05/22/2026
From Matthew, Senior Pastor at Mukilteo Presbyterian Church.
❤ I LOVE pastoring a church with so many thoughtful, creative people who love God and God's Word and who engage culture out of their life in Christ. It is the delight of a lifetime:
❤ "I'm currently reading a book about Jewish people in India," said an MPC member in his early 80s who just visited there, after a life that includes Army service in Vietnam, owning a hardware store, and working in politics.
❤ "Was anyone in your family in an internment camp?" asked an MPC member who is a retired marine mechanic, speaking to a Japanese-American magician, David Hirata, as David performed at our church Hilltoppers Luncheon and was talking about Japanese culture. David responded by sharing about family members who were, in fact, placed in internment camps. He painted a fascinating -- and sobering, convicting -- picture of the realities around it.
❤ "Here's a poem I wrote," said a 28 year-old MPC attender, who has joined our choir and has a heart for writing children's literature about Christian faith.
❤ We have an MPC member in their early 30s collaborating with family members to write a role playing computer game based on history. We have another in their 30s who wants to write a children's musical. We have a gentleman in his 80s who is quite a painter, and another in his 70s who is quite a woodworker. We have a retired Coast Guardsman who is an award-winning hortaculturalist, and a young lady in her late teens who was just accepted to UW and wants to study law. She sits at our Wed morning Bible study near a married couple -- both lawyers -- who just sold their law firm after decades of practice in Seattle. MPC is all that... and much more.
🌎🔥💨☀️🎨🪘🎻🙏🫂 Genesis 1 continues... through Christ (2 Cor 5:17), in the Spirit's ongoing outpouring (Acts 2:1-4), as we dance our lives in the palm of our gracious Father's merciful hand (Mt 5:45). The gifts of God... in the people of God... for the flourishing of God's world! J O Y !
