Presbyterian Mission Agency danielle riley Archives

Taking risks the focus of a Stewardship Kaleidoscope workshop

Posted October 17th, 2024

Kevin Riley’s life has been full of risk — and not all of it good. Riley, the commissioned pastor of Mount Baker Presbyterian Church in Concrete, Washington, suffered from addiction, homelessness, and incarceration earlier in life. Those life experiences, harrowing as they are, increased his comfort level with risk — an attitude that served the church well when the Covid pandemic arrived.

Presbyterian congregation in Washington state is lovingly served by a couple formerly drug addicted and without a home

Posted November 18th, 2022

Sometimes, Kevin Riley says, he can look in the mirror and see “one who is truly beloved.”

Police officer baptized by clergy couple he used to arrest

Posted June 9th, 2022

During Kevin Riley’s first interaction with Tom Wenzl, Riley was pinned in the parking lot of a grocery store in the Skagit Valley in Washington state. Wenzl, then a Mount Vernon police office, arrested Riley.

‘Nobody is beyond resurrection’

Posted June 8th, 2022

Before Kevin Riley got clean and sober, he found himself at the former site of Trinity Presbyterian Church, which is now home to a nondenominational church in Sedro Wooley, Washington, a town about an hour north of Seattle.