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What’s in a name?

As we prepare our newly refreshed spaces we are looking at marketing the spaces in the community and have decided to come up with a new name for these rooms. The idea is folks can rent out the space for community meetings, gatherings, and events. We’ve...

Missing Blog Post

I totally wrote a blog post last week. I know because I wrote it late Tuesday after struggling all day with a migraine, but today poof it wasn’t on the website. So all that work and straining to see so I could honor my commitment to writing every  week about our...

Possibilities

Last week I double booked myself. At 10am on Tuesday I had meetings with both a realtor and a solar panel analyst. The realtor is working with the group Sacred Space PDX, helping congregations find places to worship. I gave him a tour and he is hoping to connect us...

General Conference Update

This past April major changes took place in the rules and structure of the United Methodist Church. Language banning the ordination. or wedding of gay folx was removed. Churches around the world were given more authority to adapt to their communities. And all ordained...

4 Months In

We are now 4 months into the earnest work on our 5 year plan. Just walking around the Trinity building you can see and feel a difference. The memorial room, the fellowship area in the back of the sanctuary, and the rest stop have all been rearranged with more updates...

So Angry

I have been thinking a lot about anger lately.  We recently had someone leave the church partially because they did not agree with my theology around being angry with God. I think that it’s okay to take all of our emotions to God. To express anger and lament and...