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About Pastor Laura Baumgartner

Our Associate Pastor, Laura Baumgartner, is joining the Aldersgate Team as of July 1, 2017 and she couldn't be more excited. Laura has been teaching chemistry in the Bellevue Schools for many years and will continue part time as a teacher and part time as our Associate Pastor. This is Laura's first appointment as Pastor. She comes to us from her home church, University Temple United Methodist in Seattle, where she served as Church Council Chair, Bell Choir Director, and Director of Children and Family Ministries. She also served in two internships while she was in seminary, at Earth Ministry and at Riverton Park United Methodist Church in Tukwila. She brings experience from the classroom, a passion for social justice, and a desire to listen to where the Spirit is leading the church in these changing times. Laura has moved many times. She was born and went to high school in Boise, ID, but has lived in Chicago, Baltimore, Oakland, Boston, and Des Moines (IA). She's been in the Seattle area since 2001 and is happy to call it home now. Laura finds that wherever she goes, she meets wonderful friends who bring diverse perspectives and contexts that challenge and inspire her, but who also have in common a deep hunger for more meaning and more love in their lives. She is committed to working ecumenically and across faith traditions to learn more of what God's faithful people can teach each other. Laura is married to her husband, Eric, and they live with their daughter, Grace, and their dog, Calvin. When not at church, she enjoys walking with Calvin, doing yoga, being creative, and hearing great stories.

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Snow Day!

Feb 7, 2019

As I write this, the snow is coming down outside and it’s been coming down for almost 24 hours. The kids and dogs in the park are having a great time and my snowy-day instincts are kicking in. I grew up mostly in Idaho and Iowa. I lived for my young adult years in Chicago. […]

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A Third Way

Jan 31, 2019

Jesus was no mathematician. Jesus helped us to understand the nature of God in relationship, as one person of the Trinity, one part of a triune God. One in three and three in one doesn’t make sense according to our normal number sense. It only makes sense within the nature of God. Jesus’ teachings are […]

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Give us this day our daily bread

Jan 24, 2019

“Give us this day our daily bread.”  There it is right in the Lord’s Prayer.  We do not live without sustenance. Is food then a human right? How then do so many go hungry in the world’s richest country? Jesus said those words before the Last Supper, when he forever transformed the meaning of bread […]

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Bible Sunday

Jan 17, 2019

This Sunday is Bible Sunday where we will give Bibles to our 3-4th graders. It’s also the week in our Foundations of Faith when we will talk about the Bible as Foundational. In each service, a congregation member will share a favorite Bible passage and explain why it is foundational for them. We’ll also think about […]

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Image of our God

Jan 3, 2019

We’ve just celebrated the coming of the Christ Child. We have welcomed the gifts of the God-made-Human baby in our midst. And now we hear these words from the book of Matthew, that the baby grew up and told us to become like a child. Different from being childish or being a baby about things, […]

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Fourth Week of Advent

Dec 20, 2018

This Sunday is the fourth week of Advent. It seems like it’s Christmas already but we have one more Sunday of preparing the way. There’s one more Sunday in our season of walking slowly, deliberately, and spiritually, or of being reminded of the invitation to slow down. Since Pastor Brad will not be with us, […]

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Preparing for Christmas

Nov 29, 2018

This year, as we prepare for Christmas, we will focus on preparing ourselves and our church for the coming of the Christ child among us one more time. We read the ancient words from Isaiah, quoted by the gospel writers: A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in […]

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Earth Ministry

Nov 15, 2018

I visited Lazy F for the first time ever last weekend. I know that must seem crazy to some of you, but I had never been before. I got to see the cross way up on the hill, marvel at the new dining hall, meet Sam and Mazy, the dogs, and give thanks for the […]

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Disagreements

Nov 7, 2018

As we continue to explore what it means to be a community of belonging, we have to realize that we won’t always agree on everything.  In fact, our church’s history is a history of disagreements, dissolutions, and divisions. There are even disagreements about how to read that history.  We’ll meet some characters from our Wesleyan […]

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Connected

Oct 18, 2018

We all have times in our lives when we don’t feel connected. We have times when something we have done has broken ties with those we’ve loved. We have experiences of being outcast from community. This week, we’ll meet an outcast from Biblical times and we’ll think about times when we’ve felt like an outcast […]

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