Park Heights Baptist Welcomes Pastor
The Rev. Arthur Jacobson has been welcomed as the new pastor at Park Heights Baptist Church, 5101 S. Freya. Jacobson took over his duties in May after being semiretired for several years.
Jacobson officially retired in 1989 after serving nine years at Central Baptist Church. After his retirement he served as an interim pastor at several churches in the Northwest, then took a part-time position as the elder visitation pastor at Grace Baptist Church for four years.
Jacobson says he’s happy to be back to full-time work again.
“The Lord can use older people in the ministry,” says Jacobson. “Some people think they’re through when they hit 65, but they’re not.”
Jacobson became a pastor at age 49 after a successful career in advertising and public relations in Southern California. Jacobson says he received what he will only describe as a “mystical call.”
He graduated from seminary in 1976 and spent a year in the inner city of Los Angeles.
“Everyone ought to have the opportunity to minister in the inner city,” says Jacobson. “It’s a real eye-opener.”
Jacobson says he and his congregation are looking forward to accomplishing great things in the future.
Concert planned
Lincoln Heights Congregational Church, 3527 E. 29th, will host the Celebration Youth Choir and Band from Grace Community Church in Auburn, Wash., in concert Saturday at 7 p.m. Their presentation will be the first of 10 concerts throughout the Northwest.
The 80-member choir will present its program “Journey to the Son.” The choir will include contemporary gospel, classic hymns, gospel songs, and spirituals in its performance.
The concert is free.
Summer schedule begins Sunday
Westminster Congregational United Church of Christ, 411 S. Washington, will begin its summer worship service schedule on Sunday.
Services will move to 10 a.m., and there will be no adult Bible study classes during the summer.
Sunday services planned for 10:30
The Spokane Unitarian Universalist Church, 4340 W. Fort George Wright Drive, will also begin its summer worship schedule on Sunday. There will be only one service, offered at 10:30 a.m., each Sunday.
The regular schedule will resume in September.
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