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Night Strike

For the past 8 years, I have participated in a volunteer opportunity called Nightstrike. Nightstrike is a ministry on Thursday nights under the Burnside Bridge in Portland. It happens nearly every Thursday of the year. Volunteers gather for an orientation and then...

Hand-Me-Downs

  8/8/18   Last Sunday evening at the Sellwood Faith Community our table included two huge, half-eaten cartons of potato salad and macaroni salad. They were leftovers from the group of 50 youth Jeff Lowery was working with last week in his role as director...

Connections

8/1/18 As I write this, I’m sitting at Wallowa Lake United Methodist Camp, surrounded by the amazing Wallowa Mountains. The shouts of young people are ringing out, as the camp hosts a group of about 60 teenagers from Lapwai, Idaho (seat of tribal government for the...

Let’s Eat!

One of the best parts of the Sellwood Faith Community is that we eat together every week! And every week it’s a surprise to find out what dinner is going to be. Sometimes people stop at the grocery store or bakery to pick up something to share, although many times we...

Prayer

I have some pretty strong opinions about prayer. It has frustrated and saddened me that over the past few months, prayer has been seen in the media as somehow wimpy, or just a cop-out.  My personal testimony is that I’ve seen and deeply felt the power of prayer too...