Kelso-Longview Community Seventh-day Adventist Church

COMPELLED TO REACH OUT

There is a lot of talk about vision statements and strategies being developed in churches today. Kelso-Longview seems to have had an experience of the Vision discovering them. From the moment a Christmas program was spoken, the church rushed to create and develop it. Today, every second week in December you’ll find thousands of community people coming into their church to be escorted out by their guide on their way to Bethlehem. It has provided the Kelso-Longview Community Seventh-day Adventist Church an opportunity to reach into the community and become an influence for good at a time when people are looking for something family oriented and fun. The program is called “Journey to Bethlehem.” If you are ever around our area on the second weekend of December, stop by, you won’t be disappointed, just watch out for those rough Roman Guards.

Over the Easter weekend the church takes the community on another journey, called “Journey to the Cross. Through the musical written by David Clydesdale called “Let All Heaven Rejoice,” the church has developed a dramatic expression from the temptations in the wilderness through His death, burial and resurrection and His glorification. The choir is a group of angels who look down and interact with Jesus through out His lifetime here on earth. Rollyn and Angie Betts play Jesus and the moderator of the event. A cast of 100 make it exciting and real as the crowd is moved from fear and despair to joy and elation.

The Kelso-Longview Community Seventh-day Adventist Church is compelled by Jesus to reach outside itself. Another way they do this is through their Free Market Small Group Network. They begin with a rally night that kicks off the new quarter of small groups. The church runs three quarters a year taking summer off. The last kickoff they held over 400 people attended “A Night In Mexico.” It was a night to remember how we all came together had fun and signed up for groups and helped our Hispanic children in church school.

If you ever attend our church on Sabbath, you will find a group of people who will welcome you and feed you and be genuinely happy that you have joined them. Our services are a blended service that consists of hymns and praise music. On any given Sabbath the congregation will have as many as thirty people from the community join them. Sermons are Bible based and doctrinally solid. Dave Livermore the senior pastor has been with the church for over twelve years. Others on the staff are Teresa Livermore, Church Secretary, Marcia Stone, Assistant Pastor, Carlos Lopez, Spanish Bible Worker and Steve Rogers, Bible Worker. Our Associate Pastor Doug Franzke has been with us for the past five years, at the time of this article he is in transition.

There is much more to tell about the church, but the best way to experience it is to come some Sabbath and find Jesus among the service, people and the mission they are on.

Kelso-Longview Community Seventh-day Adventist Church
Dave Livermore, Former Pastor (click to email)
77 Solomon Road
Kelso, WA 98626
360-423-0136
Website link

Directions from Portland: 1-5 north to Longview exit 36 (1st Longview exit) to 3rd Ave exit and turn right at
light. Continue on 3rd (3rd becomes West Side Hwy) for 4-1/2 miles. Church is on the left.