We strive to provide avenues for growth and conversation in addressing the needs of our community, both here and abroad.

This year we were challenged hearing from speakers, like Nicholas Kristof, who champion creating opportunity for all.

We regularly gathered together throughout the year to pray for God’s wisdom in how we might extend our multifaceted work in the area of reconciliation, including recent efforts such as the design and implementation of the Cultural Understanding and Engagement curriculum.

I hope that these stories will inspire you to pray for and celebrate with us. We are grateful that God has blessed us with another year of abundant opportunities to learn, serve, and grow as a community.

Seattle Pacific University Mission Seattle Pacific University is a Christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.

Core Themes Three themes to guide us as we engage the culture and help to bring about positive change in the world: • Academic Excellence and Relevance • Transformative and Holistic Student Experience • Vital Christian Identity and Purpose

Strategic Vision Daniel J. Martin President

Seattle Pacific University will be: KNOWN AS a premier Christian university that is orthodox, evangelical, Wesleyan, and ecumenical — selected by students able to excel at the highest academic levels, shaped by distinguished teachers and scholars, noted by a distinctive and diverse living and learning environment that reflects its Christian identity, and resourced with significant capacity to realize its mission and pursue its vision.

KNOWN FOR preparing students for service and leadership by fostering holistic growth through rigorous academic study, character formation, and vocational preparation that establishes a foundation for a thriving, faithful, and meaningful life.

KNOWN BY the lives of alumni who reflect the University’s values, are shaped by its mission, and embody its vision and commitment to global and cultural engagement, reconciliation, and human flourishing.

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SPU’s new brand identity stresses the Seattle advantage.

The New York Times covered SPU’s welcome of a homeless encampment.

Institutional Milestones SPU ranked a “Best National University”

SPU named 2018 Christian College of Distinction

Seattle Pacific is the only private university in the Pacific Northwest to make the 2018 U.S. News and World Report’s Best National Universities list. SPU joins the University of Washington and Washington State University as the only three institutions from Washington state named to the magazine’s list. U.S. News defines national universities as those institutions offering a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master’s and doctoral programs, and committed to producing groundbreaking research. SPU’s ranking results in part from growth in its graduate and doctoral programs in business, education, psychology, nursing, and theology. The ranking also recognizes an emphasis on undergraduate research, in which students work alongside faculty on important research and serve as interns at world-renowned companies or institutions in the Seattle area and beyond.

Seattle Pacific University was named one of the nation’s 2018 Colleges of Distinction and Christian Colleges of Distinction.

Higher education institutions are nominated for membership in Colleges of Distinction by high school college counselors, college administrative members, and the Colleges of Distinction selection team. The selection process requires that institutions adhere to four distinctions: engaged students, great teaching, vibrant community, and successful outcomes. This process also includes a review of each institution’s freshman experience as well as its general education program, strategic plan, alumni success, satisfaction measures, and more.

SPU by the numbers 2017–18 Autumn Quarter 2017 enrollment: 3,813 Undergraduate enrollment: 2,911 Graduate enrollment: 870 Post-baccalaureate enrollment: 32 Academic programs offered:

SPU develops new brand identity For the past year, SPU has focused on the development of a new University brand identity. The goal for this work is to achieve clarity on what students will find at Seattle Pacific University that they will not find anywhere else. This work is informed by surveys conducted by Lux Research that captured SPU’s brand strength, current perceptions, and the enrollment considerations of prospective students and their parents. Messaging and visual rollout strategies are now in the planning stages to include autumn branding and internal campus rollout. This work will reflect an increased focus on Christian faith, the benefits of studying in Seattle, and our rigorous academics.

Undergraduate majors: 66 Undergraduate minors: 52 Master’s degree programs: 29 Doctoral degree programs: 6 Graduate certificates: 9

New York Times highlights SPU’s hosting of Tent City 3 The New York Times ran a story in their February 27 edition about Seattle Pacific hosting a homeless encampment on campus for several months. The front-page coverage profiled several TC3 residents during their stay on SPU’s campus and student interaction with the guests. It also looked at the problem of homelessness in the Seattle area.

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Academic Achievement Music therapy program garners acclaim

DNP cohort begins

SPU’s music therapy program — the only such program in Washington state — was named one of the 20 best music therapy bachelor programs in the U.S. by TheBestSchools.org.

In addition to steering the program toward national prominence, program director Carlene Brown will serve as the lead consultant for bringing music therapy to Taiwan. The associate professor of music presented at the 2017 International Symposium of Rural Health and Innovative Long-Term Care Services in Puli, Taiwan. She also lectured on music therapy and pain management to faculty and students at the National Taiwan University’s College of Medicine in Taipei, and gave a presentation about music therapy at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

SPU launched its doctor of nursing practice degree program last fall with an inaugural cohort of 19 students, exceeding enrollment goals. The students — predominantly female, average age 33, with two to five years’ nursing experience — are pursuing doctorates as family or adult/gerontology nurse practitioners or as clinical nurse specialists.

Physics researcher named national fellow Rachel Scherr, a senior research scientist in SPU’s physics department, was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. She was selected for the honor by fellow physicists for her foundational research on energy learning and representations, application of video analysis methods to study physics classrooms, and her leadership in the physics education research community. APS has more than 53,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the U.S. and worldwide.

Three theology faculty credentialed by denominations The SPU School of Theology celebrated three new “reverends” within its faculty. Bo Lim, associate professor of Old Testament and university chaplain, was ordained by the Evangelical Covenant Church. Shannon Smythe, assistant professor of theological studies, was ordained as a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Assistant Professor of Wesleyan Studies Matt Sigler was commissioned as a probationary elder in the United Methodist Church.

Three students won SPU’s Social Venture Plan Competition.

New continuing education business courses offered SPU’s School of Business, Government, and Economics launched several new continuing education professional certificate courses in Autumn 2017. Most require two quarters of night classes and have no prerequisites. Topics include digital marketing, project management, Lean Six Sigma, supply chain management, analytics, cybersecurity, and entrepreneurship.

School of Theology professor Frank Spina honored for 45 years of service Beloved by generations of students and colleagues, Professor of Old Testament Frank Spina marked 45 years of teaching at SPU this year. Known for his wonderful sense of humor both in the classroom and in faculty meetings, Frank was honored as the SPU Professor of the Year in 2000. For decades, the ordained Episcopal priest has been an admired speaker, regularly teaching in churches around the Pacific Northwest and lecturing in various institutions around the country, including Roberts Wesleyan University, Spring Arbor College, the University of Portland, and Western Evangelical Seminary. His scholarly work focuses on theological readings of Old Testament narratives, as exemplified by his acclaimed book The Faith of the Outsider: Exclusion and Inclusion in the Biblical Story.

Social justice met art at a fall campus design exhibit.

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Seattle Pacific Art Center hosts social justice exhibit

Encouraging student entrepreneurs

As the 2017–18 academic year began, the Seattle Pacific Art Center opened a graphic design show, Observe | Make | State, which brought together posters, charts, and other graphicdesign reproductions from four influential individuals: W.E.B. Du Bois, Chaz Maviyane-Davies, Garland Kirkpatrick, and Emory Douglas. Spanning 100 years of work, they all addressed issues of social justice. “SPU is looking for ways to have diverse, inclusive, equitable conversations, because our community cares so much about reconciliation,” says Karen GutowskyZimmerman, professor of art–visual communication. “It’s essential we have places and spaces that foster these kinds of conversations.” The art center’s exhibit this autumn highlights ways graphic design has been used to promote and hasten social change. Visitors were invited to take part as well. By including a makerspace with paint and other tools, the show offered visitors a way to respond to what they’d seen by adding their own art about the topic.

A student project to turn farm waste into fuel and revenue won the $5,000 grand prize at SPU’s 12th annual Social Venture Plan Competition in April. The winning team, Itheno, comprised junior Cheyenne Thornton and seniors Kristina Brennan and Naomi Miller, who proposed a process for rice farmers to turn waste into energy. Farmers in Dakshin Dinajpur, India, commonly burn rice stubble in their fields before planting the next crop. The team developed a chemical process to turn that waste into bioethanol and fertilizer. Farmers would pay a fee to have stubble removed and would receive bioethanol for household and farm use in return. Fertilizer and excess fuel would be sold for profit. Each spring, the Center for Applied Learning in SPU’s School of Business, Government, and Economics offers the contest, which encourages students from all majors to develop entrepreneurial projects that can make a difference in the world.

State poet laureate holds campus poetry workshop “Finding home” was the theme of a January workshop led by Washington state Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna with Seattle Pacific students and residents of Tent City 3 (hosted on campus through the winter). The workshop was part of the SPU Library’s Creative Conversations series to share scholarly and creative works in progress. Exploring the concept of home, Castro Luna led the attendees through exercises where they recalled specific details — from cooking smells to the size of furniture — that made up their early experiences of home. Using poems from Gregory Orr and Emily Dickinson as examples, participants evoked their memories of home, some of which became prose or poetry. “Having such a high-profile visitor energized this community of both the housed and the homeless,” says event host and poet Mischa Willett, an instructor in SPU’s Writing Program. “It helped broaden our concept of home, which could be a person or even a meal.”

Seattle Pacific Art Center presents lectures on faith and art The Seattle Pacific Art Center hosted Cameron Anderson, executive director of Christians in the Visual Arts, for a series of lectures on art and faith in February. The visit was sponsored by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. Drawing from his recent book, The Faithful Artist: A Vision for Evangelicalism and the Arts, Anderson led a discussion for the SPU community on the relationship between evangelicalism and art. Anderson, who has a master of fine arts in painting and drawing and has served as the national director of Graduate and Faculty Ministries for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, also gave two lectures. In one, he talked about how Christians should pursue relationships with each other and their natural environment to combat the consumption, anxiety, and fear encouraged by technology.

In the second, he explored the divide between the evangelical church and the world of contemporary artists, ending with a call for Christian artists to look for common ground with their faith traditions and pursue reconciliation in their artwork.

Students win “best original score” in film competition A group of SPU music students won best original score for Home Invasion, their team’s entry last fall in Seattle’s 48-Hour Horror Film Project. Part of a worldwide timed filmmaking competition, each team was randomly assigned a specific horror film genre just before the contest began. The short film was written, filmed, edited, and given a soundtrack all within 48 hours. Taylor Merisko served as the zombie film’s composer and mixing engineer, with assistance from fellow student Aileen Lani Saboff. Hunter Rath was the audio engineer and cellist. Violinist Evan Daley and trumpeter Colin Chandler rounded out the ensemble. Merisko says use of SPU’s Nickerson Studios was key: “Without access to such a stateof-the-art studio and equipment, I do not believe the project would have come together as well as it did.”

Speech and debate team wins honors SPU’s speech and debate team won awards at the Fred Scheller Invitational at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, in January. Coached by Assistant Professor of Political Science Bradley Murg, SPU students competed against teams from 23 colleges and universities during the three-day tournament.

Seniors Madison Luther and Luke Harrison won the novice division; Harrison was honored as top speaker and Luther took second speaker. Senior Alex Donka and his sister, sophomore Rachel Donka, won five of their first six rounds, ranking third overall, before being eliminated in the quarter-final round.

SPU launches four new majors in 2018–19 To better equip students for a changing market, SPU will offer four new majors and three new minors beginning autumn 2018. Some existing majors will also see changes. New degrees include: bachelor of arts in social justice and cultural studies (with four tracks: pre-law human rights and policy; art for social change; mediation, peace, and conflict resolution; and advanced cultural studies); bachelor of arts in life science; bachelor of science in mechanical engineering; and bachelor of arts in criminal justice. spu.edu | 5

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Faith Formation Monday prayers SPU leaders, faculty, and staff, led by University Chaplain Bo Lim, gathered each Monday at noon for a time of prayer. Begun last summer and continued through fall and winter quarters, the time was set aside to pray for our campus, our country, and the world.

