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

I am a fairly typical type A personality.  I have been taught to step up and lead.  I have been affirmed in my gifts and given roles of responsibility and authority.  I am the cruise director of my friends, helping pick the movie, plan a day, or select...

I was recently asked if it was okay to participate in SFC if someone was not a Christian.  My answer was a resounding yes.  We are a community for people interested in sharing life and serving others.  We use Christian language and come from a Christian...

This month our dinner topic is prayer.  For the first week our discussions around the dinner table centered on our personal experiences of prayer.  We talked about how we like to pray and when we'd experienced prayers that impacted us, as well as negative...

We're at one of those places once again in our journey where I'm not really sure what is next.  We have a good, solid group coming to dinner on Thursdays.  We have some lovely people who want to come on Sundays, but so far attendance has been hit and miss....

Last week Jeff's parents were here from Chicago. We took them on a grand tour of the area from Astoria to Mt. Saint Helens.  At Mt. Saint Helens we stopped at the Forest Learning Center.  It is run by the Weyerhaeuser company and tells the story not only of...

This summer one of my mission teams was working in Springfield, OR.  We were asked to help move some items out of the St. Paul Center, a United Methodist church that was closing. When a church closes they have to remove all their “stuff” from the building as...

Last week at our gathering one of the women asked about a church directory.  She wanted to be able to get in touch with the members of her new community.  Another person spoke up about wanting to have the information of someone who had been coming to events...

On Saturday night I left a window slightly open and our beloved kitty boy Max escaped.  He is a three year old male with a friendly personality and a gentle way about him.  As long as you promise not to tell our other cat Noah, I will confess that Max is the...

We didn't really know who was going to be part of our new community when we started.  We began by focusing on our affinity group, which is why we chose Sellwood in the first place.  Our affinity group is people who are most like us.  In the work of...

I knew that doing a new church start would be hard work.  I had read the materials and attended the workshops.  I knew that Jeff and I needed to have date nights where we didn't talk about either the new church or the kid.  I knew that I had to be on...