Last weekend Evergreen Region held its annual meeting, our eighth, at New Beginnings Christian Fellowship (the closest thing our Region has to a megachurch) on the Kent-Renton line southeast of Seattle. The theme was "Who Is My Neighbor? (Luke 10:25)" (and, perhaps more importantly, "Who am
I neighbor
to?") The guest preacher was Rev. Liliana Da Valle, Regional Executive Minister of ABC Rhode Island, who spent the first eight years of her time in America as an undocumented immigrant (she had fled the terror of Argentina in the early 1980s, with her husband and two kids); very interesting and moving Saturday afternoon sermon on Leviticus 19:18 resulted. Very interesting movie Friday "With God on our side" about Evangelical Christian notions and attitudes towards the State of Israel and the Palestinian Arab peoples.
- Lousy photo of Rev. Da Valle preaching, New Beginnings Christian Fellowship in the background
- Sister Stephanie Commandest and Evergreen staffer Sister Clem Winbush "person" the registration table
- NBCF narthex during Evergreen meeting
My apologies for the inadequate flash on my throwaway camera.