LYNS Community Partner Conversations

Community Partner Conversation with Tyriff Rudder

September 24, 2023

Sunday, September 24th, 2023

Love Your Neighbor Sunday: Pride Month Panel Discussion

June 25, 2023

Sunday, June 25th 2023 In honor of Pride Month, we gathered as a community to center and celebrate our LGBTQ siblings by listening, learning from, and hearing stories from a panel of some of our own LGBTQ community members as we considered this important question: How can we love our LGBTQ neighbors?

Fonnie Ishimitsu | Union Gospel Mission

November 27, 2022 • Royce Yuen, Fonnie Ishimitsu

Sunday, November 27th 2022 Love Your Neighbor Sunday Community Partner Conversation with community member, Fonnie Ishimitsu, Senior Director of Principal Giving at Seattle's Union Gospel Mission.

Kalika Curry | Eastside Pathways

March 27, 2022 • Liana Sims, Kalika Curry

In honor of Women's History Month, we are excited to highlight the voice and community work of Kalika Curry, Community Impact Manager at Eastside Pathways. Over the last 15 years Kalika has focused on racial equity adaptive leadership, facilitation, and collective healing practices to reshape relationships and outcomes for young people in our community.

Heidi Wong | International Community Health Services

May 22, 2022 • Heidi Wong

Pastor Royce sits down with Heidi Wong, Executive Director of International Community Health Services, to talk about the work that ICHS is doing to serve Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. About ICHS ICHS, located in the heart of downtown Seattle’s historic Chinatown-International District (CID) and Little Saigon, provides culturally and linguistically appropriate health services to improve the health of Asian Pacific Islanders and the broader community. Founded in 1973, when a small group of community members, physicians, and medical students created a free health clinic in a borrowed space in Beacon Hill for low-income Chinese and Filipino elders living in Seattle’s C-ID, ICHS has now expanded to 11 clinics and sites throughout the Seattle metropolitan area, serving nearly 28,000 patients in 70 different languages. Learn more about ICHS at https://www.ichs.com/

Ming-Ming Tung-Edelman | Refugee Artisan Initiative

April 24, 2022 • Liana Sims, Ming -Ming Tung-Edelman

Pastor Liana sits down with Ming-Ming Tung-Edelman, Founder and Executive Director of Refugee Artisan Initiative, a local non-profit that partners with refugee women to foster an inclusive, prosperous transition to the US through artisan skills training in zero waste and small batch manufacturing and micro business development, helping them achieve economic independence.

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