In October the Washington State Supreme Court ruled capital punishment as unconstitutional, thereby abolishing the practice from the state’s criminal justice system.

Since 2015, the GoodGuys, in coordination with Spokane’s YWCA, has raised funds and awareness of the issues of domestic violence in local communities. Co-founder Doug Kelley started the group with encouragement from his fiancé who was involved in the YWCA’s Little Black Dress event.

On Saturday, Spokane Regional Poor People’s Campaign will hold an informational meeting where interested member of the community can learn about the movement and its activism.

World Relief Seattle is fundraising and recruiting cyclists to participate in its annual bike ride across the state to collect money for refugees settling in Washington. The bike ride, called SEA TRI KAN (STK), begins on June 20 and continues through the 24th.

The OCE has crafted its goal for the grant around the idea of living in "the third way." The third way refers to the kind of lifestyle historians believe Christians lived while under Roman law.

The Real Life Ministries (RLM) church group is taking steps to open a new location on the South Hill by the beginning of next year.