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

This Sunday we celebrate our 3rd anniversary as a Reconciling Community.  3 years ago we voted to accept the statement below and to continue our working of welcoming all people, celebrating their gifts, and honoring in leadership any who was called to that role.  If...

This past Sunday the leadership team of the Southeast Portland Parish met to discuss next steps in our five year plan.  There were some great ideas about how we can continue to live into God's call for us.  After consensus that the exterior of the Trinity building was...

It is time to begin Phase 2 of our Trinity building refresh. So what are you dreaming of? I want to put new flooring in the Fellowship Hall. Not only is the current flooring very dated looking, but we know that there is asbestos in the floor glue so covering it will...

I am not sure how many of you enjoy scrolling on Instagram reels, but it is one of the ways I relax! I love to hear the Scottish Poetry of MissPunnyPennie, enjoy the tea with Charlotte Dobre, catch up on the latest in the stories of the Nursery Nurse or Bistro Huddy,...

This month we are focusing on joy. We are reading through 4 psalms as expressions of joy. In this election season, after working through the bible in a year and a summer book series on racial reconciliation it felt like it was a moment to reconnect to the joy of our...

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...