by Eilidh Lowery | Apr 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
This week one of the things I get to work on is dissolving the Sellwood Faith Community Corporation. This is simply a financial hoop we have to jump through The Parish is not going anywhere, and both Trinity and SFC are strong components of this new expression. Back...
by Eilidh Lowery | Apr 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
This week we get to sing some of my favorite hymns. I can remember singing these songs surrounded by people at the church where I grew up. I can picture the Garners sitting in front of us, Randy’s lovely voice ringing out. I remember Easter in Spain, the same...
by Eilidh Lowery | Apr 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Last week as I looked out at the gathering on Sunday morning I felt sad. There were 15 of us in the Sanctuary and it just felt like not enough. A visitor had made some cutting remarks about there being “no one” at worship. And suddenly our gathering seemed...
by Eilidh Lowery | Mar 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
For Lent this year I have been wearing the same bracelet every day. It’s basically like a purple shoelace with a silver tree charm in the middle. Someone gave it to me a while back and I decided to save it for the season of Lent. It’s a great reminder for...
by Eilidh Lowery | Mar 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
This month we began singing again. It has been so lovely. At Dessert Church our littlest member never really got to experiencing music in community as he was a baby when the pandemic began. Now as a toddler it has quickly become one of his favorite parts of church....
by Eilidh Lowery | Mar 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
This week, with the removal of the state mask mandate, we let our building users know they can choose to resume eating food and drinking coffee during meetings and stop wearing masks. In the office Bill and I are mask-less, but during bible study we put them on. At...
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