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I'm looking forward to blessing and being blessed with you all.
I was raised in Ephrata Washington. I received Christ as my Savior at Tall Timber Ranch and cherish every return to my home base camp! I am a graduate from Whitworth (class of 1979). My degree is in chemistry. After working for a year as a chemist in Ephrata, I went to Pasadena to attend Fuller Seminary where I graduated with an M.div in Theology. I went to Mexico as a short term missionary and returned to Pasdena to become the Outreach Pastor at Lake Avenue Congregational Church. After 14 years at Lake Avenue, I pastored a small church in Black Diamond Washington and then became a science teacher at Decatur High School in Federal Way Washington. My wife Doris is a ELL teacher in Kent Washington. We will celebrate 25 years of marriage next year. I have two children; Karen who is a senior in international studies at Trinity Western University in Langley B.C., and Keith, who works at Best Buy in the "Geek Squad" and studies technology in the local community college.
I hope to bring a message which weaves together my backgrounds in science, scripture, and pastoral ministry.
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Chris Ward is Associate Pastor for Discipleship at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Medford, OR. He is a graduate of Whitworth College (now University) and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and before that was a "graduate" of the Tall Timber Ranch camping program (It's great to be back!) Chris and his wife Julie have four children: Imani (8), adopted from Kenya in 2001, Andrew (6), biological, David (11) and Mihret (4), adopted from Ethiopia in 2006. Chris and Julie have a passion for Jesus, for encouraging adoption, and for strengthening familes.
Theme: Abundant life: Connecting with Jesus as a Family
Key Verse: John 10:10b "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." (That is just the theme, I'll be using different particular passages with each talk.)
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