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The Presbytery of the Inland Northwest and the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane are recipients of almost $2 million in grant funding from the Lilly Endowment’s Thriving Congregations Initiative.

“Closing a church doesn’t seem right,” Sheryl Kinder-Pyle told the nearly 100 people who gathered for the final service at East Valley Presbyterian Church on May 21. “It doesn’t sit right. It should go on, and it doesn’t.”

The Presbytery of the Inland Northwest’s (PIN) “Building Towards Reconciliation” campaign is more than just raising money to repair six churches on the Nez Perce Reservation in north-central Idaho — churches that are the oldest in the presbytery and among the oldest in the state.

At Spokane’s Side by Side Ministry, the words “volunteer” and “client” don’t really exist. Instead, people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD) and those without such challenges who have come alongside them in friendships have created their own term: Side-by-Siders.

Nearly six months after a fire that severely damaged Bethany Presbyterian Church’s sanctuary, congregants are coming together to discern what God has planned for their new building and their future identity as a church.