by Eilidh Lowery | Nov 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Since I got home from renewal leave I’ve been cleaning and tidying, both at home and at Trinity. I’ve taken 5 car-fulls of stuff to the thrift store over the past 4 months. The acolyte closet can actually be accessed without tripping over stuff on the...
by Eilidh Lowery | Nov 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
It’s Thanksgiving week so I want to share my gratitude. I am thankful for the Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference for seeing holy potential in Jeff’s and my proposal for SFC. I am thankful to my colleague Rev. Sandy Storment who caught the vision of the Parish...
by Eilidh Lowery | Nov 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
Today I achieved success. It came in the form of a Facebook post by a friend and member of the moms’ coffee church I lead on Wednesday mornings. Her post was about this article by John Pavlovitz on a modern Christian tendency to minimize the suffering in the...
by Eilidh Lowery | Nov 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
This week in my role as secretary for the neighborhood association I got to take lots of notes about earthquake preparedness. It’s a reality of life here in the Northwest that before too long we’ll experience a major earthquake, likely within the next 50 years or so....
by Eilidh Lowery | Oct 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Part of my focus this year is to raise the visibility of Sellwood Faith Community in our neighborhood. Another goal is to strengthen the identity of the Southeast Portland Parish because it’s a little complex to understand our set up. SFC is a non-traditional...
by Eilidh Lowery | Oct 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
On Monday night 13 of us gathered to dream, hope, and plan. We started the night off by talking about why we had decided to come to dinner on a Monday night. As we ate our enchiladas we shared the things that we most valued about SFC. Then we took some time (turns...
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