PACE Fellows is a cohort program for young adults designed to help them live more fully into their gifts, calling, and leadership of the church. Each PACE Fellow will enter the program with a sponsoring church, pastor, and a liaison to walk alongside them. A successful Fellowship will have elements of relationship building, innovation, confidence building, and reciprocal intergenerational support.

Daniel Kytonen is an artist, spiritual director, and stay-at-home dad based in Seattle, WA. With over a decade of experience in ministry, he is passionate about helping people connect to God's presence as they journey through various seasons of life. He enjoys listening to others' stories, making art that explores mystery and liminality, and eating delicious hotpot with friends.
Daniel's group will meet on Third Thursdays (6-8pm):
 10/19, 11/16, 12/21, 1/18 2/15, 3/21, 4/18, 5/16

Eunice Lin-Sawyer is the Seattle Area Convener for the Grounded Faith Initiative with Parish Collective through which she gets to meet with pastors, church leaders, and young adults to encourage their own neighborhood discernment, engagement, and new ventures. She also works alongside Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil to train and consult churches and Christian organizations in racial justice and reconciliation. Prior to moving to Seattle, she spent 7 years as a social worker before entering full-time ministry in her home church in Singapore where she led the young adult ministry and set up her church’s local outreach and justice ministry. She loves being able to pioneer new work, bridge differences, challenge the status quo, and be a tad subversive in all she does. She believes in rooting deeply despite feeling transient and being a foreigner in this country.
Eunice's group will meet on Second Thursdays (6-8pm):
 10/12, 11/9, 12/14, 1/11 2/8, 3/14, 4/11, 5/9

Aaron Cho joined the Quest staff in 2012, relocating to the Seattle area from Pasadena, California. In many ways, his journey to Quest serves as a homecoming of sorts, having been born and raised in the great Northwest (represent 253). After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Whitman College, he spent a year teaching English and serving at a church in South Korea. It was there he found his call for pastoral ministry and pursued further educational debt, aka a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary (little did he know he would meet Judith, his future wife, at Fuller). Through his experience growing up and serving in the Korean immigrant church and also serving as a pastor in a predominantly African-American, multiethnic/multicultural church, he strongly values racial reconciliation and the myriad of ways in which people connect with and worship the living God. He loves engaging life through sports, eating amazing food from every culture, reading, and beating his wife in Monopoly Deal.
Aaron's group meeting night will be announced soon.

Artistry in the church is often something that feels compromised, marginalized, or inappropriately instrumentalized for other priorities in the church such as evangelism. This cohort will work with facilitators from the Brehm Center to help young adults (and their liaisons) find more comfort operating in the church and advocating for themselves, their peers, and their artistic concerns.
2022-2023 Schedule:
Fall Retreat to Camp Casey (Fully subsidized: $500 value)        Sep 30-Oct 2
Facilitator Group A: 3rd Monday of the month zoom call 6-8pm (or in-person/hybrid by group decision)
10/17, 11/21, 12/19, 1/16, 2/20, 3/20, 4/17, 5/15
Facilitator Group B: 3rd Tuesday of the month zoom call 7-9pm (or in-person/hybrid by group decision)
10/18, 11/22, 12/20, 1/17, 2/21, 3/21, 4/18, 5/16
Spring Retreat to Camp Casey (Fully subsidized: $500 value)        Apr 28-Apr 30

Rachel Morris has been serving churches in the Pacific Northwest for over ten years as a musician, liturgical curator, and pastor, and is currently the Director of Worship, Music, & the Arts at John Knox Presbyterian Church in Seattle, WA. She graduated from Whitworth University with a Bachelor of Arts in Music; she is currently pursuing her Master of Divinity with an emphasis in Spiritual Formation and Discipleship at Portland Seminary, as well as seeking ordination in the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA).

Sam Kim is a Korean-Canadian who has lived in many different cities before calling Seattle home. He graduated from Regent College in Vancouver, BC with a Master in Christian Studies (Arts and Christianity) and from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC with a Master of Divinity. He loves to explore the connections between spirituality and art in its various forms. In his life outside of church ministry, he records and produces music in various genres. Sam and his wife Rhea with their daughter Eden enjoy exploring the foods, arts, and music of Seattle together. You can find his work at http://samueljosephkim.com/.

Social Justice is a core value for many young people and the prophetic voice they have brought to the church in the last decade has challenged God's people. This cohort will play in the sandbox of innovative ways to bring social justice initiatives into the church and decide what partnerships can help move the needle on faith formation and outreach to the oppressed.

This is not just another "Doing Business As a Christian" community. This theme may narrow further into specific enterprises such as green business, triple-bottom-line, B Corp movement, or other philosophies that look at shalom-building, positive contributions to our ecology and mental health, as well as other deep issues that young Christians want integrated into their lives.