, 2025
General Superintendent Max Edwards
Idaho Journey Completes the Four-meeting Cycle
Our fourth Journey meeting of the year brought folks together from California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho to worship, fellowship, learn, and sharpen one another. It truly was a marvelous gathering of EMC’ers
As in the other three sessions, all of the speakers centered their thoughts around our 2025 theme of “God Alone” taken from Psalm 81.
Conference Superintendent Kevin Brouillette gave a strong testimony of grace and faith, sharing about the God-centered path that his sweet bride Carolyn walked as she trusted the Lord through her last days before her heavenly promotion in February of this year. We love Rev. Brouillette very much and he is so appreciative of the outpouring of kindness he and his family received over these last couple of months and years.
As our host church, Nampa Crossroads did a stellar job of welcoming and caring for all of us!! The worship team led us repeatedly into joyful praise and thanksgiving. We celebrated communion, and Pastor Anna asked the entire assembly to gather around the Superintendents and pray. It was not only a special prayer for leadership, but it was an opportunity to share encouraging thoughts brought to our minds by the Holy Spirit.
The teachings on “Feast on the Lord Alone” by Pastor Todd Inman, and “Follow the Lord Alone” by Pastor Anna McGarrah were both so insightful and impacting.
All of our 2025 meetings were unique. We heard from a dozen different pastors, superintendents, missionaries, and evangelists. We were led in worship by many different teams and individuals, and three young, exciting pastors were ordained in full connection as Elders. Next year, we will all gather in one meeting as the 34th General Conference convenes in July of 2026! Please remember - the Journey missions offering is still open through April 30th, and next week’s brief will be an update about all of that.