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We are pleased to welcome Pastor Kurt Bubna to the Spokane Faith & Values team!
Bubna is pastor of Eastpoint Church in Spokane Valley, is an author, a family man and coffee nut.
He's a bivocation pastor, and worked in data processing and banking before entering the ministry. He also worked as a track and field coach for several years in Portland.
You can read more about him on his author's page.
For Spokane Faith & Values he'll be writing about church, life application and leadership through an Evangelical, non-denominational lens.
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
Welcome Kurt! As an avid runner, its great to have a former track coach in the fray.