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By BRAd FAuLK, BMAA Missionary to Washington state
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n 1993, I met a girl from Tacoma, however, lived in the tri-cities, and so
Washington at Jacksonville College. we have traveled there many times and
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Who knew that shortly after, we would are quite familiar with the area. I also
marry and move 2,000 miles away from recently found out that my wife’s

all I knew in order to live in Tacoma, brother just got a job in the tri-cities
Washington. It was then and there that area at the Hanford Nuclear Plant. In
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my eyes were opened to life outside the fact, he called me the day he was hired
“Bible Belt” and the great need for more and asked when we were coming to
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churches to be planted in the Northwest. plant a church there, having no idea that
God planted a seed of burden in me God was already at work in our hearts
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for the Northwest that has been growing to do just that. This was only a day or so
Go West,
ever since. About a year ago I men- after God had spoken to my heart about
tioned to my pastor that I felt like God this area. Isn’t God amazing! Heidi’s
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was preparing us for a new direction brother and his family would be a huge
in ministry. It wasn’t until 11 months asset for any church plant. Both of them
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later that I began to come to the real- have always been faithful workers in the
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ity that planting a church was this new church. For years they’ve helped Grace
The Brad Faulk family
direction. I had thought much about Missionary Baptist in Tacoma with
what city in the Northwest I would hope Galileans, GMAs, Sunday School, and
to plant a church in if indeed God ever more. They are both ready to jump on
called us to this. Seattle ... Spokane ... board in helping us plant this church.
Yakima ... Vancouver ... there are so By the way, Heidi’s brother is also
many locations that seem to be prime. married to one of the sweetest girls I
One location, however, has been on my know—my little sister!
heart for the past several months—one Our ultimate goal in packing up our
I had never thought of before. After all, it family and moving to the desert is to
was in the desert. Of all the beautiful places plant a church-planting church in
to choose from in the Great Northwest, this much needed area.
why the desert? We feel God is calling us to We know that we cannot
the Tri-Cities Area of Eastern Washington. accomplish this. But God
And it’s becoming more and more beau- can! Please pray that God
tiful to us as God begins to place our would do through us what
hearts there more and more. we could never do on
When we lived in Washington several our own, and that His
years back, we stayed with my wife’s name would be spread
family in Western Washington near in this area like
Tacoma. Her grandparents and cousins, never before. n
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