SeaPres Podcast

You’ve been nominated, elected, and installed as a ruling elder at your church. You show up for your first session meeting and… God calls and equips us to serve as spiritual leaders of congregations but what that really means and how that is lived out in real time — and with real people — can be mysterious and sometimes challenging. In our podcast series “On Being an Elder” we invite both ruling a...

You’ve been nominated, elected, and installed as a ruling elder at your church. You show up for your first session meeting and… God calls and equips us to serve as spiritual leaders of congregations but what that really means and how that is lived out in real time — and with real people — can be mysterious and sometimes challenging. In our podcast series “On Being an Elder” we invite both ruling a...

You’ve been nominated, elected, and installed as a ruling elder at your church. You show up for your first session meeting and… God calls and equips us to serve as spiritual leaders of congregations but what that really means and how that is lived out in real time — and with real people — can be mysterious and sometimes challenging. In our podcast series “On Being an Elder” we invite both ruling a...

You’ve been nominated, elected, and installed as a ruling elder at your church. You show up for your first session meeting and… God calls and equips us to serve as spiritual leaders of congregations but what that really means and how that is lived out in real time — and with real people — can be mysterious and sometimes challenging. In our podcast series “On Being an Elder” we invite both ruling a...

An update on the Thriving Congregations Initiative, featuring Rev. Dr. Tali Hairston, Revs. Maggie Breen, Eliana Maxim, & Scott Lumsden. 

Seattle Presbytery will soon be celebrating the 10th anniversary of a missional partnership with the Presbytery of the North Coast in Barranquilla, Colombia. Pastors and members of over 9 Seattle Presbytery churches have participated in this ministry. Join Haley Ballast (Wallingford PC), Phil Lewis (Union Church), and Eliana Maxim (Presbytery staff)  and hear about the distinctiveness of this part...

Featuring: Rev. Eliana Maxim (Co-Executive Presbyter, Seattle Presbytery ), Rev. Dexter Kearny (Parish Mobilizer, One Parish One Prisoner , Underground Ministries ), Rev. Deanna Gemmer (Pastor, Hagar's Community Church ).

January 2024 SeaPres update with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim & Scott Lumsden. Seattle Presbytery website

August 2023 SeaPres update with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim & Scott Lumsden. Seattle Presbytery website

February 2023 update from Co-EPs Revs. Eliana Maxim and Scott Lumsden.

Featuring: Rev. Dr. Tali Hairston, Rev. Paul Kim & Rev. Eliana Maxim.  You're invited to the Thriving Congregations Leadership Forum Sep. 31-Oct. 1 . The Leadership Forum is not the usual conference with speaker and listener.  The Forum is a space for robust dialogue among pastors, staff, and senior leaders about the church’s place in a most critical time in the history of the church.  The church...

Featuring: Rev. Dr. Tali Hairston, Rev. Maggie Breen & Rev. Paul Kim.  You're invited to the Thriving Congregations Leadership Forum Sep. 30-Oct. 1. The Leadership Forum is for pastors and senior leaders (e.g. staff, elders) to develop capacity to lead learning congregations.  We will be interacting with fellow colleagues and community leader-practitioners including leaders from the Presbytery of...

June 2022 update from Co-EPs Revs. Eliana Maxim and Scott Lumsden. Online: June 21st stated meeting information.

Eight years after embarking on a unique partnership with the Presbytery of the North Coast (Presbyterian Church of Colombia), Seattle Presbytery staff discuss this pivotal time of deeper engagement and mutual learning invitations. Join Revs. Scott Lumsden, Tali Hairston, Maggie Breen, Paul Kim, and Eliana Maxim as they talk about what this means for our local congregations and communities. More: s...

New episode: SeaPres Podcast. Co-Executive Presbyters Eliana Maxim & Scott Lumsden recap the October presbytery meeting, look ahead to the next few months, and share an important message for our pastoral leaders.  Scott and Eliana shared  this written report  at the October SeaPres meeting. 

Revs. Tali Hairston (Director of Community Organizing, Advocacy, and Development), Maggie Breen (Community Education & Assessment Specialist), and Eliana Maxim (Co-Executive Presbyter) reflect on Christians’ response to the insurrection in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6. More conversations:  NPR’s Sam Sanders—”The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Race” PC(USA) Stated Clerk discusses attack on the Capitol

Election Day has come and gone and ballots are still being counted to determine the outcome. But now what? Where do we go from here? Listen to a conversation with Revs. Tali Hairston, Denise Anderson (Coordinator for Racial and Intercultural Justice in the Presbyterian Mission Agency and former PC(USA) Co-Moderator), and Eliana Maxim as they reflect on what they’ve learned from this national elect...

Leading Change: Join a fireside chat with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim, Scott Lumsden, and Tali Hairston, Dir. of Community Organizing, Advocacy, and Development.

Join a fireside chat with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim, Scott Lumsden, and Tali Hairston, Dir. of Community Organizing, Advocacy, and Development. Read June 12 SeaPres update from Scott Lumsden .

SeaPres Conversations: Co-EP Scott Lumsden talks with Pastor Susie Beil ( Summit Avenue Presbyterian Church , Bremerton) about transformation, change, and the church.

Public Health, Faith, & Race: A conversation with Tali Hairston, Dir. of Community Organizing, Advocacy, and Development and  Rev. Dr. Curtiss Paul DeYoung .  Read the Op-Ed Dr. DeYoung co-wrote with Minneapolis NAACP President Leslie Redmond:  https://m.startribune.com/white-privilege-shines-with-covid-19/569903692/ . 

Co-EP Scott Lumsden talks with Pastor Becki Barrett ( Overlake Park Presbyterian Church, Bellevue ) about life and ministry, including reimagining the church’s future and questions about coming “back”, and how Jesus may be calling us to survive a pandemic. 

SeaPres Co-EP Eliana Maxim has a conversation with  Rev. Dr. J.Herbert Nelson , Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA) on the contextual changes needed to be navigated for the PCUSA in the 21st century, particularly in light of the pandemic.

In the midst of a global pandemic, it can be hard to hear the pain of others. This podcast episode considers faith that listens to the other in difficult times. This week, Tali Hairston, Dir. of Community Organizing, Advocacy, and Development chats with Haley Ballast, Ruling Elder at John Knox Presbyterian Church in Seattle and member of the Presbytery's Race and Equity Task Force . Read Haley's e...

Join a fireside chat with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim, Scott Lumsden, and Tali Hairston, Dir. of Community Organizing, Advocacy, and Development. It's Easter! Wait, we're still on Lock Down? We need to not only take the long view, but we need to be thinking about what has changed about church life and ministry, and orient ourselves around new practices and ways of being. There's no going back.