A creative collaboration between Trinity United Methodist Church and Sellwood Faith Community

This summer as a community we read the book Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation by Latasha Morrison. It is a great, easy read with lots of theological insight into how each person is made in the image of God. Our call then is to repair and...

We have a saying in our culture that time is money. I live as if time was everything. My time is my gift. My energy, my presence in the world. Every Friday I spend my day playing with a 2 year old. I served on the school board for 4 years, taking a $40,000 pay cut...

Dinner Church is in a season of change. After all the adjustments during the pandemic to online gatherings, back yard dessert church, and then finally coming back into dinner it is clear that this gathering is no longer the center of drawing new people into community....

This coming Sunday, August 18th, we will be meeting with our new District Superintendent Karen Hernandez to talk about the ministry of the parish over the past year and going forward.  To help us do this we have been capturing moments since last fall of the ways we...

2 years ago I got reading glasses. It was a bit hard to admit that my days of 20/10 vision were long behind me! All thorough out this summer our daughter Paige has been asking me when I’m going to the eye doctor. She doesn’t think it’s quite so much fun as I do that...

We have been doing really hard work as a parish. We have made the difficult decision to go to a half time pastor and half time administrator beginning July 1 2025. As a result of this decision we developed a staffing transition plan and have been working through that...

As we are refreshing the Trinity building and making changes we have furniture to repurpose. One such piece was a beautiful oak piece that had been used for decades as mailboxes for leaders and committees. George and Jean Rodway donated the piece and it has faithfully...

Last week the Western region of the United Methodist Church elected two new bishops, Kristin Stoneking and Sandra Olewine. The process of electing a bishop involves speeches, interviews with the candidates, meetings of teams of delegates, conversations about what each...

We have narrowed down the names for our new spaces available to the community for rent! We decided we wanted to stick with Steele Street which is where the Trinity building is located and then add another word that evokes a sense of gathering and connection. This fits...

As part of our 5 year plan to update and refresh the Trinity Building we are working on moving the copy room and staff offices as better organizing our storage spaces to fully meet the needs of our faith community and our building users.  On June 17th we had a crew of...