On Sunday, November 29th, we are holding our next round of baby dedications. Invariably, there are many questions about what it means to “dedicate” and why we do this. This brief article is meant to answer those questions, allay concerns and prepare for this great day.
As your pastors at Mars Hill West Seattle we strongly encourage parents to actively take up their biblical responsibility to raise their children in the knowledge, love and grace of God in Jesus

Extending mercy is an essential mark of the Christian life because it reveals we understand the mercy we’ve been shown by God through the gospel (cf. Mt 18:23-35). So essential is mercy to the Christian life that Jesus tells us its presence, or lack thereof, can be used to test whether true faith is present (Mt 25:31-46).

Francisco Benfeldt is a good brother and new friend is a Guatemalan native who planted Casa de Libertad, a church on the outskirts of Guatemala City. Watch this video to meet Francisco and learn more.

Thanksgiving is the perfect time to consider all that we have to be thankful for, especially for Christians. Jesus’ victory over Satan, sin and death has cleared the way for us to be in eternal relationship with God. This calls for lives of thanksgiving, not merely a holiday. I thought it would help to recount what is now true of all who live by faith in Jesus Christ in order to maximize our thanksgiving in this season. Consider this the appetizer.

Jay Bauman has spent years developing relationships within Brazil as he served as the Executive and Worship Pastor of Crosspointe. A Acts 29 church in Orlando. Recently he moved to Rio de Janeiro and founded Restore Brazil to facilitate church-planting, social justice and cultural transformation through the gospel.

Compassion Connection was our hosting organization in Ecuador. In this video you’ll meet Steve Youngren, founder and director of Compassion Connection, as he introduces himself, explains a bit of what they do and how you can help.

One of my goals was to initiate conversation regarding potential partnerships with like-minded churches and organizations to which we send teams to aid in their local mission. Though we don’t believe in “short term mission” (because mission isn’t something you turn “on” and “off”) we are open to sending teams of people who are living on mission in Seattle to Latin America to help those who…

In this post I’ll explain the goals of our trip, introduce the Latin America leadership team, and recount some of the highlights of our brief, yet productive, trip that lasted a total of four days (with a day of travel on each end). It was a quick, hard-hitting, Spirit-led adventure.

I have the humbling and exciting responsibility of serving as the US Area Director for Acts 29 International over Latin America. Two weeks ago I, along with several other key leaders, traveled to Ecuador to help lead and teach the very first Acts 29 church planting conference in Latin America. Its taken a couple weeks to process my time there. This blog series will tell you a bit of the story. In this post I’ll explain a little about our work in Latin America.

Halloween provides an opportunity to be missional. (Mt 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; John 20:21; Mt 11:19) Our God is a sending God who sent his Son to live, die and rise again for the forgiveness of sin and redeemed life with God. As God’s people, we too are now sent. That means we should be where the community is, doing what the community is doing. This was Jesus’ model and he was called a glutton and drunkard because of it.