Campus collaborates for sustainability A “sustainability charrette,” a half-day forum on sustainability and creation care, was held in October at SPU, led by J.J. Johnson Leese, assistant professor of Christian Scripture in the School of Theology; Sustainability Coordinator Bethany Davis; and Cher Edwards, associate dean of graduate education in the School of Education. The event — funded by an SPU innovation grant — brought together stakeholders from across campus to explore, study, and collaborate on ways to provide more interdisciplinary and experiential sustainability learning opportunities for students. “Because the issues emerging from the environmental crisis are so very interdisciplinary and intersecting with virtually every aspect of human life, we consider this a good model for moving forward,” Leese says. Jean MacGregor, co-director for the Bioregion Washington Center for Undergraduate Education, helped facilitate the session. She has worked with higher education institutions for decades to promote sustainability efforts and curriculum in the Pacific Northwest.

Seminary hosts “Multiethnic and Missional?” conference As cities grow increasingly diverse, the Church and other Christian communities are called to witness to Christ’s love in multicultural and multiethnic surroundings. Seattle Pacific Seminary hosted a panel discussion over lunch in May for Seattle community members, students, pastors, and ministry leaders about how to lead diverse, missional churches. At the event, which was also livestreamed, Associate Professor of Reconciliation Studies Brenda Salter McNeil and Darrell Guder, professor emeritus of missional and ecumenical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, discussed ways to create diverse and missional churches in a conversation moderated by Associate Professor of Missiology David Leong. Attendees also split up into small groups to discuss best practices in multicultural leadership and how to engage neighborhoods and communities, seek truth and reconciliation, and approach missions work.

First graduate coordinator expands campus garden’s reach Gregory Reffner, a first-year SPU seminarian and Seattle Pacific’s first graduate garden coordinator, joined the work of the undergraduate SPU garden club in tending an organic campus vegetable garden over the summer, a time when it was historically neglected as younger students return home for

their summer break. The bounty was shared with neighbors.

A $4,000 grant from the Seminary Stewardship Alliance paid for his position. Last year, Assistant Professor of Christian Scripture J.J. Johnson Leese and three other seminarians, including current student Thomas Parks, applied for the grant.

It also funded a February showing of the documentary Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry. “When anyone comes on campus, I want them to know that we are serious about the first commandment given to human beings, to tend the garden,” Leese says. Her viewpoint goes beyond weeding, watering, and planting. “In anything that we are doing, we should be environmentally sensitive to the wonderful creation that God has given us,” she says. “We have this unique capacity to have a theological foundation for the work we do in ways that secular communities don’t. There’s so much potential to honor God the creator through our service of the creation.”

Weter Lecture explores role of imagery in faith For April’s Weter Lecture, Associate Professor of Theology Brian Bantum examined how Protestant reformers such as John Calvin, Martin Luther, and their white male successors became like icons, symbols of Christian faithfulness that shaped the Protestant understanding of what it means to be human and who can reflect God’s image. In light of this, Bantum asked the audience to consider what it might mean if we saw artists as holding a vital priestly function in Christian life, responsible for creating new and diverse images of faithful Christians. Delivered each year by an SPU faculty member, this lecture — established in 1975 to honor Professor Emerita of Classics Winifred E. Weter — celebrates and upholds the values and heritage of the liberal arts. Bantum’s teaching and research focus on the ways Christian identity is revealed and challenged by the realities of race, ethnicity, and gender.

New research program helps faith communities engage young adults SPU’s School of Theology at SPU is the only institution in the Pacific Northwest to receive a $1.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help Northwest congregations engage young adults, working with them to design innovative ministries that support and enrich their faith lives. The Endowment’s $19.4 million Young Adult Initiative has established innovation hubs at 12 colleges, universities, and seminaries across the nation to help congregations as they design and launch new ministries with young adults, ages 23 to 29. Jeff Keuss, professor of Christian ministry, theology, and culture, is leading Pivot Northwest, the five-year initiative at Seattle Pacific. Pivot has identified 12 congregations to work with, helping them better understand the experiences of young adults and working with them to design, launch, and evaluate new ministries. The hub will also gather leaders for mutual learning and support. “Christian affiliation among young people in the U.S. is dropping, and church participation among

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many denominations is declining,” Keuss says. “Yet we know the desire to gather, spiritually grow, be intellectually challenged, and find deep purpose in life is highly valued by young adults, as are communities that offer authentic commitments to such emphases. Pivot is designed to address this disconnect.”

Rev. Lisa Ishihara named new chaplain After a nationwide search, Rev. Lisa Ishihara was selected to become the University chaplain for SPU, beginning August 1.

Director of chapel programs at Biola University for the past 10 years, Ishihara has done extensive speaking and teaching, and she recently contributed to a new book, Leading Change Through Diversity in Spiritual Development. Ishihara is also an

ordained clergyperson in the Pacific Coast Japanese Conference of the Free Methodist Church and so, says Provost Jeffrey Van Duzer, “She understands both SPU’s Wesleyan heritage and the changing dynamic of the student body on our campus.” In her new role, Ishihara will lead University Ministries.

Ishihara received her bachelor’s degree from California State University at Fullerton, as well as two master’s degrees from the Talbot School of Theology.

Bo Lim, University chaplain since 2014, will be returning to his faculty role as associate professor of Old Testament in SPU’s School of Theology.

Engaging the City Sacred Sounds brings holiday cheer

Tent City 3 returns to campus

The much-anticipated annual concert, which returned to Seattle’s Benaroya Hall this year, drew a sold-out crowd on November 26. The evening featured more than 250 of SPU’s vocal and instrumental musicians, including Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, Gospel Choir, Men’s Choir, Women’s Choir, Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, and Worship Arts Ensemble, under the direction of SPU’s music faculty.

In addition to sacred Advent music and sing-along Christmas carols, the program included a recitation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s long-lost Christmas poem, “Noel,” discovered in 2016.

In November, Seattle Pacific began hosting Tent City 3, a self-managed homeless community, for a three-month stay on campus. TC3, co-sponsored by SHARE/WHEEL, is a portable encampment for up to 100 men, women, and children experiencing homelessness. SPU hosted TC3 in 2012 and 2015, and welcomed the community back until February 10. TC3 returns to the SPU campus every three years. During their stay, students, faculty, staff, and community members got to know and learned from our neighbors at TC3 by help with move-in and move-out, as well as hosting meals, conducting research, and coordinating gatherings such as game nights and holiday celebrations. In 2015, President Dan Martin launched SPU’s Committee on Homelessness with the goal of keeping the issue of homelessness in front of the University and greater community through learning activities, symposiums, and ongoing TC3 involvement.

Student musicians brought holiday music to a sold-out Seattle crowd.

Many hands helped make Tent City 3 feel at home on campus.

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CityQuest supplied 1,700 hours of volunteer service to Seattle.

Nicholas Kristof addressed business leaders at SPU’s 21st annual Downtown Business Breakfast.

Freshmen serve Seattle through CityQuest

Downtown Business Breakfast features Nicholas Kristof

On September 23, 431 Seattle Pacific students fanned out across Seattle and collectively provided more than 1,700 hours of work to serve the city. Members of this volunteer army rolled up their sleeves and helped at 24 sites, including parks, schools, churches, and food banks. Held annually during orientation, CityQuest helps new students engage the city of Seattle through community service. Organized by SPU’s John Perkins Center for Reconciliation, Leadership Training, and Community Development, the effort familiarizes students — many of whom are new to Seattle — with area nonprofits, who are invited to be host sites. Freshman Samantha Kreeger was part of a team that weeded a church’s property, removed invasive species, and cleaned classrooms. “I had a really great time,” she says. “It taught me that even a little bit of help could make a huge difference in the community.”

In April, Seattle Pacific presented the 21st annual Downtown Business Breakfast, which gathered nearly 1,000 business and community leaders to hear from acclaimed New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. Kristof drew from his latest book, “A Path Appears: How an Individual Can Change the World.”

Heralded as “the reporter’s reporter,” Kristof is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, best-selling author, and courageous advocate for human rights around the world. He has reported on the War in Darfur and China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement, among other conflicts.

Students and professors participate in state housing advocacy day Eighteen Seattle Pacific University students and faculty headed to the Washington state capital for Washington Low Income Housing Alliance’s annual Advocacy Day in February. On Advocacy Day, citizens from across the state come together to take part in meetings and speak with their representatives about addressing housing and homelessness needs in their districts and across the state. This year, lawmakers passed a package of seven bills focused on affordable housing and homelessness.

Everyone who attended the lobbying day received a red scarf to signify their hope for justice in housing. These scarves were worn by social workers, students, educators, people from the faith community, and those who have been or are currently without housing. At the capital’s main campus, they meet with state legislators and their representatives to talk about the much-needed response to the sharp lack of affordable housing and its impact on people and communities in our state.

Typically, over 600 attend each year, with nearly every single district in Washington represented.

Staff leader receives justice award Susan Okamoto Lane, dean of multi-ethnic and wellness programs at Seattle Pacific University, received the “Vision from the Mountaintop Award” during the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast in Seattle on January 15. This annual award recognizes a community, education, and business leader from the Seattle area “who demonstrates leadership and contributes in the community or business world for the furtherance of justice, reconciliation, and empowerment.” In her more than 30 years at Seattle Pacific, Okamoto Lane has been a champion for students from all ethnic backgrounds and leads efforts to build bridges through cross-cultural engagement across campus. In 2008, she became the founding director of Seattle Pacific’s multi-ethnic programs, which support the academic, social, and cultural adjustment and success of students from diverse backgrounds.

SPU Jazz Ensemble performs live on radio program The SPU Jazz Ensemble performed live (and online) on local public radio station KNKX (88.5 FM) in Nickerson Studios on April 19 for KNKX’s “School of Jazz” show. It was preceded by an SPU Music Department “Futures in Music” presentation with KNKX General Manager Joey Cohn and Jazz Host Abe Beeson talking about their careers in radio.

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Engaging the World Design professor teaches in China, publishes research on Mongolian curriculum

Sociology faculty publish research on homelessness engagement by students

Jaeil Lee, professor and director of the apparel design and merchandising program, taught an intensive course, “Global Apparel Product Development,” at the International Design and Marketing College at Jian Quiao University in Shanghai, China, last summer. In addition, Lee and her colleagues assessed the current textile and apparel curriculum at higher education institutions in Mongolia from both academic and industrial points of view, interviewing both Mongolian professors and industry professionals. Their research paper, “Exploration of Textiles and Apparel Curriculum in Mongolia from the Academia and Industry Perspectives,” was published in Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal.

The presence of a homeless encampment hosted on SPU’s campus this past winter provided an opportunity for students to engage with issues of poverty and inequality. Building from a service-learning model, Professor of Sociology Jennifer McKinney and Associate Professor of Sociology Karen Snedker devised coursework around homelessness and applied research. Students took courses to learn about homelessness and sociological research methods, collecting field observations and conducting interviews with TC3 residents. In their Teaching Sociology article, “Hosting a Tent City: Student Engagement and Homelessness,” McKinney and Snedker found that, over the course of the classes, student stereotypes were challenged and the social distance between students and people who were homeless significantly decreased. “The project allowed students to use their sociological imaginations along with applying the tools of social science,” say McKinney and Snedker. “There is great potential in addressing complex social problems, such as homelessness, through this type of educational experience.” Students reported being transformed by learning about and interacting with the tent city residents, reinforcing the idea that exposure to homelessness through faculty-guided research can foster social change.

“Always Reforming” keynote by Soong-Chan Rah a highlight of 16th annual Day of Common Learning The geographic center of Christianity has shifted, and U.S. Christians haven’t caught up. That was the message SoongChan Rah, professor of church growth and evangelism at Chicago’s North Park University, delivered at Seattle Pacific University’s 16th annual Day of Common Learning in September. Rah showed that Christians in the U.S. are following white, Western faith practices while failing to notice that the growing movement of Christianity in the U.S. is occurring among non-white, often immigrant churches.

