Toward the Future

Dear Sanctuary and United, As you are aware, a small group of elders from both congregations has been working through a list of 25 issues related to the merger of our churches. Bob Kunde, Frank Troth, Amy Mitchell, Ralph Graves, and Mark Mohrlang have given ourselves the very creative title Read more…

Hello church, At the March 6 PNW Classis meeting Sanctuary’s council submitted a letter indicating our intent to disaffiliate from the CRC, and our reasons for doing so. At this week’s council meeting our assigned church visitor (Rev. Ashley Van Dragt) spent time with our elders listening, sharing her heart, Read more…

Sanctuary CRC to PNW March 2025 classis (click to read PDF)

December 18, 2024 Dear friends, As we near Christmas day, my prayer and hope is that God would increase our wonder and our gratitude. That we would know God’s grace in a deeper way as we contemplate the mystery of God taking on flesh to love and save us. “For Read more…

Dear United & Sanctuary, On Sunday, Dec 1, 2024, Ralph and I stood together and read the attached letter of intent-which is a more official statement that we as two elder boards intend to continue to move forward in the process of becoming one church. The letter outlines the next Read more…

On Sunday October 27, 2024, Sanctuary held a town-hall style conversation regarding our future relationship with the CRC. Mark and the elders expressed the challenges facing them as officebearers in the denomination due to changes made at Synod 2024. There was a time for Q & A at the end Read more…

Hello friends, There are several different conversations we are having right now that are shaping the future of Sanctuary. The council (the elders and pastor) intends to communicate where those conversations are at on a regular basis – thus the creation of this page on our website. “Toward the future” Read more…