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

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...

This year the members of annual conference joined together in Tigard.  The parish has Joy and Megan serving as our lay members. Jeff, Todd, Laura, and myself were there as clergy. I still count Jeff even though he is officially part of the Tigard community! During the...

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...

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...

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 brainstormed:...

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...