Gary Jewell recently joined Pullman’s Community Congregational United Church of Christ (UCC) as interim minister. Jewell replaces Pastor Steve Van Kuiken, who left in January for a call to minister at a UCC church in Ohio.

Jewell, who is based in Spokane, will preach on Sunday worship at 10:30 a.m. and be available for pastoral care and visits.  He served as co-pastor at Shalom Mennonite/UCC in Spokane and as interim pastor at several churches in the inland Northwest including Plymouth UCC in Colfax, WA and Spring Valley Mennonite Church in Newport, WA.

Pastor Jewell describes his general theology for self and ministry as focused on justice and peace. 

“Concerns for justice (right relationship) and peace (thriving in harmony) are core to my biblical understanding and to the values of the Gospel….I boil my concerns to three basic themes or lens….meaning, mortality and mystery.”