Tag: mars hill spokane

Each week more than 100 adults pour into a downtown Spokane church, unshaken by the knotty departure of their lead pastor, Mark Driscoll, and the recent news that their church wouldn’t be a Mars Hill Church satellite after all.

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.

Mars Hill Spokane won’t officially launch until early next year, but about 60 people from Spokane and North Idaho have already committed to becoming members of the Seattle-based megachurch.

I took this photo while sitting in traffic. I was struck by the juxtaposition of the No Trespassing sign and the "people accepted — lives changed" writing on the wall.

Mars Hill Church — the Seattle-based megachurch made famous by its rapid expansion, high-tech outreach and its sometimes controversial pastor Mark A. Driscoll — has plans to open its 16th satellite campus in downtown Spokane.