That’s why, he says, 500 years after the Protestant Reformation, evangelicalism needs to reform again, this time to better serve and prioritize the non-white, non-Western Christians who overwhelmingly comprise the global Church. The Day of Common Learning is an annual all-day event in which the University suspends classes and gathers the community together to explore a significant idea or interest.

Soong-Chan Rah spoke at SPU’s Day of Common Learning.

Faculty publishes statement on racial justice After racially motivated violence erupted in Charlottesville last summer, SPU’s School of Theology at Seattle Pacific University updated and reissued a document declaring its conviction that God is calling American Christians to engage in renewed advocacy on issues of racial justice. The statement was originally created following the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri (and other shootings), in 2014. The Statement on Racial Justice was signed by theology faculty at four other Free Methodist universities: Azusa Pacific, Greenville, Roberts Wesleyan, and Spring Arbor.

Sociology students conducted research with Tent City 3 residents.

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New Office of Global Engagement established

John Perkins returns to campus for lecture

Last fall, SPU opened a new Office of Global Engagement, led by Senior International Officer Sharleen Kato, director of global engagement and professor of family and consumer sciences. She is leading SPU’s efforts to welcome international students to the SPU community, coordinate closely with ongoing study abroad initiatives, and form international partnerships. The establishment of this office represents a significant step forward in implementing the plans developed in recent years by SPU’s Global Task Force. The number of international students in SPU’s undergraduate programs has doubled since 2012, and this office will be instrumental in providing better services for these students, as well as leading efforts to expand the involvement of international students in the life of the Seattle Pacific community.

Civil rights leader John Perkins returned to SPU’s campus in April for the 13th annual John Perkins Lecture. He was joined at the lecture and chapel by Michael Emerson, scholar and author on race and religion and provost of North Park University in Chicago. They discussed faith, race, and evangelicalism.

Emerson also led a panel discussion afterward with University leaders.

SPU paves way for foreign academics partnerships SPU signed memorandums of understanding in February with several Asian universities and education organizations to explore academic partnerships for students, as well as opportunities for collaborative teaching activities with faculty and postgraduate research internships with international scholars.

Partnerships include MingDao University, Chung Yuan Christian University, and National Taipei University of Education (all in Taiwan), and the Japan Study Abroad Foundation.

SPU hosts the third annual Student Government Leadership Summit The Associated Students of Seattle Pacific University hosted the 2018 Student Government Leadership Summit. Incoming and outgoing student body presidents from select universities gathered in April to learn about leading bravely, inclusive leadership, best practices for building supportive and innovative cultures of student leadership, and developing emotional intelligence in leaders and their teams.

Athletics Women’s basketball team travels to Dominican Republic to serve and learn The Seattle Pacific women’s basketball team traveled to the Dominican Republic in September. Coach Julie Heisey connected her team with Go Ministries, a nonprofit organization that partners with local leaders to strengthen churches, address humanitarian needs, and run sports outreach programs in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mongolia, and urban America. Each player was responsible for raising $1,000 toward expenses. With these funds and numerous donations, the team raised a total of $52,000 — more than enough to cover costs. In the DR, Falcon players and coaches dove into their work, painting walls at a new health clinic, leading basketball clinics for young children, and playing three basketball games with local players.

SPU awarded NCAA Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence Seattle Pacific was honored by the NCAA with a Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence. The award is earned for achieving a four-year academic success rate of 90 percent or higher. The academic success rate is the percentage of student-athletes who graduate within six years of their initial collegiate enrollment. It encompasses virtually all Division II student-athletes, including transfers and those not receiving athletics scholarships. SPU is one of three schools with a 97 percent ASR, tied for the second-highest in all of the Division II schools. “We are extremely proud of the success of our fantastic student-athletes,” says SPU Athletic Director Jackson Stava.

“They are a remarkably diligent and driven group of students, and the award is well deserved.” Seattle Pacific is one of just two schools in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, and one of only five in the West Region (GNAC, Pacific West, and California Collegiate Athletic Association) to receive the honor.

Its 97 percent ASR is significantly higher than the national ASR of 72 percent for student-athletes who entered college from 2007 to 2010.

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Darian Burns and six SPU gymnasts competed at the collegiate championships.

Senior Jordan McPhee was heralded for her athletic and academic achievement.

SPU gymnasts compete at USA Gymnastics Collegiate Championships

Women’s basketball team competes in NCAA Division II championships

Seven Seattle Pacific gymnasts, headlined by all-arounders Darian Burns, McKenna Zimmermann, and Itzia San Roman, received at-large invitations to compete at the USA Gymnastics Collegiate Championships in April in Denton, Texas. That trio was joined by four teammates who qualified for individual events, including Lena Wirth on the vault and balance beam, Autumn Huskie on the vault, Sienna Brane on the uneven bars, and Miyuki Matsune on the beam. Burns, Zimmermann, and San Roman were three of the four athletes competing for the all-around championship along with individuals from the eight qualifying teams.

In March, the Falcons were selected for the NCAA Division II women’s basketball tournament, slotted in as the No. 6 seed in the eight-team West Regional. SPU opened play against No. 3 seed UC San Diego at Azusa Pacific University, the regional host school. This was Seattle Pacific’s first NCAA Tournament since 2015. “Our goal all year was to get to the NCAA Regionals, and that’s what we worked for,” says Coach Julie Heisey, who had her team in the NCAAs for the eighth time in her 13 years at the helm.

Basketball player Jordan McPhee named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America second team Seattle Pacific senior Jordan McPhee was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America second team, an elite national award that recognizes athletic and academic achievement.

Just 16 players from the entirety of NCAA Division II were selected for the honor, voted on by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America. McPhee is a business administration major and carries a 3.98 GPA. She is a threetime Great Northwest Athletic Conference All-Academic honoree. On the court, the 5-foot-10 guard helped the Falcons go 23-8 this past season, earn their first-ever trip to the GNAC Basketball championships, and return to the NCAA West Regionals for the first time since 2015.

Renick Meyer and Scout Cai dominated the Great Northwest Athletic Conference heptathlon and competed in the NCAA Division II championships Seattle Pacific freshman Renick Meyer captured the Great Northwest Athletic Conference heptathlon crown in May at Northwest Nazarene University. Thanks in part to a nationalcaliber 20-foot, 5-inch leap in the long, Meyer finished the two-day, seven-event test with 5,114 points, combining with sophomore teammate Scout Cai for a 1-2 finish. Cai also topped 5,000, tallying 5,017. Their scores moved both into the national top 10. Meyer and Cai are just the seventh and eighth GNAC athletes to surpass 5,000 points. Meyer’s score now ranks No. 5 all-time; Cai’s is No. 7. Meyer was the seventh SPU athlete in the 17-year history of the GNAC meet to win the heptathlon.

The Falcons have nine conference heptathlon titles altogether.

The pair, along with senior Mary Charleson and sophomore Kate Lilly, went on to compete at the NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships in Charlotte, North Carolina, in late May.

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Alumni Highlights Alumna of the Year: Beth Thompson Kawasaki

Medallion Award winner: Joshua Van Eaton

SPU Alumna of the Year Beth Thompson Kawasaki ’81 is a marketing guru and co-founder of ReBoot Accel. She educates, inspires, and catalyzes women to restart their careers, build businesses, dream bigger, and pursue their next-stage goals.

More than 80 percent of ReBoot’s clients actively seeking work have secured jobs or started businesses within six months of participating in the company’s 32-hour career accelerator programs. Formerly in marketing management for big commercial brands, including P&G, Apple, and Levi Strauss, Beth put her career on pause to pursue graduate school, join the boards of numerous non-profit organizations, and serve her community, church, and kids’ schools. “In 2015, I returned to work and began parlaying my lifelong passion for the potential of all women into a second-stage career,” she says.

SPU Medallion Award honoree Joshua Van Eaton ’97 was lead attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the government team that won settlement agreements totaling $17.4 billion against Volkswagen for auto emissions fraud. For his exemplary work, Josh was named a Federal Employee of the Year for 2017 and received the Service to America Medal.

Josh earned his law degree from Baylor University in Texas.

He served in the Army’s Judge Advocate General Corps, and taught law at the JAG School.

GOLD Alumna of the Year: Megan Chao For SPU GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) Alumna of the Year Megan Chao ’09, the turning point in her education occurred while doing an internship in Rwanda in fulfillment of her global and urban ministries minor. She encountered a number of boys living on the street, ages 5–17, living moment to moment, some in trouble with the law, others abused and disconnected from their families and barely surviving. Megan could not turn away and Hope for Life, a ministry to homeless Rwandan youth, was born. Today, 76 boys are housed, educated, fed, counseled, and loved by the staff of HFL in Kigali, Rwanda.

As U.S. executive director, Megan raises funds, helps find child sponsors, and grows the outreach. “SPU gave me a vision of what it looks like to be aware of the world, what’s happening in it, and how to respond to its needs,” she says.

Alumna of the Year Beth Kawasaki helps women restart careers.

Medallion Award winner: David Boxley SPU Medallion Award honoree David Boxley ’74 is a nationally recognized totem pole carver and a culture-bearer of the Tsimshian indigenous people of southern Alaska. He has soared to national prominence with his artistry on display at Disney World, the Memphis Zoo, and in the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. David is known for having produced the most carved totem poles of any living artist, more than 70 in his lifetime. Leaving his career teaching high school in 1986, David dedicated his life to the revival and rebirth of Tsimshian art, culture, and tradition.

Alumna Nancy Lurker, pharmaceutical leader, lectures on campus Nancy Lurker ’80, president and CEO of EyePoint Pharmaceuticals Inc., returned to SPU in March as the School of Business, Government, and Economics’ Burton and Ralene Walls Distinguished Speaker. She shared insights with SPU students and faculty from her 30-year career leading pharmaceutical corporations. One lesson Lurker has learned is the importance of “failing fast” — learning from mistakes and moving on quickly.

“In life there is a little bit of luck, lots of perseverance, and, for me, enjoyable hard work,” she says. “I made a lot of mistakes — I learned, and I learned to pick myself back up.”

Carver David Boxley won an SPU Medallion Award.

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New director appointed Amanda Heath Stubbert ’95 is SPU’s new director of Alumni and Parent Relations. She worked at Seattle Pacific soon after graduation as the performing groups coordinator and director of the University Players. In 2013, Stubbert became assistant director of campus experience and events for Undergraduate Admissions, where she expanded the visit program and created compelling encounters at SPU for prospective students and their families. In 2015, she moved to the office of Alumni and Parent Relations as assistant director. Since 2017, she has been its interim director. “Sharing the inspiring stories of how our alumni are changing the world is my favorite part of the job,” Stubbert says.

Alumna Camille Jones featured in TIME magazine

Homecoming and Parents Weekend hosts first-ever baseball reunion The 2018 baseball season kicked off early this year as a dozen former Seattle Pacific University players, two of their coaches, and 10 family members gathered in February to recall the glory days of Falcon baseball. “It has been on my heart to do this for a while,” says organizer Gordy Hansen ’69, an English major with teacher certification, former Falcon outfielder, and member of the 1968 Seattle Pacific team that took second place in the NCAA regionals. “We had such good players, guys of good character, who represent Falcon history well.” The former players were particularly excited to honor their former coaches: Dale Parker, who recently turned 93, and Lorin Miller, 82, who made the journey from his home in Oklahoma. In 1967, Miller brought the team into its first national ranking (13th) by the collegiate baseball poll.

Camille Jones ’08, Washington state’s 2017 Teacher of the Year, was featured in the January 15 issue of TIME magazine.

The article focused on Jones’ STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) curriculum, as well as her integration of the disciplines and efforts to universally test children for admission to highly capable programs.

