The Parish is an innovative, collaborative, community ministry currently held in partnership by two member churches and a community youth center. Currently, the three organizations partner to serve community youth through the Parish Student Ministries as well as to take on local and global concerns through Living Water.
Main Ministries of the Parish
Living Water
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Since the Day of Pentecost, June 8, 2003, the Edmonds-Lynnwood Parish has gathered LIVING WATER offerings systematically and regularly to begin to make our contribution in addressing the world's hunger needs. Our goal is to collect $3 per person per week to fight the pervasive hunger problem that confronts our world, dealing with immediate needs and providing lasting infrastructure.
People who are hungry have physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Healthy people have all these needs satisfied daily. LIVING WATER seeks to make lasting and meaningful changes in the lives of many to whom we bring immediate hunger relief and a lasting supply of safe and sanitary water. By Òinfrastructure,Ó we mean that we address root causes of needs and provide lasting solutions, like wells, waterworks, and sanitary systems.
When people are challenged to discover their values and [when they] align their core values with their daily lives, they receive a treasure. It's a message that is life-changing, renewing, and powerful, because [they] remember who they are at their deepest core [and they have] permission to honor, value, and live that discovery.
-Bill Grace, The Center for Ethical Leadership
In the Edmonds-Lynnwood Parish, our challenge is to integrate our core values into the daily lives of the people who make up our community. Alignment brings treasure. We are touched by God, and learn what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Parish Student Ministries
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We have been seeking to love, serve and empower teenagers since the inception of the Parish Ministries. We welcome teens of all types and walks of life, as we seek to authentically live in & teach the way of Jesus. We believe that teens are the church now and have a voice and gifts that need to be shared with the world.
To find out more about the specific ministries we do among teens, explore this website as well as the site for the Jeremiah Center.
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Members of the Parish
Edmonds Lutheran Church
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23525 84th Ave W
Edmonds, WA 98026
(425)744-8090
edmondslutheranchurch@comcast.net
Trinity Lutheran Church
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6215 196th Street SW
Lynnwood, WA 98036
(425)778-2159
office@trinitylutheranchurch.com
Jeremiah Center
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8330 212th St. SW
Edmonds, WA 98026
(425)778-3248
jeremiahcenter@hotmail.com