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SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Conversations: Thriving Congregations Initiative (September 2025)
An update on the Thriving Congregations Initiative, featuring Rev. Dr. Tali Hairston, Revs. Maggie Breen, Eliana Maxim, & Scott Lumsden.
2025-09-08
18 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Conversations: Colombia Partnership
Seattle Presbytery will soon be celebrating the 10th anniversary of a missional partnership with the Presbytery of the North Coast in Barranquilla, Colombia. Pastors and members of over 9 Seattle Presbytery churches have participated in this ministry. Join Haley Ballast (Wallingford PC), Phil Lewis (Union Church), and Eliana Maxim (Presbytery staff) and hear about the distinctiveness of this partnership, what we are learning, and how you can be a part of this growing community.
2024-10-11
29 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Conversations: Olympia Presbytery Partnerships
Featuring: Rev. Eliana Maxim (Co-Executive Presbyter, Seattle Presbytery), Rev. Dexter Kearny (Parish Mobilizer, One Parish One Prisoner, Underground Ministries), Rev. Deanna Gemmer (Pastor, Hagar's Community Church).
2024-08-15
26 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Conversations with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim & Scott Lumsden
January 2024 SeaPres update with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim & Scott Lumsden. Seattle Presbytery website
2024-01-11
12 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Conversations with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim & Scott Lumsden
August 2023 SeaPres update with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim & Scott Lumsden. Seattle Presbytery website
2023-08-31
15 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Conversations with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim & Scott Lumsden
February 2023 update from Co-EPs Revs. Eliana Maxim and Scott Lumsden.
2023-02-15
16 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Podcast: Thriving Congregations Initiative Leadership Forum (Part Two)
Featuring: Rev. Dr. Tali Hairston, Rev. Paul Kim & Rev. Eliana Maxim. You're invited to the Thriving Congregations Leadership Forum Sep. 31-Oct. 1. The Leadership Forum is not the usual conference with speaker and listener. The Forum is a space for robust dialogue among pastors, staff, and senior leaders about the church’s place in a most critical time in the history of the church. The church has experienced decline exacerbated during pandemic and social unrest. Some are not returning after two years of online church, others are tired of a church that appears at a loss on social issues...
2022-09-17
19 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Podcast: Thriving Congregations Initiative Leadership Forum
Featuring: Rev. Dr. Tali Hairston, Rev. Maggie Breen & Rev. Paul Kim. You're invited to the Thriving Congregations Leadership Forum Sep. 30-Oct. 1. The Leadership Forum is for pastors and senior leaders (e.g. staff, elders) to develop capacity to lead learning congregations. We will be interacting with fellow colleagues and community leader-practitioners including leaders from the Presbytery of the Coast in Barranquilla, Colombia. We anticipate a rich time for robust dialogue, reflection, and learning for everyone. Learn more & register. Registering by Sept 15 or earlier would be a great help! (Note: for Friday there is an online optio...
2022-09-09
17 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Podcast: June 2022 Update from Co-Executive Presbyters
June 2022 update from Co-EPs Revs. Eliana Maxim and Scott Lumsden. Online: June 21st stated meeting information.
2022-06-16
19 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Conversations: Colombia Mission Partnership
Eight years after embarking on a unique partnership with the Presbytery of the North Coast (Presbyterian Church of Colombia), Seattle Presbytery staff discuss this pivotal time of deeper engagement and mutual learning invitations. Join Revs. Scott Lumsden, Tali Hairston, Maggie Breen, Paul Kim, and Eliana Maxim as they talk about what this means for our local congregations and communities. More: see pictures from the 2022 Colombia partnership trip.
2022-06-07
21 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Conversations with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim & Scott Lumsden
New episode: SeaPres Podcast. Co-Executive Presbyters Eliana Maxim & Scott Lumsden recap the October presbytery meeting, look ahead to the next few months, and share an important message for our pastoral leaders. Scott and Eliana shared this written report at the October SeaPres meeting.
