by Eilidh Lowery | Jul 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
As you may have read last week, we have almost made it through the first two weeks of Steele Street School. It has been such a gift to have these children in our church building. Their vibrance radiates from the playground to the Reading Room and everywhere else they...
by Eilidh Lowery | Jun 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday night as we were wrapping up day 2 of our new ministry, Steele Street School, one of the parents of a participant stopped me to thank me for offering the day camps. After we chatted a bit and I went back to tidying up, I started doing the math. How many...
by Eilidh Lowery | Jun 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
This spring we split off some of our leadership from Sunday Dinner and started Snack Church. I was worried a little bit about what might happen to dinner. In the past when we’ve started a second gathering people have migrated to the new thing and the original...
by Eilidh Lowery | Jun 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Each year hundreds of United Methodists across Oregon & Idaho gather together to do the business of the church, celebrate our shared ministries, and connect with one another. We are able to serve God together in ways we never could alone. But we are struggling....
by Eilidh Lowery | Jun 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Sometimes sitting down to enjoy a cup of coffee and read the newspaper opens up a spiritual and existential crisis. Mine came about this Saturday as I read an article about criminal justice. There are five men who as teenagers committed murders in the mid-’90s in...
by Eilidh Lowery | May 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Last weekend I took the whole weekend off and spent 72 hours disconnected. Part of the time we spent on a farm outside Damascus, playing with the barn kittens, feeding the pigs, and capturing the rogue chicken. We played games, read books, played with watercolors,...
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