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What I Know

Yesterday the Global United Methodist Church voted to widen the definition of clergy ineligible to serve in our church and strengthened the penalties against pastors who perform weddings of same-gender couples. Then the Western Jurisdiction of the United Methodist...

New Rhythms

In case you don’t know who I am, my name is Jayde Dunkerley and I am the Associate Pastor at the SE Portland Parish. I joined our team in July and have loved every minute of my work with the Parish. From sharing a cup of tea at Tea Chai Te, to packing weekend food for...

$10,000

This month I am freaking out just a little bit because we need to raise $10,000 for Sellwood Faith Community in the coming year. We haven’t been in this position since our first year. We have a generous grant from the annual conference and our people give...

Night Strike

For the past 8 years, I have participated in a volunteer opportunity called Nightstrike. Nightstrike is a ministry on Thursday nights under the Burnside Bridge in Portland. It happens nearly every Thursday of the year. Volunteers gather for an orientation and then...

A Day Late But Not a Dollar Short

I have been writing this blog for 6 years.  Since we came to Portland in July of 2013 I have rarely missed a post.  This week it was a close thing! The end of the month is always a busy time, especially since we decided to not have a church secretary at Trintiy for a...

The Stories We Tell

I serve in volunteer parent leadership at my daughter’s middle school. We’ve been struggling to get volunteers to help with our events.  One of the things we realized is that for years the recruitment strategy in middle school has been to tell parents we...