A Time to Fast and Pray

February: A Month of Prayer and Fasting   Passages on Fasting To start, please read the following verses with their surrounding context and consider adding them to your devotions: Isaiah 58:6-9 Nehemiah 1:2-6, 9:1-3 Daniel 9:2-4 Joel 2:12-16 Mark 2:19-20 Luke...

In-Person Sunday Gathering Update

When Jesus looked upon people in the various places he served, he “felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd” (Mt. 9:36). He loved them enough to lay down His life for them so that they might be assembled...

COVID-19 and Church Rhythms Update

COVID-19 dramatically changed our lives in the past few months. The pain and anxieties it has caused around us are real. Additionally, as Christians, we grieve the inability to meet in-person with our church family.  Like Paul, we “want very much to see you . . . to...

Join Us in Loving Globally in 2020

I’ve been a part of The Hallows Church for most of my Christian life.  Each year I watched as our church sent out one team after another to serve Jesus in various ways and in various places across the globe.  Every time that happened, I was curious.  I was...

Introducing our New West Seattle Expression Pastor!

Praying for our new West Seattle Expression Pastor, Mark Smith, and his family. In early October, our elders announced that God had led them to an internal candidate to prayerfully pursue as our West Seattle Expression Pastor. They took 30 days to hear from and...

Tag. You’re It. #thewayupisdown

Imitating Christ is a thankful, worshipful response to the way He has personally dealt with us! So he tells the disciples how he has served us is how we should serve one another. In John 13, Jesus gives a foretaste of his ridiculously sacrificial love for the...