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With Feeling

During this past year clergy in our area read the book See No Stranger. One of the topics author Valerie Kaur addresses in the book is rage and how to express rage in community. During our reflection session after this chapter my colleagues wondered about how we might...

Leadership and the Parish

Last week we had another great leadership team meeting. So many things are moving together on the 5 year plan. We are planning to complete Phase 1 by September 1st and will start on Phase 2 this fall.  If you are part of the parish be dreaming about how our common...

What’s in a name?

As we prepare our newly refreshed spaces we are looking at marketing the spaces in the community and have decided to come up with a new name for these rooms. The idea is folks can rent out the space for community meetings, gatherings, and events. We’ve...

Missing Blog Post

I totally wrote a blog post last week. I know because I wrote it late Tuesday after struggling all day with a migraine, but today poof it wasn’t on the website. So all that work and straining to see so I could honor my commitment to writing every  week about our...

Possibilities

Last week I double booked myself. At 10am on Tuesday I had meetings with both a realtor and a solar panel analyst. The realtor is working with the group Sacred Space PDX, helping congregations find places to worship. I gave him a tour and he is hoping to connect us...