INCLUSION AND INFLUENCE IN THE BORDERLANDS
On Saturday, November 15, Cathy and I went to the Sunstone Northwest Symposium. This year it was held at the Ranier Valley Community of Christ Church in Seattle. We were able to meet old and new friends. The following are pictures of us with our friends.

Cathy rockin’ the microphone in the panel discussion. Next to her is Aaron Brown of the Seattle Stake spoke about his stake’s LGBT outreach. The two women sitting to Aaron’s left are Karin Franklin Peter, President of the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy and Robin Linkhart of the Seventy of Community of Christ. They spoke of their Church’s triumphs and struggles with more inclusion of the LGBT community and of greater gender equality.

We finally got to meet Carson and Marisa Calderwood. They are really, really good looking people. Say it using Derek Zoolander’s voice. It’s way funny.

Does she really need an introduction? The Queen of Diet Coke, and Assistant Director of Sunstone, Lindsay Hansen Park.

Pastor Chris Sargent of the Rainier Community of Christ. She is the Great-great granddaughter of Joseph and Emma Smith.
We were at the Portland one. Wished we could have seen you both there, but two in one weekend was a lot. Thanks for the photos of Seattle.
Thanks for sharing these. What a bunch of awesome people! Especially Derek Zoolander! 🙂