URGENCY OF THE HOUR - IFCA International

- Sunset's first Pastor, W.D. and Pat Page, responded to God's call to also serve with HCJB as
Mission Representative for the West Coast.
- The first Pastor's son, Dick and Kathy Page, following flight training at Moody Bible Institute,
have served in Alaska with SOAR International, transporting personnel and Bibles throughout
Alaska and Far East Russia.
- One of the church's elders, Lennert and Cozene Wikstrom, also serve in Alaska as Director of
MARC -- Missionary Aviation Repair Center -- serving Mission organizations with
transportation throughout Alaska.
- One of the church's youth leaders, Jim and KathyJo Estes, are now in Ecuador serving as
Administrator of Hospital Vozandes del Oriente.
- In 1980, Sunset Bible Church gave half an acre of land to Northwest Independent Church
Extension on which the mission's headquarters building was built and out from which its
ministry has been used to plant and establish scores of churches.
- Two of the church's Sunday school teachers, Dan and Brandy Davenport, now serve with
Voice For Christ Ministries in its radio outreach throughout Alaska.
- Bruce and Karla Ekkelboom served as Pastoral Interns at Sunset prior to their present ministry
as Pastor of Lynnwood Baptist Church. Shawn and Michelle Hull also served as Pastoral Interns
prior to accepting a call to the staff of Grace Baptist Church of Redding.
- The church's former pastor, Earl and Shirley Brubaker, is now being used of God as the
Executive Director of Northwest Independent Church Extension in its outreach in the Pacific
Northwest.
- The facilities of Sunset Bible Church are presently used by Logos Korean Church in its
commitment to establish a Bible-centered ministry to the Korean Community of the area.
- Indeed, many people have gone out from Sunset, but throughout the years elders, teachers,
workers, musicians and committed people have maintained the ministry of the church, and
supported its missionary outreach.
- Though a building project is "in the works," the congregation views people, outreach, and
missions as a higher priority. The church, numbering less than 100 people, has a part in the
financial and prayer support of 12 couples and organizations serving in missions around the
world.
- One of the primary things about Sunset Bible Church that influenced present Pastor Jay and
Kathy Mosser to come to University Place was the church's heart for missions. Their first
summer of ministry saw the planning of a Youth summer missions trip, led by Pastoral Intern
Kevin Brubaker. The 5 teen-agers and the church's youth leaders were used to conduct VBS and
evangelistic outreach in Eastern Washington. Again next summer, youth missions trips are being
planned.
All of these ministries of outreach spring from the conviction that God has called the church to
spiritual reproduction. Thus, the truth expressed in 2 Timothy 2:2, "And the things that thou hast
heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to
teach others also" is seen as a mandate for the church.