More about Elizabeth Maupin!

Elizabeth Maupin, has a multicultural background, having spent most of her formative years in East Asia, plus a little time in West Africa as a young adult and among the Lakota people of South Dakota during her seminary years.  She is drawn to ecumenical and interfaith work, serving 18 years as coordinator for the Issaquah Sammamish Interfaith Coalition and two years as a board member of the Eastside Interfaith Social Concerns Council in east King County. 

Having experienced brief bouts of homelessness, Elizabeth has been active in local efforts to address the needs of unhoused neighbors and to advocate for more affordable housing.  She is an active member of the Washington Lived Experience Coalition, an advocacy and mutual support group composed of people who are currently or formerly unhoused.

Elizabeth has been a social activist and served as a peacekeeper at rallies, dating back to the era of the Vietnam War.  She watches for social justice issues and opportunities to witness to our values as she prepares the Issaquah Sammamish Interfaith Coalition’s newsletter.  As a former social worker, she is especially careful to include news that might be helpful to human services providers and their funders.

As the widow of a man who was wrongfully convicted and incarcerated, Elizabeth espouses restorative justice approaches to conflicts and crimes, an approach that focuses on healing those harmed, those who have caused harm, and the impacted communities, believing that this models gospel values and the grace of God in a way that our common retributive approach never has. 

Elizabeth has been approved for ordination in the United Church of Christ, but is still looking for a call.  In the meantime, she does supply preaching, and uses her health care and pastoral care background as a part time home care aide.

Elizabeth believes that faith communities have an important role to play in healing the earth and human society by helping us to recognize our capacity for both harm and healing and our tendency to imagine that we are wiser than God, and by encouraging us to have the courage to stand up to evil, the humility to confess our faults, and the compassion that extends grace to all God’s children, even to those we suppose to be our enemies.  

Peace and Blessings!

Elizabeth Maupin, M.Div. ISIC coordinator

425 677 8043 (home)  206 478 3899 (cell)

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” MLK, Jr.