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

Last week we had 20 children running around the sanctuary, child actors in the basement, older people improving their balance, several groups supporting each other as they deal with addictions of various kinds, dancers expressing their nordic heritage, a Vietnamese...

How do you store your clothes?  Do you have a designated drawer for different categories of clothes such as a specific drawer for socks and another for t-shirts or do you jut put the clean clothes in the drawer with space each time you do laundry?  Whichever way you...

This  week I am grieving. This morning I officiated at the funeral of a family friend. I spent the afternoon discussing grief as part of our clergy study group’s reading of See No Stranger. And my heart is full with the images and  news out of Gaza & Israel. I’m...

This week I got to have coffee with a retired colleague. It was so fun talking about all the people we had worked with and learned from throughout the years. Names of people who mentored me as a child, who I sat with at annual conference, who I remember from district...

As part of our work as clergy in our area we are reading the amazing book See No Stranger: a Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valerie Kaur.  Twice a month I will be gathering with a small group of other area United Methodist Pastors to explore and discuss the book...

This week we are taking some time to practice discernment. On Sunday I shared 4 exercises from Ignation Spirituality as a eay to get started. You can pray, or imagine in your mind, or journal through the prompt and see what God opens up to you. The four practices are...

Each year we take a month in the fall to promote stewardship. This is when we remember the promises we make to one another as a community and think about how we want to live out those promises. As United Methodists we promise when we join a new church to uphold our...

This past Sunday we met to revise our 5 year plan.  About 20 folks attended and it was a wonderful, hope-filled, exciting conversation.  To focus on the gift we have of amazing people we agreed to continue our focus on learning and creating space for leadership. ...

The preschool that has shared space with us for decades now is not opening this fall.  After long time teacher and more recent owner Jennie moved on last year a couple of neighborhood moms decided to take over.  They struggled all last year to get a cohort of...

Last week when I was officiating a wedding I was rocking my cool new clergy collar dress. I have to admit my hair has become grayer and grayer over the last few years. So I definitely look like I'm in my 40's. As I was meeting with the dj to get my mic set up he asked...