2021-10-29
20 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Conversations with Tali, Maggie, & Eliana
Revs. Tali Hairston (Director of Community Organizing, Advocacy, and Development), Maggie Breen (Community Education & Assessment Specialist), and Eliana Maxim (Co-Executive Presbyter) reflect on Christians’ response to the insurrection in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6. More conversations: NPR’s Sam Sanders—”The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Race” PC(USA) Stated Clerk discusses attack on the Capitol
2021-01-15
30 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Conversations with Eliana, Scott, & Tali: Leading Change
Leading Change: Join a fireside chat with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim, Scott Lumsden, and Tali Hairston, Dir. of Community Organizing, Advocacy, and Development.
2020-07-10
28 min
TheoTech Podcast
Supporting Transformation: The Role of Church Government In a Pandemic
Today we're discussing church government and COVID-19 with our guest Eliana Maxim, Seattle Presbytery Co-Executive Presbyter. Eliana shares how Seattle area churches are ministering to their congregations and communities through the pandemic. Churches have been facing new technical problems, like how to have communion during a virtual service. And the solutions aren’t coming from denominations or church governments, but individual church leaders. So the Seattle Presbytery is stepping back to “let the church be the church”, and stepping up to having tough theological conversations that build a framework to support innovation. This new mission-oriented movement could take u...
2020-07-09
28 min
SeaPres Podcast
Episode 9: SeaPres Conversations with Eliana, Scott, & Tali
Join a fireside chat with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim, Scott Lumsden, and Tali Hairston, Dir. of Community Organizing, Advocacy, and Development. Read June 12 SeaPres update from Scott Lumsden.
2020-06-12
29 min
SeaPres Podcast
Episode 8: SeaPres Conversations
SeaPres Conversations: Co-EP Scott Lumsden talks with Pastor Susie Beil (Summit Avenue Presbyterian Church, Bremerton) about transformation, change, and the church.
2020-06-04
32 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Podcast Episode 6: SeaPres Conversations
Co-EP Scott Lumsden talks with Pastor Becki Barrett (Overlake Park Presbyterian Church, Bellevue) about life and ministry, including reimagining the church’s future and questions about coming “back”, and how Jesus may be calling us to survive a pandemic.
2020-05-08
26 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Podcast Episode 5: Challenges and Opportunities for the Church (Part I)
SeaPres Co-EP Eliana Maxim has a conversation with Rev. Dr. J.Herbert Nelson, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA) on the contextual changes needed to be navigated for the PCUSA in the 21st century, particularly in light of the pandemic.
2020-05-01
29 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Podcast Episode 4: Hard to Hear
In the midst of a global pandemic, it can be hard to hear the pain of others. This podcast episode considers faith that listens to the other in difficult times. This week, Tali Hairston, Dir. of Community Organizing, Advocacy, and Development chats with Haley Ballast, Ruling Elder at John Knox Presbyterian Church in Seattle and member of the Presbytery's Race and Equity Task Force. Read Haley's e-news update mentioned in this episode.
2020-04-25
21 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Podcast Episode 3
Join a fireside chat with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim, Scott Lumsden, and Tali Hairston, Dir. of Community Organizing, Advocacy, and Development. It's Easter! Wait, we're still on Lock Down? We need to not only take the long view, but we need to be thinking about what has changed about church life and ministry, and orient ourselves around new practices and ways of being. There's no going back.
2020-04-17
31 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Podcast Episode 2
Chaplains provide spiritual support and comfort in a variety of settings in our communities. What does their ministry look like in this time of the Covid-19 pandemic, and what can we all learn from them? This week, Eliana Maxim spends time with Revs. Leah Klug, Mollie M'anao, and Charlie Scoma.
2020-03-27
41 min
SeaPres Podcast
SeaPres Podcast Episode 1
Join a "fireside" chat with Co-EPs Eliana Maxim, Scott Lumsden, and Tali Hairston, Dir. of Community Organizing, Advocacy, and Development. In this episode, they discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on our congregations and communities. We pray this will be yet another way to stay connected to our churches and leaders, give an update on what's happening in the Presbytery and PC(USA), and looking ahead at what could be next.
2020-03-18
33 min