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BRIEF: Mars Hill Spokane moving forward with plans to open in 2015

By: Tracy Simmons

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September 11, 2014

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First Covenant Church is located in downtown Spokane

Mars Hill Church announced earlier this month that it would be closing three of its locations due to financial strains.

The forthcoming Mars Hill Spokane is not one of them.

Pastor Miles Rohde, who leads the local Mars Hill Church plant, confirmed that the Spokane Mars Hill still plans to open in its doors in early 2015, and is already holding pre-launch events.

Mars Hill purchased the First Covenant Church building, 212 S. Division, earlier this year.

Downtown Seattle and U-District Mars Hill churches will be consolidated with Mars Hill Church Ballard next month. The Mars Hill Church in Phoenix will close at the end of this month. The development of a Los Angeles church plant has ended, and Mars Hill announced it may close its Huntington Beach location if it is unable to raise funds by the end of the year.

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Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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