Fundraising SPU launches Faith & Co. initiative Supported by generous donors Eric and Keri Stumberg, Seattle Pacific’s School of Business, Government, and Economics released Faith & Co: Business on Purpose, a documentary series of 13 short and evocative films about faith, business, and the common good. Filmed across three continents and 18 U.S. cities, and featuring a wide range of industries — high tech, health care, retail, and property development — Faith & Co. seeks to provoke questions and provide insights into what it means to act as faithful followers of Christ in business. The series premiered in Austin and Seattle and can be viewed at faithandco.spu.edu. The films are central to SBGE’s first Massive Open Online Learning Course (MOOC) titled “Business on Purpose,” an eight-week class taught by Professor of Business Ethics Kenman Wong. The course develops a theological framework for business and its implications for purpose, profit, ethics, stakeholder relationships, economic inclusion, creation care, and sustainability. Faith & Co. is a partnership between academic departments, entrepreneurial companies, and mission-driven institutions. This bold experiment explores the potential of educational film and Christian vocation has united a team of experts to deliver rigorous, high-quality resources in the spirit of teaching and learning. The course will be offered again this fall.

Weiblings receive philanthropy award In October, Dennis and Beth Weibling received SPU’s 2017 President’s Award for Philanthropy. The Weiblings have generously supported SPU with gifts to the University Fund and to several key projects. Dennis has served on SPU’s Board of Trustees from 2002 to 2013 and again since 2016. He was board chair from 2009 to 2013 and provided critical leadership through a presidential transition. He also helps guide SPU’s investments as a member of the Seattle Pacific Foundation Board of Directors and part of the investment committee.

Proud parents of Jenna Weibling ’10, the Weiblings have contributed to a wide range of endeavors at SPU, from capital campaigns to campus initiatives that promote innovation and vocational preparedness. Philanthropic leaders in the Seattle community, Beth and Dennis also support World Vision, Jubilee REACH, and Bellevue Christian School.

Seattle Pacific Foundation posts excellent rate of return Charged with stewarding endowment gifts to SPU, the Seattle Pacific Foundation continues to demonstrate an outstanding rate of return on investment. In a survey of 809 institutions of higher education with endowments, including schools such as Princeton, Stanford, and Yale, SPU’s endowment returns are in the top 10 percent in one-, three-, five-, and 10-year periods of investment. As of June 30, 2017, the value of SPU’s endowment was more than $103 million. spu.edu | 13

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Annual Report The mission of God at work through Warm Beach Camp At Warm Beach Camp, people form connections to God and each other that transforms the individual, heals relationships, builds community, and stewards the environment. The mission of God to restore, renew, and reconcile takes place every week through more than 350 different programs and events.

Warm Beach Camp sponsors numerous programs for youth, those with special needs, families, and adults. Many more attendees come as a group from church, school, and nonprofit communities looking for a place that will facilitate their organization’s mission by providing Christ-centered hospitality.

In the fall of 2017, Warm Beach Camp hired staff to begin Therapeutic Horsemanship programming to reach out to more underserved people. New staff were hired for expanded programming in Youth and Outdoor Ministries, including Outdoor Education and Summer Youth Programs. New ways to effectively reach young people are constantly being explored.

Most of the funding comes from camper fees. Yet, donations enable us to sustainably care for our facilities and embrace new programs and partnerships. Hundreds of people just like you are “Partners in Ministry” through their financial gifts and volunteer service.

2017 YEAR IN REVIEW Total people served

95,000

The Lights of Christmas

78,000

Other Programs

4,000

Guest Groups

13,000

Meals served

149,000

Volunteer hours

48,000

Individual volunteers

1,500

Campers helped through Kids 2 Camp Scholarships

1,600

Organizations partnering with Kids 2 Camp

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2017 - A Year of Gratitude A message from the Executive Director 2017 was a year filled with gratitude to God for His incredible work at Warm Beach Camp and Conference Center. The hope we have in Christ was on clear display as 78,000 people attended The Lights of Christmas Festival. Over 1,600 kids participated in camps, thanks to generous donors who cared and made a life changing experience possible. Special Friends Camps were held for 264 campers with disabilities with a “yes, you can� experience. Over 350 different groups received Christ-centered hospitality through a wide variety of church, education and character building camps, retreats and conferences.

generously volunteered in nearly every aspect of the ministry with over 13,000 hours of service in Special Friends Camp alone.

People generously funded improvements to Cascadian Lodge, Cedar Lodge, and a wide variety of grounds landscaping and property projects. People

With gratitude in Christ,

Keeping the path clear to the cross is a sacred trust. The opportunity to serve with a discerning board, dedicated staff team, generous donors, and dedicated volunteers are part of the profound gratitude of 2017.

As we look ahead to 2018, we stop to give God praise and thanks for all He has done in 2017.

Ed McDowell, Executive Director

2017 Financial Overview Source & Use of Funds Source of Funds Guest/Camper Fees Contributions Other

Use of Funds Salary/Wage Fundraising* General Operation Debt Repayment Reserve Fund Savings Capital Improvement

Balance Sheet $ $ $ $

3,865,000 1,240,000 1,041,000 6,146,000

$ 2,210,000 $ 265,000 $ 2,516,000 $ 260,000 $ 224,000 $ 444,000 $ 5,919,000

Net Gain (Loss)

$ 227,000

Assets Cash & Other Current Assets Property & Equipment

Liabilities Payables & Other Current Liabilities Long Term Debt Other Liabilities

Net Worth

$ 2,717,000 $ 14,589,000 $ 17,306,000

$ 892,000 $ 1,274,000 $ 51,000 $ 2,217,000 $ 15,089,000

Balance Sheet Chart

*Costs also include that of raising 48,000 volunteer hours, a $ 1,150,000 value to the ministry.

Source & Use of Funds Chart .......................................................................................................$ 6,500,000 .......................................................................................................$ 6,000,000 Source of Funds Use of Funds .......................................................................................................$ 5,500,000 $6,146,000

Net Worth $ 15,089,000

Assets $ 17,306,000

$5,919,000

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life changes here

Liabilities, $ 2,217,000

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$21,520,125 Conferences

$102,703,503 Local Churches

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FMF Financial

$62,302,129 FM Educational Institutions $68,712,519 Non-FM

$397,055,824 Total

$34,020,046 To Be Determined

$17,964,880 Human Services

$16,539,699 FM Other

$12,233,477 Other FM Affiliates

$643,004 World Conference

As of December 31, 2017

Gifts Currently Designated to Ministry

$60,416,442 Missions/ Home Ministries

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Financial FMF

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

92.9

97.5

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

84.1

2000

99.9 102.5

2003 2002 2001

93.7

11.9 7.6

9.3

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

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16.7

91% 92% 91%

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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

93% 92%

2007

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2009 2008

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Investments

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2010

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120

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$118,003,599 $102,500,559 1,344 129 91% $9,300,030

Highlights from 2017

Free Methodist Investment & Loan Fund

2017

2016

2006

2005

2004

Country Support

Pacific Northwest Conference 2017 Missions Giving Report Church Planting and Development Rwanda Nepal Ukraine Nicaragua Costa Rica Creative Access - VN Thailand Haiti Myanmar Bulgaria Malawi

8,224.76 7,900.00 6,951.85 5,000.00 3,600.00 3,500.00 2,400.00 2,379.64 1,200.00 1,200.00 330.00

Extended Term Missionary Support Spangler Nuesch-Olver Gomez Yerger Land IME Executive Director Williams Sauder Clemente Margin Carol

68,643.12 67,170.00 31,869.67 31,587.55 21,909.77 16,640.00 6,400.04 1,400.04 432.00 1,800.00 1,650.00

Visa Missionary Support Austin Hany Galloway

31,577.25 4,000.00 300.00

Extra Mile Projects Africa Asia Latin America Middle East

2,821.46 81,296.10 18,736.22 2,960.55

Other

41,324.96

Grand Total*

$475,204.98

Free Methodist financial resources are focused on developing leaders, churches and ministries in more than 90 countries. Country support contributions resource these ministry priorities: •

empowering fruitful and emerging leaders through training and spiritual support,

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establishing life-giving and multiplying churches for new and existing believers, and

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fueling transformational ministries to expand education, alleviate poverty, fight for justice and bring wholeness.

Missionary Support Free Methodist missionaries serve in a number of roles alongside a growing and developing international church. Each missionary (or missionary family) has a specific level of support needed to serve in their ministry context. Missionary support includes a fixed amount common to all Free Methodist extended-term missionaries including salary, insurance and basic benefits. Also included is an additional variable amount based on their specific field expenses and world area budgets. This amount includes children’s education, rent, utilities, travel, etc.

Extra Mile Projects Extra Mile Projects are initiatives established to meet specific needs outside of Country Support and Missionary Support. Each initiative is evaluated in light of ministry priorities and goes through an approval process before any funds are distributed.

* includes only funds given through FMWM

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Free Methodist World Missions is positioned to empower individuals, local churches and conferences to connect with God’s heart for the world by offering the following:

Promotional Resources

Cross-Cultural Consultation

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“Heartbeat” monthly newsletter

Through a global network of leaders FMWM can provide current perspectives on missiology, tools to teach a healthy biblical worldview and methodologies for bridging different cultures in a local community and the world.

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“Evaluating Our Missions Heart”

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“Hotline” bi-weekly prayer update

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Missionary/country posters

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Missionary prayer cards

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“Missions Alive!” children’s missions curriculum

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Multi-Ethnic Ministry Video Series (with Dialogues and User Guide)

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Reproducible materials

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Videos

Giving Avenues FMWM provides avenues for individuals, churches and conferences to give toward the support of missionaries, ministry priorities and extra-mile projects.

Assistance is offered with online giving, as well as annual commitments.

FMWM is committed to honoring the financial contributions donors give to the cause of Christ.

Structure and procedures are in place to ensure resources: are used for their intended purpose, meet regulatory guidelines, minimize fees and protect the ministry of those we partner with around the world.

Printed materials, e-letters and online resources are available through FMWM to promote global missions in the local church.

Resources include:

Most of the above resources, plus news, stories and information about missionaries and ministries, can be found at www.fmwm.org

Social Media

Facebook: Free Methodist World Missions Twitter: fmworldmissions

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Missionary Service FMWM provides both employment and volunteer avenues of service for individuals and families desiring to connect with God’s heart for the world internationally.

An experienced FMWM team uses a holistic approach for assessment, preparation and deployment for those who sense God’s call to serve short-term or long-term in global missions.

A multi-stage process begins with an application and references for those seeking to serve for a year or more. Following assessment and clearance, an individualized deployment plan is created, leading to customized preparation. Preparation may include academic coursework, language study and/or reading assignments. Missionaries are also guided in budget preparation and partnership building.

VISA Ministries VISA = Volunteers In Service Abroad Short-Term VISA Opportunities VISA Teams are sponsored by their local church or conference. Teams collaboratively help the national church with priority construction projects or with English or sports camps, children’s programs, etc.

Teams typically engage in a project for 10 to 15 days.

VISA Fast Track Assignments, lasting typically less than six months, are geared for individuals and families. Assignments generally require a specific skill set or training and may include teaching in a theological institution, medical ministry in a hospital or clinic, maintenance or emergency relief.

VISA Voyager Assignments are for people desiring to serve short-term (one to two years), often with the view of long-term service. VISA assignments provide the opportunity to clarify God’s call while meeting a identified ministry need. Ministry appointment is a collaborative process with missionaries and national church leaders and is similar to missionary employment processing.

VISA University = Training Opportunities VISA University programs teach people about the complexities of cross-cultural ministry and how to avoid common pitfalls and better understand God’s heart for the world.

VISA Team Leader Training helps experienced and inexperienced team leaders prepare and equip their team members for effective cross- cultural ministry.

Training is offered as host groups are identified.

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Free Methodist World Missions Leadership Team Bishops

Missions Resource Team

GLOBAL CHURCH ADVOCACY

Matt Thomas

David Roller

David Kendall

Asia

Europe Latin America

Africa Middle East

Dir. of Global Church Advocacy

Gerald Coates gerald.coates@fmcusa.org x234 OPERATIONS & INNOVATIONS Deb Miller deb.miller@fmcusa.org x226

Area Directors

CROSS CULTURAL CONSULTANT David Yardy fmmdyardy@aol.com x240

Gerald Coates

Mike Reynen Africa

Eric Spangler Asia

Delia Nüesch-Olver Latin America

MISSIONARY PERSONNEL PLACEMENT Beth Cullison beth.cullison@fmcusa.org x328 VISA MINISTRIES Jonathan Eccles jonathan.eccles@fmcusa.org x220

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Jen Finley Church Relations Director

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ne year ago we unveiled our new additional sponsorship model, Connected Communities, at the E3 regional meetings. There are now more than 25 Connected Communities, and growing!

