A creative collaboration between Trinity United Methodist Church and Sellwood Faith Community
Our community exists to embody the love of God in the world because we believe everyone needs a safe space to be loved for who they are already.
Sharing our Burdens
This spring has been packed. Right now I'm still working at General Conference. This is the global gathering of the United Methodist Church which takes place every four years. It's sort of like our congress, where we legislate our church and write...
Sharing our Home
The other day as I was fetching something from the basement I noticed something odd, our bamboo placemats were splayed all around the laundry hamper. I quickly figured out that someone from dinner church the previous night had picked up the napkins and the...
Fighting Malaria with Music
April 25th was World Malaria Day. It also marked the one year anniversary of the release of the Functional Monkeys album Can You Imagine?. My daughter Paige (age 10) and I formed a band, The Functional Monkeys, and we put together a CD of original...
May Calendar
Press Clippings
The United Methodist News Service did a story on experimental faith communities in Portland and SFC is one of the communities mentioned. Read on for another take on the context of new faith communities and the SFC journey.United Methodist NewsAmanda & Eilidh...
The Functional Community
Last Sunday my family was in California. (There will be a forthcoming blog post about the amazing ministry that unfolded on the trip.) Since we were out of state we missed dinner on Sunday. Our amazing house sitter set up for dinner. He heated up the...
The Beauty of Explaining Who We Are
A few weeks ago Jeff & I had coffee with a gentleman who found SFC online. It was a little trippy to talk to someone who knew all about us from our blog posts, Facebook, and our website, yet who we had never met. He asked lots of really great questions. Once again...
Easter Life
Every Easter we have a sunrise service at the Sellwood Faith Community. We gather at the Sellwood Riverfront Park where we sing, read scripture, and engage in some sort of activity that reminds us Christ is risen.This year as we were gathered we welcomed into our...
April Calendar
The Pastor’s Kid Has Her Say
About a month ago the United Methodist Commission on the Status and Role of Women published a blog post from me about what it is like to be a female pastor in a new start. In the conversations about the post I was writing I shared with Jenn, the staffer from the...