05/14/2026
We want to share with you this wonderful testimony of what the Lord has done through INSTE:
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"Hello INSTE friends,
Jennine Correll (right) and I (left) were in the first graduating class from Level 2 INSTE in 2002. We now work together at World Relief Spokane and wanted to share our gratitude with you for the foundation INSTE built for our futures.
Jennine went further in her educational pursuits after INSTE and earned her Master's of Social Work degree at Eastern Washington University. She now serves at a Trauma Care Case Manager at World Relief Spokane. She works with refugees resettled in Spokane who have experienced significant trauma and need some extra TLC and support to help them overcome challenges they face on the journey to health, wholeness and flourishing in their new country.
After graduating from INSTE, I applied for and received pastoral credentials and was ordained in 2006. I was serving on staff at The Intersection Church in Spokane, known then as Valley Open Bible. Since then, I have served as the Director of Anna Ogden Hall, the residential treatment facility for Union Gospel Mission Spokane, and joined the staff at World Relief Spokane in 2013, currently serve as their Executive Director.
Jennine and I went separate directions after graduating from INSTE but those roots remained deep and the foundation built in those years strong. The Lord saw fit in 2023 to intersect our paths once more when Jennine came to World Relief. We both look back on our INSTE years as a time of friendship, learning, growing, and becoming - and we are grateful.
God bless you all and the work you do!
Christi Armstrong
Executive Director
World Relief Spokane"
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