Connected Communities allows a church in the U.S. to come alongside a particular school, hostel, child development center or other ministry of the Free Methodist church somewhere in the world. Locally, this relational model creates the synergy of shared vision and mutual love for a particular people and place. Globally, it makes a space for true relationships to form and flourish across cultures and international borders. If a church is currently supporting a missionary or country project, this model allows for a stronger partnership with that country or ministry.

We first introduced you to a “match made in heaven,” between Pearce Memorial Church (Rochester, NY) and Nzige, Rwanda. This beautiful partnership includes

prayer, education and financial support in the form of visits, email, photos, videos and Skype. (Click here for the Connected Communities video, or go to https://vimeo.com/ 200002213.)

Connected Communities come in all shapes and sizes, from smaller churches to entire conferences!

Communities including Togo, the Philippines, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Brazil, and some creative access areas are being changed by their partnerships with churches in the U.S. These churches are impacted locally, too, by developing deeper relationships in a shared missional focus within their own churches.

With what world area would your church like to connect?

The Pittsburgh Conference is partnering with a school that educates refugee children in a creative access country. We feel this Connected Communities model allows us to work together toward one common goal.

While we also encourage individual sponsors to support individual children, this project has brought a new sense of community and connectedness to our conference. And because we have taken on a bigger responsibility, there is a greater sense of ownership. We look forward to how we, together, can impact one community for the Lord.

– Pastor Collene Carney, Monacrest FMC, Monacrest, PA International Child Care Ministries 770 N. High School Rd. Indianapolis, IN 46214 800.342.5531 x502 www.childcareministries.org

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Page 2 The Keystone Conference has committed to a Connected Community with Costa Rica. The Connected Community model is much more than monthly financial support. It’s connecting with each other on a deeper level with regular contact and hands on ministry opportunities.

In connecting with Costa Rica as a conference, we are building a connected community with each other.

We have taken on this financial goal TOGETHER. We will pray for Costa Rica TOGETHER. We will plan missions trips TOGETHER. We will serve TOGETHER. – Sharon Hughes, Missions Liaison, Keystone Conference

Citizens Church is supporting an entire ICCM school in Paraguay.

Through our individual sponsorship we are forming relationships that lead to life change, here and abroad.

We are a church about authentic relationships. This is the perfect opportunity for us to build a closer connection through Christ, with the kids we sponsor and their community. It’s “This month, Journey Church will officially begin a Connected Community partnership with Kaburiro village, in the Western Province of Rwanda. We have had an ongoing connection with ICCM Rwanda since sending a team there in 2015 to work with Ephaste, the Rwanda ICCM Coordinator. Before that, my family and I served for 2 years as missionaries working with ICCM and The Rwanda Free Methodist Church. The partnership between us will begin with the sponsoring of 25 children through ICCM. It will continue to develop based on the identified needs of the Kaburiro community. We at Journey Church are excited to establish an ongoing partnership with the people of Kaburiro knowing there is equal opportunity to bless, encourage, and learn from one another.

– Pastor Scott Endinger, Journey Church, Sherwood, OR

a purpose we feel called to explore out of our Arizona neighborhood to make a difference in the lives of those in Paraguay. As we prepare for our 2019 Paraguay missions trip, we are engaging in local and regional efforts to make sure we are fulfilling our mandate to reach and serve all we can here, near, and far.

– Derrick and Jillian Bermudez, Missions Team Leaders, Citizens Church, Phoenix, AZ Page 1 – photo 1 Creative Access, photo 2 Nzige, Rwanda Page 2 – photo 1 Ethiopia waiting to become a Connected Community, photo 2 Costa Rica, photo 3 Rwanda, photo 4 Paraguay

International Child Care Ministries 770 N. High School Rd. Indianapolis, IN 46214 800.342.5531 x502 www.childcareministries.org

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Report to PNW Annual Conference – June, 2018 Delia Nüesch-Olver, Latin America Area Director Paul S. Olver, Associate Area Director

God is at work in ​la​ ​Iglesia Metodista Libre​, the Free Methodist Church in Latin America. There is a great sense of convergence, momentum, and hope for the future.

Together we are fueling and sustaining a biblical movement to reach Latin America for Christ through developing leaders and planting churches.

For several years we have been introducing and implementing Community Church Planting, or CCP, as the official model of reproducing disciples, leaders and churches. Last year almost 400 lay leaders and pastors from 15 Latin American countries participated in one of five regional training events with Bruce Bennett from South Africa, the leader of CCP. It is heartwarming to see young adults and seasoned pastors, women and men take up the challenge of going out to find the person of peace and start a new group.

The Colombia Mission District has gone from 3 churches to 12 in the last 3 years. Shoreline Mission District in Central America is only a few years old but is already seeing 4​th generation church plants that are praying and planning for their own daughter congregations.

The church in a creative access country has a model of reproduction that is working.

Groups progress from house churches, to church planting projects and finally established churches. The criterion for an established church is a track record of multiplying church planting projects and house churches. The conference now has 10 established churches, 10 church planting projects and 103 house churches – and a new mission district in another part of the country!

Latin America is highly urbanized – 84% of the population lives in cities. Church planting projects are underway -- or in preparation -- in a number of capital cities: Managua, Lima, Montevideo, Caracas, Bogota, and Buenos Aires. We expect each to develop into a network of new churches.

Your prayers and contributions – through Missionary Support Accounts, Country Share Accounts and Extra Mile Projects – are vital to the vision of seeing a healthy, indigenous, autonomous, reproducing network of Free Methodist Churches in each country in Latin America. Your prayers and financial support make it possible for us to lead mission districts and provisional conferences in 13 countries. Gracias!

Free Methodist Church – Latin America, ​www.LatinAmericaArea.com

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Eric & Virginia Spangler Asia Area Director

Interested in the Annual Report video?

Email Eric Spangler at ​Eric4Asia@gmail.com

To Give: ​www.LoveAsia.info To Partner: ​www.Spanglers4Asia.info To Watch: ​www.LoveAsia.tv To Learn: ​www.FMWM.org/asia

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2017 Impact Report

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About Set Free Who we are

What we do

We seek to create new futures and end slavery through community-based action and partnership with others.

We support and equip 30+ teams around the world to address the brokenness in their own communities that breeds slavery and other injustices.

How we do it How we engage is as important as what we do. Events and programs are useful, these are only a means to a bigger, deeper goal.

We seek to recreate community by engaging all sectors of society — from health care and faith to academia and government — using these core strategies:

education

prevention

We seek holistic freedom.

We strive to build healthy communities where people are freed not only from physical slavery, but from any spiritual, emotional, or mental bondage. It’s not just freedom from but freedom for something.

mobilization

Our vision is not only justice but shalom.

We start with addressing society’s brokenness to transform people and communities from the inside out: healing relationships, shifting harmful cultural values, and rebuilding dysfunctional systems.

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rescue

restoration

We focus first on relationships.

Mission happens within the scope of discipleship: as we are formed by the character of Christ, our actions conform. Our work is ultimately relational, founded on community with Jesus at the center.

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From the director In the fall, I had a conversation with a director of a state run children’s home in Hungary.

She expressed her concern for the children in her care and the daily barriers they face. No fans during hot season. No outlets in the kitchen. Burnout among staff. Worst of all, some of the youth end up on the streets in prostitution.

I shared with her about what our Set Free team does in Seattle: how they help children in foster care, how they host support groups and trainings for foster parents, how they encourage social workers through regular appreciation events. She was deeply touched and asked me why Americans did these things.

My response to her was: “I can’t speak for all Americans, but I know these people in Seattle believe that every person, every child, is created in the image of God and deserves dignity, love, and care.”

We published our first book, Urban Shalom, in June 2017

Set Free teams across the globe are agents of hope and healing. In the midst of despair, they are challenging harmful values that perpetuate abuse and are loving in transformational ways. In this report, you will see how our teams are working holistically to reduce vulnerability, end slavery and create new futures for people in their own neighborhoods and around the world. You will see how our teams are doing this: through a community-based, Jesusfocused, discipleship approach.

Over the past eight years, Set Free has grown into being a global community of liberated, imperfect people that follow Jesus and partner with others in ways that make sense in each context. As you read this report we hope you see how our community approach and the movement of God is changing lives.

We grew our Facebook followers by 20%

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Thank you for your support and partnership!

Rev. Dr. Kevin Austin Director, Set Free Movement

We launched % for Freedom, a platform to engage businesses

We launched a new logo and a new ethically-made t-shirt

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Key themes of 2017

Seeking Diversity Our teams worked hard to engage diverse groups: from former traffickers to girl scouts, from LGBTQ+ groups to the Universalist church.

We intentionally seek out people who are not being served or welcomed in their community to bring in diverse perspectives and reduce vulnerability.

Investing in youth Maturing deeply Our teams grew their capacity to effectively address the root causes of slavery. Some worked to improve the foster care system and sought legal training to understand the vulnerability of immigrants.

Others served people who are homeless or emerging from incarceration and domestic violence to protect them from abuse.

We believe that raising up youth to be informed, resilient people with access to vital resources and positive relationships is one of the best ways to prevent exploitation. Our teams discipled and trained thousands of youth to protect themselves and their peers from exploitation.

Why our approach works Wendy is a History professor at a community college in Birmingham, AL. She has been leading human trafficking awareness events (“Freedom Week”) on three campuses for several years.

What’s most significant about her efforts is the one-on-one time she spends coaching students. Her approach isn’t only educational but relational, which has a ripple effect throughout campuses and into the community.

Following Freedom Week in October 2017, two of Wendy’s students changed their majors to focus on human trafficking and justice, while a student in fashion design was moved to focus on creating designs that would benefit survivors.

Through Wendy’s efforts to educate and raise up student leaders, one of her students was equipped to identify warning signs that her cousin was being groomed for trafficking.

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Wendy (pictured above) counselled the parents of the girl being groomed and called the National Human Trafficking Hotline, which rapidly led to the daughter being safely pulled from what could have been a lifetime of exploitation and abuse.

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United States We coach, equip, and mobilize 20+ teams across the U.S. to address the root causes of slavery in their own neighborhoods.

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Our impact in the U.S. by the numbers  

$29,797

7,451

144

5,275

raised for other social service agencies

hours teams invested as volunteers

average number of agencies we partner with each month

times people volunteered to help our teams

34,228

4,527

4,822

17

times we engaged community members

times we supported people at-risk of exploitation

students trained + engaged

media interviews featuring team leaders

Rescue

Our Strategies We engage in education and awareness, prevention, community mobilization, supporting rescue professionals, and restoration. At right is the breakdown of the concentration of our activities in the U.S.

1%

Prevention 17%

Mobilization 36%

Restoration 23%

Education 23%

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Ways our U.S. teams served their communities

Wenatchee, WA

Spring Arbor / Jackson, MI

In the summer, our team partnered with their church, local leaders and missionaries at a Native American reservation in extreme poverty in Montana, creating a safe space with food, games, and activities, while sharing Jesus’ love.

In April, the team hosted a sleep-out with a local high school to raise awareness about teen homelessness. The youth made blankets and assembled hygiene kits for local homeless shelters.

FACT

FACT

Trafficking disproportionately affects Native Americans. Prosecutions are lower and cases are underreported.

Wichita, KS

Seattle, WA In May, they hosted their first one-day “Brave” event for 35 teen girls in foster care, who enjoyed entertainment and hair cuts, learned about free local services, and were connected to mentors they met with monthly for the year.

FACT

FACT

We partner with Refuge, a ministry primarily serving women who are homeless or reintegrating from incarceration and domestic violence. They gave 185 women basic needs items for hygiene and job interviews in 2017.

