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Matters of Kindness

The other day I found out a new friend was having some pretty big relationship stuff going on.  I instantly thought, “She needs ice cream.”  I was headed over by Salt & Straw but as my meeting was winding down I began to make up reasons why I...

Read This Blog

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina a friend of mine posted a link to a blog entry titled Being Poor by Science Fiction author John Scaliz.  I found the entry captured something important in the midst of that horrible coverage of the people suffering at...

Tablecloth Hospitality

One Wednesday a month you will find me folding a tablecloth into my purse and heading out to my local.  When Jeff and I first designed our ministry proposal we knew that we needed gateway events.  These were times when people who were curious about the new...

The Holly and the Ivy and the Hydrangea

Our back yard is a little bit of a jungle.  It’s nice to have the arbor vitae between us and the parking lot of the apartments next door.  (P and her two buddies who live there have figured out a secret path which is really what childhood is all...

Counting

We had a fairly big milestone last week with the Sellwood Faith Community.  People came to the Tazie worship experience who we had never met before.  They saw about us on Facebook and came along because they were interested in being part of a church starting...