by Eilidh Lowery | May 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
My family is in a huge time of transition. In just a few weeks our daughter will graduate from high school. It’s a ritual and rite of passage signaling that this stage of our life as a family is over. She just turned 18 so is now legally an adult. We celebrated...
by Eilidh Lowery | May 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
This week has been a big one in the United Methodist World. Here in Oregon we voted to allow 3 churches to leave the United Methodist fold. The reason for the leaving is around theology. There are people and churches who hold that Christian teaching means that queer...
by Eilidh Lowery | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
This past week I got to attend the Habitat for Humanity HopeBuilders lunch with a crew of folks from the closed Capitol Hill United Methodist Church. CHUMC chose to close in 2016. We were able to use our endowment and work with the conference trustees to sell the...
by Eilidh Lowery | Apr 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Starting this May we will be reading the entire bible over the course of a year! We are starting with the story of Pentecost from Acts and will continue on through the story of the early church and the letters to the faithful written by the apostles and their...
by Eilidh Lowery | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Before the pandemic we had bible study every Tuesday morning. It was a pretty good crowd of folks for the size of our church. And then once we resumed in person there were just 3 of us, which ended up being just 2 of us when the third came out of retirement! So for...
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