Who We Are
Welcome to the website of the Presbytery of North Puget Sound (NPSP).The Presbytery is a regional governing body of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).  It is a mission partner with 35 congregations located in northwest Washington State--north of Seattle and west of the North Cascades. The Presbytery is part of the Synod of Alaska-Northwest.

OUR VISION is for each congregation and presbytery member to be:

• Vital in ministry
• Supported in meeting existing and emerging needs and
• Connected in Christ-like ways for shared mission all to the glory of God.

Locator Map of church and locations:

When We Began
The Presbytery of North Puget Sound was formed by action of the Synod of Washington Alaska, meeting in an adjourned session, February 27, 1968, in the Beacon Hill Presbyterian Church of Seattle, Washington.

How We Began
After hearing and considering the second Revised Report of the Probe and Project Committee, Synod voted to realign its Presbytery boundaries and to adopt sweeping reorganization of the Synod structure. Thus, taking ten (10) churches of the north and west from the Presbytery of Seattle and the whole of the former Presbytery of Bellingham, a new Presbytery was formed, comprised of the Presbyterian Mission in the following counties: Clallam, Island, Jefferson, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish, Whatcom and those portions of King County lying north of NE 160th Street, Seattle.

Action on the Synod overture which included the above action, the 180th General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. approved these boundary changes and the new Presbytery became fact on January 1, 1969.

At its first Stated meeting on January 18, 1969, in the First Presbyterian Church of Snohomish, Washington, the new Presbytery chose the name, "Presbytery of North Puget Sound".

Our First Leaders
Jack Wilson was installed as the first moderator of the Presbytery by retiring moderator of the Bellingham Presbytery, Rev. Richard Stussi.

The Rev. Elbert Harlow assumbed the duties of the Stated Clerk fro the retiring Stated Clerk of the Bellingham Presbytery, Rev. Robert McLaughlin.

Thirty-one (31) churches and thirty-five (35) ministers were enrolled in the Presbytery on its organizational date.The Presbytery of North Puget Sound was formed by action of the Synod of Washington Alaska, meeting in an adjourned session, February 27, 1968, in the Beacon Hill Presbyterian Church of Seattle, Washington.