Upcoming Events

Dear Messiah, We will be having the Bi-annual meeting of the congregation on Sunday June 2, 2024. This letter is to notify you of two items on the agenda of that meeting. New Gift Acceptance Policy Your Church Leadership Team (CLT) recently approved a new Gift Acceptance Policy as a Continuing Resolution of the congregation. Prior to this approval,...

Messiah's motto (one congregation, multiple locations) is especially true for our contemporary musicians, who rehearse during the week at the Hazel Dell campus and lead worship every Sunday at the winery for the Messiah North service.On April 28, we will continue our quarterly practice of sharing our contemporary worship with both services. The ban...

Messiah will commission Ron Klump as a new Stephen Minister on Sunday, May 5 at both services.  Brownies and blondies will be shared after the services to honor his commitment to Messiah's caring ministries. Ron has received 50 hours of specialized training in Christian caregiving, so he is prepared to help members of our congregation and...

The most recent round of Endowment grants resulted in 4 grants given: Lenten service projects, future Mobile Children's Museum visit, matching dollars for the Fund for Leaders and lunches for the downtown Vancouver shelter 415 W 11th Street.I'm sure many of you participated in the Lenten service projects. Thank you.During consideration of the reque...

 In the last Call Committee update we shared there were two candidates we had invited to a second conversation. One of the two candidates declined our invitation stating they did not feel there was alignment between their gifts and Messiah's needs/interests. We offered to have further conversation to further discern alignment, but he politely ...