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.
Updated June Schedule
Learning from the Wild
The reason that we began this new church is because what we’re interested in is creating space for folks to grow spiritually and give of themselves to make the world more like God’s dream for us. This weekend we had an incredibly successful experience in making...
Practical Communication Tips
We've been at this new start thing for about two years now so I wanted to share a few of the little, practical things we do that I think helps us to share our message and communicate with people.* Use meet up.comWe began using meet up this spring and the results have...
The Long View
This week I've been reflecting on the fact that how things are now is relatively new. It's easy to point to technology and think about times when people wrote letters or used rotary phones. What's harder is to remember that our way of life is constantly...
Finding Art
For the season of Easter, which is the fifty days from Easter Sunday until Pentecost, our faith community has been sharing rock art with our neighbors. We wrote words on stones and placed them in our front yard in an old metal barrel hoop with a sign saying take...
Our May Schedule
The Power of Showing Up
Lately I have been forcefully reminded of the power of simply showing up. It's a principal I know to be true from my life, but it seems like lately God is being very clear that abiding with people is a really important aspect of faith development. I'm not...
Big Silly Grin
I love what I am doing so very much. When I get to talking about this ministry I get ever more expansive with my hands and I know that I have a ridiculous grin plastered on my face. The reason for this is that it feels like my whole life has led to the work we...
And the Beat Goes On
On Saturday my husband Jeff and our daughter Paige were preparing for a worship service that they were leading at a youth event to mark world Malaria Day. As they were practicing I joined in on some of my favorite church songs. These were songs Jeff and I...
Rest & Renewal
The Lowery 3 just got back last night from 2 weeks in Europe. We were visiting my family who live in Scotland (all of my mom's siblings & my cousins) and then spent a few days in London and Paris seeing the sights and relaxing. It was wonderful to be...