Common Good Summit

Common Good

The summit gathers business, nonprofit, faith community and public sector leaders to consider critical issues facing our area. It is designed to bridge differences to work toward the common good of the city.

Developing Future Leaders Internships

Young Life

The internship provides funding for ministry-focused college students to gain hands-on experience and training as they confirm a call to youth ministry.

Hope for Creation Conference

St. John's Episcopal Cathedral

The conference gathered churches, various faith communities and community organizations to share a vision of hope for creation; spotlight local caretakers of land, water and air; and renew Spokane's leadership on environmental care.

Family Orientation Center

Comunidad Cristiana

This center provides resources and information to immigrant families arriving in Spokane. The project offers information about schools, food banks, rent assistance and more.

Growing Neighbors

Shadle Park Presbyterian Church

Growing Neighbors fosters collaboration between neighbors with a focus on urban farming, community development, and the Biblical imperative of creation care.

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Hope Street Colville

Colville Community Church

Hope Street provides services and shelter to the homeless and housing insecure in Colville, Wash. This partnership has allowed for continued land development with the intention of creating a mixed-income village.

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Bridge Project

Immanuel Church

The project is meant to create opportunities for pastors and leaders in Spokane to learn about racial justice and develop approaches to combat racism, both personal and systemic.

Advocacy Speaker Series

First Presbyterian Church, Salida, Colo.

This project is designed to expand the church’s sense of calling to community outreach and advocacy. It will fund community conversations, small group materials and visiting speakers.

Millwood Impact

Millwood Community Presbyterian Church

This project supports the development of Millwood Impact, which serves the youth in the Spokane Valley via after-school programs, community meals, Young Life programs, and community development.

Music Lessons

Mosaic Ministries

This program offers music lessons to downtown youth, low-income adults, and low-wage employees in the church's neighborhood as a means of fostering relationships, building community and sharing the gospel.

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Urban Workers Outreach

Mosaic Ministries

This program is designed to serve low-income employees in the neighborhoods surrounding the church building and provide resources in the areas of health, finance, family dynamics, addiction and employment.

Side by Side

Independent Nonprofit

Side by Side partners with churches to engage individuals with developmental disabilities more deeply in the life and community of the church through mentorship and education.

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Love One Another Mural

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Dallas

This mural is meant to both reshape the physical presence of the church in this community, as well as invite congregation members into deeper conversations about racial justice.

Worship Formation & Festival Outreach

Spokane Chinese Christian Church

This project is designed to deepen worship formation at SCCC and use worship as a means of community outreach through cultural festivals, community meals, and intergenerational fellowship.

Friendship Center

World Relief and Eight Partner Churches

The Friendship Center is designed as a resource center for refugees in Spokane. In the first year, 200 refugees have been served by 66 church volunteers from eight local churches.

SMILE

Pacific Keep

Single Moms in Life Empowerment (SMILE) aims to empower single mothers with support and resources to confront the challenges of single motherhood. The program aims to foster community, physical and emotional health, financial literacy, and spiritual growth.

Bible Art Gallery

Pilgrim Slavic MB Church

This art gallery, titled "Jesus in the Masterpieces of World Paintings," aims to share the gospel through Biblically inspired art from around the world. The paintings are displayed in settings around Spokane as a mobile gallery.

Parking Lot Redevelopment

The Gathering House 

This church redesigned its parking lot to serve as a community space and weekly farmers market in a neighborhood that lacks affordable locations to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables.

INW Presbytery COVID Relief

20 Local Churches and Ministries

In response to the challenges of COVID, emergency funds were distributed to area churches to respond to the needs in their communities. Programs included food banks, teen mental-health check-ins, and daycare services. Funds were matched with the INW Presbytery.

Leadership Foundation COVID Relief

32 Leadership Foundation Sites

In response to the challenges of COVID, emergency funds were distributed to U.S. Leadership Foundations ministries. Programs included food assistance, family emergency kits, technology support, rent assistance and more. Funds were matched by an independent donor.

Anti-Racism Alliance

Multiple Churches
The Anti-Racism Alliance is designed to help pastors and community leaders examine their own racial biases and grow in the work of anti-racism.

Reconciliation Reading Groups

Multiple Churches

These book groups draw together individuals from around the Spokane community to read and learn about topics related to reconciliation and the church.

Feast World Kitchen

First Presbyterian Church, Spokane 

Feast is a take-out restaurant and catering company that incubates small, immigrant- and refugee-owned food businesses in Spokane through training, networking, and capacity building opportunities.

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