60% of female state prisoners in KS have a history of physical or sexual abuse, which may make them vulnerable to further abuse in the future.

In a study by Covenant House, nearly 1 in 5 of homeless youth interviewed were victims of sex and labor trafficking.

Between 55-90% of commercially sexually exploited youth in the U.S. have been in foster care.* In Seattle, that number is estimated to be around 70%. * State of WA Coordinating Committee on Sex Trafficking

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Turlock, CA

Our team in Tampa has partnered with a local strip club and aftercare ministry for years. In March, they assembled gift baskets for 50 women working in strip clubs as a way to build relationships, reinforce their value, and connect them to services.

In October, this team hosted their second annual 5k race and freedom festival to create awareness about slavery, raise funds for antitrafficking efforts, and mobilize the community to respond in tangible ways, such as buying fair trade products.

Victims of trafficking in strip clubs may be U.S. citizens, undocumented immigrants, or foreign nationals held by debt bondage or threats of deportation.

FACT

Tampa, FL

Advocacy groups in CA battled in 2017 for legal recognition of the dehumanization of prostitution. In January 2018, the courts upheld the prostitution laws.

McPherson, KS

Watsonville, CA

In May, the team addressed the low levels of awareness about slavery in their area by bringing Truckers Against Trafficking to their community. Over 200 people visited the mobile museum and the team talked with over 500 people about identifying and preventing human trafficking, even in a small town.

Felicia taught nearly 1,500 youth mainly in middle school about the realities of human trafficking in 2017. These students now know the warning signs of human trafficking, how to properly report it, and how to protect themselves and their classmates against it, especially on the Internet and social media.

There were 33 human trafficking cases reported in Kansas in 2017. A total of 274 cases have been reported over the last decade.*

FACT

FACT

FACT

Traffickers may use social media and the Internet to develop relationships with youth, seeking to fill a void in the youth’s life to lure them into meeting in person.

*National Human Trafficking Resource Center 7

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Bond County, IL

Decatur, Macon County, IL

Eden’s Glory, a restoration home for survivors of human trafficking, celebrated their second year of operation in the fall. A key highlight of 2017 was having one resident working towards her GED and another seeking a Bachelor’s degree. The team continues to educate and engage their county.

It was a big year for this team. In October, they hosted a community forum on poverty and its interconnectedness to human trafficking. The next month, they hosted a benefit concert with four local bands whose music had messages of freedom and justice. They gave a portion of proceeds to Eden’s Glory.

There are 682 beds for survivors of human trafficking in the U.S. There were only 8 beds for survivors in Illinois when Eden’s Glory opened in 2015.

FACT

FACT

Over a third of people in Illinois are considered low-income or living in poverty. People of color and children are disproportionately affected.*

Seattle Pacific University, WA

Roberts Wesleyan College, NY

This team formed an ethical purchasing task force to introduce more fair trade options on campus, especially food items. They also hosted a documentary screening to engage students on the interconnectedness of fast fashion and human trafficking.

Students at Roberts Wesleyan formed a Set Free club this year. In October, they partnered with A21 to bring awareness about human trafficking to Rochester by hosting a community walk. They will be hosting an oncampus Freedom Forum in 2018.

An unaccompanied minor wandering into Seattle’s Westlake Center will be approached by some kind of predator including pimps - within 45 minutes.*

FACT

FACT

* Heartland Alliance

* Seattle Police Department

Human trafficking is a racial issue. In New York City, 50% of streetwalking prostituted minors are Black and 25% are Latino.* * ECPAT USA: http://bit.ly/2o6QSws

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Our Global Impact  

North + Latin America

Europe

Established project(s) United States Canada Bulgaria Hungary The Philippines Taiwan

Africa

Emerging work Haiti* Portugal* Spain* Kenya* India

Asia

Inuential relationships Belgium* Holland* Burundi* Cambodia Thailand *New in 2017

Some of our international accomplishments in 2017 included:

370

1,000's

churches registered for Freedom Sunday

of people around the world influenced by our ministries

(potentially hundreds more unregistered)

$40,000 raised in Freedom Sunday offerings for global antitrafficking efforts

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Asia

We prevent the exploitation of children, ethnic minorities, and migrant workers through education, pastor training, church mobilization, and more.

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Fact: Tens of thousands of children are victims of online sexual exploitation, a billion-dollar industry in the Philippines where an anonymous user pays as little as $5-$10 for a live-streamed “show.”

pastors intensively trained in identifying + responding to human trafficking

210 youth educated on prevention

150 at-risk people served

Training + Mobilizing Churches

1,590

Our Filipino leader, Ken, worked alongside her husband, Jemuel, to equip nearly 1,600 church members to be at the forefront of the abolitionist movement. They mobilized three churches to host Freedom Sunday, worked closely with the Philippine General Conference of the Free Methodist Church to host a multi-day training for 50 pastors, and built relationships with many churches.

community members mobilized

Protecting Children An estimated 250,000 children live on the streets in the Philippines.* We partner with ICCM to meet the basic needs of children living in slums with emphasis on education so they can pursue dignified employment. In February, we taught 40 children and their parents about safe relationships to prevent exploitation and educated at least 110 more youth throughout the year.

Ken Abenoja-Baldo

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Taiwan Supporting Migrants Our team runs a self-help group for Filipino women who have migrated to Taiwan, often for marriage. These women sometimes feel misunderstood, struggle with the language, and are disconnected to their culture and home. Some may be at-risk of abuse. Our group creates an empowering, healthy, and therapeutic space to discuss issues, teach communication skills, grow spiritually, and offer individualized case work when necessary.

Fact: There are 600,000+ migrant workers in Taiwan.* Of those, 200,000 were employed as caregivers or home helpers, which are industries that slavery often occurs. *Ministry of Labor

Emerging Projects Throughout 2017 and years earlier (in some cases), we have been building relationships with national leaders, missionaries, churches, and agencies in several other areas in Asia, including India, Cambodia, and Hong Kong. We are eager to share more details about this work with you in 2018.

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Latin America + Africa In 2017, we began partnering with like-minded organizations to support existing efforts to prevent exploitation.

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Haiti

Protecting Restaveks In 2017, we partnered with ICCM and Restavek Freedom to address child slavery in Haiti. Funds from Freedom Sunday 2017 will be used to launch a 12-week justice curriculum in 2018 to train teachers, pastors, church members and parents in a way that will empower all Free Methodist churches and schools in Haiti to stand against child slavery.

Fact: 300,000+ children* are estimated to be caught in a culturally-acceptable form of modern-day slavery called “restavek”. Often from poor, rural households, these children are sold to other families as unpaid domestic help. *Restavek Freedom

Burundi Equipping Social Workers

Fact: Thousands of women in Burundi have been widowed after decades of civil war.

Considered cultural outcasts, they may have no income and struggle to meet the basic daily needs of their children and themselves.

One of our teams in Washington is partnering with Sister Connection, which invests in widows to create opportunities for self-sufficiency. Since there is little awareness or response to human trafficking in Burundi, we are helping to equip social workers to identify and respond to exploitation.

The first training took place in the summer of 2017.

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Europe We partnered with missionaries and local leaders to protect ethnic minorities, people who are unemployed, and others at risk.

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Bulgaria We partner with Free Methodist missionaries Chance and Dee Dee Galloway, whose discipleship and church planting approach is a strong line of defence against human trafficking. In 2017, they built churches that are resilient against exploitation in these ways:

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Fact: An estimated 10,000 females are trafficked in Bulgaria each year, according to the Bulgarian government.

Roma girls are especially at risk.

total church plants being nurtured

300

A Home for Roma Girls

students receiving biblical training

In the summer, the Galloways purchased the home that will house up to 10 Roma girls who are at-risk of abuse and exploitation.

Renovations began in the fall and we hope the St. John’s Home will open in 2018, creating access to education, health care, and vocational training in a safe, spiritually rich family environment.

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students learning English

1000’s

of people equipped to identify and intervene in human trafficking

Set Free Missions Teams In June, Meghan Shuffet (daughter of Set Free leaders in Alabama) interned with the Galloways, teaching on human trafficking at a youth conference and six churches in five cities.

In July, Set Free leaders Heidi and Eric Barnes led a team from their church in Wenatchee, WA, to support the Galloways and local leaders host youth outreach programs to strengthen the church and share God’s love.

Chance Galloway

Pastor Ivan Georgiev

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Hungary 104 times we hosted a Recovery group Ildikó Kòber and Brenda Silva

Fact: In 2017, Hungary was downgraded to a “Tier 2 Watchlist” country for failing to meet Trafficking Victims Protection Act standards, sharing the same rank as Haiti, Liberia, Iraq, Rwanda, and others.

180 people who are unemployed served

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classes for children

31 Prevention

activities supporting women

Ildikó, Set Free leader in Budapest, trained 21 mental health workers, 64 at-risk teen girls, students at Youth With A Mission, and numerous churches in 2017. Her team also runs a life skills program for 180 people who are unemployed and offers therapeutic services to survivors of abuse.

28 English classes taught

Protecting Youth Our Free Methodist missionary partners, the McNamara family, support at-risk children at an orphanage in Györ. The discipleship and mentoring relationships they create through English classes, Bible studies, games and crafts establishes a safe, trusting space where youth find belonging instead of turning to a pimp.

Freedom Forum

Zsuzsi and Katica McNamara

In November, we hosted a Freedom Forum in Budapest to connect agencies and educate the public about local responses to slavery. We brought together 82 people from 6 local churches, 8 countries, and 11 NGOs.

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Financial Information  

Revenue

Total

Individuals

59,340

Churches

29,039

Foundations

35,450

Social Enterprise Sales

20,460

Total Contribution Revenue

144,289

Expenses Program Services

Total 128,625

14% 41% 25%

20%

1% 8%

Supporting Services Administration

11,662

Fundraising

1,430

Total Expenses

141,717

Program Administration Fundraising

91%

Allocation of Support for Projects

2017 Board of Directors

Below is the geographic distribution of funds spent directly on projects:

Mark Van Valin (Chairperson) Kevin Austin (Director) Bishop David Kendall Linda Adams Curt Sarles Deb Sommerville Tim Burkhart

8% 16%

Europe Asia USA

Individuals Churches Foundations Sales

76%

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Thank You We are grateful to the people, churches, and agencies all over the world who supported and collaborated with Set Free in 2017, especially: •

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Set Free teams all around the world who tirelessly work for justice in wise and holistic ways Our Board of Directors Free Methodist Church USA Individual and church donors and supporters Camano Island Coffee Stephane Boss (Bydfault) All of our partner agencies

Get Involved Pray in the direction of freedom: sign up for our monthly prayer newsletter. setfreemovement.com/connect Give monthly as a Freedom Advocate (monthly gifts of $10-$49) or Community Builder (monthly gifts of $50+, eligible for exclusive perks). setfreemovement.com/give-monthly Join or start a Set Free team.

Email team@setfreemovement.org Stay connected! Download our mobile app for Apple and Android phones and follow us on social media.

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2017–18 Report for Darin & Jill Land

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Darin & Jill develop leaders in the Philippines and across Asia Darin and Jill Land are Free Methodist World Missions (FMWM) missionaries in Asia. Their primary focus is preparing young people for ministry, serving as Asia Regional Assistant for Leadership Development. The Lands have also now completed nine school years in the Philippines at AsiaPacific Nazarene Theological Seminary (APNTS), where Darin is Professor of New Testament.

