notes on the Older Pastor/Younger Pastor series with Ryan Williams, Dave Bruskas and Sutton Turner on lessons from Mars Hill--UPDATE: quotes from transcripts

So the seven-part series has recently, if it goes to seven parts, wrapped up.  As Sutton Turner has commented and fielded questions here at Wenatchee The Hatchet he would probably not be too surprised that Wenatchee The Hatchet has taken the five hours needed to listen to all seven episodes, and likely Bruskas and Ryan Williams would not be surprised at this post either.  Nobody who knows the history of this blog as a chronicle of the life and death of Mars Hill would be. So ... some notes ...

Foundation Church, formerly Mars Hill Everett, has closed down and has merged with Reach Church in Everett, WA

Thanks to a comment, Wenatchee The Hatchet has been notified that the former Mars Hill Everett, which became Foundation Church in the wake of the Mars Hill closure of late 2014 through 2015, closed its doors at the start of March 2020.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/mars-hill-everett-becomes-foundation-church/

Ryan Williams had shifted from Foundation to North Church in 2014

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-williams-05029667


http://foundationchurch.org/#welcome-section

FOUNDATION CHURCH HAS OFFICIALLY CLOSED IT’S DOORS AS OF MARCH 1, 2020.

It has been our hope to bring the whole Gospel to Everett, Snohomish County, and to the ends of the earth. We’re grateful for the years of serving God’s kingdom, and our prayer is that all who we’ve served will continue to trust and be satisfied in Christ alone.

Both our facility and remaining church body will be grafting into the family at Reach Church in Everett, WA. Click the link below to be directed to their website.

if you want to get some background on the real estate of Foundation Church, aka the former Mars Hill Everett plug in parcel # 00439162701300 into the Snohomish County Assessor's Property Summary search tool on properties.

Throckmorton asks "Why did Mars Hill Tacoma and Everett wait until 2014 to thank Mars Hill Global?"

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2014/10/14/why-did-mars-hill-tacoma-and-everett-wait-until-2014-to-thank-mars-hill-global/

https://marshill.com/2014/06/05/thank-you-mars-hill-global-sincerely-mars-hill-everett
Mars Hill Everett thanked Mars Hill Global on June 5, 2014.  For what?  For a home.

Throckmorton linked to a bit of coverage from July 2013, and here's the link.
http://www.theheraldbusinessjournal.com/article/20130712/SCBJ02/707129993
... The property was ultimately purchased for $1.275 million not long after Mars Hill Church purchased the 104-year-old First Congregational Church building in Tacoma for about $1.9 million. The organization is not shy about handling restorations of historic properties.

Seems to be true, but when did Mars Hill Everett get purchased?

https://www.snoco.org/proptax/(ndmj4bz14tatuwb0k4g3z445)/result.aspx

Property Account Summary

Parcel Number 00439162701300 Property Address 2730 OAKES AVE , EVERETT, WA 98201-3628 Parties - For changes use 'Other Property Data' menu Role Percent Name Mailing Address Taxpayer 100 MARS HILL CHURCH 1411 NW 50TH ST, SEATTLE, WA 98107 Owner 100 MARS HILL CHURCH 1411 NW 50TH ST, SEATTLE, WA 98107 Well ... Property Sales (since 7/31/1999) Transfer Date Receipt Date Sales Price Excise Number Deed Type Grantor (Seller) Grantee (Buyer) Other Parcels 1/30/2013 1/31/2013 $0 E021220 QC STATE OF WASHINGTON MILITARY DEPT MARS HILL CHURCH No

Looks like it was January 30, 2013.  Why wait about a year and a half to thank Mars Hill Global publicly for real estate that was bought back in 2013? 

If there was no Mars Hill Global fund why thank it?  Or if there was one but there stopped being one why did Mars Hill Everett wait so long to issue a public thank you for a fund that either never existed to begin with or stopped existing at some indefinite time before or after the purchase? 

The gap between January 30, 2013 and June 5, 2014 seems kind of big.