Southeast Portland Parish

This past Sunday our parish leadership team gathered to connect, dream, pray, play, and imagine.  From this work we are…

This week after morning worship we had a BBQ and party in celebration of our newest community member, who is…

July 1st is New Year in the United Methodist Church. It’s common for pastors to post about the new church…

This week our Oregon-Idaho area United Methodist leaders from all churches and ministries met together. Each year we work through…

I was struggling on Saturday. Suddenly I found myself with no tech people and no musician for morning worship. I…

This week I went Strawberry picking, which is one of may favorite Oregony things to do. I haven’t gone in…

I sometimes still cannot believe that I serve a reconciling congregation. 22 years ago, when I was in seminary, I…

Uvalde, Buffalo, Chattanooga, Las Vegas, Florence South Carolina, Charleston, University City, Taft, and more. In Portland this weekend there were…

How do you learn? If you don’t know something how do you find out the information? If you aren’t where…

Back in those early days of the pandemic we were adapting and adjusting. After 2 years I’m tried of adjusting…