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$10,000

This month I am freaking out just a little bit because we need to raise $10,000 for Sellwood Faith Community in the coming year. We haven’t been in this position since our first year. We have a generous grant from the annual conference and our people give...

A Day Late But Not a Dollar Short

I have been writing this blog for 6 years.  Since we came to Portland in July of 2013 I have rarely missed a post.  This week it was a close thing! The end of the month is always a busy time, especially since we decided to not have a church secretary at Trintiy for a...

The Stories We Tell

I serve in volunteer parent leadership at my daughter’s middle school. We’ve been struggling to get volunteers to help with our events.  One of the things we realized is that for years the recruitment strategy in middle school has been to tell parents we...

Affordable Childcare

Throughout the history of SFC including children in our ministry has been really important. When we made the move to Portland we saved lots of our daughter’s old toys so that we’d have options for wee ones at the house.  Over the year we’ve done...

Taize

A year ago I signed up to visit Taize, France with my daughter. It was something I had been hoping to do for years. When we arrived on  July 22nd, my 41st birthday, we had ridden in a bus all night from London.  We were tired, but it was exciting to arrive and head to...