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Parish Coordinator

by | Sep 4, 2020 | Uncategorized

We are so delighted to have Rev. Jill Holloway joining us as our new Parish Coordinator 10 hours a week.  She will be focusing on storytelling and helping us with communications. Here’s a little bit about Jill: My story with this parish began about six months...

I Hate It Too

by | Aug 27, 2020 | Uncategorized

This week the church modem was acting up, zoom wasn’t talking to FaceBook, and everything just fell apart when it came to worship.  Some might smugly say this is why they prerecord worship, but I’ve seen your FaceBook posts about spending 2 hours filming a 5 minute...

5 Months In

by | Aug 19, 2020 | Uncategorized

We have been online and physically distanced for 5 months now. We’re in a very different place than where we were in March.  I have gotten comfortable with preaching to a green dot on my computer camera. My brain has definitely made a switch around seeing...

Numb

by | Aug 13, 2020 | Uncategorized

I was attending a training this past week on healing as part of racial equity work and the presenter talked about how we in American culture are particularly good at numbing ourselves from difficulty and pain. As she spoke about becoming unnumbed and how hard, yet...

When Will I Learn?

by | Aug 6, 2020 | Uncategorized

This past week I was running the numbers of the budget and writing our quarterly report to the agency which funds our grant for Sellwood.  I was really discouraged.  We were on such a great path towards sustainability.  Our building costs were covered by all of our...

Collective Collecting

by | Jul 31, 2020 | Uncategorized

For several year now we have been part of the  Southeast Portland Collective youth group which includes United Methodist, Lutheran, and Presbyterian Churches. Every year the youth participate in a week of service projects in to serve our neighbors and learn about the...