• Showing care for others through distributing home baked cookies and other goodies • Hosting a bi-weekly fellowship group of APNTS students

Darin’s 2017–18 Ministry Highlights • Working with the Eric Spangler and the Asia Leadership Team (ALT) to strategize and advise for the FMWM work in Asia • Developing and launching Jill’s 2017–18 H3O3 (Heart/Head/Hands Obedience Oriented OrdiMinistry Highlights nation), a strategic plan for Investing in the lives of • leadership development in young women, mentoring Asia, with initial training in them with times of fellowship and prayer. One grad- Myanmar uated with a M.Div. from • Teaching seven masters level classes at APNTS, APNTS this year including one in a creative Communicating with and • access country praying for our US-based ministry partners • Team-teaching a doctoral level class, Effective • Traveling to Myanmar to Teaching Methods assist with the launch of H3O3 • Completing a soon-to-beUsing her gifts of organizapublished book, Reboot • tion and efficiency to assist Your Greek: A Forty-Day and encourage library and New Testament Greek registration staff Refresher 77

Our commitment to carry out the Great Commission: This is our ​seventeenth​ year serving in Asia, four in the Philippines with another mission and our thirteenth year with Free Methodist World Missions. Before we became career missionaries with FMWM we served for five years on the mission committee of our local FMC and Don was on the board of elders of Timberlake FMC in Redmond, WA. Our hearts continue to be captivated by what is on the heart of God, ​“​that none should perish”. ​Our desire is to clearly communicate the gospel as we have the privilege of carrying out the Great Commission to the uttermost parts of the world.

Where we are doing ministry:​ Our ministry has expanded from Thailand to four more countries in Asia, training each Country leader in Strategic Planning and assisting the leader as they in turn teach it to their leaders in ​Myanmar​, ​Cambodia​, and ​a Creative Access country ​and will begin in ​Nepal​ before the end of 2018. Don is serving primarily as an Asia Regional Consultant with FMWM under the leadership of the Asia Area Director, Eric Spangler. Don also serves on the Asia Leadership Team. In 2019 he will add strategic planning for Teach Beyond Global, an organization using education as a platform for sharing the Good News. Kathy works alongside Don in his consultant role throughout Asia. Kathy has expanded her role as Coordinator for CBSI, Community Bible Study International. In Thailand she and Nok, the Thai CBS Coordinator have recently trained leaders in another organization to use CBSI lessons in Thai for both adult as well as for children and youth. There are now 8 CBSI classes throughout Thailand and more Thai churches are showing interest and getting training to use CBS materials. She is happy to share CBSI and Days For Girls, wherever there is an interest.

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The purpose of our mission: Ultimately, the purpose of our ministry is to see disciples raised up among all tribes, nations, and tongues throughout Asia. Strategic Planning focuses on producing disciples who reproduce themselves as part of healthy churches which plant more churches.

Supporting our Asian leaders, as they develop their country’s strategic plans, lifts up the name of Jesus and draws men, women and children to Jesus.

Summary of how we are following God’s will: We continue to follow God’s will for our lives not just in the big issues of life in our calling but in the day-to-day and moment-by-moment activities and living of life. In July we will move to Hanoi to be more strategically located in the work we’ll be doing regionally. It’s in the small and large issues of life that people around us are reading the impact Christ is having on our lives revealing the reality of our faith. We want to live lives that are worth following and that point to the risen Savior reigning in our hearts. ​ Our goals for 2018 include: ⇨​ ​To see the church growing numerically and in stature throughout the countries in Asia where we are working with national leaders on strategic planning. ⇨​ ​To see strategic planning expand into Nepal and globally through Teach Beyond. ⇨ ​To see national leaders in Myanmar, a Creative Access Country, and Cambodia develop the various stages of implementation, management, and maintenance in their strategic planning efforts. ⇨​ ​To see Don’s consulting role of support and accountability of our Asian leaders gradually reduced until no longer needed. ⇨​ ​To see churches making disciples using Community Bible Study lessons engaging their congregations in systematic Bible study in the countries where Strategic Planning is occurring.

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We reached our goals in 2017 in the following areas created last year: Seeing the Superintendents of Cambodia and one of our Creative Access countries equipped and empowered to work with their respective Boards of Administration in the development of their country’s first Strategic Plans. The Creative Access Country developed their plan as a nation.

The superintendent of Myanmar and the BOA completed the first year of their strategic plan, reviewed, revised and implemented year two’s plan based on year one’s accomplishments while continuing to demonstrate faithfulness and accountability to benchmarks.

Report on our financial support: We have not yet met our financial support for 2018. We are presently short $3000 a month or $36,000 for the year in meeting our annual budget. Commitments from churches and individuals to our Missionary Support Account (MSA) for 2018 are at 54%.

We believe our ministries align not only with the Mission of the FMC worldwide (“To love God and people and to make disciples.”), it also aligns with the vision of PNW conference and local churches (“…creating an environment that equips and supports the church and its leaders to fulfill our ‘Profile of a Healthy Church’.

And that, “Every church (is) a healthy church with Spirit-filled leadership working a plan to fulfill our ‘Profile’.)

In our ministries, we see that happening in the following ways: The ministries we are called to faithfully perform in Asia are being done in response to God’s command on our own lives to “go”. Don’s work with pastors and national leaders as an Asia Area Consultant with the FMC working with country leaders to develop Strategic Plans, is focused on making disciples. In turn whose ministries make disciples of people in multiple nations, locally and internationally. Strategic Planning is the vehicle whereby Spirit-filled leadership in Asia is working a plan to fulfill the “Profile”. The work Don and Kathy do also involves the mission fields in pastor’s families, the church member’s families, communities, and with God’s blessing is reaching five Asian countries – Thailand, Creative Access Country, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Nepal.

We believe the PNWC’s partnership with us, a couple called to obedience, is critical and strategic making possible our ability to serve effectively in our ministries through the church’s financial support and prayer covering.

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Charting on my Life in Rwanda 2016 Annual Report

Julie Yerger assigned to Kibogora Hospital Rwanda, Africa The full moon on May 29th made for a very busy week at Kibogora’s neonatal department: 32 babies born—6 very ill, 7 on CPAP, 13 on oxygen, 2 having seizures, 7 on phototherapy for jaundice—29 mamas (three sets of twins!), 3 nurses, 1 doctor, and me.!

The 29th started with a baby breathing 160 /mes per minute. I don’t think I could breathe that fast if I tried! We worked quickly to figure out as best as we could—did she have a heart problem, a respiratory problem, dehydra/on? Thankfully, in the end, it seemed to be an infec/on and dehydra/on because a6er lots of IV fluids and a long nap, she woke up angry and hungry! I love seeing babies get be9er like that. They come through the door so sick, and a few days later, we want them to go home because they’re now strong and cry too much. ૃ At the end of the day, I was exhausted and yet, I love my job. On days like this, I know we aren’t taking care of the babies like we should. We just don’t have enough people, enough equipment, enough space. And yet God steps in, puts His hands on the babies, and protects them.

Or He points out the ones who need special a9en/on. Today it was the baby in the last incubator—stable, just needing to grow some more as he was born at 3.5 lbs. An easy baby to miss in the chaos, but God nudged us to realize his mother wasn’t giving him nearly enough milk as she didn’t have it. Before he became dehydrated and sick, we were able to correct the problem and make sure he got enough to eat.

This year has been one with progress and setbacks. We lost both our na/onal doctors who worked well in Neonatal. We had to start over, orien/ng a new doctor. With nurses working hard to finish their daily tasks, it’s hard to fit in training /me for the nurses as everyone is so busy. But I’m thankful for a team of hard working individuals!

The number of babies admi9ed per year keeps increasing (995 in 2017) without an increase in nursing staff or space. These factors increase the risk of infec/on and decrease the ability of the nurses to provide excellent care, but we keep pressing on. And I can’t emphasize enough how God watches over the babies!

Thank you for your prayers and support! The infant mortality rate rose a bit to 6.3%, but considering the challenges, I think we did well. My team and I are going to present how to care for babies under three pounds at an interna/onal neonatal conference in Kigali this fall. Also in the spring of 2019, we’re excited to welcome a new missionary couple to our team—an obstetrician and her husband who is a general surgeon. Hopefully, this will help improve the babies’ care before they’re born…thus making our job a li9le easier.

Prayer Requests:

Praises:

God’s con nued protec on when we are understaffed

Peace in Rwanda

The couple coming to join our team next year

The amazing team of nurses I’m privileged to work with

Hospital funds so we can hire another nurse…or two

Progress being made in nursing quality improvement

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Oakdale: The First in the U.S.

akdale Christian Academy pursues accreditation with the most highly regarded accrediting agencies. Each examination by the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) and Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) has resulted in full accreditation for the longest periods granted.

To add to the academic-focused accreditations, Oakdale pursued and was selected to be the first boarding program in the U.S. to undergo ACSI’s boarding accreditation (previously available only to international schools).

In April of 2018, the ACSI site visit occurred, resulting in the recommendation that Oakdale be approved for boarding accreditation — the first in the U.S.!

Oakdale Christian Academy is the only Free Methodist Church - USA boarding school, Serving students regardless of their ability to pay.

Serving teenagers from across the U.S. and around the world, Oakdale’s Christcentered community helps students put

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Christ first in every part of their lives.

ready for a challenge

Confronted with Christ Within Oakdale’s 12-acre campus, a myriad of experiences happen in the lives of its students. Events in students’ lives that bring exuberance, disappointment, joy, despair, success, and heartbreak are seen, prayed over, and lovingly addressed by a community of Christian adults.

• a stronger educational program • a multifaceted leadership program • ministry Opportunities • a Christian learning and living community

challenged by life circumstances • family dynamics make it difficult for the student to succeed • obstacles in the current environment keep students from reaching their potential • They Lack a strong Christian Community

www.oakdalechristian.org

The opportunity for life to be experienced together makes it possible for discipleship to occur. This happens in the dorms, in classrooms, during sports practices, at social events, across the dinner table, and on the sidewalk. It happens during service outreach activities, at staff homes for small group Bible studies, and through student-led worship.

Students who seek a deeper walk with Christ sign up for one-to-one discipleship with staff members in which students are helped to think clearly (over)

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Confronted with Christ (cont.) and deeply about their Christian life. They explore Scripture, talk about how they can apply faith in Jesus Christ to their lives, and discuss how to navigate life’s struggles.

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hen alumni reflect on what was meaningful about their time at Oakdale, they point to relationships with staff members as having a transformational effect on their lives. Oakdale is building its team and is hiring for the positions of science teacher, computer science teacher, director of IT, and cook.

Discipleship demands that students make a choice. To attend church on Sunday, never be caught speaking provfanity, and be reasonably kind to those who are kind in return, is a choice that requires no real life change and costs little or nothing.

It is true discipleship, however, that brings the challenging and hard truths that require life, mind, and heart change; a person will either embrace it fully or reject it wholly.

There is hardly a better setting for discipleship than a place where every part of a student’s life is encouraged, nurtured, corrected, and directed. At Oakdale Christian Academy, students are confronted with the reality of what it means to follow Christ. They know the choice, so the blessing of this ministry comes when they respond, “YES!”

Located in the mountains, serving the world, and meeting today’s challenges, Oakdale is preparing for a long and exciting future of ministry and outreach!

Visit our employment page at www.oakdalechristian.org/employment. Join us!

Beginning in 2018: May Hall

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$600,000 gift in 2016 from Liberty Road Community Church in Lexington, Kentucky, made it possible for Oakdale to begin a project that would otherwise have been years away. May Hall, a new dining hall, will begin construction soon.

This 7,500 square foot multipurpose building will include a 4,000 square foot dining area to seat 200. The total project cost of May Hall is estimated at $1.4 million. Phase I will cost $1 million, and $890,000 has been given or pledged.

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Completed 2015 May Hall is the capstone project of the Build On... Comprehensive Campaign, a three-year, $2.7 million campaign.

Summer lead Academy T

he Oakdale Summer LEAD (Learn, Explore, Adventure, Discovery) Academy is a six-week program and a great way for students and their families to explore the possibility of attending Oakdale Christian Academy for the regular school year.

Completed 2018

Monday Memo:

Subscribe to the Monday Memo to stay informed about Oakdale happenings! Go to the “sign up for our newsletter” box at www.oakdalechristian.org or call us to be added.

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Each two week LEAD Academy session gives students the opportunity to explore three areas of interest and learning.

The overarching format of Summer LEAD Academy is FUN. Learn more by contacting Karen McFarlane at (606) 666-5422 ext. 104 or by emailing admissions.rep@oakdalechristian.org.

