Emmanuel Presbyterian Church to host trinity of events

Emmanuel Presbyterian Church will hold an open house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to celebrate its remodeled church Oct. 17, a church dedication at 10 a.m. Oct. 18 and a mission concert to “Help a Child to Hear” at 7 p.m. Nov. 7.

The church is located at 19540 104th Ave. N.E., Bothell, next to Maywood Hills Elementary.

The open house will feature information booths and craft projects for kids, and church members will show visitors the new classrooms, community meeting spaces and worship areas resulting from the church’s yearlong rebuilding project. Refreshments will be available. The project largely replaced three separate buildings from the 1960s — only one of which was built for the church — with one soaring structure designed for use by church members, by the church’s preschool and by community groups.

At the dedication, founding Pastor Floyd Cronkite will be present when current Pastor Steve Knowles rededicates the expanded sanctuary and unified classroom and fellowship building.

Proceeds from the choral and instrumental music concert will help finance a mission trip to Guatemala later this year by Dr. Lori Mercer, congregation member and audiologist with her own practice in the Northgate area. She and other hearing specialists from the Pacific Northwest will provide children in a poverty-stricken region of Guatemala with free hearing aids. This mission concert is a living memorial to Doris Frederick, the longtime chair of the church’s mission committee, who died earlier this year.

For information, call (425) 486-6388.

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