The Advance 2019 is now less than 2 weeks away! We are very excited for this event and looking forward to seeing as many of our network leaders! We will consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds in our city, in our church, and as individuals. This two-day workshop, features YOU and your leaders in conversation, testimonies from local networks, keynote presentations, prayer, and worship as a regional united Body. The heartbeat of the event is roundtable discussions with those from your community as you work out your faith together. As local networks gather their key leaders at this year’s Advance, we hope your network walks away with one clear objective at the end of
Most anyone would tell you that the greatest need our current Washington state foster care system faces is the need for more licensed foster homes. You may have seen recent articles like this one, that talk about the prevalence of our children being taken into foster care with not enough homes to place them in, thus forcing them to spend nights at hotels, and spending days in the child welfare office. Because of this huge need, one of the foci of the Foster Support Faith Alliance, a ministry of Light Up the City, is to empower local churches to encourage families to become foster licensed. However, our church leaders have discovered that it would be unfair for them to encourage their people
