Click through a collection of leadership and ministry blog posts!
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Dry Season
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president The struggle is real. You may have the same struggle. The struggle of wanting a nice green yard versus the lack of rain that […]
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Tears in a Bottle
By Randy Maxwell, Washington Conference vice president for administration “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” This classic philosophical question […]
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A New View
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president Over the last week, social media has been full of pictures of graduation ceremonies taking place around the nation and within this conference. Pictures […]
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Belonging Changes Everything
By David Yeagley, Sunset Lake Camp Director and Washington Conference Young Adult Director Amy came to camp because her grandmother forced her. Amy was dressed all in black, with dark […]
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Rewards
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president In my small hometown in Kansas, I regularly visited the post office. In that post office, there was a bulletin board with wanted posters. […]
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Rules
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president Do you like rules? Some of us who grew up in a more legalistic time period knew quite a few rules, especially when it […]
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Thank You for the Peas
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president At family reunions on my wife’s side, I have heard a story multiple times about a time when some cousins came to visit. During […]
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Thanks Mom
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president Every year on Mother’s Day there are literally 1000s of flowers purchased and given to moms to honor her on her special day. From […]
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Give Ye Them to Eat
By Derek Lane, Washington Conference Outreach Ministries director Give ye them to eat. Luke 9:13 This text marks a transition in the story of the feeding of the 5,000 […]
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Do You Like Your Coworkers?
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president Do you like your coworkers? Maybe you have a mystery coworker who helps themselves to others’ lunches. I read about an individual who was […]
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A Walking Miracle
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president Have you ever seen a miracle? Maybe you have known someone who has been healed of a serious illness. Maybe you have had God’s […]
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It’s Not A Fad
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president There are so many fads that come and go in one’s lifetime. One fad that I remember hearing about was seeing how many people […]
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Are You a Cancer?
By Jennifer Bullion, Washington Conference Children’s and Women’s Ministry director I’m ashamed to say it, but I think about cancer probably more often than most people my age. After a […]
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Words from the Dictionary
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president Reading the dictionary is most likely not on the top of your reading list. It certainly isn’t on my stack of books to read. […]
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Picking Through the Crumbs
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president Our Australian shepherd has an intense stare. She uses this stare on different occasions. At times she will come up, sit at your feet, […]
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Famous Follies
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president Do you know what a folly is? The definition is “a costly ornamental building with no practical purpose.” There are a number of these […]
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The Three Sisters: Cultivating Harmony in God’s Garden
By Ernesto Hernandez, Washington Conference Media director Part of our garden at home is dedicated to preparing a lot where we will cultivate a milpa, a traditional farming method I […]
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Wind or Warmth?
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president There is a very old Aesop fable that featured the sun and the wind arguing over who was stronger. While they are in […]
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Harvest Time
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president It is an odd time of the year to write about harvest time. For most of us, we are just starting to plant seeds […]
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You Can Hurt Here
By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president There is a saying about the English people; they have a stiff upper lip. It is considered an attribute by many. It is the […]