First Baptist Church of Sequim

A wonderful place to worship! Everyone is friendly and helpful. Pastor Wes is a great speaker and singer, he loves the Lord!!

Please don’t just be kind to those of us who give money each week. That is what’s going on here. Others are completely ignored and not treated very good from people who call themselves Christians. There is great need out there and people are being cast aside because so many ministers do the minimal to no real work involved while parishioners pay their way in life and the church is tax exempt. Working for God is 24/7 and not every weekend and evening off! And the benefits are great! Start treating this like the most important job in the world, because it is. If you lose even one due to having convinced yourself you deserve the same time off as the banker, doctor or lawyer, you will be the one to ultimately lose more than anyone as you have put yourself at a higher level of expectation. Live up to it or perhaps consider another profession. Many people are very disappointed but aren’t saying anything.

I really hate giving a church one star, but I felt in my heart that it was appropriate. In the passed few years I’ve had so many things happen. From a rapid decline in health, to the loss of people in my life including a brother who took his own life. I’ve been angry at God and people around me. So I reached out to this Pastor several times over many weeks before he finally responded. His response was shocking and disappointing. Not everyone needs mental care. Sometimes you just need some spiritual guidance, some time of praying together and some encouragement. But he was instead passing me off to mental healthcare having never met or talked with me. This was my follow up email.nn“What a sad sad and seemingly godless world we live in. I’ve probably noticed this more out here in the PNW and West Coast in general, although I realize it saturates a much larger percentage of the world.nMinisters don’t seem to consider themselves anything more than someone who has read and studied the Word, and can help those who either haven’t or have but don’t understand it entirely. But there used to be so much more to being a “man of the cloth”.nI know that my previous Pastor lost so much sleep sitting with people who were in spiritual depression, under spiritual warfare, needed spiritual counseling and prayer, he would sit for hours with both the physically ill and the spiritually ill.nHe too was a very busy man like yourself, but I never recall him putting a time limit on speaking to anyone who needed him. Especially someone who might have called, emailed and tried to get some time set aside with him weeks in advance.nBefore I got sick and then depressed and lost hope, I was the person sitting with people who lost their way temporarily, cooked for those who were down, got called out in the middle of the night to tend to someone being spiritually attacked. I guess I was taught that was what being a child of God was all about.nNow there seems to be a different kind of role in the church. Events, dinners, friendly visits, family time, in your case a bus driver. And while all of those things are absolutely wonderful. I just wonder what happened to the ones who has tried to reach out for someone to talk to, pray with, help restore their hope and faith...perhaps some who are at the end of their rope.nI know of two. A woman from Illinois who took her life after crying out for help for months. And my brother who put his revolver in his mouth in March of 2016, after years of crying out for help, but lived so far away and never mentioned his problems to anyone in the family.nSome folks can’t afford counseling, some don’t feel comfortable with counselors, some have a spiritual need that should be addressed with a spiritual advisor. So it’s pretty difficult for us older folks who’ve given so much of their time to others, to learn later that no one has too much time that they can give us. And the roles and rules are all different now and we simply feel that we can’t find a place in this world at times.nI won’t bother you anymore. I just thought I’d give the church one more chance to prove that they all haven’t been affected by the “me’ism” bug and parts of the new world order. In truth, I find peace and comfort watching my precious Fathers’s word unfold in front of my eyes. So perhaps this has been more of a boost to my faith and hope than I initially could see.”nnGod blessnYour friend in Christ,

Difficult to hear the pastor but very nice people. Small congregation, mostly older.