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Place: University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA
Date: June 21-24, 2017
The title: "Walk in the Way of Love." (Ephesians 5:2)
Messengers: Dr. Mark Yang and Pastor Teddy
Three group Bible studies
Two testimonial speakers—Mark Moran and Helen Rarick.
Six track sessions

Over 160 NA staffs and coworkers studied Ephesians 4.1-6.9 in 3 lessons with the title ""Walk in the way of love." Overview of Ephesians by Dr. Mark Yang with the title, "How to build up a healthy church" and Keynote message by Teddy Hembekides, "Christ's love"(Eph 5:2) opened our hearts to follow God's example to be one in God's household, the church of God.

Marriage testimony by Mark Moran and "Raising children" by Helen Rarick were very heart touching. 3 GBS in 19 groups were very inspiring to walk in Love. We heard the 'Overview of NA ministry' by Mark Vucekovich, 'Raising awareness for Short-term missions' by Richard Choi, 'Young Adults discipleship' by Little Sarah Kim, 'India visiting report' by Paul Hong, 'Elders' visiting report' by Jim Rarick, Special lecture about discipleship ministry by Steve Shadrach, 'Rwanda ST mission report' by Daniel Yang, 'Silver mission report' by Sarah Chang of Belize, ELC/staff education overview by Kevin Albright, Continuing education by Augustine Suh and Ezra Cho, ISBC 2018 presentation by Edward and Abraham Kim. We had 6 sessions of 2 tracks with many interesting topics such as: 1. overcoming cultural/generational issues to be one in Christ 2. how to help non-Christians in community 3. Balancing family and ministry 4.Spiritual warfare 5.How to raise disciples on Campus 6.How to raise disciples in house churches. 5 shared testimonies. We prayed for each of 6 continents with given prayer topics.