June reception given for new C-Falls pastor
Liz Young is now a Reverend — but she prefers to be called Pastor. Ordination service was held during the 85th annual District Assembly of Rocky Mountain District, Church of the Nazarene, in Billings, June 28. Dr. Jerry Porter, general superintendent, Rev. Larry D. Coen, district superintendent, and Rev. L. Dewayne Price, district secretary, participated in the service. Peter James Epler, Whitefish, and James R. Kizer, Great Falls, were newly licensed ministers.
Pastor Liz has served Columbia Falls Church of the Nazarene since August 2010. It is located at 172 Pine Street just off Highway 2 East near the Silver Bridge. Church board members are Marian Fairbanks, Patty Knutson and Susan Stapley.
She studied Bible and music at Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, Alberta, four years, and studied music at Seattle Pacific. Next Liz attended a computer course at ITT-Tech in Seattle in 1977. This launched her into a 30-year-long computer career with employers including Flathead County, Missoula County and businesses in the Bitterroot Valley.
She was a member of the Bitterroot Church of the Nazarene in Victor. Pastor John Capen invited her to become associate pastor and she served in that position for three years. Liz explained next God opened a new door for her and she moved to Columbia Falls. Her daughter, Jessica Young, and granddaughters, Jayden and India, reside in Seattle.
Sunday schedule has adult Bible study at 10 a.m. followed by 11 a.m. worship service. A DVD series, the God who is there: finding your place in God’s story, begins at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Church picnic takes place Sunday, Aug. 12, at the home of Susan Stapley, 1036 Tamarack Lane.
Liz gives group guitar lessons every Tuesday from 7 to 8 p.m. This helps to supplement her income as students pay $25 per month. She will teach Saturday computer lessons in the fall. These will include beginning computers, intermediate computers, Word and Excel, and using digital cameras.
Another class scheduled to begin in the fall, Made to Crave, takes place Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Hobbies fit into her schedule include playing the guitar, singing, song writing, photography, hiking and anything technical. She will be speaker at the family camp held at Middle Thompson Lake, Aug. 17 to 19.
A reception honoring Pastor Liz was attended by congregation members and friends from the area, Saturday. Christian Stapley was a busy teenager throughout the afternoon. He was photographer and also kept busy seating guests.
Gladys Shay is a longtime resident and columnist for the Hungry Horse News.