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Seattle Pacific Seminary DEFINING THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION THROUGH ACADEMY, ABBEY, AND APOSTOLATE

Our Distinctive Vision: Academy, Abbey, and Apostolate The interplay of scholarship, spiritual edification, and service — all informed by our Wesleyan heritage that joins “knowledge and vital piety” as a means of changing the world — defines Seattle Pacific Seminary’s vision for educating students, and forming Christian leaders for the 21st century.

Academy Our seminary offers students a collaborative environment in which they learn from professors who value academic excellence, Christian formation, research, and teaching that serves the Church.

Abbey Our graduate programs stress the importance of accountable discipleship and provide opportunities for worship and informal fellowship in an intentional Christian community — all for the purpose of forming students and faculty members in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ.

Apostolate The seminary is an “apostolate” — a place of sending forth, a kind of 21st-century mission agency. All graduate students participate in service activities, particularly with the underprivileged, and are often socially dislocated for the sake of the gospel through multi-cultural experiences across Seattle and around the world.

Multiple Options. One Philosophy.

Seattle Pacific Seminary offers a Master of Arts in Theology (MA), a Master of Divinity (MDiv), and a Graduate Certificate in Christian Studies. All are built on the classical theological disciplines of Scripture, church history, theology, and ethics. And, each is informed by the Seminary’s Wesleyan heritage that unites “knowledge and vital piety” as a means of engaging the culture with the transforming gospel of Jesus Christ.

In addition, the Seminary has joined with SPU’s School of Business and Economics, and School of Psychology, Family, and Community to offer the following dual degrees: MA in Theology/MBA; MA in Theology/MDiv; MA in Theology/MS in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT); and MDiv/MS–MFT.

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Seattle Pacific Seminary DEFINING THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION THROUGH ACADEMY, ABBEY, AND APOSTOLATE

The Church and Parachurch Tuition Discount Program Seattle Pacific Seminary is excited to offer a 50% tuition discount for first-year seminary students who are actively employed at a Christian church or a parachurch organization in a full-time or part-time capacity. Qualifying parachurch organizations may include: Campus Crusade, InterVarsity, Navigators, Union Gospel Mission, Urban Impact, Young Life, Youth for Christ, or World Vision. (Note: This is not an exclusive list.)

Eligible students will be permitted to receive this discount for their first 40 credits OR their first year (i.e. Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer), whichever comes first. This applies to students who are enrolled in the Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Theology, or the Graduate Certificate in Christian Studies program.

This discount is extended to the first ten students who apply each year.

Application Information The application deadline for Autumn Quarter is July 1. To apply, visit spu.edu/seminary, call 206-281-2342, or email seminary@spu.edu.

For more information, please contact: Seattle Pacific Seminary Seattle Pacific University, 3307 Third Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98119 PHONE : 206-281-2342 | EMAIL : seminary@spu.edu | WEB : spu.edu/seminary

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Application for Christian Minister Tuition Discount Seattle Pacific University Student Financial Services (206) 281-2061/ (800) 737-8826 Seattle Pacific University is committed to the continuing education of ministers of the gospel. The Christian Minister Tuition Discount program is supported by the institution to make it economically feasible for full-time, ordained, practicing pastors or missionaries involved in full-time Christian pastoral responsibilities to pursue studies that will enhance their ministry.

Amount of Discount Free Methodist Pastors  Awarded to currently active, full-time, ordained, practicing pastors or assistant pastors appointed by the Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church.  Awarded as full tuition discount for the first five undergraduate or first three graduate credits per term; and a 20% discount for additional credits.

All Other Christian Pastors  Awarded to currently active, full-time, ordained, practicing Christian pastors and missionaries.  Awarded as a 20% discount on tuition only.

Additional Requirements and Information  A new application must be submitted for approval each school year (Summer through Spring) that you would like to receive the tuition discount.  The tuition discount may be used for undergraduate and graduate levels.  Since the focus of the program is to provide continuing education, the discount may be used for regular credits, spiral classes, and/or media courses.  The Christian Minister Tuition Discount will be counted as a resource and if you are receiving other financial aid, receiving the Christian Minister Tuition Discount may affect the amount or type of other aid for which you are eligible.

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Name (please print) __________________________________________________ Student ID/Social Security Number _______________________________________ Address ___________________________________________________________ Telephone ______________________ E-mail ____________________________ Academic Year (new application required each academic year) ____________________ Please indicate the number AND type of credits you will be taking each quarter: Summer

________ Undergraduate

__________ Graduate

___________ Other

Fall

________ Undergraduate

__________ Graduate

___________ Other

Winter

________ Undergraduate

__________ Graduate

___________ Other

Spring

________ Undergraduate

__________ Graduate

___________ Other

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name of Church or Mission Board ________________________________________ Name of Church/Mission Board Representative ______________________________ Church/Mission Board Address _________________________________________ _________________________________________ Church/Mission Phone _____________ Church/Mission E-mail ________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I certify that I am a full-time ordained Christian minister/missionary of the gospel and receive the major portion of my income from that work. Ordained persons in other lines of work (e.g. teaching) are not eligible for the Christian Minister Tuition Discount.

Applicant Position Title ________________________________________________ Signature _______________________________

Date _____________________

Please submit application to:

Student Financial Services 3307 Third Avenue West, Suite 114 Seattle, WA 98119 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

For Office Use Only Approval Contact Name ____________________________________________________________ Approved by ___________________________________ _____ Filer (Counselor Notification Required)

Date __________________________ _________ Non-Filer (roahold required)

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PASTORS’ CHILDREN SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church Please submit this form to the PNW Conference Office by September 15 Scholarship available to Free Methodist Pastor’s Children Onl​y

First Name____________________________ Last Name ______________________________ Date of Birth__________________________ Name and location of High School from which you graduated____________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ School you plan to attend? ____Seattle Pacific University ____Central College ____Roberts Wesleyan College

____Azusa Pacific University ____Greenville College ____Spring Arbor

Are you enrolled at this school? ______ ​ (PLEASE ATTACH PROOF OF ENROLLMENT) If you are presently a student, what year, quarter / semester are you in, and at what school? ________________________________________________________________________ What quarter / semesters do you plan to attend this school year? ​ ​ Fall ​ ​ Winter ​ ​ Spring ​ ​ Summer How many hours of academic work will you be taking this year? ____ How many hours is a full load?

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In 100 words or less, please give your present vocational plans (tentative plans are acceptable).

Student’s signature​

​Date_________________

Pastor’s signature​ (Free Methodist Pastor)

​Date_________________

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Clergy Housing Allowance Guide The clergy housing allowance is an important tax benefit available under the Internal Revenue Code Section 107 to ministers who own or rent their homes. It is important to note that the benefit ​cannot be retroactive​ and ​must be approved by the local church board​ before the benefit can take effect.​ In order to qualify for the clergy housing allowance, you must meet the IRS guidelines.

The clergy housing allowance includes housing-related expenses should include the cost of maintaining a home, including mortgage payments, taxes, repairs, insurance, furnishings, utilities, etc. The church must designate the value of the clergy housing allowance in advance. ​There are three common types of clergy housing allowance: 1. Parsonage allowances: Ministers who live in a church-provided parsonage do not pay federal income taxes on the amount of their compensation that their employing church designates in advance as a parsonage allowance.

2. Housing allowances (minister rents a home or apartment): Ministers who rent a home or apartment do not pay federal income taxes on the amount of their compensation that their employing church designates in advance as a housing allowance.

3. Housing allowances (minister owns the home): Ministers who own their home do not pay federal income taxes on the amount of their compensation that their employing church designates in advance as a housing allowance. Housing-related expenses include mortgage payments, utilities, repairs, furnishings, insurance, property taxes, additions, and maintenance.

For federal income tax purposes, the clergy housing allowance is limited to the lesser of: 1. The amount designated by the church; 2. The amount actually spent on housing for the year by the minister, or; 3. The fair rental value of a house, furnished, plus utilities such as gas, electricity, oil, telephone and water.

A minister cannot exclude more than the church designates. Any amount a minister spends on housing that exceeds what the church designates must be reported as taxable income. If audited by the IRS, it is the responsibility of the minister to document actual housing expenses.

A minister must pay Social Security/Medicare taxes on the dollar amount designated as clergy housing allowance.

Important for church boards regarding the housing allowance: For ministers that own/rent their home, it is required that you include each pastor’s housing allowance in your board’s minutes for tax/audit purposes. It is important to note that the housing allowances must be approved by the local church board in advance of providing this benefit.

We also recommend that you use the following perpetuity clause when approving the housing allowances each year in the event that the board does not approve the housing allowance before January 1 of the following year: Example: ​The designation of $15,000 as a housing allowance shall apply to calendar year 2018 and all future years unless otherwise provided.

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Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church-­‐USA Ordained Minister's Predetermined Housing Allowance

I am hereby informed that under Internal Revenue Code Section 107, in the case of a minister of the gospel, gross income does not include the housing allowance paid to the minister as part of the minister's compensation to the extent it is used to rent or provide a home. The responsibility for determining the appropriate amount of housing allowance that can be excluded is the minister's. The church has no responsibility beyond determining that the compensation is reasonable. The following is a predetermined estimate by the undersigned as to "out-­‐of-­‐pocket" housing expenses to be excluded from wages report in Box 10 of the W-­‐2.

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Taxes & Interest

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House Insurance

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Repairs/Upkeep on Home/Contents

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Furniture & Applicances

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Upon approval by the church board, the amount indicated above will be considered officially designated as a housing allowance for the year: ________ Minister's Signature: ________________________________________ Date: ______________________ Approved pursuant to action of the church board: Chairperson/Treasurer's Signature:____________________________ Date: ______________________ The housing allowance designation is to be approved annually prior to the effective date.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PASTORS

PLEASE TAKE NOTE! CHANGE OF STATUS first-time pastoral appointment church or conference transfer discontinued appointment retirement leave of absence housing and/or salary change address changes marital status changes.

IF YOU HAVE HAD ANY OF THE ABOVE CHANGES, WE NEED YOU TO COMPLETE A CHANGE OF STATUS FORM.

PENSION If you are ordained and appointed to a local church AND receiving any sort of compensation, you MUST BE ENROLLED in the denominational pension plan.

LTD/LIFE INSURANCE If you are ordained and appointed to a local church AND working 40 hours per week, you MUST BE ENROLLED in the PNWC Long-term Disability and Life Insurance plan.

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MINISTER’S CARD If you would like a Minister Card, please contact Melissa Whitehead at the PNWC Office, ​melissa@pnwc.org​, and she will get one to you.

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June 14, 2018

Thank You….

Here are some ways we want to say “thank you” to the appointed pastors of the Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church: For you and your immediate family: 1.

Free personal retreats for you and your family any time that we have space available. In addition, if we are serving meals during your stay, you may purchase meals at the staff rate.

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1/2 price for you and your immediate family at the following camps/retreats: Oasis Family Camp, Dad & Me weekends, Summer Youth Overnight Camps, Summer Day Camp, Marriage and Engaged Encounter.

For you and your church: 1.

Free leadership retreat of one night and three meals provided at no expense to you and your staff or board/leadership team (one per year).

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Kids 2 Camp Scholarship Program: Matching scholarships to help kids come to camp: a. Call our Registration Department to make arrangements or find out more about the matching scholarship program. b. Promotional materials for summer camp are available c. Our staff would be happy to come to your church to help promote summer camp – please contact me to make the arrangements. 20% off standard rates when bringing when bringing your own group to Warm Beach Camp. This applies to any available lodging and time frame.

Thank you for a life of ministry and service. Thank you for the ministry of the church you are serving at.

We offer these gifts to bless and encourage you because we want to support you and your ministry.

If you have any questions, contact our Guest Service staff at 800-228-6724 x2275, or guestservice@warmbeach.com. God bless.

In Christ’s Service,

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Walk where Jesus walked!

Tentative Dates: January 27 - February 8, 2020

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